Simoun

[Sushuri Madonna]

Finally we have an Anime group Forum.

In a sense the Anime Group started informally years ago with a weekly meeting to watch the beautiful Maria-sama ga MIteru. Today with College and so many other things taking up regular meeting spots, we have a little more difficulty bringing together a full anime group in real time - so one suggestion is to watch an episode a week - not necessarily together - and discuss it here.

Meanwhile, we have a grouplet of three meeting irregularly to watch Simoun - which is a very Aristasianizable kinnie! Recently I discussed it with honored Raya and am now able to talk a little about its deeper significance.

It is about all-girl priestess-warriors who fly magical ships called Simoun. Each Simoun has a crew of two - the Auriga (or Charioteer) and the Sagitta (or Archer) - one could say pilot and navigator, that the Archer and Charioteer have an ancient and sacred significance concerned with the Vikhelic doctrine of soul-governance (in Telluria this is most commonly known from spiritual understanding of the Bhagavad Gita and in Aristasia from the Cordelia and Imogen cycle). Consciously or not the names of the "crew" members strike a very deep archetypal chord.

It is no coincidence, then, that the flyers are both priestesses and warriors, and that the sacred sigils they draw in the sky - the ri-majon - are both prayers and the most powerful of weapons.

The Vikhelic power has a Sushuric base - for the ship are powered by the two flyers kissing each other, and then kissing the Simoun's crystal. Simoun are more than mere mechanisms. Their "technology" has been lost in a sacred past, when (as accords with all true doctrine) maids were higher and wiser than they later became. They are not merely machines, but in a certain sense sacred beings.

This kinnie can very easily be seen as a story of intemorphic maids defending the Motherland. There are a few bits one has to "blind out" but as a whole this can be made a very Aristasian experience. Here is a clip giving a sense of the show and some of the elements I have been discussing (sorry - it was much better quality before YouTube chewed it!):

You can also load down the first epi (temporarily) here.

[AnnaSophia Bernstein]

Rayati!

For all maids who wish to download the whole series for free, I have found that it is available
here.

You need to download Veoh Web Player and the Media Player Codec Package (also for free) but it is well worth it, I think.

Rayati and enjoy Simoun!

Fräulein Bernstein

[Sushuri Madonna]

Thank you so much - this is splendid! I have been experimenting!

You do need to load down the Veoh player or it won't let you load down the kinnies - but for those who transfer kinnies elsewhere (I play them via the Wii), they are actually standard WMV files that can be played on various players if you want to.