Scott Pilgrim vol.5

Originally uploaded by Edgar Wright.

From the upcoming movie. I like how Scott Pilgrim appeals specifically to the intersection between Nerddom and Hipsterdom. "DKSK KCBK"? What does that even mean. Do we need to ask Emily Haines

Erin lent me volume 5 the other day. The series is clearly set to wrap up by volume 6, and all one can hope for at this point is that Gideon lives up to the fucking hype, cos dude is basically Ohtori Akio @ Bowery Ballroom Y/Y??? Maybe it's the way the video game conceit leads straight back to Jung, or maybe it's just the obvious structural parallel, but I've come to realize the psychological acuity of Scott Pilgrim is at least as akin to that of Utena as to that of Nana. The question mark that is Ramona is as unsettling as the question mark that is Anthy because it's presented and developed in the same way, by inference and innuendo... and you're thinking, well it can't possibly be as bad as Anthy, right, because on the evidence of it all you have is a bunch of twentysomething T-Dot hipsters being dicks to each other. And yet.

This is doubly weird because Scott Pilgrim is basically MY LIFE (the characters even have the same standard-issue Samsung phone as me, my bff and her dad, probably for the same reason), and I don't really need to see MY LIFE as an alternate-reality Ohtori Gakuen.

Next up: the second season of Haruhi Suzumiya! I am hyped.