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Investors in this Fund will get a cut of the DVD and Video sales and other revenues as well as a name listing in the ED Credit of the TV show. will be responsible for the solicitations. The Fund will be formed around JDC while Rakuten Inc. The target amount of the Fund is 240 Million Yen. Ltd., have established Japan's first individual investor-oriented 'Anime-Fund'." The Anime-Fund will begin soliciting for investments starting September of 2004 (tentative date) and be used to fund the production of "Basilisk." The Information Section of the Basilisk website states that "Japan Digital Contents(JDC), online brokerage firm Rakuten Brokerage Inc.
I say that because this production will be funded largely in part by private, personal investments. This is an unprecedented anime production. Now, hopefully, you're prepared for what comes next.Slated for a Spring 2005 release, Kagou Ninpoujou Basilisk, a Gonzo TV Anime adaptation of a semi-historical Ninja comic serialized in Young Animal. Or as Fuller put it, the Bilquis scene was about a woman controlling her own sexuality, where the showrunners "can treat sex not just as a means to a cumshot, but as a means to explore what it is to bond and join and physically become one with another human being and leave our individual sense of self behind and become something greater than what we were before we were penetrating or being penetrated or entwined in whatever respect we were going to be entwined with another."
This scene, as the creators explained, was an important warning sign to viewers, that sex will be shown often in challenging ways. And this is how, throughout this first season, the show will depict sex-it's less about cheap thrills and more as a conduit for serious discussion. Sometimes it's worse that they used to know so much beauty and glory, only to find themselves in this situation.įuller says he wanted the sexual content of American Gods to explore it in "a sex-positive way the human relationship to our own sexuality." It's a show that both analyzes and challenges how our own culture-and cultures around the world-approach and depict sex. How do you make a living now? They find themselves in dark places. You see them as extraordinary beings, but they're in ordinary circumstances on their day to day. "At the core of it, there's this very basic need for human connection - to see and really be seen," Badaki told The Hollywood Reporter about the scene:īilquis and all of these old gods have fears. Their power waning through lack of faith, the gods of old are scattered and scraping a living however they can-in Bilquis's case, having sex with people she meets on the internet. She devours him and draws power from his devotion-the reason she looks different at the end of the scene. When the man is proclaiming his faith to her, it's not some sort of sexual fetish-he's literally worshiping Bilquis. In this scene, Bilquis represents a version of the Queen of Sheba who draws her power through sex. She was known to be an irresistible seeker of truth and wisdom, whom Soloman gave "every desire that she expressed." Though the descriptions vary, the Queen of Sheba is said to have had sex with King Solomon, became pregnant, and raised his firstborn son. Bilquis is the Queen of Sheba, a character described a number of ways in sacred Jewish, Christian, and Muslim texts. As if to say to any potential reader or watcher this is the kind of world where these things happen.Īs we've outlined, most of the characters in this show are gods who came to America and are losing their power as people put their faith into technology and media rather than the ancient stories and deities from cultures around the world. When we talked with Neil about it later, he said it sounded like the same reasoning for him why he put it in the first 45 pages of the book. It's the scene that totally land grabs what you're going to be doing. It was just an instinctive thing that felt iconic to the book and when we put it up on the board, it always felt right. It was very important for us to get that in there, so to speak. While the show changes the man into a more sympathetic online dater and the interaction into a random hook-up, the meaning remains the same.