Current Status of The Collection
For years, I've been calling it "The Hypnosis in Media Collection", but lately, its just been "The Collection". Maybe, if this all gets made part of some library or museum,…
“Masters of the Universe: Teela’s Secret”
There was a change in cartoons in the 1970’s, following a misplaced furor about violence in children’s cartoons. Violence, even cartoon violence, was suddenly forbidden. That was the reason you never saw Thundarr the Barbarian decapitate anyone with his Sun Sword. It was why Cobra pilots always bailed out before their jets exploded. It was why GI Joe and Cobra used laser weapons that only seemed to affect tanks and jeeps instead of ordinary rifles and machine guns. (The latter was also cheaper to animate.)
It forced writers to develop new and different (or old and different) stories and plot devices on a weekly basis.
Enter Mind Control.
30 Days of Hypnosis: Day 12
What's your favorite pop culture reference about hypnosis? Whew! So many possibilities. The first one that comes to mind is "The Hypnotic Eye". A movie about a sinister stage hypnotist…
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“Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman” — ‘A Lavish Banquet for Guys in Trouble’
"Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman" is a fantasy tale set in late 19th Century Japan. When the black ships returned to Japan in the 19th Century, the 200 year old rule of…
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“Mondaijitachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?”
"Mondaijitachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?" is a new anime series based on a series of light novels about three teenagers (two girls and one guy) with extraordinary…
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‘Mayhem of the Music Meister!’ — “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”
“And so for me, it’s destiny to be the maestro of villainy!
Yes I’m the Music Meister, and I’m here to settle the score!”
In the most unusual of all of the episodes of “Batman: The Brave and the Bold”, an all-singing, all-dancing episode, where heroes and villains alike fall under power of the hypnotic melodies of the Music Meister!
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‘The Eyes Have It’ (1945)
Donald Duck gets a hypnotism kit in the mail, complete with hypno-goggles and an instruction book that tells him to “Select a Subject of Low Intelligence”, and so he selects his dog Pluto. Stereotypical hilarity results.
‘Class 1–7 Soutarou Kanou’ — “Maid Sama!”
In “Maid Sama!” (“KaichÅ wa Maid-sama!” or “The President is a Maid!) student class president Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female class president of Seika High School, quite an achievement as the school used to be male-only but was recently converted to a co-ed school. An exceptional student and athlete, she is determined to reform the boys of the school, who are still unaccustomed to the new girl students, and make the school a better place for both sexes.
In episodes #14–15, ‘Class 1–7 Soutarou Kanou’ and ‘School Visitation Association & A Glasses Rabbit’, Misaki is hard at work getting the student council to help plan and coordinate a successful open house. However, freshman student Soutarou Kanou, who is extremely withdrawn and even terrified and hateful of girls, wants to sabotage Misaki and the open house, and the best way he knows is through hypnosis.
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‘The Puppetmaster’ — “Avatar: the Last Airbender”
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/]
Water
Earth
Fire
Air
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang. And although his airbending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he’s ready to save anyone.
But I believe Aang can save the world.
Background: in “Avatar: the Last Airbender” Aang is a boy with a destiny and a history: he is the Avatar, the current incarnation of an eternal chain, the one who possesses the power to wield all four of the elements, fated to restore the balance of nature that was broken by the Fire Lord and the conquering of the world by the Fire Nation. Except, a century before, when he was supposed to stop the Fire Nation, he disappeared, and only now has returned. The problem is that he’s still a young boy, not even a teenager, and his companions are little older than he is. Its a pretty heavy burden to shoulder, especially when he’s also hunted by the Fire Nation and hunting those who can help him master the four elements.
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“Private Psycho Lesson” (1997)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488019/]
In “Private Psycho Lesson”, psychologist Sara Iijima has a singular approach to helping her clients overcome sexual hangups using hypnosis and a singular (and quite sensual) style in inducing hypnosis.
Warning
The anime here is definitely adults only: it is highly sexual and explicit in nature and the corresponding description below does refer to adult themes and images.