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Author Topic: I like anime, do you like anime?  (Read 3135757 times)

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Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« Reply #21660 on: March 20, 2015, 08:55:41 am »

... I'm kinda' waiting for that to happen, still. I mean, yeah, superior firepower has laid down a plentiful field of corpses, but there hasn't really been much focus or attention on that. Like, one of the three or four notable conflicts that have occurred spent as much or more screen time on murdeloli either getting off or killing people than it did on the offworlders. And when they did come it, it was less "Fuck yeah superior firepower" and more "Okay, we're done now, stop looking at us." Pay no attention to the people in the giant flying death machine. About half-way through the translated stuff, now, but...

Most of the attention has been on body parts flying around and ones still attached. Bit of ham-handed geopolitical junk on the side. The tech disparity hasn't really been played up or centered on, and the education bit doesn't actually seem to be coming into play to any meaningful degree, so far. I mean, it's there, but it's more like background noise than foreground set-piece.

Like I said... so far, at least, this is someone wanting to write military wank and just kinda'... failing. And instead doing soft porn instead, with a sideline of dying people and some iffy character interaction. The writing and pacing and whatnot on this thing is just weird. Too bad to be good, not bad enough to be bad, and too wonky to just be mediocre. Maybe it'll get better, I'unno. Maybe the pure text stuff is less squiggly. This manga leaves me conflicted in how I am and/or should be reacting to it ;_;
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« Reply #21661 on: March 20, 2015, 09:33:32 am »

Honestly, it's been a while since I read something that rode mood dissonance so damned hard. It's like the author(s?) wanted to write a fairly standard modern-military-hits-fantasy thing, but had some sort of fanservice director writing in lines every third paragraph or something. And maybe two or three different artists with similar but notably distinct styles. Feels almost frankensteinian, somehow.

This was the exact vibe I got from the Madan no Ou to Vanadis anime too. Pretty normal medieval war/intrigue most of the time, but one faction inexplicably has 7 top generals who are magical girl bikini babe warriors. It's especially jarring when they're on screen since every other male and female character dresses and acts pretty appropriately for the setting, and they'll have entire episodes which are all about battles or plotting and planning, then in the last few minutes they seem to go "whoops! forgot to include this weeks fanservice quota!" and have a random accidental boob-grab moment with the MC and one of the magical girl-generals.

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« Reply #21662 on: March 20, 2015, 09:49:30 am »

To be fair to Gate, it's generally not quite your standard harem anime antics, there's just a lot of skin and some pedo baiting.

Well, and the surprise borderline snuff scene. And the rapes. So far. Bloody hell, it's like I'm talking about away to neverland again.

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Uh. In retrospect, that might not actually be being fair to Gate. Hrm.

Anyway, it's not quite blatant in that particular way. S'instead fairly pervasive and... I'unno. At this point, I can't actually recommend anyone read it, due to the content (gore, rape, pedobaiting, fairly gratuitous nudity...), but it at least seems to be more sveltely terrible than what you're describing, ree. Sorta'. Less clumsy. Still clumsy, but less.

... in further retrospect, I should probably just stop talking about the thing entirely. It's not even remotely appropriate for these forums :-\
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« Reply #21663 on: March 20, 2015, 10:38:08 am »

Most of what I heard about it before has been that its a ultra nationalistic mess.
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« Reply #21664 on: March 20, 2015, 10:48:47 am »

It's somewhat clumsy milwank, at least to a fair degree. That pretty much always has a nationalistic bent, unless it's using a coalition force as its primary mover (and sometimes then, too, of course). It's a mess, but the nationalistic aspects aren't particularly notable -- you see the same sort of thing in pretty much any piece of media of its sort, tailored for whatever military force it's using as the protag faction. And unless it's making a lot of references that I'm not recognizing (which, to be fair, is very possible), the nationalism-related fluffing isn't really all that involved in the plot and whatnot. There's some half-hearted use of some other nations as convenient incompetent antagonists, but that's about it. There's pleeeenty of things to criticize, but that's not really one of 'em.
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« Reply #21665 on: March 20, 2015, 12:54:48 pm »

Gate JSDF manga is really great, and I'd love to see the anime, even though anime adaptations are almost always worse than manga. And of course scanlations could be faster :).
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« Reply #21666 on: March 20, 2015, 01:29:19 pm »

Non Non Biyori second season confirmed for July, for slice of life fans. Kinda expected since it's hugely popular in Japan, spawning popular catchphrases and the like. It was the highest voted anime of Fall 2013, beating out stuff like Kill La Kill and Log Horizon, which probably surprises most Western anime fans. I think the reason is that this type of show in Japan has widespread appeal, not just amongst cliched "anime fans". This kind of reminds me of Hidamari Sketch, which hardly gets discussed in the West, yet there are lots of people in Japan who paint up their cars with Hidamari characters and the like.
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« Reply #21667 on: March 20, 2015, 01:37:12 pm »

Well, and the surprise borderline snuff scene. And the rapes. So far. Bloody hell, it's like I'm talking about away to neverland again.
This stuff is kinda disgusting, but to be honest I can't really hold it against it. The medieval ages were not exactly a fairly nice place, and stuff like this wan't really that uncommon during war and banditry. Really I think it's more the fact that the other things lure you into thinking that you aren't going to be reading something that's fairly realistic about the horrors of that (pseudo) time period, so they slam into you more (as opposed to the normal dark historical things, where you have no illusions about what you are going to be reading).
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« Reply #21668 on: March 20, 2015, 10:52:08 pm »

Apparently there are in fact scanlations for the Sankarea chapters past ch 53. Finished the series.

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« Reply #21669 on: March 21, 2015, 12:30:52 am »

Alright, I don't know why, but I'm really enjoying Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I'm not usually into the kind of humor they use, but I still find myself almost guiltily enjoying it.
It also has the best soundtrack.

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« Reply #21670 on: March 21, 2015, 12:36:26 am »

Alright, I don't know why, but I'm really enjoying Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. I'm not usually into the kind of humor they use, but I still find myself almost guiltily enjoying it.
It also has the best soundtrack.
Yeeeees the soundtrack is amazing.
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« Reply #21671 on: March 21, 2015, 01:24:24 am »

The worst (read: best) episode so far was probably the one where they made nothing but horrible sex puns the entire time. Wait, it's that basically the whole show?

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« Reply #21672 on: March 21, 2015, 06:31:17 am »

You could also be talking about Seitokai Yakuindomo there, which is by far the #1 anime for sex puns.

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« Reply #21673 on: March 21, 2015, 08:57:00 am »

Started watching parasite maxim the other day.
Around the 8th episode now,
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« Reply #21674 on: March 21, 2015, 09:04:10 am »

13th episode now,
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