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[Furtuka]

Finished Yuuki Yuuna. That was a great ride.

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Such exquisite and delicious suffering.

Had really mixed feelings about the ending though. Felt like it needed an extra fifteen minutes or so to properly wrap things up and justify why everything suddenly turned out okay. What we got felt pretty cop-out/deux ex machina.

Apparently an epilogue novel came out last year that explained some of it and what the future of the setting would be.

[Neonivek]

Well time to watch Sekkou Boys

and I have NO idea... if it is a parody or oddball comedy.

Basically it is a typical Idol anime... except the Idols are literally idols (statues/busts). Personally I am hoping Parody, since I wanna watch a good parody that is a parody.

[Orange Wizard]

Watched Garakowa. In the same vein as PMMMMMM or Yuki Yuna, except it has to cram a dozen episodes worth of worldbuilding and characterisation into an hour timeslot. It's certainly got a lot of good ideas, and for the most part it's pretty well-executed (especially the art, it looks gorgeous), but the story's simply too rushed to say it's worth watching.

[Neonivek]

Ok I think I watched enough it is unfortunately just an oddball comedy.

Was hoping for some Hatoful Boyfriend parody levels

[Reelya]

Did you check out Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun?

[Neonivek]

Did you check out Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun?

I'll check it out right now. So far so standard. Thick main character who can't tell when a woman is hitting on him and female lead who couldn't spit it out if her life depended on it.

Though in ALL fairness... at least with the male lead's position the misunderstanding is perfectly natural.

Also WOW... I thought the Comic Books code was bad... So you can show someone getting gunned down in a children's manga but not the main characters breaking the law.

You know... I could argue its not a parody (since the parody content doesn't actually happen), but who cares? It scratches that itch. (and nevermind it hits parody levels immediately second episode without question.)

[Reelya]

Well, I'd say the romcom content of episode one does count as a parody, since the story is 100% not about that at all. So it's a troll set-up: start with the most cliched possible intro then totally do something else.

Shirobako did something similar. Episode one is as cliched as it can get, a highschool club x girls power-of-friendship thing. But then it timeskips, and the main character has graduated and is working in the anime industry, working on the exact same type of show that episode one represents.

[Neonivek]

Well, I'd say the romcom content of episode one does count as a parody, since the story is 100% not about that at all. So it's a troll set-up: start with the most cliched possible intro then totally do something else.

I'd agree... if it didn't hit Poe's law... Since the "Cliché start and do something else" is like Romcom standard. Bait and Switch alone does not parody make.

Or rather "A parody no matter how ridiculous is indistinguishable from the real thing, if the reality is just as extreme"

[Reelya]

i don't agree in this case, since very little of the content of even episode 1 revolves around the romance set-up. Most of the episode was used to deconstruct specific shoujo manga cliches. You can't call "poe's law" on that either, it's quite obvious that they're subverting those tropes.

[Neonivek]

i don't agree in this case, since very little of the content of even episode 1 revolves around the romance set-up. Most of the episode was used to deconstruct specific shoujo manga cliches. You can't call "poe's law" on that either, it's quite obvious that they're subverting those tropes.

What I mean was... Because Romcom's subvert those tropes (heck normal romance does at this point) so regularly that it was impossible to tell with just the first episode. Well outside the whole bike set up.

Or rather the subversion of the cliché at this point is a cliché.

Heck even down to the "The cat attacked me when I was just trying to help it" being more common then actually helping the cat and the cat appreciating it.

[Orange Wizard]

Gekkan Shoujo spent most of the time mocking shoujo cliches/tropes though

[Neonivek]

Gekkan Shoujo spent most of the time mocking shoujo cliches/tropes though

The first episode is more making fun of the restrictions and limitations put on mangas at the time. Then actually making fun of the clichés. Hence why I wasn't sure first episode.

[Cthulufaic]

Just caught up with Berserk.  Life is, in a word, Faggith.

[Neonivek]

Whelp I finished Manga Creation anime and the ending was... "The story continues"

[Vector]

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