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Fall 2010 Anime Thread: Reboots, Retreads, and Rediscovery
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mAcOdIn said:
Aoi Hana has no real clear demographic because the magazine the source material is serialized in, Manga Erotics F, just publishes whatever the fuck the editors want.
One minute you're reading super-sweet, relatively conflict-less fluff like Aoi Hana or Ristorante Paradiso and the next you're reading about brutal rape in Uncivilized Planet Survive or Bradherley's Coach. Good times.
Smiles and Cries
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mAcOdIn said:
I am having so much trouble reading the subs because of my eye issues thats why I stopped watching anime for so many years. Tried one ep of Natsume Yuujinchou I think I've seen this ep before but could not get into it and not reading every word is hard to follow.
Unless I really like something pausing to read each sub is slow going
Watching the first ep of Erin now slower pacing may help with my issues, too much was going on in Natsume Yuujinchou seems good though thanks again
Smiles and Cries
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Squid as a curse word is killing me :lol :lol
firehawk12
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I believe the novel ends with them all in happy super-close relationships. And it's not like these girls haven't been exposed to homosexuality either after all.icarus-daedelus said:
Yeah, that was the story I quoted that got us down this random path of who buys Yuri. I would suppose it's why noitinimA shows about queer subjects don't tend to do that well after airing. :lolduckroll said:
I look at it this way though - it's very hard to find yaoi/shounen-ai that isn't about boys fucking each other's brains out and covering each other in "santorum" or other fluids. Yuri/shoujo-ai is fairly balanced - which is why only 6% of MariMite doujin is about the girls sexing each other up. I'm sure the other 94% is about how they're going to make tea or chocolates or some other relatively banal subject.
Jex
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The opening and ending are indeed awesome, but Presence is where it's at. It even explains all of modern anime fandom!icarus-daedelus said:
The important difference is people don't say Shounen ai anymore because adding more layers of classification to everything is generally pointless.flawfuls said:
Oh no, you aren't going to try and EXPLAIN Miya are you? Please no!
Man, Osamu Dezaki's directing is so overladen with symbolism. Most modern direction doesn't even try
An understanding of film form, especially awesome mise-en-scene, is always nice to see.firehawk12
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flawfuls said:
Oh right, it was on their now defunct "Noise" block... the even more obscure and arty version of noitinimA. :lol
I'd like to watch/read recent stuff - the fact that there's a MariMite spinoff about the boys school is interesting anyway, but it seems to be much harder to find.
I believe the "ai" vs yaoi distinction is largely an American one invented to distinguish between the various levels of pornographic content.
InfiniteNine
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Shounen ai is usually mostly fluff and Yaoi is most definitely pornographic. Well in American understanding anyways.firehawk12 said:
firehawk12
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InfiniteNine said:
Yeah and it's strictly a western convention AFAIK.
firehawk12
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.Jexhius said:
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Dat glorious mosaic'd out penis.
I started watching this one heavily-yaoi undertoned vampire jdrama once.Halycon said:
One line was seriously: "How dare you scratch (guy's name) beautiful face!" And then he attacks someone because of it ~_~
There's an anime of that? I've just recently binged read many volumes of the manga.luka said:
firehawk12
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luka said:
Naw, they came right after each other so people naturally compared them. Sasameki Koto is a bit more "safe" in that it doesn't really address the issue head on and is probably a bit more male friendly.
And hey, it has an otokonoko too!
Jex
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Oniisama...e 23 : Wherein we explain why Miya is an amazing BITCH.
Except, the answer we get in rather weak. I'd rather they'd never explain it at all, actually.
Considering her reaction to this event
and her much more recent in-show activity
I'd expect something rather more traumatic.
Therefore, we are led to assume that perhaps she's just completely insane.
Some of the symbolism was not so subtle :
Whereas on other occasions, it was more complicated (the doll is Miya) :
The lake at their summer house looks like the kind of thing you'd see in WWI photographs :
Adorable child Miya is adorable (and insane) :
Except, the answer we get in rather weak. I'd rather they'd never explain it at all, actually.
Considering her reaction to this event
Attempted suicide
Trying to drown Nanako
Therefore, we are led to assume that perhaps she's just completely insane.
Some of the symbolism was not so subtle :
Whereas on other occasions, it was more complicated (the doll is Miya) :
The lake at their summer house looks like the kind of thing you'd see in WWI photographs :
Adorable child Miya is adorable (and insane) :
InfiniteNine
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They should make an anime for Flower Flower now since that anime failed!
zoku88 said:
Yep, it was quite boring, it didn't really capture the atmosphere of the manga. It was way too slow too.
Aoi Hana was handled way better, even if the ending in the anime rubbed me wrong (and with no second season, it burns even more).
InfiniteNine said:
I'd totally watch it!
Then again, I'd also watch an anime for Konohana Link. If Shoujo Sect has had one, this can have one too!
Damn shippers.zoku88 said:
Robotics technology in Japan will bring about Vocaloids before mechas if they're not careful!
Oh internet, how I beseech you at times to never exist. There are some things which need to be left to the imagination and never taken form.Jexhius said:
InfiniteNine
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I'm okay with this.Geneijin said:
rainking187
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Oh god, the mini squid girl in the new episode was so fucking adorable.
firehawk12 said:
You could read Copernicus no Kokyuu. There is nothing more classy than extremely graphic yet artsy gay clown sex. It even ran in the same magazine as Aoi Hana so it's obviously for the same target audience!
Crash Station
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rainking187 said:
The ending was so sad
Anime update.
Cross Game 1 - That twist certainly came early. But it was a bit to sudden for me. Still so far based on the first episode, it seems to have all the qualities i love about adachi's work. Going watch the rest as soon as i finish Touch (manga).
Ore imo imouto 4 - Ayase is so adorable.<3 and SHEITTTT @ that cliff-hanger
Mono no aware 1 - Finally started this after all the praise. And it so far has this calming relaxed tone that i really like. The scene at the end where alica was talking about the married couple was particularly moving.;_;
Cross Game 1 - That twist certainly came early. But it was a bit to sudden for me. Still so far based on the first episode, it seems to have all the qualities i love about adachi's work. Going watch the rest as soon as i finish Touch (manga).
Ore imo imouto 4 - Ayase is so adorable.<3 and SHEITTTT @ that cliff-hanger
Mono no aware 1 - Finally started this after all the praise. And it so far has this calming relaxed tone that i really like. The scene at the end where alica was talking about the married couple was particularly moving.;_;
Hellsing321
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Wait, there is actually an Anime called Mono no Aware? :lolLafiel said:
Crash Station
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Only Japanese product I know off the top of my head with someone named Alicia is Valkyria Chronicles.
icarus-daedelus said:
Gozensosama is unashamedly quirky and melodramatically self-aware; it doesnt really take itself too seriously and thus never falls into the usual Oshii trappings. Its also kind of the most visually engaging of all of Oshiis works, even when pitted against Angels Egg or Ghost in the Shell; that more due to chief animator Satoru Utsunomiya than due to Oshii himself, though.
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