2009-10-19, 00:55 | Link #781 | |
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2009-10-19, 01:22 | Link #783 | |
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2009-10-19, 02:40 | Link #786 |
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Episode 3 was hilarious. see this is what happens when you have gender segregated schools, I guess. For some reason, even though she has purple hair, the newspaper girl, reminded me of Tsuruya a little bit. I liked the Samara looking goth girl, she was hilarious. I don't recall it being said that they were living together, just that they were dating, or maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
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2009-10-19, 07:22 | Link #787 |
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It seems segregated schools make every single girl a lesbian. Either that or every single girl in the girls' side was spurned by a guy one time. As a guy, I certainly wouldn't want to go to that school. Even if I saw the girls, they wouldn't want anything to do with me.
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2009-10-19, 07:49 | Link #790 | |
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2009-10-19, 08:29 | Link #792 | |
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Strawberry Panic, and Mai Otome, had that idea behind it as well. There's some rationale to it, I suppose. Especially when the enforcement of the segregation is as severe as what we see in this anime. Perhaps one reason why the girls go crazy for female Natsuru, though, is that she's notably taller than all of the other girls. She's as tall as a guy. So... maybe it's a case where these girls are longing for a guy, and due to female Natsuru's height and overall frame, she acts as a good stand-in for a guy. Although, in Sakura's case, it's obvious that she's a lesbian.
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2009-10-19, 08:41 | Link #793 | |
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2009-10-19, 08:59 | Link #794 | |
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It's a popular running joke that when a guy with feminine features goes to prison that he's, well, likely to be getting a lot of attention... So, I'm just speculating that maybe we're seeing the same thing here, only in reverse... with the tall and broad Natsuru acting as a stand-in for a guy. Just trying to explain the background to my ideas here.
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2009-10-19, 09:07 | Link #795 |
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agreed, they should stop showing it but look at the trends in previous anime. various nanoha anime, rosario+vampire, sailor moon and any other magical girl fighting anime, they never stop showing the annoying transformation scene. just be glad it isnt ridiculously long in kampher.
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2009-10-19, 09:22 | Link #796 |
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I've read somewhere that the segregated school thing is because some school administrators feel that co-mingling the sexes decreases academic achievement...
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2009-10-19, 09:24 | Link #797 | |
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heck, the MANLY transformation scenes also sometimes gave out the same results over & over again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkYKYR1R1A0
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2009-10-19, 09:50 | Link #798 |
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Interesting show so far, I didn't expect it to turn into a school yuri comedy show so it was a bit surprising. I have to admit Natsuru as a girl does look cool as she looks tall and very athletic body.
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2009-10-19, 09:56 | Link #799 | |
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Now, there's obvious sociological issues arising from gender segregated schools... but this isn't a black-and-white issue.
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