2004-08-03, 13:01 | Link #41 | |
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2004-08-04, 11:41 | Link #44 |
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Nosebleed. Honestly. Are guys in Japan *always* supposed to get a nosebleed after seeing some bare skin? I bet the strip-bars donate a whole lot of blood to hospitals...
Just got enough of that, after watching Oh! My Goddess! -anime, which was, IMO, pretty much everything the manga wasn't; regular, boring, and uncreative. If you exclude the fillers from the manga. |
2004-08-05, 03:35 | Link #46 |
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Regarding the mecha pilot part, Amuro Ray is 29 in Char's Counterattack after all...
But you have to remember why they stick teenagers in the cockpit. One, it's a large part of the target audience and it leaves room for character development as they mature and develop, and two, there is most often a reason for it. In Mobile Suit Gundam, Amuro ends up in the Gundam by accident, he is frustrated and wants to save his friends. But he is also a newtype and instantly connects to and understands the Gundam and how to use it, more so than any ordinary untrained kid would have. Camille in Z Gundam is also a newtype, but he is also a tech freak (like Amuro) and has won junior mobile suit design competitions, it's obvious he should know how to operate one enough to flee with liutenant Bageena (who already had sensed Camille's newtype presence and first mistaken it for Amuro). In SEED, Kira acts out of desperation to save his friends. He's a genetically enhanced human and is the only one on the ship that can operate the Strike. The military does NOT want him in it, but they have no choice. And about Fafner, well, isn't it both of these? The target audience and the special abilities. There you have it :P |
2007-08-20, 17:43 | Link #47 |
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Thank you Molotov_sp for showing me this and going through the work of analyzing the clichés of anime . For the people that are anime conscientious objectors, like kirbymorph (the one with the long and superfluous post), C’mon! Ya gotta admit most, if not all, is true! I mean, it is rare to see some one break these rules, Xenosaga almost did, but that’s a game (just thought I would mention it since I playin it XD). Anyways, give me less then two years, and I’ll make a difference, okay, maybe three. But watch, Im going to make something different, or will I ;p!
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2007-08-20, 17:51 | Link #48 |
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I am getting sick of the "JUST AS PLANNED" elements used in various anime or manga plot. It is sticking out to me as a half-assed excuse to not explain plotholes or loose threads.
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2007-08-20, 19:07 | Link #51 | |
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Actually as I think of about it I am tired of these newbie pilot becoming godly in matter of weeks and starts to own aces who has years of experience, yes I am talking about you Jesus Yamato. |
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2007-08-20, 20:40 | Link #52 | |
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2007-08-20, 20:58 | Link #53 | |
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They don't look Japanese? No, they don't look HUMAN. They aren't made to look like any particular race, so if YOU are white, you feel they look white. It's simply an extension of cartoony characteristics developed by early cartoons, nothing more. No, we Japanese do NOT think they look white. Western folks think if you don't draw characters with stereotypical unrealistically slanted sharp eyes, they aren't supposed to look asian. When in truth, asian eyes are not any more narrow than other human race. The real racial diffrence between cocasian and oriental are cheekbones, length of the nose, and how deep their eyes are compared to the eyebrow. Size of the eyes have absolutely nothing to do with it. Too many people are brainwashed by these moronic american cartoons.
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2007-08-20, 23:56 | Link #55 |
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Just to add to the whole mecha thing, our current vehicle designs are very efficient in certain aspects and fail horribly in others. If you think about it, humans can virtually traverse any terrain while most vehicles can't (wheels > legs for speed but legs > wheels for uneven terrain). I would also like to mention that it would be completely impossible to control the mechs like they do with a keyboard, 1 or 2 joysticks/throttles and some pedals (with the exception of NGE).
To add to the list... - What's up with a lot of girls being born "weak"? - Romance anime always have at least one Japanese festival scene. - People in combat are more content with staring/talking to each other then actually fighting. - All female school uniform skirts are incredibly small (with the exception of Serial Experiments: Lain). |
2007-08-21, 03:09 | Link #57 | |
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So no, that's not just an anime clichee.
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2007-08-21, 08:29 | Link #58 | |
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And it isn't as bad nor as prolifirent as the 'we fight/bicker and so we're going to get together' cliche, where that happens vast majority of the time in western shows (maybe 95%+ of the time) and maybe 60% of the time with Japanese anime.
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2007-08-21, 11:08 | Link #59 |
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This one often goes together with the harem cliche but is nevertheless independent from it:
Girls are more often than not from a robot factory / space / the future / a clone tank / dimension Z / beneath the sea / sent by the government, will instantly fall for some guy because he's so good at ... dunno, breathing maybe ... henceforth abandon their existence as independent beings completely (if they had something like that in the first place), and support their (spineless, emotionless/uncaring, ignorant or any combination thereof) lover to the brink of self-sacrifice and often beyond.
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2007-08-21, 13:34 | Link #60 |
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There is nothing prohibiting step siblings from marrying. (I would consider any restrictions on this quite dumb anyway). You can marry your first cousin just fine in the vast majority of the world. I see no problems in either of the cases.
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