2004-05-11, 03:59 | Link #1 |
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Sister Princess explained (especially to those dislike the Re-Pure anime)
I would like to point out a few things to those that dislike Sister Princess (mainly because of the RePure anime).
Sister Princess's target audience was supposingly for the audiences of eastern countries, not western countries. Sister Princess is extremely popular in Japan because of the large amount of male audiences (Oni-chan wannabes) 'got a thing' for cute little sisters (not in a perverted way). It is simply because they most likely don't have a little sister in real-life, and the 12 little sisters is somewhat appeal to them as the ideal little sisters they never had. (For the recent years) Unlike Western countries with families have like a big family with like 4-5 brother and sisters, families for the Eastern countries tend to have only 1 child....or 2 because of the extremely high cost of living and over populated, that why it's quite uncommon for a guy to have a little sister no matter how badly he wants one (and for those that do have a little sister, oftenly they are just brats that get on their nerves and not even remotely close to 'cute'). So it's somewhat because of the cultural differences, that make western audiences feel differently from the eastern audiences. Sister Princess was originally a graphic novel for the 'Dengeki G's Magazine' in Japan, where the creation of the settings for the 12 little sisters was via a poll by the readers. Then the title became extremely popular and the games and animes were being released for it. I do agree that anime of RePure lack a decent storyline, but it's sololy targeted at Sister Princess fans who already know the 12 little sisters by heart, and the environment setting in RePure is based on the original setting for the games, so they weren't expecting people to approach RePure as their first contact with Sister Princess. Even though RePure lack entertaining stories, but it's still good enough for the true Sister Princess fans to watch to pass time even if the whole anime is nothing but except with the little sisters running around and doing various things on the screen (sounds kinda sad and lonely for someone to do that, but if you love the characters enough....why not). People that only watched RePure won't know what the hell is going on without any previous knowledge of the characters and the world's settings. If anyone have any comment, discussion or question, do feel free to post....but PLEASE! No random pointless flaming without reason! Last edited by Marine-RX179; 2004-05-11 at 04:36. |
2004-05-11, 05:16 | Link #4 | |
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1st series: Better stories, but quality of the art work varys especially the middle sections of the whole series, the animators or the artwork director is obviously slacking off lol 2nd series (RePure): Art work close to perfection, as for the story....what story? I don't think there is any (sorry to say this as a Sister Princess fan lol). Like I said, RePure is nothing more than for Sister Princess fans to watch the little sisters moving around on the screen and get to know about them and their pass even more......... |
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2004-05-11, 05:18 | Link #5 |
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I've watched both series.
One thing I was not happy about in Re Pure is the lack of humor. The first series was pretty funny but I think Re Pure focused on the cuteness of the girls, how much they love their brother, and their simple (but sometimes weird) perils in life. Some of the stories (in the 1st half of each episode) are so weird, others are so boring, and some is downright unbelieveable. Oh look, young Kaho-chan worries that she may not be 'sexy' enough for her onii-chama... Karen-chan can't find her onii-chan in the promised place/time, and is in the verge of tears... In defense for Re Pure, the second half is the better part, with great art/animation (the sisters being more beautifully drawn than the first part), soundtrack, not to mention a unique Ritsuko Okazaki song each episode. Again, the problems of having weird stories, but not too much here. In fact, I liked some girls better because of their respective special episode here. In my opinion, maybe the initial thing that shocked viewers of Re Pure was the wedding dream sequence. Then they throw the cd out of the window and assumed the rest of the series is as 'incestful' as that. Some stuck on it, but later fell asleep by the boringness.
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2004-05-11, 05:32 | Link #6 |
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I got nothing to say for Karen's case, but I think your comment on that incident for Kaho is over-exaggerated a little....'sexy' is not the word I would use.....I don't think there's anything wrong for her to try to look at her absolutely best to meet the brother that she doesn't get to see or meet everyday.
Like I have said, RePure is definitely not the best material for people to come into contact with Sister Princess for the very first time. |
2004-05-11, 05:47 | Link #8 | |
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2004-05-11, 09:05 | Link #9 |
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The first series wasn't so hot either. The characterization was flat, leaning too much on the girls' obvious characteristics but not going any deeper than that. After awhile I realized that they just weren't gonna come across with any more.
I just remember how they would all perform some little character gimmick (one would eat breakfast on roller skates, the other would quietly cough into her handkerchief) and by the time they got done with the 12 gimmicks the episode would be over. It would help your case to mention that the game in question is not an ero-game. |
2004-05-11, 09:44 | Link #12 |
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Actually, it was the other way around for me.
I found the first season to be rather boring and a total drag that ruined the SisPre feel. I was more pleased with the second season "RePure" since it had a much higher animation quality, a more catchy OP theme, and a more closer, ほわ~としただだ甘い感じで、(;´Д` )ハァハァ・・・ |
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I enjoyed both series, but I definitely agree that, if you've never been exposed to the series before, you shouldn't watch RePure first - and it's not for everyone. If you watched the first Sister Princess and liked the characters, then you'll probably like RePure though. I thought it was quite cute, and it definitely had an excellent soundtrack. Quote:
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She was the only thing that I would really hate in this anime, her voice was so... annoying... But overall it's a cute anime if you forget about her, or cut the sound when she speaks
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And yes, I think I remember... That's mean to make me remember that
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