2006-05-04, 18:04 | Link #21 |
It's bacon!
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User avatars can be generally broken down to four categories:
Action Comedy Sadness Happiness ... aka, characters you'd like to fuck For example, with my current Haruhi, what at first appeared to be a fad, I try to mold it into something different. That, in this case, instead of the general Happiness theme, I attempt to give it the action/comedy theme,.. which by in this case, the insanity displayed, there in effect, places all other Haruhi avatars to within like category. -That category previously being in the greatest percentage, the happiness category. Now some would say that there should be a fifth category. That being, authority. Subtle as it is however, this usually relates to something seen such as my current avatar, of the overall visual relation of the universal jack-off sign. (See, I'm doing it now.) But with that however, can end up being broken down to the Action/Comedy categories. Yet, one would say, "But couldn't that also be broken down to the Happiness category?" ...which in this case, does it check back to the authority level? Which is then they say "Gotcha ya." ...and I do the universal jack-off sign, which now places all Haruhi avatars into the first ever recognized category of Authority. Thus, Authority however in this special case, appears to be limited solely to Haruhi. But for every other avatar fad, mostly just Happiness. |
2006-05-04, 18:38 | Link #23 |
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Haruhi avatars and sigs are the biggest fad I've seen since I joined this site over a year and a half ago...Personally if i saw more than 1 person with my avy I'd have to scrap it immediatley because of my "against the grain" nature...She's a cute little anime character though, but why all the hype?
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2006-05-04, 18:44 | Link #24 | |
It's bacon!
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2006-05-04, 18:47 | Link #26 | |
Gomen asobase desuwa!
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And as to another poster above...well, in many ways my avatar is horror. Speaking of which, the majority of fans for Haruhi are in fact, otakus who are simply delighted at the high sakuga quality of the show. Well, I can't say much as I did love the novels to begin with, but it is rather hard for me to understand; what made this anime "click" with anime viewers outside of Japan? Is it the vast number of youtube videos? Is it the dance scene at the end? Or just the way Kyo-Ani did the brave thing of kicking off the first episode with a shitty-student video that made you go "what the fuck?" Perhaps its a whole combination of those. But, sadly Haruhi will last only 13/14 episodes. It may go out like AIR and Full Metal Panic (where some talk is still active being the same Kyo-Ani production). Of course, there is still the slim possibility of the ED theme "Harehare Yukai" topping the charts at Oricon, which may open a pandora's box. I have yet to see that happen. |
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2006-05-04, 18:50 | Link #27 | |
Beautiful fighter.
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2006-05-04, 19:17 | Link #29 | |
Absolute Haruhist!
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For more personal reasons, its because I actually met someone who behaves like haruhi in my younger days. Back to topic, I think the biggest trend in this forum is that everyone types their sentences 'correctly'. Like starting with capital letters, using commas, fullstops and such. I don't do this on other forums. ive always been typing like this in all other forums, i dont use capitals and i dont use inverted commas. Not sure why, but most probably due peer pressure, did I try to type correctly here. |
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2006-05-04, 19:35 | Link #30 | |
Umeboshi!
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I can understand how Suzumiya Haruhi is so popular. But I can't understand why Higurashi no Naku Koroni isn't almost as popular.
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2006-05-04, 19:39 | Link #31 | ||
It's bacon!
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2006-05-05, 02:15 | Link #37 | |
OK.
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A. KyoAni is becoming a recognizable studio among intermediate otakus (the ones who know a fair bit but aren't really really hardcore), due to the huuuge buzz around AIR and FMP. Especially FMP which was watched by a fair amoun of people. So people will remember "hm, the studio that did those awesome anime will be doing this..." B. Very eye-catching visuals, and the wide spread of them. The existing group of fanboys propogate the series by putting them in sigs, avatars, on imageboards and blogs. To most people casually browsing through sites, these images catch their attention (especially if they're smoothly-animated GIFs) and most of them can't help but want to know what this show is. Especially if they see it very frequently. I think those single images everywhere have more impact than Youtube for now. Speaking of Youtube and fads, it seems to have caught on very well with the Japanese - shouldn't it be about time that the lawsuit-loving companies catch on to it as well? Or maybe that's just America. C. Blogs. And if it's about continuing to watch the show rather than becoming aware of it and trying it out, then D. Haruhi. I think a lot of people are attracted to her character design and her attitude. Especially her independent and confident nature. E. The animation (duh), or rather, the production values in general. F. The humour - it's not too difficult for most people and seems to be enjoyable enough for the audience in general. This may not be a fad, but I think lately there has been a general trend towards finding out more about anime and reactions from primary sources (i.e. Japanese magazines, Japanese blogs, Japanese imageboards/messageboards) especially among the growing community of bishoujo-game/erogame lovers. At least that's what it seems like to me.
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2006-05-05, 08:22 | Link #38 | |
Mein Kampf :D
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Bright colourful animation is another plus. Look, I even got one of those ultra cool haruhi avatars that everyone is wearing. |
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2006-05-05, 09:03 | Link #39 |
Resident devil
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Philippines
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Lol Haruhi the Dictator
anyways, Haruhi to me was another moe anime, so even without the hype I would have watched it anyway. And as John Opplinger (animenation) once said, moe anime is among the most Japanese as anime can get, so naturally if you're into that you'd be wanting to be close to the source. Although I haven't gotten to reading 2ch yet. |
2006-05-05, 09:41 | Link #40 |
Nyunga Ro Chaga
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Haruhi is a goddamn sarcastic series. I don't see that often, which is why I love it so damn much.
Anyway, this thread is basically asking what clicks a fanboy. It's always either: 1. romantic harem 2. Laugh Out Loud comedy 3. Mecha/action
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