2013-01-03, 01:40 | Link #181 | |
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Part of the reason some fighting stories suck asides from the uninteresting MC is that how the author can get away with breaking his own story universe's rules for the sake of character development. |
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2013-01-04, 03:00 | Link #183 | |
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Take Kiyoura Setsuna for example, who gets the brilliant plan that the best way to stop Makoto from cheating on her best friend involves.... Spoiler for School Days:
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2013-01-04, 07:28 | Link #185 |
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I can understand someone not liking School Days because its final few episodes aren't exactly a pleasant watch. However, I think it's sad how people miss the point of School Days.
It's a harem anime deconstruction just as Madoka Magica is a magical girl deconstruction. It's just that School Days went "all the way" with it, whereas Madoka Magica arguably didn't. A few other more spoileriffic points... Spoiler for MAJOR School Days spoilers:
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2013-01-04, 11:43 | Link #186 | |
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2013-01-04, 13:31 | Link #187 | |
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But when you have a foolish plot, you have a comedy. Or in SD's case a black comedy. And it doesn't matter anyways, because my point is Makoto is not sexy at all compared to Yosuga no Sora's lead Besides, Haruka.... Spoiler for Yosuga no Sora:
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2013-01-04, 21:15 | Link #189 |
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Well...
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But the thing is that he could. I mean he like sparkles and has all the girls swooning over him. Just because they don't all have sex with him doesn't mean he's not better than Makoto. It just means the story actually makes sense. And he has a better bishie character design too.
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2013-01-04, 21:23 | Link #191 |
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Anyhow, this is quite the tangent to my point. :S My point was that it makes more sense in show for girls to be attracted to Haruka than Makoto. Just because the plot helps Makoto get around doesn't mean he is better, and certainly it's also not about how many sexual partners one has since that would imply the sexiest male leads are all in hentai... :S TL;DR Makoto gets laid because stupid shit needs to happen for the show to progress Haruka does not. It is incidential. He also keeps his penis under control. Yosuga no Sora's portrayal of MC's sexuality = Axe Commercial School Days's portrayal of MC's sexuality= Some bad horror movie
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2013-01-05, 04:44 | Link #199 |
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Action or not shounen. Death Note, Hunter x Hunter, Hokuto no Ken, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Saint Seiya... You name it, you WILL always find a lead character that interest you. Your average harem anime will always be much better if you replace the leads with someone like Joseph Joestar, Kenshiro or L.
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2013-01-05, 06:09 | Link #200 | |
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Because the MCs are placeholders for the male viewers. In most cases the MC is there just for the sake of being there. What people actually want to see is them girls. It doesn't matter if the MC is actually pretty well fleshed out and has more depth than any of the girls from the harem, the attention will always go to the girls instead. It's not like we haven't had some seriously cool/interesting male characters, but if fleshing them out doesn't bring any help in raking in viewcounts, what helps? On an even more unserious side, how many times have we, or some other people, post stuff on the Internet saying things like "Lucky bastard give those girls to me"? Insane: A Tsuki-Tsuki avatar and signature, eh. For one, I'd love to see Shinobu animated. His character sits too well for me I can think it's a crime to not get animated Edit: So to quote a line I used to make my signature... Quote:
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