2009-11-21, 17:59 | Link #161 | |
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Although the storyline from what I've seen is definitely a turnoff to a majority of audiences who are close-minded. |
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I had a feeling the author is a woman. I must say, even though it's her first manga, she seems very talented.
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2009-11-21, 18:44 | Link #163 | |
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2009-11-21, 19:24 | Link #164 | |
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Because frankly when you come to a restaurant and pay for the services and menu you think it will provide what you have paid for but then the label turns out wrong, and instead of chicken soup you get mushroom salads... And when you try to protest waitress comes and waves it off saying that you are too 'close-minded' or picky... Or maybe a better allegory would be coming to an expensive restaurant and ordering something that has an interesting name to it and you get a nice appetizer and all is fine, but in the end you get a simple hot-dog that you can get in every snack-bar for much cheaper price. But you cannot say you were actually tricked since you never knew what it will be about nor were told in clear terms, you just judged from the former diners you had and from the place itself that this one would be something that this place usually serves... I think it is understandable for some to feel disappointed and I would not call it close-mindedness, rather - just an irritation over the order not matching the expectations... Last edited by Darknemo2000; 2009-11-21 at 19:59. |
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2009-11-21, 19:50 | Link #165 | |
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2009-11-21, 19:58 | Link #166 |
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I don't think it is a case close-mindedness or "seeing it a billion times in seinen already". Alot of seinen have "those scenes", but they are just there for eye-candy and rarely important to the plot at all. Usually, it doesn't really hit so close to reality
I think the problem is that it's just like a bolt out of the blue from nowhere, especially people who picked up the series around chapter 6. Many people didn't expect a development like this, and are floored by it. So in a sense, it is a kind of "Shocking Swerve". But its a smart move, alluding to it will probably be a good way to test fan reaction early, rather than have it drop like an anvil when the series progresses further (possibly breaking the fanbase in two). There are just too many details that are unclear to really understand what really happened. So its a plot hook of sorts. I never understood the backlash (there wasn't much of one in the earlier case. The other one...on the other hand...), since most of the longer time fans have already wonderd what was up with Yuki since Day 1. It is to be expected she has some kind of unusual experience or reasons (early on the "School Days" thing is being throw around alot) behind her helping Utsumi. As for a certain someone's situation... Spoiler:
In a weird way, people caring about what happened to Utsumi (and the girls) indicates that the characters are likable and people actually care about them. So bizarrely, the rage is a form of love IMHO. Last edited by Rainrir; 2009-11-26 at 11:09. |
2009-11-21, 20:17 | Link #167 | |
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I think it will not suffer as badly as HL or at very least it won't be as fast cut - for once audience is bit more mature, for seconds the magazine is not WSJ, who are infamous for treating their mangakas like crap (maybe because they have a big number of other mangakas who are ready to take the 'losers' place). |
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2009-11-21, 21:00 | Link #168 |
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Close minded was too "harsh" a word, I'll admit, but really, I've run out of word choices as my lexicon's limited but if there's no way of convincing the people in question to try giving the series a bit more chance before they drop it altogether, then I really dunno what to say about them. But I guess nemo put it into words better for me.
Edit: People in question meaning people I know in real life. Not speaking about everyone else. Last edited by Who; 2009-11-21 at 21:24. |
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Besides, I'm still waiting for the scanlators to catch up with ch. 11 and see what the hell happened.
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2009-11-21, 23:13 | Link #170 |
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The way I see it, the reaction is more because it might have happened to a "main girl(s)" than anything to do with seeing it everywhere in seinen and going "not again!". I was trying to allude to the fact that what happened alot in seinen has no bearing to what happens here. The nature of what happened in GE is fundermentally different as other seinen series because:
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Look on the bright side, the backlash isn't as vocal and idiotic as Kannagi levels. That incident made me question the mental stability of moe-moe fans. As for the test thing, it is really just meta-speculation on what the author is thinking. In any case, I just think its better to reveal (or allude) it early than to drop the bomb after the series has been running for some time. This prevents split fanbases because fans that can't take it will stop following the series early on. Also prevents editors from foaming in the mouth when the series takes an unexpected turn right in the middle (weekly shounen serials usually have editors hate that sort of thing). Last edited by Rainrir; 2009-11-21 at 23:24. |
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Personally speaking, it didn't even bother me that much because I feel there weren't enough chapters to help me symphatize with the characters. It did surprise me obviously.
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2009-11-22, 01:11 | Link #174 | |
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So far I consider GE story to be retard. I don’t mind about the slutty bitch girl on chapter 9 because in real life young girls often after guys with sex experience just for the fling and to look cool ‘hey I’m good at bed, so it’s understandable. What I don’t like is how the author set up the main guy, because it seems the main guy is geared up to be more like a female dream-guy who is sensitive, pansy and naïve rather than a male-driven hormone (i.e other story like Orange blabla). |
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2009-11-22, 03:41 | Link #175 | |
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I still apologize if you got that notion from my post even when I explained it a few posts up. |
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2009-11-22, 06:27 | Link #176 | ||
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Kannagi and GE don't exactly target the same core audience. Comic Rex is not your mainstream shonen magazine. It has a distinct slant towards gaming and moe moe crowds. That is the niche it occupies, its different from Weekly Shounen Magazine...which targets the older spectrum of general shounen readers. The fallout, from what I see, is mostly due to the core demograph that it targets. On the other hand, response on GE's recent development is rabid from some people (Shou that B****, for example), but its not reached the idiocy that characterised the kannagi crowd. Quote:
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2009-11-22, 07:14 | Link #177 | |
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I only up to the scanlation up to chapter 9. No I can’t read Japanese so I’m basing my judgment only on the above. So, sorry if I won’t take into account if anyone reading beyond 9 and then giving their opinion based on the latest raw chapters. Do that in spoiler tags or another forum. |
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2009-11-22, 08:29 | Link #178 | |
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Care to en-light me too, Zwei? What kind of magazines you read that show so many as you say cases similar to this? Yeah we all know of Bitter Virgin and so but the number I can think off is really small actually, even when we are talking about seinen. Usually you see side-characters getting raped or having sex. Yeah in Josei's you see quite a number of girl sleeping around (or her male love interest do that) but again it is different category than seinen or shonen to begin with. PS. Yuutai Nova doesn't count as the girl sleeping around though is an ex-girlfriend of the main character, is just a side-character. Gekkoh is similar since main girl character is a revenge-slut - meaning she is using her body as a mean to get her revenge (or informaion). Yet she never really has sex, thogh she french-kissed or let grope her naked body for more men than it is possible to count and a few times had oral sex (never with the main male caracter) but even there the stuation is different and she is a virgin even if in many cases she wated to have sex and actually enjoyed other guys jamming their togues down her throat, but even so, by a lucky accident she is stil a virgin... Yeah, in a lot of senens main female characters are not virgins but again - you usually never see their past experiences either, or it is vaguely told at best without 'visuals'... So can you tell the titles of such theme seinens? |
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2009-11-22, 09:05 | Link #179 | |
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Hmmm, well maybe I wasn't specific enough. It doesn't have to be visually shown whether she was raped or she's not a virgin anymore. However, there are alot of cases when in a seinen manga the main female is a virgin as well. It doesn't mean just because it's a seinen manga, then the main female character has to get raped or have sex with someone else, I just said that you commonly find these in a seinen manga where in a shounen manga is rarely.
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The problem with this manga is not with manga, but with readers. It's too soon to tell something definite, but reactions in this topic suggest that GE invited at first wrong kind of readers. By wrong readers I mean readers with different expectations and different set of rules (morals/ethic/etc.).
Zwei you've posted a lots of names of manga, I suppose those manga were unknow for majority of readers here. They (me included) don't read such manga. From that list I'm reading only Love Junkies, for me it's not seinen but comedy/soft hentai (BTW I've found it on hentai site). I've different expectations for hentai than for seinen or shounen manga. There are two kinds of people (I'm simplifying!). Those who believe that sex is a part of love (ignore platonic love for a moment), and those who believe that sex and love are two different things. For the first group sleeping with someone another than partner is always cheating, sleeping without love is slutting/whoring, loosing virginity is something important and should be done only with someone loved. For the second group virginity is just a nuisance, sex with someone another than partner is not cheating if it was only incidental etc. Again, I'm simplifying, people are a little more complicated . People are changing with age, members of first group became more forgiving while members of second group starting to notice that it's hard to trust partner who is sleeping with other people. Of course most of people are somewhere inbetween those two groups. People of first group won't like to read stories about people of second group and vice versa. About mentioned Gekkoh. I'm not sure but I'm thinking author of Gekkoh is a woman. There is problem with definition of sex. For many years sociologist and sexuologist around the world had a problem. In anonymous questionaries males and females of same age were asked: How many sexual partners you have had? Males answered that they had almost twice more partner than females, what of course is impossible. Many theories tried to solve that problem (like: all males are lying, males did include paid sex and prostitutes weren't questioned, etc.). Not so far ago someone changed question. For females it was: How many sexual partners you have had?, for males it was: How many sexual partners you have had, only include those partner with whom vaginal penetration happened? And you know? Numbers of sexual partners were almost equal...
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