2009-08-29, 21:08 | Link #43 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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I think quite a bit of flak which Mikuru receives is for the way Goto-san voiced her. Seriously, even in Haruhi-chan, there were times where I just wanted her to be silent. Imagine what watchers of the "normal" series must have felt.
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2009-08-30, 01:07 | Link #44 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Goto is amazing... the sheer endurance of putting out that much whining, crying, and screaming. Not that it doesn't drive me nuts and wish more harm on Mikuru --- but you have to give her some credit for the incessant wailing.
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2009-08-30, 19:11 | Link #45 |
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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I've been wondering this for a while....but what will happen when Mikuru graduates from NH? I mean, she's a year ahead of the other SOS Dan members, so what will happen then? Considering Haruhi's personality, would Haruhi let her go, or do something?
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2009-08-30, 19:34 | Link #47 | |
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I just wish that she sounds more like Hiro from Hidamari. Heck, Mikuru is Hiro in the Haruhi/Hidamari OP mix.
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2009-08-30, 20:00 | Link #49 | |
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---- I think the series will finish before Mikuru graduates. Either that, or Haruhi will force her to continue coming to Brigade meetings even after she graduates. xD She's not going to let her just leave, in any case. That's why I think the "coming back as a teacher" thing isn't really all that probable. (To Haruhi, she'd still be a different person) |
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2009-08-30, 23:08 | Link #51 |
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Mikuru's mistreatment is probably one of the darkest aspects of the series. Haruhi finds it amusing, and sometimes the audience does too. And since Haruhi seems to treat the whole thing as an adventure, she might be doing it because "you" want to see it. The story's more interesting that way. Remember at first, she captured Mikuru because the story needs a helpless moeblob. I feel so bad now.
Sarcasm aside, I think what happened here is the concept of "moe" gone very very wrong. Poor Mikuru; but at least she survives the ordeal.
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2009-08-30, 23:31 | Link #52 | |
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Kind of like what Neon Genesis Evangelion did by taking a few beloved anime stock character types, and putting them through the realism meat-grinder.
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2009-08-30, 23:42 | Link #54 |
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The moe term itself perhaps wasn't well-known until after Haruhi, but the basic gist behind it has been around a long time. The anime/manga fan's love of girls in maid outfits, of girls in waitress outfits, of cat-girls, of girls in cute clothes... that's been around at least as long as harem anime has been around.
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2009-08-31, 00:17 | Link #56 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Must have been before that. There is a 2001 horror film that supposedly "deals" with the concept of moe and the implications on the Japanese girls and the otaku males who've gone 2D/idealized schoolgirl over adult females.
That and the first Saimoe was 2002.
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2009-08-31, 02:55 | Link #58 |
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Obviously, otherwise people would've realized that Shinji was probably the least emotionally screwed up person in the series... aside from possibly Rei.
*e* ... and Kaji... at least, I don't think he had any problems... It's been a while.
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2009-08-31, 03:36 | Link #59 | |
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