2013-01-05, 14:58 | Link #502 | |
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Demon King: If you really insist on fighting, I'll fight you. Demon King: Maybe, actually, I'll let you kill me. Hero: Die, then! Demon King: So at least give me half a day to explain myself. Hero: .... You can imagine how difficult it is to include any kind of fanservice when you can't use anything more than dialogue. So if you want to include fanservice (And the author did, because nobody on 2ch will read your work without fanservice.) you've got limited options. Making the hero a virgin who overreacts to any display of cleavage is one of the few ways to accomplish this. The second has to do with the way the show uses archetypes. Everybody in the show is named after and embodies an archetype, that's why they're all "Mage" "Hero", "Demon King", etc. There was a very interesting essay in the back of one of the books on this subject. The archetypical hero in anime/games is a virgin who freaks out when he gets within 30 feet of a breast. Therefore, Hero is too. Of course, this explains why he is the way he is, but it doesn't change it. So if it's bothering you now it's going to continue to bother you in the future. I will say that the fanservice in the books was pretty toned down, and the ratio of text spent on fanservice versus text spent on say, the advantages of crop rotation and potatoes in cold climates is about 1:9. |
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2013-01-05, 15:22 | Link #503 |
Snobby Gentleman
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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Verse 1: Hero You Will Be Mine. I Refuse!
Hello, everybody. Today, I started this new year's winter anime season watching the first episode to Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. I must say that while this medieval, high fantasy with magic and sorcery is packed with much generic content the execution as to how the Maou explained the politics of the war to the Hero was so immersive; it can become true.
There's so much to stake and risk in war, and, unfortunately, in real life humans make a big business out of it for unity, to gain concessions, to obtain natural resources, or to have a common enemy to loathe at. Now, what's looks promising is Maou's proposal to Hero about finding or making another way to end the war without each of both realms desestabilizing internally. Ami Koshimizu delivers a splendid performance as the well educated and versed Maou, coupled with childish curiosity and moeness towards Hero, but having issues about how flabby her body seems to her. Fukuyama Jun does not gets behind either, as the passionate but dumbfounded Hero. At first, reacting with ignorance about all the truth of the war Maou explains to him, and childishly denying Maous' advances on him. I definitely nailed it right for myself to have picked-up this title; it'll be a lot of fun watching how the story develops. |
2013-01-05, 15:28 | Link #504 | |
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It's one reason why I often go out of my way to avoid shows that have male leads at all, because those males tend to embody tropes that just ruin shows for me.
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2013-01-05, 15:44 | Link #507 | |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 48
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Everyone has a Job Title as a name Hero Demon King Head Maid Big Sis Maid Little Sis Maid Female Knight Female Mage Grandpa Archer Winter King Young Merchant etc..
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2013-01-05, 15:52 | Link #508 | |
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2013-01-05, 16:00 | Link #511 | |
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2013-01-05, 16:48 | Link #519 |
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It's a writing convention. It's not that these are their actual names, it's just that they aren't identified by their names. Like in Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, where the main character was known only as "Watashi," and the people around her were "Grandfather" and "Assistant." I am given to understand that this is an old Japanese writing technique, used where revealing the names of specific persons was considered discourteous.
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