2006-03-31, 18:35 | Link #41 |
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Well, I'll be waiting for feedback then Or when I have nothing else to download, I might get one more episode. If that's how they market their product, I fear how the actual thing is gonna look Usually, when you advertise, you throw out all the bad stuff and exaggerate over the good You mean these were the GOOD stuff?
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2006-03-31, 18:44 | Link #42 |
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Bah, you're all soft.
Anyway, I have a pretty simply criteria for comedy, ie did I laugh, so I don't really care about fanservice and whatnot, provided it works for (and not against) the humour. Girls Bravo, IMO, is a great example of how to do a fanservice comedy. Things like He Is My Master or Okusama wa Joshikousei, eg, are not. But my problem with those two titles (and others) is that they just failed to tickle my funnybone, while Girls Bravo did on numerous occassions. But I laughed at ep 0 of Joshikousei. I knew it was bad. I knew it was over-the-top. I knew they were talking about the sort of things that would make my mother cringe. Yet, I still laughed. I think it's probably the novelty of seeing anime girls being crass. We've seen anime boys be crass on numerous occassions; it's an old gag now. But girls being crass? I don't think I can ever remember seeing that. So Joshikousei gets points from me for doing something I haven't seen in anime. |
2006-03-31, 18:52 | Link #43 |
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The premise of this show has potential, but I agree that the use of panty shots in ep 0 was a little excessive and gratuitous. And this is coming from someone who liked Ichigo 100%
We'll see though. Looking forward to episode 1. Thanks, LIME, for picking this up. |
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2006-04-01, 04:51 | Link #46 | |
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2006-04-01, 06:33 | Link #47 |
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I enjoyed episode 0; I was kinda shocked by it, but more by the fact that that kind of bluntness about 'ladies things' is still greatly taboo on TV in the UK and so, even though blunt people do talk about stuff like this, you don't see it on TV (especially not with characters of this age!). So it was surprising.
The fan service was blatant, but kind of inoffensive (to me at least) - it was more funny, in terms of 'how many ways can they contrive to show Eriko's knickers?' Spoiler about the episode; That scene with her skirt being customised/cut...O_O those scissors were awfully close. :lol I don't know quite who it's aimed at though...fanservice, yes, but...I mean, how are the guys going to react to crude and basic girl talk? Guys know this stuff exists, but do they *really* want to hear girls talking about it so openly? I like it so far though; having the girls being so ordinary and blunt makes a difference from a lot of fanservice shows where their eyes are terrifyingly huge and their vocal range is so high and piercing only bats could properly hear it... I might well watch it, I think. |
2006-04-01, 10:53 | Link #48 |
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There's a review of the first volume of the manga, here:
http://www.manganews.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1627 Anyway I can't wait for the first episode to air :P
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2006-04-02, 01:46 | Link #50 | |
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I watched episode 0 with no prior knowledge of what the show was about, and I found it highly amusing. It's funny, yet disgusting at the same time. And I must be in the minority for liking all the fanservice. I felt like I was being used as a guinea pig, being tested to see how much fanservice one man can handle before his nose erupts like a volcano. It's so blatant it's almost comical in itself.
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2006-04-03, 01:26 | Link #54 | |
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The reason that the fanservice seems excessive is because of the way it is used. In Koi Koi 7 and such shows, the scene exists for the purpose of lifting skirts. There is no shock value, because that is all that you are watching. Joseikousei is different because you are watching a serious drama and then all of a sudden you get an inappropriate camera angle. It is jarring when you aren't in "fanservice mode" while watching panties. You get a sense that those panties don't belong. And because they are out of place, they have more of an impact. Each panty shot in Joseikousei counts as 4.3 normal panties.
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2006-04-03, 10:38 | Link #58 |
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There must be something about this anime that makes me see something funny on certain, ahem, situations that are not funny at all.
Too bad for the blantant use of fanservice, I'm ok with fanservice. It has a reason, but to defy physics in such a way that even in anime is stupid, that's pushing the line.
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