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On a more serious note, Nyar-o slaughtered a bunch of Old Gods in the Dreamlands. But if I remember right didn't Nyarlathothep have a bunch of them under his protection in the Mythos?
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2012-04-25, 23:13 | Link #622 |
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For as much as it warps the concepts of Lovecraft into an anime mold, it's still being respectful to them while warping. Parody, when done right, can be an excellent genre. And someone as straight-faced and hyperserious as Lovecraft was asking for someone to poke fun at him anyway.
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knew i choose the right cult to join when i became a Cthulhu Cultist
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2012-04-25, 23:30 | Link #624 |
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Back to the thread itself... I'm kind of wondering how they'd tackle He Who Must Not Be Named's skillset. Obviously it's going to complement Cthuko and Nyaruko's abilities, but I don't think the King In Yellow's incarnations have any unifying theme to them (aside from causing insanity, but ALL eldritch things do that). And wasn't something else (Ithaqua?) supposed to be the wind elemental according to Derleth's elemental theory?
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Though really for me, when your product barely resembles anything about cthululu and it's just using its name and the mythos of it and nothing else... I just don't see where the parody is. Eh, like I said it's just not for me. I am not as terribly hard to please as some might think. Out of the 12 shows I picked up this season and tried, I've liked about 9 or 10 of them. So that's definitely not bad right?
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2012-04-25, 23:42 | Link #626 | |
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2012-04-25, 23:44 | Link #628 |
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Found a website that's documenting most (all?) of the references that appear in the episodes~
http://nyaruref.blogspot.ca/ To think that I thought that it was heavy in parodies before... This anime is now godlike. |
2012-04-25, 23:49 | Link #629 | |
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2012-04-26, 00:24 | Link #630 | |
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Knowing the roots of his inspirations, he even acknowledge that none of the concepts were originally his and gave credits mostly to Poe and Dunsany. If he were alive today, I'm sure he will appreciated what Nayruko is. |
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2012-04-26, 01:48 | Link #631 | |
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2012-04-26, 02:00 | Link #632 | |
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Damn, Shanta-kun is so cute especially the sounds that he makes.
Kuko was funny and adorable too during the episode. I was pleasantly surprised that she's not the overly jealous, violent, and obnoxious lesbian. lol. Quote:
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2012-04-26, 05:13 | Link #635 | |
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Sacred is sacred. But parody is parody. If you can't mock it, then your are too serious. Death and war had been parodied countless times, so what can be more taboo than them? Is Lovecraft's works more sacred than Death itself?
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2012-04-26, 07:40 | Link #638 | |
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2012-04-26, 09:28 | Link #640 |
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Oh, but there is, Islam, out of fear some chinese islamists might become members of alqaeda and bomb tokyo just because some gay vampire was reading the coran while giving evil orders to his lackeys. Maybe we catholics should reinstate the inquisition and go against a certain magical index >_< </rant off>
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comedy, light novel adaptation, loli, parody, romance, seinen, shounen, trap |
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