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Alto x VF 171 | 32 | 12.31% | |
Ozma x Bobby | 13 | 5.00% | |
Ranka x Sheryl | 42 | 16.15% | |
Sheryl x Alto | 199 | 76.54% | |
Yasaburo x Alto | 5 | 1.92% | |
Ranka x Ai-kun | 38 | 14.62% | |
Alto x Klan | 14 | 5.38% | |
Ranka x Alto | 54 | 20.77% | |
Ranka x Brera | 37 | 14.23% | |
Klan x Michael | 101 | 38.85% | |
Ozma x Cathy | 111 | 42.69% | |
Luca x Nanase | 41 | 15.77% | |
Wilder x Monica | 41 | 15.77% | |
Alto x VF25 | 37 | 14.23% | |
Yasaburo x Alto's father | 10 | 3.85% | |
Alto x Brera | 18 | 6.92% | |
Grace x Ranka | 12 | 4.62% | |
Nanase x Ranka | 21 | 8.08% | |
Sheryl x Klan | 24 | 9.23% | |
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2008-06-17, 13:11 | Link #261 | ||||
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Well he did stay focused on her for awhile with that camera. He didn't have much time to dwell cause the Vajra attacked and they had to evacuate. Yes the director wanted him to dress up but when Alto went to accept the role he had no idea about Shin incident. He got lucky because of that he didn't have to dress up as a girl but doesn't mean he wouldn't have if it called for it. He could have waited for her to wake up before going down but even still the act of carrying a girl on your back all the way down a mountain is slightly romantic. Maybe some girls out there would at least think so. Quote:
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2008-06-17, 13:17 | Link #262 | ||
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Anyway, I like to think it's quite the opposite of that; there's a reason I got the handle I use... but then being somewhat of a traveller/drifter has advantages and disadvantages... you can meet alot of people along the way if you're open to it, but if you're hard up... eh... this forum isn't about me. I'm 33 now and alot more settled, albeit single ATM. Quote:
What I'm trying to say is that, (and I'm sure alot of this comes from having to play relationship counselor for some female friends lately) especially when you're taking marriage and relationships into account, aspirations, insecurities, etc. etc. really aren't any different at all. Doesn't mean I think women are any less crazy tho... |
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2008-06-17, 13:23 | Link #263 | |
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Your implication was that Ranka was so special, to the point where she could magically cause Alto to open up. While I am telling you, Alto is like that to any of his friends, no matter who. I certainly did not say Alto was able to do all that on his own, but this aspect of his character is not limited to Ranka. You keep on pushing buttons and he will eventually open up, thus I said this is just the way Alto is. Thus making Ranka not so special in this regard. - Tak |
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2008-06-17, 13:36 | Link #264 | |
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2008-06-17, 14:43 | Link #265 | |
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PLUS, the story composition was written by a man so it's inevitable. There's just a clear cut difference between how men and women draft their characters and storylines. Moreso in Japan... --Lone Wolf 一匹狼 |
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2008-06-17, 15:06 | Link #267 | |
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You bring up Ranka singing for Alto in episode 3, you really think she was just singing for him? She also sang infront of Sheryl too the end of episode 2. Was she singing for Sheryl then? I've sung infront of girls before, and it was never intended to be romantic. I don't have the world's best voice, but I love singing too(even did a trio at a Navy Wedding Reception with my dad and a friend of his a few years ago ). Most of the content in your posts, are really, really reaching. |
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2008-06-17, 15:17 | Link #269 | |
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You were the one who insist on this non-existent romantic feeling between Alto and Ranka. You want to associate everything Ranka does with Alto to be romantic, when there is anything but. If I put words in your mouth, you were clearly asking for it anyway. Yeah, Ranka's situation with Alto is not that special. I've had my score of female friends who I'd hang out with and do everything friends would do, but steer the hell away from the more intimate acts performed by couples. Never gave me any feelings of 'romance', and based on personal experience, I simply see what Ranka and Alto doing to be nothing particularly special. - Tak |
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2008-06-17, 15:28 | Link #271 | |
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Actually Ranka was singing to the VF-25 pilots not to Sheryl because she was worried about them. She feels sad about the possibility that some of them could die probably using her own feeling about her brother. Singing in front of a group of people is different that singing for someone alone. Its much more personal and special. Of course I'm reaching. You said there were no scenes with no romantic undertones. I'm showing you that they're plenty. While not overt they're scenes which can be viewed as romantic. |
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2008-06-17, 15:36 | Link #272 |
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Alto encouraged her to push past her shyness and reach for her dream. It gave her the confidence to sing in front of Alto. It wasn't meant to be romantic. It was just Ranka having been given the confidence to sing in front of someone properly for the first time. To be heard.
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2008-06-17, 16:02 | Link #273 | |
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2008-06-17, 16:14 | Link #274 | |
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You're mixing the characters' perspective with the audiences' perspective of the scenes with romantic undertones. Most of us are discussing the relationships while keeping the characters' perspective in mind and ignoring the audience points of view. Just because a director decides to present a scene with romantic tones does not necessarily mean that the characters involved with the scene are having any romantic feelings. |
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2008-06-17, 16:35 | Link #276 | |
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Now even if we ignore the audience point of view we still have some with the characters. Ranka obviously finds things about Alto rescuing her, encouraging her to pursue her singing career, and listening to her problems as romantic or else she wouldn't have feelings for him. Sheryl too found the fly around town romantic, the trip to the mall, and him returning her earring. We don't know if Alto found any of these things romantic he seemed to be returning the earring from pity, flying around town seemed bothersome to him and so did the trip to the mall. Alto doesn't seem to take any of Ranka scene romantically either. If people were honestly only looking at the characters view they wouldn't somehow believe that the earring scene was so sort of confession from Alto of his undying love for Sheryl. (Yes I know I'm exaggerating but still close enough to the truth.) |
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2008-06-17, 17:29 | Link #277 |
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Here's the latest Sheryl blog entry.
2008-06-17 Title: If only this were a song... I'm not very good at bargaining. But I'm even worse at taking things as they stand. That's why I've thought up a somewhat unfair plan that may change the thought process. Really, if only this were a song, I would be able to let them know straight out, right...? Sheryl July 23, 2059 And I don't want to usurp Lonewolf's place, but I translated this Sheryl-centric line from Ranka's latest entry. This is from an old magazine interview that Sheryl had and the date for Ranka's entry is sometime in February. "Sheryl Nome does not know the meaning of the words "giving in to flattery". P.S. Ranka is such a Sheryl fangirl. |
2008-06-17, 17:53 | Link #278 | |
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Out of pity? Are you typing that, and believing it with a straight face? Why did he blush and look away when he gave the earring back to Sheryl? Why did he look at the earring affectionately after he hung it up inside the cockpit of the fighter? Why was he staring at it scenes later before the battle started? The whole earring thing was NOT out of pity. |
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2008-06-17, 18:01 | Link #279 | |
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Where the hell was the pity in THAT!? Of all we know Alto wanted a heart-to-heart conversation with Sheryl as his first battle approaches. I think he was seeking equilibrium, there was no pity. - Tak |
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2008-06-17, 18:03 | Link #280 |
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I'm beginning to think that some people see any interaction between Alto and Sheryl/Ranka as romantic, when they're not. It's like the second they're in the same room it's classed as romantic by some people. It's a bit ridiculous.
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