2013-01-28, 14:43 | Link #421 |
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Hate is a strong word for this but I'm slightly annoyed by generic cuteness (TV tropes ahoy!) in situations where one character is described as "average" or "slightly overweight" when said character doesn't look any better or worse than the "school idol/beautiful" character.
Was it harem anime 108 or 143? I can't remember...
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2013-01-28, 18:32 | Link #422 | ||
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I guess what I'm asking for is for authors to be more inventive and pay less attention to big cultural occurrences. I feel like you get those cliches of the culture festival and New Years' shrine visits where they're not wholly necessary. Take TWGOK for an example: There IS a culture festival, but it's almost inconsequential to the story. It just happened to be a thing happening and it wasn't a big deal, but it provided a convenience. There was no focus on: "What will class 2-A do for the culture festival?!" or "Oh em gee let's go look at all of the cafes and drool over the cosplayers." I suppose I'm just tired of seeing these cultural things being overplayed to death to the extent that if you've lived, you know that Japan has culture festivals in highschool. I have no doubt that there are so many more things happening in Japan that can receive screen time, and Hyouka is yet another fine example. The hina procession was a fantastic thing to show because it's not a huge thing that everyone and their mother knows exists. It was a local event that was original and unlike what you normally end up seeing. That's the kind of stuff that I want to see, things that I've never seen before.
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2013-01-28, 23:54 | Link #424 | |||||
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Pop media bans ugly and fat characters, after all. /sarcasm However, Chihiro Kosaka from The World God Only Knows really does look average compared to the other girls. |
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2013-01-29, 00:20 | Link #425 | ||
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[quoteMaybe the school used to be an all-girls school and it has become co-ed just recently? Or maybe males in anime aren't particularly interesting anyway. Some if not all Otakus watch anime for the girls, after all.[/quote] This is in itself a cliche. An annoying one at that. Quote:
You know who is REALLY normal though? Normal Girl from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
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2013-01-29, 01:27 | Link #427 |
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One early example of nuclear weapons replacement with something similar but totally different was the "Planet Bombs" of Space Battleship Yamato. These weapons, originally radioactive asteroids used by the Gamilas to bombard earth for at least five years, rendered the planetary surface uninhabitable, with the radiation seeping deeper into the surface threatening the underground cities and the human population that had relocated there for safety.
The sequence used to present then shows the giant glowing rocks slam into the Earth with a giant mushroom cloud as the result and a Red cratered Earth with no bodies of water and sparce cloud cover. The responce to this weapon was the even deadlier Wave Motion Gun, which goes beyond nuclear and mushoom clouds and just freaking vaporizes stuff is giant explosions. (The eventual responce to the Wave Moton Gun was Planet Killer Missiles that could one shot a planet or cause a small star to start dying to become a Red Giant.)
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2013-01-30, 18:43 | Link #430 |
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What is it? Anime Girls that hates to be seen in their underwear but begs to be seen in a bikini/some are actually revealing...
Worst Offenders: Ecchi animes and some romance animes Notable Exceptions: One piece swim wear; Swimsuits that aren't considered as bikinis ; Those that covers more skin What makes it popular: Men.... us men... Reasons I hate it: Irony? Is the hate really worth it?Sometimes....because its fa nservice, too much is too much... |
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At some level, it does seem odd, since a girl's two-piece swimsuit generally doesn't cover any more than a girl's two-piece underwear does. But here is where social norms and values take over. "Swimwear" being appropriate attire for trips to the beach and/or for going swimming has been engrained in us. And there's practical reasons for this - You don't want to be wearing much in very hot places and/or when you're going swimming. So swimwear is not meant to be "under" or "hidden". "Underwear", as the very term suggests, is meant to be worn under the rest of your clothes. When it comes to practicality, its intended to give added warmth, support, protection, and cleanliness. Because its intended to be "under" and "hidden", it becomes engrained in the minds of many of us that its "embarrassing" to be seen in our underwear (unless the whole point is for it to arouse a sexual partner, which can make it even more embarrassing for your underwear to be seen by someone you have a crush on but aren't yet in any sort of real relationship with).
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2013-01-30, 20:45 | Link #433 | |
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Seems like you're complaining about a revealing some swimsuits are,that's a legitimate complaint,but again,that's not a cliché either.
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2013-01-30, 22:13 | Link #435 | |
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Even DBZ cashed in on this gag with one of their MALE characters! Spoiler:
I really am curious if Japan actually makes panties like you see in anime. They ain't no where in America for TEENAGERS, that's for sure. XD [Edit after Google search] .........okay, I stand corrected.
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2013-01-31, 00:15 | Link #437 | ||
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"Ah~ Teddy bear pantsu." "Kyaaaa~!" This links into another thing that annoys me, the cliche of severely overreacting. I know that some people do indeed overreact to panty flashes, and that's fine. However, I've never met a girl that was severely affected by a panty flash in the way that some anime characters are at times. Maybe that's a culture thing, but even then it's still a bit odd. In my experience (not me flashing, obviously. I don't wear panties. ) it tends to become an in-joke and rapidly evolve into humor and not really caring about it happening that much. It gets even worse with characters who feel that their lives have been destroyed by accidents like these. "Ohh~ They saw my panties/naked body. My life is ruined!" For a great example of sane behavior, there's Michelle from Whose Line. Perhaps one of the most famous panty flashes in America. Quote:
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2013-02-01, 21:34 | Link #440 |
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Alternate love interests that end up "losing" (some may consider it winning depending on the series) get no romantic closure of their own. Or even worse, they just disappear into oblivion.
Also... characters disappearing into oblivion in general just annoy the crap out of me. I remember Akira Toriyama would entirely forget about the existence of entire characters. And of course, I've posted this before, but really it's not okay to abuse a character just because they are a guy and/or a loser.
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