2013-02-24, 09:51 | Link #281 |
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Well, it can't be helped. When two girls in school become more than friends it just gets brushed off as being a phase that will pass - or even practice to become good wives for their husbands
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2013-02-24, 10:16 | Link #283 |
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But where would be the fun, then?
Though I concede you that there's at least one kind of relationship which shouldn't be sexualized: guytoguy. Here we go with this old-non-sensical mantra again... Just because you don't get the point doesn't necessarily mean it's pointless. I don't know. I've only seen part of the promotional material and, frankly, it looked horrible. So I guess the old adage "You reap what you sow" applies fairly well in this case overall.
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2013-02-24, 10:28 | Link #284 | |
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How dare you say guy on guy cannot love each other, but lesbianism is okay? Last edited by Kudryavka; 2013-02-24 at 10:41. |
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2013-02-24, 10:32 | Link #286 | ||
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Because basically what you are saying is if it appeals to me it is alright but everything else is not. Quote:
Whatever I tolerate a little fanservice, but as a woman I find most of it degrading.
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2013-02-24, 10:37 | Link #287 |
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I like fanservice, but if there's so much that it distracts from the story (example: Bakemonogatari and friends), then I don't care who's involved, I can't take it. I start feeling like I'm being treated like an idiot with a cock for a brain.
When I want slight titillation along with a decent story, I'll look for ecchi. If I want to turn my brain off and look at pr0n, then I'll look for hentai. I really hate when series straddle the line between ecchi and hentai, I'm like just pick one already. |
2013-02-24, 10:44 | Link #288 | ||
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Nah, they're fine. Just not a fan of them in my entertainment. And since entertainment is supposed to entertain me...
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2013-02-24, 10:46 | Link #289 | |
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I mean I might like a bishounen or a hot guy too (like in psycho pass I highly enjoyed the scene with Kougami with his shirt off ) and that's its own type of fanservice. But yeah sometimes there is a bit too much fanservice in anime/manga whether it is for women or men. You shouldn't need fanservice to sell your product, the story & characters should do that.
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2013-02-24, 17:09 | Link #290 | |
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Relatedly, guy walks in on a girl changing clothes/accidentally touches her inappropriately/other perverted situation that very clearly wasn't his fault -> The girl punches him in the face. Oh, and serious stories where the animators put far more effort into making the female characters look sexy than anything else in the show. ...On the whole, I suppose I just really dislike fanservice-tropes that are more blatant than "Girls wearing slightly revealing outfits that are still not entirely unreasonable within the context of the setting".
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2013-02-24, 21:10 | Link #291 |
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One thing that I have always disliked about anime is the level of fan service for certain animes because the way women are portrayed in those scenes seem to give the impression that they are defenceless/weak. I don't mind them because I sometimes LOL at those antics, but the timing and frequency are important. Timing has to be right for comedic purpose, and the frequency has to be right as well so that I won't develop "immunity" to those scenes which would lead to less laughter.
But you know what? I am not going to judge anyone who likes female fan service, cause I like male fan service myself, and if I were to judge that would make me a giant hypocrite, haha.
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2013-02-24, 21:14 | Link #292 |
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SSY just had horrible timing. It faced the newest Urobuchi, Jojo and, most surprising because no sane man can explain it, Girls Und Panzer. All of them three appealed to wider bases.
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2013-02-24, 21:22 | Link #293 |
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The whole incest trend that seems to be going on a lot right now.
It's not funny, Japan. Not funny at all. Otherwise....I mean there's certain things that I'm not crazy about, but hey we all like what we like.
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2013-02-24, 22:35 | Link #294 |
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Then they should stop this trend in VN and so on.
Incest does not bother me in anime and it used to be norm a back in old days (real life) but anime is really starting to get it over board especially when it comes to unrequited love. I just find it as a lack of imagination on authors part. And in comedic parts it sometimes makes you go "Really?". The best example right now would be grandpa from Kotoura-san. Like the guy but that little detail was pretty unnecessary, why not have young maids instead? He would still be a perv yet a proper grandpa to his grand daughter.
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2013-02-25, 03:15 | Link #296 | |
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Yuri is pure fantasy to satisfy men's gratification in seeing two girls flirting and eating with each other *drool yeah, thanks... anyway... Why they are not called lesbians though they're doing it? It's called denial. Same as porn stars denying they're gay or bi... Oh, another thing that applies to yaoi as well... as if they're not catered to women... Last edited by NoemiChan; 2013-02-25 at 04:06. |
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2013-02-25, 04:56 | Link #297 | |
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The "whisked away" story has gotten very old. I'm tired of the story being characters that get sucked away into a new world and thrown in over their heads. I made the mistake of running through a list of some anime that will be airing in the next few months, and was sad to see that there's still so many of these. Though I was pleasantly surprised to find one show that seems to have the opposite going in that the character is whisked away to a peaceful place, and maybe it'll be a good show! Look, I get it. It's what every anime viewer or manga reader has thought at least once in their life. "Wouldn't it be cool if I were whisked away into another world and became the 'chosen one' destined for fame and glory?" There's better things to do though. At the very least, I'd like to see some genuinely creative approaches to these stories.
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2013-02-25, 05:09 | Link #299 |
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I bet it's Oreimo that started this incest trend of our new generation, but I'm recently sick of non-blood related little sisters' plot device. I mean, we need more blood-related little sisters, but Japan is seriously in a bad light.
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2013-02-25, 05:09 | Link #300 |
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Because, well, marrying blood siblings is still taboo or illegal, at least in Japan? And in what other way can you feature incest without making it necessarily incestous?
Making them non-related, of course. |
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