There's something green in that picture, and it's not a giant robot.
Winter 2012 Anime Thread of Roundcats Up in This
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There's something green in that picture, and it's not a giant robot.
It's almost unsettling how much people are forgetting about the student council president. We're talking about quadrangles man!
You really don't notice the yuribait?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
There's already a goal though, and it's back to the "curing the girl of the week" format for the time being.
I don't remember that character at all...
Hellsing321
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Who?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Who?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Yes, but these animu have the added benefit of having no male presence whatsoever.
It depends actually. When I was much younger I had a very close friend who was in the same class as I was. We lived near each other, and we would go to school and go home together. We didn't do everything together, but there was a sort of daily routine where we would have for 5 days a week, and we would talk about stuff. We got split up into different classes too, and made new friends, and eventually we started drifting a little apart because we would have our own things to do after school, etc.
For a long time it really felt "wrong" to me when we weren't going home together, or when he was busy with other things during lunch break and didn't want to spend time with me. When I did other stuff with new classmates and friends, and had my own activities as a boy scout I would often thing about him in a way which felt kinda like he was gone from my life.
It's obviously not a dramatic sort of jealousy, but there's definitely a weird feeling in your life when you had a deep emotional connection with a friend and that bond sort of starts to drift apart.
There's a reason I relate very, very closely with BRS. Because I totally understand the experience the show is trying to express. It's a powerful feeling, and it's also not really good or bad, just a part of growing up.
The dialogue in episode four is not situated around that at all. You also have to look at the format change. In the past, Araragi would solve the issue primarily through discourse with the person he was curing that made it seem like he was working towards that solution. Nise so far has been about putting things off, even with the introduced necessity of someone suffering from some demonic ailment.
Kendo girl in Episode 1 who's also the student council president, hence, she wanting Madoka to be in either club. She was also referred to in the classroom scene in Episode 1 when some girl scheduled an appointment with Madoka for the kendo spar on her behalf.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
She doesn't get a chair in the ED, so she doesn't count!
It's an all girls school isn't it? How is that being anime?
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
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firehawk12
Subete no aware
I know someone here has read the novel, so maybe he can espouse on the topic, but I'm assuming that a lot of this is because the novels change up the familiar format. Given that I wasn't really invested in the "curing" arc structure of the original Bakemono because they were fairly perfunctory, I find myself not having a problem with just random episodes where Araragi is catching up with every girl.
That said, pretty much every girl has made their appearance, so I figure the show/novel picks up at this point.
I need somebody to explain this to me. Are single sex schools still common? It sounds like a really terrible bullshit cliche.
firehawk12
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It's not, but depictions of these relationships end up having subtext. Even Rudyard Kipling's books have what we would term "shounen-ai" by virtue of having boys be close in an all boys school.
It's not our fault you're perverted right?
hosannainexcelsis
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They aren't common in America, but I imagine they're more common in Asia.
What I'm reading here is that you can't have a close friendship without there being a sexual component to it.
firehawk12
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Hey, the British formalized the sempai/kohai relationship through "fagging". You think a relationship where a boy is essentially a manservant to another boy isn't wrought with subtext?
(Again, I'm speaking of depictions/representations.)
Yes. This is ideal. Think of it as an investment. It pays off.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Uh huh. lolIt's still not our fault you're perverted.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
It's still not our fault you're perverted.
With all due respect I must disagree. I blame my new found perversion on all of you,
Especially cuilan
We take responsibility for your perversion. But not firehawk's!
Innocent until proven guilty.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Well, it's like MariMite. Outside of the one lesbian character, these girls are all straight. But the subtext is so thick that it becomes text at some point.
Besides, I suppose you could argue that no one was really queer in Oniisama e... either, if you wanted to do so.
Well presumably you will see everything when the DVD/Blurays release. That's really not the issue though. The problem is that it takes up over half the episode. To put that in perspective, there was more naked loli in this one episode than the entirety of RoKyuBu and Astarotte combined.
sometimes, but to apply it everywhere seems like you're wielding you're own brush, my bro.
What's more disturbing than anything is that scenes such as that shit are considered to be 'fanservice' by those into it, and the creators providing the fix. The idea being more than the image, not saying the actual scenes weren't awkward enough.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Eh, the Yumi/Sachiko relationship doesn't seem all that different to me than the many other faux-yuri relationships in animu today.Subtext is actually present and not just imagined in Marmite, though.
I guess one question would be to ask - do you consider the Homuhomu/Madoka relationship in PMMM to be simple friendship or subtextual yuri? Although I'm not quite sure what side of the line I would fall on, I'm more likely to place it in the latter category.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Well duh. Ro-Kyu-Bu is a classy show.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I was already a pervert, but AnimeGAF helped me come out of the denial phase and come toward acceptance. That means I'm healing, right?
firehawk12
Subete no aware
True. I genuinely think 300 is the best gay movie ever made.
Lagrange 04:
Muginami deeeeesu.
Muginami deeeeeeeeeeesu.
Muginami's fluffy warmth and joy and moe and love and cleavage washed over me like a glorious ray of summer sunlight. And she barely even did anything. My heart is probably going to explode when she actually has a more active role in the story.
Fin was no slouch in the hnnnnnngh department, however.
Fin,
Fin,
Fin,
Fin, and MULTIPLE WANS. INTO MY VEINS, NOW. MARU? WHAT'S THAT?
Also, I totally called a couple of days ago that
Apparently, I was right.
I'm sure this will be totally justified by some later plot point or revelation.
Muginami deeeeesu.
Muginami deeeeeeeeeeesu.
Muginami's fluffy warmth and joy and moe and love and cleavage washed over me like a glorious ray of summer sunlight. And she barely even did anything. My heart is probably going to explode when she actually has a more active role in the story.
Fin was no slouch in the hnnnnnngh department, however.
Clumsy
depressed
jealous
socially clueless
Also, I totally called a couple of days ago that
the pilots' magical crests (now officially "memoria") would be conveniently located on various erogenous zones of their bodies.
Madoka = ass, Fin = chest, Muginami = pelvis.
Jex
Member
But practically no-one likes Wolf's Rain!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Other than Brad's abs, I don't really remember that movie.
It was like a WWE movie, except with the Trojan war as a backdrop. Eric Bana was pretty hot in it too.
To answer that all you have to do is trust that little feeling in your pants.
Jex
Member
I feel bad for you watching these both back to back. At least everyone else had a week to forget how good episode 3 was.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Fuck off. I already claimed Muginami as Mai Waifu like 100 pages ago.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
There were women in that though, weren't there? (Other than Helen, of course).
95% of 300 was about men being half naked around each other. The other 5% was about NTR.
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
I'm not sure what to call 4. Usually a combination of really good stuff with really bad stuff would be considered average, but I don't think that term works in this case.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I should, but I still can't at the moment.
(Also want to watch A Separation as well, but that's a different story)
Jex
Member
If you can't see what's been visually implied through shampoo/soap then you had a better viewing experience than I!
Moreover, if you don't think all those shots, and there were dozens, of fanservice throughout the sequence don't count as fanservice because they were 'censored' then I can see that I share a different definition of disturbing to you.
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