You have the top two female leads and the Akio stand-in, while everyone else is in formal attire, male or female.
Stocking from P&SwG has the best designed swords:
I hear they even look like swords sometimes.
This concept of "advantages" you have here is a flawed one. First off, you treat each girl's little act with Ichika as some kind of points system where whomever can get the most accidental boob grabs and accidental walk-ins somehow wins the prize, lol. I guess I should let you know this, if they're all accidents they're not advantages! If you get a bunch of girls together that all try and rate their progress with a single man and all they can do is list times that something's happened against the man's will they're all fucking losers. In other words, sans one character they always were equal now they're just all stuck together so it's more in your face. Therefore I couldn't have ignored it, that "problem" never existed in the first place.
Didn't you say you owned IS or were going to buy it? If so can I even really believe you when you say it's stupid? I get the feeling you're not being honest with yourself here and that I in turn am trying to respond to a fictional argument. There is a definite quality thing in play here where season two is worse than the first but neither are good. Season one was never good, not in an intellectual way, an action way, a camp way, not in a technical way, in no way was season one good. I don't feel that they were having "fun" while making season one, it came off as very by the numbers.
Lol. When their major personality traits are now defined by what weapon they try and hit Ichika with they've got nothing.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Infinite Stratos is anywhere remotely good as Looney Tunes, I'm just saying that it's now dispensed with the characterization and laws of it's fictional universe enough to feel like a variety show that just happens to have reoccurring characters.
How is something "moderately entertaining fun?" To me these are binary things, entertaining means you were entertained and fun means you had fun. Then you try and temper one with moderately, ok, whatever, I get the human desire to try and rate things, but add yet another positive with fun? At some point shouldn't you just step back and say it was entertaining and fun if that's the way you feel?
None of the girls are on equal footing, stop fooling yourself. There's no pre and post equalization thing going on either. What you're alluding to is probably just a byproduct of how characters are introduced in this kind of crap. Basically, a character is introduced and that character gets to be the focus of attention for the time being and then once it's time for the story to move on the honeymoon, so to speak, is over and things normalize between the cast so things can move on. Consider them mini arcs.
I don't even remember it, must have been just as memorable for the characters as it was for me!Of course it's a problem that S2 completely ignores S1's ending scene, and I wish they would have addressed that, but animes that don't want to end always do something stupid like that, so sadly you expect that kind of thing.
Well thanks to the wonders of modern technology I can now post my thoughts on IS from the same place the author probably wrote IS, from the toilet.
Not sure if i wanted to know this kind of "inside" info.
Of course realistically you're right, but I was going by the rules in anime, where things like that, sillily enough, actually matter.
No, I don't own IS, but if it was cheap I might pick it up, yes... haven't so far though. But what does that have to do with whether I thought it was stupid or not? IS was comically awful and ended up being entertaining as a result. That's why I did not consider getting it for full price, but for cheap, why not?
I don't know, I think they knew they were making something awful... either that or they were incredibly incompetent.
As I said, I think that's only partially true. Scenes like Laura's in bed with Ichika, or when she tries to pat down that part of her hair sticking out... as I said, those show character change (not for the better really, but change) and certainly aren't things that would make any sense with the other girls. So yeah, while there is some truth to what you say, it's not true to the extreme you suggest.
Ah. As I said, I don't completely agree, though you are partially right.
Adding qualifiers is a good thing and makes things more specific. I don't really get why some people don't like that. More specific is better!
That may be true, but still, that transition was quite jarring. It was one more example of how IS was so poorly written, most likely. Most things don't do it as badly.
You don't? You know, Ichika was with Houki
Toei doesn't really have the flexibility of making it Sailor Precure if their hopes of tapping the nostalgia market are to pan out. Sure, they can milk young kids once again, but they stand to make a lot more if they play it right.
This is the sad reality, but one can always hope.
