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Spring 2011 Anime Thread of ZAWA ZAWA, Money, emo Cyclops, and fun^10xint^40=Ir2

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duckroll said:
I'm probably going to check out 7 shows in Summer. But I have serious doubts as to whether I will end up following any of them. Lol.
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Pretty much but 7 shows to check out is better than checking out 2-3 shows every other summer and dropping them after wards lulz.
 
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pieatorium said:
Blade anime could be interesting. It's not like it could be worse than Blade Trinity.
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Here's the plot: Eric Brooks--known as Blade--seeks revenge on Deacon Frost, the vampire lord who killed his mother while she was still pregnant with Eric. With all the powers of a vampire with none of their weaknesses, Blade's quest for vengeance leads him throughout Southeast Asia in search of Frost, where, in Vietnam, he discovers a vampire plot that threatens to take down the whole world.
 
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duckroll said:
Here's the plot: Eric Brooks--known as Blade--seeks revenge on Deacon Frost, the vampire lord who killed his mother while she was still pregnant with Eric. With all the powers of a vampire with none of their weaknesses, Blade's quest for vengeance leads him throughout Southeast Asia in search of Frost, where, in Vietnam, he discovers a vampire plot that threatens to take down the whole world.
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See sounds 100 times better than Blade gets pretty sidekicks that product placement iPods
 
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pieatorium said:
See sounds 100 times better than Blade gets pretty sidekicks that product placement iPods
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I wonder if the anime designs will use old Frost like in the original comic, or young Frost like the hippy poser movies.
 
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firehawk12

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icarus-daedelus said:
I decided to go back and watch episode 1 of Twilight Q. The plot, such as it is, is basically shoujo meets time travel, and it's incredibly straightforward and a bit dull although the production values are high enough that the animation is always nice to look at. This time it's not written/directed by Mamoru Oshii, so it's pretty unremarkable for the most part, but I still think the idea of a longrunning Japanimu equivalent of The Twilight Zone would be amazing and would produce more gems eventually.

It was an OVA series from the late 80s, when there was more money available for more esoteric projects, and the second episode is bizarre as hell, so I'm sure it tanked and never went anywhere. Still, the idea behind the project was sound and I'm kind of bummed that there's nothing like it around.
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Monocle power falling!

I wonder if there wasn't just a live action science fiction anthology thing around the same time. Or maybe they just imported the American stuff.

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Meanwhile, Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi continues right off the OVA and falls perfectly into shoujo trappings. Having never really watched or read a BL text before, it's strange to see how a) shoujo everything appears, made more evident by the fact that they deconstruct a shoujo manga within the show itself and b) how the main character could be replaced by a woman and this could be another Hatakari Man. At least, the fact that the character(s) are/might be gay seems to have no bearing on the text so far.

Then again, if BL is written for straight women more than gay men, maybe it makes sense that it's just the shoujo formula with a gender swap.
 
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7Th said:
Spring is old and busted, let's get ready for summer!

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Let's see, the brains base shows, the Noitamina shows, maybe Blood and the nondescript Sunrise show. Seems pretty decent for a summer season especially compared to last year's.
 
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firehawk12 said:
Then again, if BL is written for straight women more than gay men, maybe it makes sense that it's just the shoujo formula with a gender swap.
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It is. There has got to be gay anime fans out there but they are probably an insanely small negligible amount. BL is written for the fujoshi crowd.
 
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Other than the obvious Natsume and Usagi Drop might check out No.6 too. Just read the first two chapters the other day and it seemed somewhat interesting.

Ended up watching a few more of the Detective Conan movies over the weekend and as always they were oddly entertaining. Partially because I always enjoy seeing what crazy stunt gets pulled in the end to save everyone.
 
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hanasaku iroha ep1

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lol like a boss

found it pretty good, the moms funny trolling her daughter
 
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firehawk12

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zeroshiki said:
It is. There has got to be gay anime fans out there but they are probably an insanely small negligible amount. BL is written for the fujoshi crowd.
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Yeah, it's just funny to me because, as I debated our great colonizer doomed1 in the last thread, "good" Yuri seems like it is written by women for other women.

That's not to say gay male wishfulfillment is all that different from what a straight woman might experience, but it seems so very shallow when the tropes are nearly identical. Heck, the dude even talks to himself and narrates his emotions for like 80% of the show.
 
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firehawk12 said:
Yeah, it's just funny to me because, as I debated our great colonizer doomed1 in the last thread, "good" Yuri seems like it is written by women for other women.

That's not to say gay male wishfulfillment is all that different from what a straight woman might experience, but it seems so very shallow when the tropes are nearly identical. Heck, the dude even talks to himself and narrates his emotions for like 80% of the show.
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Marimite is written by a woman but the crowd that buys it is definitely your standard otaku fare. Then again, I'm not sure if Marimite counts as yuri. (Endless Eight loop incoming!!!)
 
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shintoki

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firehawk12 said:
Then again, if BL is written for straight women more than gay men, maybe it makes sense that it's just the shoujo formula with a gender swap.
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I can give you a hint... It is. It's basically porn for girls.
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

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Hanasaku Iroha 1:
That was pretty enjoyable. I think they did a good job setting up the characters. The show looks really nice. Looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here.
 
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firehawk12

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icarus-daedelus said:
I figured that watching obscure 80s scifi anthology animu that no one else has heard of or cares about would increase my monocle power, tho. :p Is it because I called it shoujo with time travel?
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That's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time! And I think I meant the episode itself had less monocle power because it didn't have Oshii. :lol

Probably the latter. I thought Outer Limits aired around that time, but nope. Twilight Zone The Movie? :lol
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That makes me wonder what nerds there think about American science fiction. I'm assuming anime nerds are different from SF nerds anyway.

I intended to watch at least an episode of this, but Aria is beckoning. From my limited experience yaoi/BL is not usually that blatantly shoujo-esque in structure, though it is most definitely predominately written for (and consumed by) straight women.
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You should watch the OVA. It's basically shoujo... except they have sex right after meeting each other. :p

zeroshiki said:
Marimite is written by a woman but the crowd that buys it is definitely your standard otaku fare. Then again, I'm not sure if Marimite counts as yuri. (Endless Eight loop incoming!!!)
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Check another one off the list!
And yeah, including myself, Marimite has a strangely large male fanbase. Enough to sustain 4 seasons and a Pizza Hut sponsorship anyway. But, unlike Strawberry Panic, Marimite isn't really about girls sexing each other up.

I'd presume Oniisama e... has a similarly large male fanbase?

shintoki said:
I can give you a hint... It is. It's basically porn for girls.
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I know. It was almost rhetorical, now that I think about it. Emotion porn + seme/uke relationships FTW.
 
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Kampfer 14?: What a terrific return to form. Absolutely flawless.

Hen Zemi 1: Had a chuckle here and there but it's not that amusing. At least it's just a short twelve minute affair.

I'm going to miss my Nitori walking avatar. Might as well make the switch now.
 
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shintoki

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tiff said:
shintoki, is that a new avatar?

Hilarious timing if so!
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No, it's an old one. I got it from AAF from their Christmas request back in 2009(
Maybe 2008). I asked for rotating Shuichi pictures. It's what I got.

I use to have it up here too, it replaced my Scribblenaut Shuichi.

firehawk12 said:
I know. It was almost rhetorical, now that I think about it. Emotion porn + seme/uke relationships FTW.
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Most will follow a fairly standard Shoujo formula. Except it's very sped up, and more on the sexual side. I guess you can say, it's their version of the Ecchi,Fanservice(Whatever) show.
 
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firehawk12 said:
Check another one off the list!
And yeah, including myself, Marimite has a strangely large male fanbase. Enough to sustain 4 seasons and a Pizza Hut sponsorship anyway. But, unlike Strawberry Panic, Marimite isn't really about girls sexing each other up.
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The last two seasons are OVA though. I'd have killed for more anime seasons. I think it taps into the same vein that KyoAni found with K-On. Cute (classy) girls doing cute (classy) things. And not a dude in sight!

Which reminds me, I need to continue reading Marimite!
 
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firehawk12

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Joule said:
Kampfer 14?: What a terrific return to form. Absolutely flawless.
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The Strike Witches of the season.

zeroshiki said:
The last two seasons are OVA though. I'd have killed for more anime seasons. I think it taps into the same vein that KyoAni found with K-On. Cute (classy) girls doing cute (classy) things. And not a dude in sight!

Which reminds me, I need to continue reading Marimite!
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The fourth season was an actual season though - which is why Pizza Hut appeared all over the place.

And there are dudes! Which is why the author is writing the series about Yumi's brother and his school after all.
 
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firehawk12 said:
The Strike Witches of the season.
The fourth season was an actual season though - which is why Pizza Hut appeared all over the place.
And there are dudes! Which is why the author is writing the series about Yumi's brother and his school after all.
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I never got around to finishing the 3rd season so I don't know much about S4. Great if true. I need to do a full rewatch if I'm gonna catch up though. I've forgotten so much that I'm genuinely surprised at certain things that happen in the novels.

Lafiel said:
Reminds me he has the only animated avatar in this thread that i will miss.:lol
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LOL firehawk am cry.
 
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firehawk12

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Poor guy!

And my single frame Mugi is still mooging moogs. Too lazy to find a new one and I've turned so hard on Mass Effect that going back to one of those would be so disingenuous.
 
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firehawk12

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zeroshiki said:
I never got around to finishing the 3rd season so I don't know much about S4. Great if true. I need to do a full rewatch if I'm gonna catch up though. I've forgotten so much that I'm genuinely surprised at certain things that happen in the novels.
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I'm trying to remember what happens in S4... it's mostly Yumi and her antics when it came to picking out her own Rose en Bouten de la blahblahblah though.
 
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