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[Branduil]

Spoiler

K-On!'s plot still holds more water than Madoka's

>:3

What plot?

 

[jman2050]

Spoiler

K-On!'s plot still holds more water than Madoka's

>:3

What plot?

 

[Risette]

K-On!'s plot still holds more water than Madoka's >:3

The characters are better as well.

 

[hellclerk]

What plot?

Exactly. And I'm still 100% right. >:3

 

[Branduil]

The characters are better as well.

What characters?

 

[Haly]

Cute girls doing cute things.

It's simple but a very strong multilayered theme.

 

[jman2050]

Exactly. And I'm still 100% right. >:3

You may believe you are right. You are wholly entitled to that opinion.

Doesn't change the fact that you are, in fact, wrong.

 

[Branduil]

Cute girls doing cute things.

It's simple but a very strong multilayered theme.

But Madoka has cute girls doing violent, sociopathic things. This dissonance creates greater thematic depths than are possible in K-on's shallow narrative.

 

[Lafiel]

What characters?

To be fair - madoka doesn't really have any characters, they are just simple archetypes (like K-ON). Except i found myself more attached (emotionally) to the characters of K-ON.

 

[hellclerk]

You may believe you are right. You are wholly entitled to that opinion.

Doesn't change the fact that you are, in fact, wrong.

So how are you liking those rewritten laws of physics there? Or anything in that show that isn't meguca is suffering?

But Madoka has cute girls doing violent, sociopathic things. This dissonance creates greater thematic depths than are possible in K-on's shallow narrative.

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

 

[Branduil]

To be fair - madoka doesn't really have any characters, they are just simple archetypes (like K-ON). Except i found myself more attached (emotionally) to the characters of K-ON.

You're right, but see above. I don't inherently have a problem with archetypes, but you'd better do something interesting with them, which K-on really doesn't. I also find Madoka's archetypes mostly less offensively otaku, but that might just be me.

 

[Branduil]

So how are you liking those rewritten laws of physics there? Or anything in that show that isn't meguca is suffering?


DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

Well, I mean, even your average kiddie pool is deeper than the puddle known as K-on.

You're really going to complain about the laws of physics in a show about magic?

 

[trejo]

This page needs to be nuked from orbit!

 

[Crash Station]

Sket-Dance 1: With so many promising shows this season I doubt that I'll be keeping up with a show that's just above-average.

Stopping now is the same as stopping at episode 1 of Madoka.

index 20
i give up ,i feel like am watching anime made by nomura(nonsense storyline)

more and more lolis come out the woodwork but still no loli stomping,the same shit keeps happen over again.

Strange girl appears and runs into toma
Some evil villain appears, after strange girl
Toma finds out there after strange girl
Toma goes into talk no jutso mode
Then risk his life to save girl with hax powers

THE LOLI PUNCHING DOES NOT HAPPEN UNTIL SEASON 2

 

[Risette]

You're right, but see above. I don't inherently have a problem with archetypes, but you'd better do something interesting with them, which K-on really doesn't. I also find Madoka's archetypes mostly less offensively otaku, but that might just be me.

Madoka doesn't do anything interesting with them either.

 

[iavi]

This page needs to be nuked from orbit!

Seconded. It's fucking K-ON. It's fucking Madoka. Both a show about little girls. One is all cute and shit. One is all dark and shit. That's about all that ever needs to be delved into regarding the two of them.

 

[SciencePilot]

Hey guys, why are we having the Madoka/K-On discussion again? I don't understand. The shows aren't comparable at all.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

You're right, but see above. I don't inherently have a problem with archetypes, but you'd better do something interesting with them, which K-on really doesn't. I also find Madoka's archetypes mostly less offensively otaku, but that might just be me.

Madoka may use archetypes, but it plays with and subverts them in a way that elevates them into actual characters, at least in my opinion.

 

[jman2050]

So how are you liking those rewritten laws of physics there?

I'm no scientist, sure, but I don't really care. It is what it is, a plot device to establish that Kyubey's motives aren't justifiable to the average person.

I mean, it takes a lot more than Urobuchi failing physics class to break my willing suspension of disbelief, especially for a show that was already blatantly unrealistic as is.

Or anything in that show that isn't meguca is suffering?

I'm liking it actually.

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

Deeper than K-On at least.

 

[Branduil]

Madoka doesn't do anything interesting with them either.

I disagree. Putting characters in terrible situations almost always results in something interesting, unless you're just completely atrocious at writing like KEY is.

 

[firehawk12]

Hey guys, why are we having the Madoka/K-On discussion again? I don't understand. The shows aren't comparable at all.

Because we're all assholes.

Also, Pokemon = god tier.

 

[7Th]

Madoka characters and K-ON!(!) characters may look like little girls, but they're all full-fledged teenagers.

 

[Branduil]

Madoka characters and K-ON!(!) characters may look like little girls, but they're all full-fledged teenagers.

I refuse to believe that Yui is mentally older than an 8-year-old.

 

[jman2050]

But doomed1 likes one and not the other, you see.

Yeah I don't really get it either.

I brought up K-On. doomed1 brought up the Madoka comparison to counter. So blame him.

 

[trejo]

Madoka characters and K-ON!(!) characters may look like little girls, but they're all full-fledged teenagers.

Holy shit, tell me more.

 

[Risette]

I disagree. Putting characters in terrible situations almost always results in something interesting, unless you're just completely atrocious at writing like KEY is.

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka (except QB) are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

The Sayaka arc of Madoka is one of the most irritating things I've ever seen.

 

[jman2050]

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

See, replace "Madoka" with "K-On" in that sentence and you have my thoughts.

 

[Risette]

See, replace "Madoka" with "K-On" in that sentence and you have my thoughts.

You have strange thoughts. The K-ON characters may be shallow but they're inoffensive and kinda likable, except for Yui.

 

[Hellsing321]

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka (except QB) are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

The Sayaka arc of Madoka is one of the most irritating things I've ever seen.

This is my feeling as well. I just tune in to see how QB is gonna troll them some more.

 

[trejo]

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka (except QB) are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

The Sayaka arc of Madoka is one of the most irritating things I've ever seen.

That doesn't tell me much other than you get easily irritated.

 

[Branduil]

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka (except QB) are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

The Sayaka arc of Madoka is one of the most irritating things I've ever seen.

Well finding characters irritating tends to be pretty subjective, so not much to argue there. I will say that I don't find the way the characters act unbelievable.

You have strange thoughts. The K-ON characters may be shallow but they're inoffensive and kinda likable, except for Yui.

Well Yui is kind of the main character, so... yeah.

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Hey guys, why are we having the Madoka/K-On discussion again? I don't understand. The shows aren't comparable at all.

In order to defend what you like, you have to attack what other people like. It's a fundamental rule of Internet discourse.

 

[zeroshiki]

You have strange thoughts. The K-ON characters may be shallow but they're inoffensive and kinda likable, except for Yui.

Ui is the best character in K-On because, surprise surprise, she's the only one with the mental capacity of a high-schooler.

 

[Nonoriri]

You have strange thoughts. The K-ON characters may be shallow but they're inoffensive and kinda likable, except for Yui.

Yui is the best character though.

Ui is the best character in K-On because, surprise surprise, she's the only one with the mental capacity of a high-schooler.

Ui is boring though, boring characters can't be good.

 

[Risette]

Yui is the best character though.

Yui is entertaining but I can't say I like her. She's too dumb!

Ritsu > Mugi > Sawako > Mio > Yui > Ton-chan > azuwho

 

[jman2050]

Comparing Madoka and K-On is a fool's errand, they're different types of shows.

If we REALLY want to go somewhere, we need to have the inevitable Azumanga/K-On grudge match.

Yui is just a poor man's badly written Osaka.

 

[7Th]

The episode in which Yui gets a bad haircut is the best episode of K-ON!(!). Discuss.

 

[firehawk12]

Comparing Madoka and K-On is a fool's errand, they're different types of shows.

If we REALLY want to go somewhere, we need to have the inevitable Azumanga/K-On grudge match.

Yui is just a poor man's horribly written Osaka.

They're the same insomuch as they're panderbait to the people who don't like them.

 

[Infinite Justice]

The problem is that all the characters in Madoka (except QB) are really irritating so I don't really care what happens to them.

The Sayaka arc of Madoka is one of the most irritating things I've ever seen.

so your easily irritated then?

this was one of the best parts of the show due to the trolling LOL

 

[Lain]

You have strange thoughts. The K-ON characters may be shallow but they're inoffensive and kinda likable, except for Yui.

I'll have your head, Mami style.

 

[trejo]

Ui is the best character in K-On because, surprise surprise, she's the only one with the mental capacity of a high-schooler.

Ui is only the best because I like to imagine she has an unhealthy and deranged obsession with her sister that she keeps under wraps.

I like to imagine that Ui is secretly yandere for Yui, and would cut a bitch up if they touched her.

'cuz otherwise she's just a generous and capable person inexplicably, stalkerishly obsessed with her useless lump of a sister.

Great minds, blah blah blah.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Ui is only the best because I like to imagine she has an unhealthy and deranged obsession with her sister that she keeps under wraps.

*cue that dungeon pic from long ago*

 

[Lafiel]

Yui is entertaining but I can't say I like her. She's too dumb!


Azusa > Ritsu > Mugi > Sawako > Mio > Yui > Ton-chan

Fixed.

 

[iavi]

so your easily irritated then?

this was one of the best parts of the show due to the trolling LOL

Ugh, that part had me ready to drop the show. I already wasn't caring much, and their basing an arc around the fragility of a little girls crush was doing it no help.

 

[Risette]

Ugh, that part had me ready to drop the show. I already wasn't caring much, and their basing of an arc around the fragility of a little girls crush was doing it no help.

Yep. It was unbearably melodramatic and all the characters (except QB) were acting in a completely unbelievable way. It was pretty bad.

 

[zeroshiki]

Sayaka was the worst part of Madoka.

Notice I'm talking in the past tense. No more Madoka~~

 

[Branduil]

Ugh, that part had me ready to drop the show. I already wasn't caring much, and their basing an arc around the fragility of a little girls crush was doing it no help.

That wasn't what it was actually about, though.

 

[Sage00]

The quality of discussion in these threads has taken a sharp downturn recently (if you can call it discussion, more like a childish back and forth of passive aggressive insults veiled as 'critique' of certain shows). It's becoming very irritating to read.

 

[Crash Station]

The quality of discussion in these threads has taken a sharp downturn recently (if you can call it discussion, more like a childish back and forth of passive aggressive insults veiled as 'critique' of certain shows). It's becoming very irritating to read.

Do you REALLY think it was better before?

Also, the thread has been around barely a week and we're already past the 1/4 mark.

 

[hellclerk]

Comparing Madoka and K-On is a fool's errand, they're different types of shows.

If we REALLY want to go somewhere, we need to have the inevitable Azumanga/K-On grudge match.

Yui is just a poor man's badly written Osaka.

Oh, that won't happen. It's as silly a comparison as the Madoka/K-ON comparison I was trolling you with. The REAL showdown is between Cromartie High School and Azumanga.

YOU BITCHES READY?