Ultimately the disconnect with Oreimo is the difference between shows that provide enough for the audience to fill the blanks on their own (see SDBurton's goggles) and shows that actually go to those places. Both are common, so it's not like people are idiots for expecting the former.
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WARNING Fire Emblem Awakening spoilers.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You know, I think that is the other "Don't Fuck Your Sister!" anime that aired last year. lol
I love anime!
Please feature this quote in the next OT so we can have our collective faith restored in the medium.
Cdjapan is pretty good.
I got Chihayafuru and Allison and Lillia cds from there.
Thanks. I remember this. Never watched it though. It looks fairly :cajun
not really it's the opening of the game, but I guess i'll edit
nvm I'm an idiot it's spoilerrific
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I'll do you even better:
Sword Art Online is the worst anime ever. I would almost love the fact that anime can be so terrible, if it didn't mean dragging down the entire medium in the eyes of people who think cartoons are for manchildren.
"Sword Art Online is anime. I love anime." -firehawk12
dakkumauji
Member
Oh this one is As Long As There's Love, It Doesn't Matter If He Is My Brother, Right!? then.
You need to come up with a catchy title then!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I think I called OniAi I WANT TO FUCK MY BROTHER, which got shorted to Brother Fucker by someone else, because it's from the perspective of the sister. lol
I think this is how games journalism works. If only you had tweeted that.
dakkumauji
Member
I've been using CDJapan for years. And would totally recommend them. Amazon US is more expensive and Amazon Japan mostly only ships inside of Japan. CDJapan is my preferred choice here.
This is kind of why I want to see it.
There's a lot of cute in store for you.
Also, it manages to be less insane than OreImo.
I love her VA as well, sounds very cute as well
dakkumauji
Member
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal II 102
No one died horribly from an Indiana Jones style dungeon trap.
This show sucks.
No one died horribly from an Indiana Jones style dungeon trap.
This show sucks.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
She's also played by an actual child and not a professional voice actress, which is the novelty of the character I suppose.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I believe so. It was one cour anyway.
So you're saying anime is literally child abuse.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
That seems more figurative than literal unless they're beating her when she gets her lines wrong.
There's a lot of cute in store for you.
Also, it manages to be less insane than OreImo.
I thought in the end
that none of the girls are blood related to him
Contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Man, that song does go with everything. :lol
R_thanatos
Member
You're right, i forgot about ophis but she isn't a female ( doesn't count )
Elmenhilde is a b*tch and is unlikable ATM. ( seriously ?) She arrived, pissed All the cast in less than 4 sentences and the cast include devils, half angels, angel & vampires ... she is in no position to be in a list.
Besides we don't have an apperance for her yet.
As for Gabriel, we don't know enough for her to be on a list. ( no fight , no picture , no info ) Yeah she might be beautifull but without a picture you can't put her on a list.
Sairaorg Battle is obviously the best part of the franchise so far. DAT fist fight.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
About to watch Wolf Children with my anime-hating little sister. Hopefully this actually fixes her.
If it doesn't, then it'll be time to expel her from your family.
As amusing as this joke is, it's not a road you want to go down seriously.
What if it turns her furry?
R_thanatos
Member
Excellent ... BOUGHT !!
Actually that scene is a 100% copy of the same events in the psp game ( without the punching ) Both were written by the author... i guess he got lazy.
Then he can segue into Spice and Wolf or something.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
That's an expected risk with Hosoda. And still better than Sword Art Online. *shudders*
Crash Station
Member
The male gaze was for the audience, not the main character (prior to season 2).
As for the subject matter, it was never treated as anything sexual (again prior to season 2), but rather as a means for the siblings to re-connect after ignoring each other for a few years. It was less "oh shit, my sister plays eroge and that totally gives me a boner" and more "oh shit, my super popular sister is an otaku and I have to keep it a secret".
The title seemed like it was referring to Kirino's infatuation with little sister games more than Kyosuke's infatuation with her (especially since he essentially hates her for a good chunk of season 1), but yeah...
Being serious in AnimeGAF is always a bad idea.
A Black Falcon
Member
Very poor decision then, if that's the case.
So Kirino really is his blood sister? I don't know.
Perhaps so, but in this kind of anime, that it actually made it clear in the ending isn't exactly surprising. It might have been in some other kind of show, but in an otaku-centric fanbait series like oreimo, and one with incest-baiting as its primary reason to exist? Hah, as if it was really going to avoid it at the end.
People like cosmic who were in denial about what the show is finally know that yes, they were wrong all along... but I still can't figure out how anyone actually thought that the show ever depicted a realistic sibling relationship, when the heavy incest-is-the-point themes were there from the beginning. The ending would only have been even remotely surprising if it HADN'T gone to incest, but it did, so it wasn't.
Your problem is that you were reading into it what you wanted to see, and not what was actually there. The series always was, from the beginning, about incest-baiting. Sure, it didn't absolutely confirm it until the end, but that was the only reason why the entire series exists. The author did try to keep the people who missed that point reading anyway, up until the end, but make no mistake, that was why it existed, and it was quite clear from the start. And that's why I stopped watching after one episode. "Wishful thinking" is a good description of your posts here.
I mean, it'd have been great if you WERE right. I wish that it was something like that. But, unfortunately, with anime, it does often seem to be good to go in expecting the worst... as series like this show, that's often what you get.
Hataraku Maou-sama! 10
What I would give to be that monkey...
I enjoyed seeing the girls hanging out this episode. Their personalities mix together well. Chiho's excitement and energy, Emi's bashfulness and sometimes irritable attitude and Suzano's extremely traditional values and matter-of-factness. Alciel and Lucifer's banter interspersed was fun too.
Not really surprising but It'll be interesting to see where it leads.
What I would give to be that monkey...
I enjoyed seeing the girls hanging out this episode. Their personalities mix together well. Chiho's excitement and energy, Emi's bashfulness and sometimes irritable attitude and Suzano's extremely traditional values and matter-of-factness. Alciel and Lucifer's banter interspersed was fun too.
I guess that confirms that
PASTA's killer app
SFC manager is one of the Church's agents.
Afraid she'll get good at video games?
Is Sword Art Online so bad its funny? Like could it work for a hatewatch or is it completely irredeemable?
Lavalamp1138
Member
So obviously nobody is serious when they say that SAO is terribad. It's collectively regarded as high art.
Sword Art Online is like biting into a shiny apple and finding a worm-infested rotten mess inside.
Basileus777
Member
Don't ask Firehawk about SAO.
peaceiscloser
Member
Sword Art Online isn't *that* bad. If you want to compare it to something this season I'd say the closest thing is Valvrave, but with a harem and dumb MC.
So someone explain to me why all this incest is even a thing in Japan. I can barely think of any western examples that aren't in at least a medieval setting.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Just find a video of the action animation highlights and you're set.
That would be Valvrave.
The third episode's so bad its hilarious but the rest is garbage.
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