ShinRPGamer
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I feel like Satan and Android 18 will be the only things keeping me sane for Bio-Broly when I get to it.
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Toonami |Feb16| Dimension Dub-For-You
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MetroidPrimeRib
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Even them together can hardly hold that shit together
that doesn't mean the girl characters have to be garbage
also why the fuck would 18 give up the championship for some extra money? That makes no fucking sense
i actually forgot that happened.
ShinRPGamer
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Now I'm wondering which Shounen series has the best female characters. Hmm...
it does mean that they are less likely to care though
Maka in Soul Eater is pretty good. Tsubaki less so.
MetroidPrimeRib
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they even cliffhanger it by going, "WILL ANDROID 18 BECOME THE FIRST WOMAN IN HISTORY TO WIN THE WORLD MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT?" and then they come back and don't worry, she'll take a little extra money so the fraud can continue to be a fraud.
Fucking WHY? Why the fuck would she give a shit about Mr. Satan retaining his good publicity? Does she need 20 mil more than she needs 10 mil and the title? If she didn't want the title why did she join the tournament in the first place? The entire point of her character is that she doesn't take shit from anybody! In fact she explicitly outed Trunks and Goten for being frauds and pretending to be Mighty Mask literally ten minutes earlier, and she actually has half a reason to care about those little shits!
I don't know why this is getting on my nerves so much.
SigmasonicX
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Really, Fairy Tail is pretty good about having a lot of powerful female characters and having them win fights, even if they tend to get their clothes ripped up. The same applies to Negima.
Now, shonen series with good female characters that isn't also heavy on fanservice... I got nothing.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Pretty much none. Seinen are way better at that.
Boys want poorly written female characters?
Young boys don't care, don't even notice.
My man.
I'd say so - consider the Armstrong siblings. One's a goofy fanservice character and the other is the cool one with a sword.
Gintama, because Kagura.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Oh yeah, Gintama is pretty good at that. One of the better ones is literally a prostitute ninja and is better then most shonen female characters.
Debatable on whether or not Gintama (at least the anime) is aimed at girls tho lol
Yup.
Doctor Decimate
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guys
Brotherhood is really good
Brotherhood is really good
Hellwarden
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Speaking of Brotherhood, I should really buy that series before it's 200 dollars.
Imperial Bishop
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It helps a lot that the author is female. Hawkeye and Olivier are badass characters.
I have a feeling that if FMA was written by a man, Teacher would either:
a) Be a male teacher.
b) Be a female teacher, but have the characters in the show exhibit shock and disbelief that an alchemy teacher could possibly be a woman.
Imperial Bishop
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My memory is a bit hazy, but didn't something kind of similar to that happen when Ed and Al first met Izumi or am I mistaken? Maybe I'm remembering the original anime?
I don't remember the original, but in the flashback shown in FMAB, Ed/Al are basically awestruck when they meet her.
My point is, she's a highly skilled alchemist teacher and a woman and it's never portrayed as unusual or weird.
skLaFarebear
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gamerguy2002
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Wait what?! was something said/announced that it wouldn't be dubbed?!?!
Hellwarden
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I shouldn't say that it won't come out here, it's possible it will.
But Funimation has said they don't have it dubbed.
Maybe it's licensing issue, or something like Super.
I highly doubt that Spice and Wolf should be counted as Shonen. I think the criteria is probaby serialized and published in the Shonen Jump magazine.
Teacher gets basically the same reaction in FMA 2003, the circumstances are slightly different.
Also remember that the one male figure in Ed and Al's life at that point they don't like (well Ed doesn't) and that all of their adult figures they look up to (Mom and Winry's grandmother) are women. Ed and Al don't really get a positive male role model in their lives until Alex Louis Armstrong starts hanging with them.
Also remember that the one male figure in Ed and Al's life at that point they don't like (well Ed doesn't) and that all of their adult figures they look up to (Mom and Winry's grandmother) are women. Ed and Al don't really get a positive male role model in their lives until Alex Louis Armstrong starts hanging with them.
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Also- this is why you have so many people my age who love SAO.
They had their 13yr old viewpoint (which is a mildly upgraded viewpoint of 6yr old sadly) into 14 years old, then watched SAO, now I have to hear them defend it because they refuse to change an opinion.
I'm aware people my age can't understand bad writing on average.
Hellwarden
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*bored, decides to read Akame Ga Kill's latest chapter*
Wait, putting aside stupid power shenanigans...
Wait, putting aside stupid power shenanigans...
Mine isn't dead. Why are you grouping her with everyone who died?
Also Wave and Akame's dumb sister are gonna die super hard because edge.
Also Wave and Akame's dumb sister are gonna die super hard because edge.
I missed the "sometimes" at the end of your post. I thought you had moved DBZ to the number 1 slot permanently in your last sentence.
Most Western VAs come from singing/actor/theater backgrounds so many of them can sing well. However, since most localization companies don't bother to dub the songs in their anime due to costs, they don't have much opportunities to actually sing.
Nah this really doesn't work and I have no idea why people don't understand this. There is a reason some people prefer softcore to hardcore, why the concept of "the tease" exists, why sometimes people look sexier with clothes than without, etc.
The issues with fanservice in anime (or manga) is often one of three things:
A) "Oh god this character is/looks like they are 12, WTF is wrong with you Japan?"
B) "This seems totally incongruent with the situation or type of show/manga this is - why is this here?"
C) "Well since we know people will be buying this for the fanservice, we don't have to even try with the character or narrative writing, animation, art, music, etc."
Fanservice and "good anime" don't have to be mutually exclusive. TTGL is filled with it and is still a GOAT show. I totally understand if people pass on KLK because of the fanservice but aside from "bad touch mom" it ranks really low as one of the reasons/is not the reason the show didn't live up to its potential. I haven't seen Godannar in ages but I remember liking it a whole lot - the show is HEAVY on the fanservice but its a Super Robot show before all else and most (all?) of the female cast are badasses who actually get character development. Recently the Food Wars show aired and that doesn't skimp on the fanservice and aside from an "awkward" scene here or there (peanut butter + squid = why.gif) that show was pretty enjoyable too. Some shows certainly cross the line and deserve to be called out but most of the time a fanservice-heavy show sucks not because it has fanservice but because that's often used as a excuse by the animators/writers/producer/whoever to not bothering trying in other respects or indulge in terrible tropes.
The times when Hercule is humble and recognizes he ain't shit (i.e. is acting like a real human being), he's one of the better characters in the show. When he plays up his "wrestler persona" I want to throw a brick through my TV/computer screen.
My memory might be hazy but I thought it was because she didn't want the publicity (same as with Goku). If she's the champ, she's going to have he media hound her and given the shit her family (Krillin, etc.) gets into I can see that being a problem. Or am I mis-remembering? It's been a while since I've seen Buu Saga stuff.
Nah son, it has a happy ending ergo it sucks - "FMA03 stan"
Nah both series are great and have their own strengths and weaknesses but the lengths some go to shit on Brotherhood is SUPER WEIRD
True.
yeah, I know
I totally misread that post, thought someone in the thread said something about
Mine being dead
whoops
skLaFarebear
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I wonder how long Goku's transformation is in kai.
You're probably right. The show is about economics after all.
Toonami voting https://t.co/Ek7P5NKXdv Register quickly if you also want a t-shirt.
Some of those questions were really fucking hard.
Doctor Decimate
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Those were some odd voting choices
Yep. I wish we could have written in our other, I'd have put Megas in for shows I want back.
Also, Ichigo doesn't have a reverse-blade sword
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