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REVIEW: No. 6 DVD

I should make clarifications.

I am not really a big fan of Safu's character. I found her approach to love and sexuality amusing, her actions were reasonable (or at least I don't remember anything strange) and maybe a female character made me some way more comfortable like you said (although this would be more of an unconscious effect).

Why I said that Safu was the reason I watched the show, is because that from the beginning, it is clear that the show is about Shion and Nezumi and their relationship. Still, we have this third character and we know that her feelings will not be reciprocated. That made me want to know what is going to happen to her.

This brings me to the topic of fandom. [...]

In No. 6 it is clear that Safu has no chance, and she should be more like pitied for it. Still she is hated because "she gets in the way of their relationship", even if she never does that. The amount of people who wanted an innocent, even if fictional, character dead made uncomfortable.

[...] After a great first two episodes, the third ruined any interest I had in the plot itself spoiler[(parasitic bees? really? I was hoping for things like government conspiracies)][...]

But Keichitsu0305, what you're ignoring is that there is a goddess bee thing in the first place. It's just really, really stupid, and should never have happened in a Science Fiction story.

But Keichitsu0305, what you're ignoring is that there is a goddess bee thing in the first place. It's just really, really stupid, and should never have happened in a Science Fiction story.

Seeing a magical goddess (in bee form or otherwise) in a science fiction show is as bizzare as, say, seeing a giant mecha in a fantasy show.

Why? spoiler[Umm...to take over the world maybe? Like I said, the show doesn't really explain that well.]
I wished the series was a few episodes longer so that it could explain certain parts better, but I still like what I got. Including those voice actor commentaries!

Oh, and the whole "seme/uke" thing is purely subjective. If they were sexually active, I'm sure they wouldn't mind taking turns.

(...)I would not consider shoujo. I mean the only thing that really makes them seem shoujo are all the bishounen, but take that away and they are faux religious, semi political action fantasy titles.

There's nothing inherently stupid about a nature goddess having the form of some creature from nature, such as a bee. And there's nothing wrong with a story containing both sci-fi and fanstasy/supernatural elements. I can see someone arguing against a story that appears at the start to be pure sci-fi or fantasy introducing elements of the other later on, but even that isn't a problem if handled well.

I don't know. A giant psychic apocalypse wasp sounds kind of awesome. I haven't seen the show, though, so maybe it loses something in the execution.

tuxedocat wrote:

I think that is where a lot of people (guys) started to nitpick about everything else actually, and started reminding us how female viewers are ruining anime.

I for one, despite thinking the show completely fell to pieces, appreciate that it didn't try to hide Shion and Nezumi's relationship. There should be more stuff like this, for both males and females.

This was of course followed up a season or so later by Black Rock Shooter, which was just as hilariously gay. So equal time and all.

I remember the random scientists mentioning spoiler[that they were going to try and harness the goddess's power in order to try and restore more of the land into a habitable state (and then probably take over the world! LoL)]
[...]l
And to the point where the mysticism seemed to have come out of nowhere, it seemed like Rat's tribe as a whole was quite magical. Rat had that magical singing voice after all that had the ability to pass someone's soul off to the other side. Not only did I see the two coming from different worlds in terms of where they lived, but also that Sion came from a world of science and Rat, of magic.

Generally speaking, if you just watch the anime with no background information (like I did), a lot of the plot and motivation can be interpreted with enough imagination. It was like a game of connect the dots and I liked the feeling that I wasn't force-fed the plot. (Though I can understand not everyone looks for that sort of thing when watching anime...) [...]maybe I'm just better at picking up the subtle details?

I mean realistically speaking its a dark sci fi action. This is primarily a male demographic