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Zac
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:57 pm
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Well, if you're going to judge marketing success by sales, those taglines have worked remarkably well.
"I don't like it" = "it's a failure" on the internet, though.
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terminus24
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 5:16 pm
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The tagline "Winning the war on pants!" is COMPLETELY irrelevant when talking about Strike Witches, the war on pants was already won BEFORE the first season. But hey, I'm betting it sells more DVDs than "Hey, look, all these famous WWII pilots are now all lolis who fly around with no pants and shoot aliens!"
And speaking of real WWII pilots... I wonder if Chuck Yeager knows about this series? I'd like to know what his opinion (or any of the other pilots who inspired the girls, if they're alive) is on being loli-fied and being turned into a magical girl...
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Mesonoxian Eve
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:06 pm
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Zac wrote: | "I don't like it" = "it's a failure" on the internet, though. |
Take out the word "don't" and the statement still stands true.
I also have a hunch the tagline was the least responsible party for driving sales. Cover art for the win... again.
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Key
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Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley)
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:22 pm
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terminus24 wrote: | And speaking of real WWII pilots... I wonder if Chuck Yeager knows about this series? I'd like to know what his opinion (or any of the other pilots who inspired the girls, if they're alive) is on being loli-fied and being turned into a magical girl... |
I'm pretty sure that Chuck Yeager is the only pilot archetype still alive. A fair number of them didn't survive WWII.
And yes, I've wondered about this, too. I kinda think that he might not mind, however, since Shirley does accurately reflect his obsession with being the world's fastest man.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:27 pm
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N.R. wrote: |
I hate that tag line. It makes this series seem like a show with only fan service. Sure, it has fan service in it, but it also has a plot and it doesn't revolve around a war on pants! |
It's just an embellished joke. Kinda like Seinfeld's tagline a show about nothing (there's no such thing, of course it's about something).
Fencedude5609 wrote: |
Quote: | The episode where Luccini escorts another girl around Rome is a direct rip-off of Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday, |
Its called a goddamn homage. Jesus. |
Yeah. It's homage when Hollywood does it, but when anime does it on Hollywood, it's a ripoff..............
RyanSaotome wrote: |
Funimation has never been the best at making creative taglines for its fanservice series. |
But that sold it.
(At this point it's just a matter of time till companies start using "wincest" like fans do.)
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KLAC
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:13 pm
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well give watch s2 of strike witches some time ago really got same feel like s1 dub.
besides with likely the movie on the way next sure keep it going the same.
speaking of whole war on pants tagline give Funi tagline history from sekirei doobi for the win & Freezing dress code being violated besides wonder how tagline Funi will give to DxD when it come?
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dtm42
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:34 pm
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I don't like the idea of Strike Witches - it looks like a terrible bottom-feeding show - but even I have to admit that FUNimation's War on Pants tagline is quite clever.
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getchman
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:38 pm
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enurtsol wrote: | (At this point it's just a matter of time till companies start using "wincest" like fans do.) |
well, the Oniai simulcast is doing well for Funi, so just maybe...
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Angel M Cazares
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:40 pm
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KLAC wrote: | well give watch s2 of strike witches some time ago really got same feel like s1 dub.
besides with likely the movie on the way next sure keep it going the same.
speaking of whole war on pants tagline give Funi tagline history from sekirei doobi for the win & Freezing dress code being violated besides wonder how tagline Funi will give to DxD when it come? |
Can you write freaking well constructed sentences? I cannot take your points seriously with your half assed written sentences. I might have given you a pass if English is not your native language, but I learned English until I was 15. Your crappy grammar, KLAC, is disrespectful. Sorry for being a dick about this, but no one should be "exempt from grammatical rules".
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Key
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:49 pm
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dtm42 wrote: | I don't like the idea of Strike Witches - it looks like a terrible bottom-feeding show - but even I have to admit that FUNimation's War on Pants tagline is quite clever. |
The surprising thing about this series is that, for all that it looks like it should be a total bottom-feeder show, it's actually better than that. For as ridiculous as the concept is, it's actually fairly clever in execution, and the aerial fights make up for an awful lot.
As for the homage/rip-off thing that others have been bringing up: Okay, I'll admit that which way the series deserves to be classified on that one is debatable. I did consider both options but ultimately went with the rip-off because the whole thing was a pretty generic execution.
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dragon695
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:02 am
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angelmcazares wrote: |
KLAC wrote: | well give watch s2 of strike witches some time ago really got same feel like s1 dub.
besides with likely the movie on the way next sure keep it going the same.
speaking of whole war on pants tagline give Funi tagline history from sekirei doobi for the win & Freezing dress code being violated besides wonder how tagline Funi will give to DxD when it come? |
Can you write freaking well constructed sentences? I cannot take your points seriously with your half assed written sentences. I might have given you a pass if English is not your native language, but I learned English until I was 15. Your crappy grammar, KLAC, is disrespectful. Sorry for being a dick about this, but no one should be "exempt from grammatical rules". |
And for that matter, why are they exempt from Teh rules?
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dtm42
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:38 am
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dragon695 wrote: | And for that matter, why are they exempt from Teh rules? |
Because English is not their native language (or they have something like dyslexia). The Mods are given leeway to let non-native speakers slide, so long as the general meaning of the post gets across. If anyone thinks that a post is truly incomprehensible/garbled (no matter what the language of a native speaker is) then they should just report said post and let a Mod deal with it.
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Polycell
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:39 am
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Because somebody decided KLAC should be. The relevant people have already weighed in on the matter(note the lack of a star next to the title), so angelmcazares's post isn't going to generate any action in his favor(it's also quite rude).
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Fencedude5609
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:48 am
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Polycell wrote: | Because somebody decided KLAC should be. The relevant people have already weighed in on the matter(note the lack of a star next to the title), so angelmcazares's post isn't going to generate any action in his favor(it's also quite rude). |
KLAC is an ongoing irritation on a number of different sites, and the general consensus is "ignore him".
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RyanSaotome
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:53 am
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Fencedude5609 wrote: |
Polycell wrote: | Because somebody decided KLAC should be. The relevant people have already weighed in on the matter(note the lack of a star next to the title), so angelmcazares's post isn't going to generate any action in his favor(it's also quite rude). |
KLAC is an ongoing irritation on a number of different sites, and the general consensus is "ignore him". |
Well thats quite rude.
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