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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:29 am Reply with quote
I'm sorry, but when I looked through recently added titles and clicked on this anime and saw the picture, I was laughing my head off. I know it's an adult only anime, but the picture alone tells me that this is a funny anime. If anybody has some input or has seen this anime, let me know, this one's cracking me up already Laughing
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KyuuA4



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:49 am Reply with quote
Looking at that one image - it looks nothing more than fanservice crap using anime chicks with massively disproportionate boobies. However, if it makes fun of the magical girl sub-genre -- that'll be a kicker. Rolling Eyes
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Animefreak6969



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:17 pm Reply with quote
well, looking at the one episode told me that it was funny and wasnt very good
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:23 pm Reply with quote
Hmm, looks like Eiken has some competition.
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Animefreak6969



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:35 pm Reply with quote
well, Eiken is just ecchi not hentai, while This is Hentai and tentacle too
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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:38 pm Reply with quote
PantsGoblin wrote:
Hmm, looks like Eiken has some competition.

I coulda swore Eiken had somebody else competing with it, I just can't remember.
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Animefreak6969



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:43 pm Reply with quote
Cosplay Complex?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:29 pm Reply with quote
Animefreak6969 wrote:
well, Eiken is just ecchi not hentai, while This is Hentai and tentacle too


Uh, I was talking about in terms of breast sizes... although, if you don't include hentai, Eiken has the largest that I know of. I think there's more hentai that also come close, but I really don't watch that much hentai so I wouldn't know...

Animefreak6969 wrote:
Cosplay Complex?


It doesn't even come close...
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Animefreak6969



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:35 pm Reply with quote
well i was saying Cospaly Complex in terms of what type of show it is. and if we exclude hentai then i got nothing that competes with Eiken off the top of my head
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Viga_of_stars



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:03 pm Reply with quote
Animefreak6969 wrote:
well i was saying Cospaly Complex in terms of what type of show it is. and if we exclude hentai then i got nothing that competes with Eiken off the top of my head


i thought cosplay complex was like........a bunch of ohnos from genshiken with fanservice?
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:15 pm Reply with quote
What is the deal with large breasts? This is one of those trends that I never really figured out, just like ugly-ass tramp stamps and most forms of body piercing. Unless you're as flat as a washboard, there's simply no need for breast augmentation in my view. I'm not against large breasts, who would be, but if you have to augment your body to get them why bother? They either look weird or feel weird or both and I can't imagine what kind of guy actually prefers feeling up a fluid-filled bag with skin over it to the real thing.

So now the desire for ever larger breasts has even crept into anime. Some of these titles have now exceeded what even the most well endowed woman in the world could hope to achieve through natural means alone. I don't get it. I don't enjoy it. I don't see what's driving it. Perhaps this is just another unexplainable case of divine irony when a country with some of the most petite women on the planet exports some of the most enormously endowed animated characters. Sometimes I think that American and European women are added to a given series primarily just to ensure yet another breast comparison scene or three will eventually come along.

As for Cosplay Complex, don't even get me started on what's wrong with that show. Those of you who have seen it already know what I'm talking about. Those of you who haven't should probably do a little research before you pick it up.
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Wolverine Princess



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:16 pm Reply with quote
fighterholic wrote:
PantsGoblin wrote:
Hmm, looks like Eiken has some competition.

I coulda swore Eiken had somebody else competing with it, I just can't remember.

The Duchess of Busty Mounds, perhaps? (There was a hilarious Shelf Life article that covered it a while ago.)

EDIT:
Got the name of the column wrong.


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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:08 am Reply with quote
Wolverine Princess wrote:

The Duchess of Busty Mounds, perhaps? (There was a hilarious Right Turn Only!! article that covered it a while ago.)

Ah, forgot about that one, although I was referring to mainstream. This one is definetly good competition for the anime being discussed, though. English dub was funny enough, too.
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Mawdryn



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:31 am Reply with quote
daxomni wrote:
What is the deal with large breasts? This is one of those trends that I never really figured out, just like ugly-ass tramp stamps and most forms of body piercing. Unless you're as flat as a washboard, there's simply no need for breast augmentation in my view. I'm not against large breasts, who would be, but if you have to augment your body to get them why bother? They either look weird or feel weird or both and I can't imagine what kind of guy actually prefers feeling up a fluid-filled bag with skin over it to the real thing.

So now the desire for ever larger breasts has even crept into anime. Some of these titles have now exceeded what even the most well endowed woman in the world could hope to achieve through natural means alone. I don't get it. I don't enjoy it. I don't see what's driving it. Perhaps this is just another unexplainable case of divine irony when a country with some of the most petite women on the planet exports some of the most enormously endowed animated characters. Sometimes I think that American and European women are added to a given series primarily just to ensure yet another breast comparison scene or three will eventually come along.


Well, at the risk of sounding pretentious (or a total boob otaku Embarassed ), I think the fascination with extremely large breasts--especially in the gravity-defying variety as depicted in anime/hentai/ecchi--is not really anything to be taken seriously. It's really just a male fantasy, albeit of a very sexual nature, and the appeal may be because it's not a reflection of real life or of real women. Women usually don't have 100-20-36 measurements--and as you said, the women in Japan tend more often not to be very petite, so I can kinda understand the fascination with really large breasts over there, since it's not something that is seen in real life. And I don't think the issue is as controversial in Japan as it is apparently in the U.S., but that may be simply a cultural or societal thing.

Yes, there are real women who do get very large boob implants, but they are also taking part of that same male fantasy. In some cases, it's because they work in a certain profession (such as modeling or even exotic dancing), in others it's by personal choice (personal self-esteem issues). Still, it's all part of the fantasy, even if they know it or not. I'm not trying to sing the praises of big boobs, but there's an audience for everything and people should be entitled to like what they like, IMO.

But like any fantasy, there are times when some women--mainly in the entertainment industry--do take it too far and start endangering their own health, such as getting boobs that are too large for their frames and they start having chronic back problems or blood poisoning from silicon implant leakage. I think that's when a line has been crossed and when a personal fantasy becomes a dangerous real-life situation.

In comparison, big boob anime is harmless.
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The Frankman



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:17 am Reply with quote
Wolverine Princess wrote:
fighterholic wrote:
PantsGoblin wrote:
Hmm, looks like Eiken has some competition.

I coulda swore Eiken had somebody else competing with it, I just can't remember.

The Duchess of Busty Mounds, perhaps? (There was a hilarious Right Turn Only!! article that covered it a while ago.)

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. huh? What? What were you talking about? I remember clicking the link and all of a sudden woke up in a puddle of drool.
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