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Shelf Life - False Hopes

As far as Nisekoi goes - What's the deal with Shaft that bugs you? Did the CEO run over your dog or something? It's odd to see a studio get lambasted - but I will say that the adaptation of the manga is pretty spot on - and maintains all the little touches the mangaka had put in there, so it feels faithfully animated as opposed to the studio doing its own thing.

Now I really want to hear Chitoge's mickey mouse impression. I remember a lot of hilarious moments from Nisekoi season one, but I don't remember that one... Which episode/approximate time(?) is it? I'd love to see it again.

I swear I see Nisekoi everywhere right now. It has been on so many shelf lives before.

Well, it's being released a handful of episodes at a time, so that would explain why it's on so many Shelf Lives.

I don't mean it in a bad way but I've discovered reading shelf life that the shows I think are shelf worthy are never shelf worthy in this column. So I pretty much watch the stuff you don't like, because I probably will.

There's always Railgun S2 where Kuroko's screentime and thus her antics get cut down quite significantly. Hell, her endeavors towards Mikoto were comparably restrained.

I might have to canonize Kuroko as one of my least favorite anime characters of all time.

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I might have to canonize Kuroko as one of my least favorite anime characters of all time.

i wouldnt necessarily say that. sure she definitely takes the whole "man hating lesbian thing to a whole new level,however its a necessary evil

Perhaps if there's a good thing to come out of this growing harem, it's that the characters will realize how silly they were to pin their feelings on something as fleeting as an old childhood memory.

The characters are flat and visually indistinguishable.

They never question why so many men resort to crime – their actions are framed as evil, and our heroines' just

while the police force is manned by vigilante middle schoolers. (Maybe it saves money on prisons? Getting arrested by Kuroko seems like adequate punishment for most crimes.)

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Quote: I might have to canonize Kuroko as one of my least favorite anime characters of all time. i wouldnt necessarily say that. sure she definitely takes the whole "man hating lesbian thing to a whole new level,however its a necessary evil

Please show me this strange alternate universe where a terrible, offensive, and out dated portrayal of homosexuality is considered in some way, shape or form "necessary".

I mean, if you think that's funny and/or arousing...fine. That's fine. I think it's terrible, but you're free to do that.

Just never tell me that's it's something that's needed.

If merely removing something like that (or just changing it to make it less offensive), is all it takes to make a work "boring", necessary to give the work "meaning",then maybe it was never meant to leave the basement of the writer's parents.

And you keep bringing up comparing Kuruko to Mr. Satan...

You're taking one character who could be said to be an offensive portrayal of a group of people who regularly face genuine, real world discrimination, and comparing it to...a buffoonish comic relief.

I really don't think you understand why people are feeling offended!