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Zalis116
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A few single volumes of Sister Princess did get reviewed in this very column, landing uniformly in Perishable territory: animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2004-10-31 animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2005-01-24 animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2005-03-20 At least for those who like/tolerate moe and harems, the first season is enjoyable enough as a light and fun comedy. The incest/brother-complex elements are there, but they're not too overpowering. RePure, on the other hand, is a snoozefest that doesn't have much going on other than 24/7 Big Brother Obsession. Maybe it hews closer to the game, but that doesn't make it automatically better. |
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belvadeer
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I'm no stranger to seeing lizardmen in action. Definitely looking forward to watching the second season in English. Do you by any chance know when the home release is going to be for that? |
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Merxamers
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Don't know for sure, but i'm certain Funimation will be releasing that like they did the first season. I think maybe there was a year between the first season streaming and the bluray release? (and here i'm still waiting on a Konosuba bluray release here in the states, lol) |
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belvadeer
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Eventually they will, I'm sure. I also wonder when Ancient Magus' Bride will get one too. Been waiting on that one for a while. How long has it been since Konosuba's broadcast again? |
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gridsleep
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Were I half tiger I would slice anyone who tried to "correct" the situation.
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Kadmos1
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Te subbed anime premiere date and the American/Canadian home video release date is usu. between 12-15 months (some times shorter or longer). |
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zztop
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The author said he purposely wanted a full-on kemono protagonist as a response to their general status as supporters/villians in Japanese fantasy works. The editors' preference for catgirls/boys, I think has to do with a combination of risk-averseness and fantrends there. The Japanese trend for protag demihumans usually tends to be like catgirls/boys - a few animal bits like ears/tails/eyes, but otherwise human-looking in every way. Full-on animal-person like Mercenary is considered too risky to sell to the local fans. |
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belvadeer
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I wish there were more authors like him. He's a guy after my own heart.
They don't seem to realize how overused and bland partially feline girls or boys are, but whatever floats the boat. I wonder why full beastly kemono are such a hard sell over there anyway, especially when there are a lot of talented individual artists who do some pretty impressive artwork of beastmen that could fit in with just about any genre of media. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Mercenary's character design was the main appeal to me for Grimorie of Zero and I was glad he was a pretty likeable character and I liked his chemistry with Zero. As far as fantasy shows go, I agree it was pretty standard and I wish it had better animation. I remember getting pretty addicted to the opening theme song when it came out though. I wish we could get more of the light novels adapted but I'm glad the anime still had a conclusive ending. I'll definitely eventually pick this up on Blu Ray and I can't wait to check out the English dub. Are the light novels available in English? I'd really love to read those.
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Kadmos1
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Being a "Sakura Quest" fan, I am waiting to re-watch the dubbed stream until after the 2nd boxset comes out here. That same week, I will watch the 1st 13 epi. then the remaining 12 the following week.
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Fluwm
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Things I am sick to my goddamn stomachs of in these otaku-written LN series:
Fetishization of slavery. It’s beyond gross. Stop it. Sexualization of children. It’s even worse than beyond gross. Stop it. Jokes about pedophilia. What the hell is wrong with these people? This is what happens when media is created by otaku who have only ever been exposed to media created by other otaku. Their world becomes so insular, so reliant on increasingly unpleasant tropes, that they don’t even realize how utterly isolated they are from the rest of the world. And yes, I realize that y’all who only consume otaku media yourselves are going to get angry at me for saying as much, and that’s part of the problem. |
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Yttrbio
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Oh, man, I never really thought about whether the media I consume had received permission from Fluwm to exist. I'll try to be better about it. Thanks for the reminder.
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ThatGuyWhoLikesThings
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we get it, you hate otaku |
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