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NEWS: Show By Rock!! Mashumairesh!! Anime Adds Reijingsignal Band




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Maid S Runner



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 12:34 pm Reply with quote
I love the ears, this band looks really cute Embarassed
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:04 pm Reply with quote
Correction: The band's name is spelled REIJINGSIGNAL (see https://www.showbyrock.com/character/LB030.html for example)
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BSW



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 3:01 pm Reply with quote
Maid S Runner wrote:
I love the ears, this band looks really cute Embarassed


Cute?! They look anything, but.
Cool, maybe, but god damn if those masculine faces with small eyes and sharp chins are somehow "cute". They are the exact opposite of that.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 3:52 pm Reply with quote
BSW wrote:
Maid S Runner wrote:
I love the ears, this band looks really cute Embarassed


Cute?! They look anything, but.
Cool, maybe, but god damn if those masculine faces with small eyes and sharp chins are somehow "cute". They are the exact opposite of that.


Almost like people can have different perspectives and opinions. I don't think their faces are masculine and I think they're cute.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:28 pm Reply with quote
They're definitely cute. They look like a cool/"kakkoii" type band likely to have a lot of fangirls who are totally not yuri for the band members, but aside from perhaps kuudere-looking Uiui at left, I don't see "masculine faces" at all. And in her case it's still a flavor of cute, one of my favorites actually. Love Kaoru Seta, Littorio from Azur Lane, best girl '94 Haruka Tenou, etc. (https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/11/03/survey-almost-35-years-of-japans-favorite-anime-leading-ladies)



Top: Plasmagica, middle: Reijinsignal, bottom: Mashumairesh. Reijinsignal are the ones who stand out among these as having "masculine faces with small eyes"? Really?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 4:12 am Reply with quote
Yes, really. Though obviously the new main girls are also victim of that.
It's also obvious how you know this when you're purposedly using a far-shot from Plasmagica, because their designs were too round of for you to use in a comparison.
Believe me I'm not surprised there are a lot of fanGIRLS for this band, as definitely they appeal to them with their features instead of guys.
I guess it isn't unexpected for this show to completely target females with the new season instead of going for both audience.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:48 pm Reply with quote
BSW wrote:
It's also obvious how you know this when you're purposedly using a far-shot from Plasmagica

I used the promo poster of each band. A promo poster, by necessity, must represent the look the producers/marketers want the characters to have in order to appeal to their target audience, whoever that may be.

BSW wrote:
Though obviously the new main girls are also victim of that.

...no....


BSW wrote:
Believe me I'm not surprised there are a lot of fanGIRLS for this band,

Are there? I said there "likely" would be, is it already confirmed the fangirls exist in or out of universe?

BSW wrote:
as definitely they appeal to them with their features instead of guys.

I can't say I've ever heard such a complaint as "These moe characters aren't moe enough for me, therefore most guys *must* feel the way *I* do, therefore the characters must have been designed for girls" until now, so thanks for something new to peruse. Smile Extending this reasoning, it would seem that characters in Aikatsu and PreCure were designed for males, while Ghost in the Shell's Motoko was designed for females; anime eyes don't get much smaller than that.

(I mean unless you're talking about someone like Dr. Sado from Space Battleship Yamato, or Non Non Biyori's Kazuho who is never seen to open her eyes)
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BSW



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:30 am Reply with quote
You can twist my words all you want, or use a strawman argument, fact is that these girls have little appeal to males, and it's obvious they are focusing on appealing to the female audience, while males definitely don't fall into the target audience this time, unlike the first seasons (or at least the very first), but that's maybe because they did a research and thought it's more profitable that way.
Anyways, the girls are not very cute, and this second band is outright anything, but.

And please don't try to move goalposts with what picture you used before, and don't play dumb, you nit picked a low quality, far-away shot of those two girls on purpose.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:27 am Reply with quote
BSW wrote:
You can twist my words all you want, or use a strawman argument, fact is that these girls have little appeal to males, and it's obvious they are focusing on appealing to the female audience, while males definitely don't fall into the target audience this time, unlike the first seasons (or at least the very first), but that's maybe because they did a research and thought it's more profitable that way.
Anyways, the girls are not very cute, and this second band is outright anything, but.

And please don't try to move goalposts with what picture you used before, and don't play dumb, you nit picked a low quality, far-away shot of those two girls on purpose.


There's no way they would target female audience with just that. Their chance to pull female fans will be higher if they got rid all the girls and replace them with boys. It's not like the SB69 don't know their male bands' power.

So far we only have one guy band.
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BSW



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:11 am Reply with quote
It definitely makes it comfortable for their main target audience (=women) if the girls are more to their liking though...
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nDroae



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 1:50 pm Reply with quote
Your tastes are unusual, nothing wrong with that, own it and enjoy it. Smile

BSW wrote:
And please don't try to move goalposts with what picture you used before, and don't play dumb, you nit picked a low quality, far-away shot of those two girls on purpose.

Nitpick: that's not what nitpick means. I used Google image search to find the highest quality version I could, and posted it at 100% scale. https://www.rightstufanime.com/Show-By-Rock-Blu-ray-DVD

Right now we're at a stalemate, but all you need to do is wait until the show comes out next month. If it overwhelmingly gets reactions from males saying the new girls aren't cute enough, then you will have won.
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BSW



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:40 am Reply with quote
You're right.
But let's not forget to look at the female/male ratio, I'd be surprised if they could keep the ratio as "high" as a youjo show like PreCure. Will be a definite, steep downfall on males' ratio.
Still like you said it, as long as we don't get numbers about the new series, what I'm saying can be written off as personal taste, so let's just wait.
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