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-Matthew-
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 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:20 pm
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Great anime year wait for us all! Amazing that producer of to Your Eternity will be in this series!
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MFrontier
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:32 pm
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Is there any romance in this series?
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Retrojuicepop
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:06 pm
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| MFrontier wrote: | | Is there any romance in this series? |
Sadly there is... 
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Retrojuicepop
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:24 pm
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Ah yes, how could I forget the Minato/P3 Protag clone from a musical manga where he is deemed feeble than his similar counterpart and cannot fight shadows.
Not going to check this one out since I am already satisfied with a spectacular music anime with relatable and amiable characters, an ancient Chinese war tactician reincarnated in the modern world helping out the underdogs, addicting intro and outro, impressive visuals, overall great presentation, and best of all, NO ROMANCE BUT FRIENDSHIP. 
EDIT: Since Kyuushi will air on New Years January, I'm most likely going to abandon every anime including this one.
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MagicPolly
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:41 pm
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Well, uh, looks interesting to me. I guess I'll read the manga first since it's not that long so far.
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Ashen Phoenix
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:42 pm
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I'm looking forward to this.
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CrowLia
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:13 am
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Please, manga writers, there's got to be some other metaphor for youth you can use in your titles that's not just "Blue + Noun"
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DamianSalazar
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 5:13 am
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| CrowLia wrote: | | Please, manga writers, there's got to be some other metaphor for youth you can use in your titles that's not just "Blue + Noun" |
Seeing this post made me curious, so I decided to check the Wikipedia category of manga series and I saw well-known series like Blue Lock, Blue Period, Blue Exorcist, and some more obscure titles like Blue Gender, Blue Inferior, Blue Sub 6. Blue is really common, comparable to how Tokyo is used in some series like Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Revengers and Tokyo Ravens.
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SHD
Joined: 05 Apr 2015
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:43 am
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| CrowLia wrote: | | Please, manga writers, there's got to be some other metaphor for youth you can use in your titles that's not just "Blue + Noun" |
I mean, yeah, it's a cliché, but the kanji for "blue" does mean "youth" and "young" and it's right there in the word for "youth" (青春) and other related words and expressions, so there's that. I think it's not really a metaphor as much as a double meaning, in fact with these stories most of the time primary meaning is "youth" and not "blue", really. It's just that when it comes to English it's easier to translate it as "blue" since in English there's no such association between blue and youth, and "Young Orchestra" or "Orchestra of our youth" or whatever just doesn't sound interesting enough.  ("Green" would work, I suppose, except the color blue is usually featured prominently in the art, and "green" has slightly different allusions in English, anyway.)
That being said, it is a cliché, and while I see your complaint, I raise a better one: manga writers, there's got to be a way to write about people learning about themselves and finding their place in the world that is not about teenagers. Really, maybe I'm just old, maybe it's the fact that I can't relate to most of these stories whatsoever, but at this point I'm just so completely over all these stories about "Kids Living The Joys And Struggles Of The Springtime Of Life", especially since so many of them go through the exact same beats and notes. Give me more stories about adults searching for themselves and whatnot.
| DamianSalazar wrote: | | Seeing this post made me curious, so I decided to check the Wikipedia category of manga series and I saw well-known series like Blue Lock, Blue Period, Blue Exorcist, and some more obscure titles like Blue Gender, Blue Inferior, Blue Sub 6. |
Not all of these blues mean the same thing, though. With stories about Young People Looking For Themselves "blue" refers to youth. With football stories like Blue Lock or Aoashi (same blue!) it primarily refers to the blue uniform of the Japanese national football team and the Japan Football Association. With Blue Sub 6 it most likely just refers to the ocean where most of the story takes place, etc.
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