Forum - View topic2.5 Dimensional Seduction (TV).
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Tony K.
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2.5 Dimensional Seduction (TV) Source: Manga (ongoing @ 20 volumes by Yu Hashimoto) Demographic: Shounen Animation Studio: J.C. Staff Genres: comedy, drama, romance Themes: cosplay, ecchi, harem, otaku, photography, school Plot Summary: Okumura, the president of the school's manga club, claims to have no interest in real girls. He's your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel. Then the new school year starts, and a real girl named Ririsa whose passion is cosplay joins the club. Ririsa convinces Okumura to become her photographer and her favorite manga character is Lilliel. Not only that, but Ririsa is into modeling the fetishy stuff. The boundaries between 2D and 3D start to blur as this hot-blooded romantic comedy unfolds. Air Date & Platform: July 5, 2024 (Friday) Available on: HIDIVE Episode Count / Runtime: Pending Last edited by Tony K. on Wed Sep 18, 2024 11:50 am; edited 4 times in total |
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smurky turkey
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The first episode made me continuously think that 2.5 Dimensional is a worse version of My Dress-up Darling with zero of the charm that made me love that show. I suppose the mc will grow over time yet I am now dumping shows that do not make me even slightly curious after the first episode...dropped it is.
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Animegomaniac
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And I was thinking "Ok, this is the Return of Genshiken" even before I saw Komiket... OK, this is so much better than My Dress Up Darling which irked me on levels I couldn't even begin to describe.
A current cosplayer who's an actual person meets an otaku who's an actual person to help with a task in a way that actually makes sense.. It's like someone saw My Dress Up Darling and decided to make the scenario work using people that already have things in common. It's so crazy it could work. But it's not just Genshiken because there's a lot of Haruhi Suzumiya here as well. Ririsa acts a lot like Haruhi with an interest in activities more than people but it's the clubroom that makes me think more of the SOS Brigade then the Genshiken club, why is that... "New Student from Another Dimension"... clever, too clever by half. |
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smurky turkey
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I love how different opinions can be when it comes to anime. I heave heard several people absolutely hate My Dress Up while it got me to spent some time getting into the cosplay scene which was a big no no before seeing the show (just wearing a shirt with some anime character on it used to be a hurdle to be honest).
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Alan45
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I have a couple of dozen of those. I use them to sleep in. Never worn outside the house. |
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Edjwald
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Hey! Hey! Nobody asked about your fetishes, you perverts! 
I never went down the anime merch route myself, but only because I'm a cheap bastard already begrudging the money I spend on Hidive and Crunchyroll and dvds and Blu-rays. I have a feeling that if I went down the anime merch rabbit hole, I'd wind up in a cardboard box with "Edjwald's secret anime headquarters" scrawled on the outside. Sure, I'd be wrapped in an anime themed snuggee and surrounded by stand up figurines and posters, but the winters are cold here. Anyhow, I watched this, and I also found the parallels to My Dress Up Darling obvious. A lot of annoying anime imitators have cropped up trying to make a cash grab on My Dress Up Darling's popularity, and I think that's part of the reason Dress up Darlin' has been experiencing the occasional eruptions of hostility on this board. I don't think this is a soulless imitator. I don't think this anime has an ounce of nuance so far, but there's some obvious passion invested. As to whether I like it or not, the characters are going to have to make me laugh or display something other than obsessive tendencies and flashes of flesh for me to go that far. |
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Alan45
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@Edjwald
Actually most of my anime T-shirts came as pack ins with the purchase of the deluxe version of an anime dvd back in the day. That was back in the bad old days when anime came on multiple 4 episode singles and it took longer to buy the series than it ran on TV. Nowadays you are lucky if you get a few postcards (and that is from Aniplex the high priced spread). Somewhere around here I have a box of trinkets that also came as pack ins, including Haruhi's arm band and hair ribbon and a Witch Hunter Robin shot glass. My point in the post above is that I can't imagine the circumstances that would ever have gotten me to try cosplay. |
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Edjwald
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Alan45 - that does sound like a golden age merch wise. Most of my limited understanding of merch comes from experiences like trying to find a dvd of the Asterisk War dub since Crunchyroll didn't carry it over from Funimation, seeing some shmuck trying to charge 900$ for a disk with four episodes, and then being barraged with all over the place ads of figurines or body pillows or plushies or what-have-you.
Definitely not writing this in a Pikachu body suit.... |
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smurky turkey
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Yeah, the merch hole can go real deep, I know some people that started buying a figurine or two and now most of their not insignificant salaries goes towards increasing the collection.
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Alan45
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I can't say much about merch, I got heavily into figures for an extended period. Now I'm mostly priced out and am not following as many shows.
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