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NEWS: Aoi Hitomi no Onna no Ko no Ohanashi TV Film in August




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Mushi-Man



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:30 pm Reply with quote
This seems really interesting. The story sounds good and the concept is unique. It looks like Minetaro Hirai is a new director so I'm looking forward to seeing how that goes over.
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:21 pm Reply with quote
*sigh*

Okay, while blue eyes can crop up in rare instances, in general blue eyes are recessive trait and don't dominate over brown ones; yet every last half-white, half-Japanese character seems to have blue eyes! Well, at least she's not blond, which would be flatly genetically impossible, yet shows up all the time in anime.
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Nemo_N



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:33 pm Reply with quote
vashfanatic wrote:
*sigh*

Okay, while blue eyes can crop up in rare instances, in general blue eyes are recessive trait and don't dominate over brown ones; yet every last half-white, half-Japanese character seems to have blue eyes! Well, at least she's not blond, which would be flatly genetically impossible, yet shows up all the time in anime.


Er, I think you might be taking this a little bit too seriously.
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Ryusui



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:19 pm Reply with quote
Genetic improbability be damned, the idea of a story set during WWII about the experiences of a half-Westerner in rural Japan is an interesting premise.
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cnet128



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:09 pm Reply with quote
Ehm, you've got one too many "no"s in that title. "Aoi no hitomi" makes no sense. It's "Aoi Hitomi no Onna no Ko no Ohanashi".
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vashfanatic



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 9:41 pm Reply with quote
Nemo_N wrote:
vashfanatic wrote:
*sigh*

Okay, while blue eyes can crop up in rare instances, in general blue eyes are recessive trait and don't dominate over brown ones; yet every last half-white, half-Japanese character seems to have blue eyes! Well, at least she's not blond, which would be flatly genetically impossible, yet shows up all the time in anime.


Er, I think you might be taking this a little bit too seriously.


For this movie, perhaps, which looks like a nice idea for a children's movie - but the rather racist stereotype of Westerners as all blond-haired and blue-eyed (and big boobed, for women) is one of my biggest pet peeves that shows up again and again in anime.
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