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egoist
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Just watched this anime recently. The review pretty much covered for the whole anime. What just pissed me off in this anime was how the characters didn't act like italians at all, but just said random italian words once in a while.
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David.Seth
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and... how do Italians act? I only ask because I know nothing of the culture beyond their food, so even if the cast acted more "authentic" to the ethnicity, I most likely would not have noticed. Besides, most anime set in countries other than Japan still tend to have characters that act "Japanese". |
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pparker
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Glad to hear it rated highly. I'm so generally disappointed at this year's anime, that I put them off to catch up on R1's, even though I enjoyed the first episode. One reason regarding this show, though, was that it seemed to get no attention. Really, none.
Probably due to its lack of merchandise-able mecha, space opera, apocalypse, ninjas, magical girls and psycho-emo moe high school harems... Oh, and sexy horror  . I'm not imagining a rush of pre-orders for the Claudio figure.
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Charred Knight
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Personally I don't mind that as long as they don't make it to obvious like having the Americans go on about honor and crap like that. The last arc of Eyeshield 21 was especially bad about that, the Americans cared more about honor than the Japanese did. Though the worst has got to be Gundam 00 where an american goes around dressed in this ridiculous samurai outfit, and one of the americans commits Seppeku at the end. It's a lot better than the character appearing as a stereotype. It's a me! Mario! |
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belindabird
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Glad to see this series get some well-deserved attention. While it might not be interesting to most people due to its lack of climactic storytelling and its open-ended finale, I'm happy for its adult-oriented mature storytelling. Definitely a hidden gem and well worth streaming.
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belvadeer
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Well Mario does break dance, that's not a stereotype of Italians
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HellKorn
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Even though the magazine title can be misleading, I guess Casey has not read any titles from it? Especially considering there's absolutely no real sexual content in Mohiro Kitoh's most recent work, Hiroaki Samura's Bradherley's Coach (outside of the first two chapters containing some rather bleak rape, though not in a stylized manner that Berserk has) and Takako Shimura's Sweet Blue Flowers (Jp. Aoi Hana), all of which are/have been serialized in Manga Erotics F. Anyway, I've put off watching Ristorante Paradiso, and the "anime anachronisms" that Casey mentions don't really entice me. Though I've already pre-ordered Viz's release of the manga (it comes out next March), so I'll get around to the story in some way. |
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Altorrin
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Aren't anachronisms things misplaced in time, not space? Thus the "chron"? |
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Fronzel
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I've wanted to know a word that describes geographical or cultural misplacement for a while. When I see someone in a European cultural setting bow, I'm rocketed right out of the narrative. It's kind of annoying that they'd use a foreign setting without bothering to get it right. Solty Rei used a such a setting and managed to name a girl "Jeremy". I couldn't take her seriously. Then there were the German dolls in Rozen Maiden with Japanese names and Japanese language skills. They actually had alternate German names, but they never came up in the show itself. |
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Pocky Monster
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I definitely agree. Ristorante Paradiso was one of my favourite spring '09 anime,and I feared that it would become underrated. It's a great series. |
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yuna49
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I thought Paradiso was an unlikely choice for Crunchyroll. It doesn't really fit with their usual offerings nor its generally younger demographic. It moved to Crunchy just after the first couple of episodes were subbed, and discussions of the show on a certain well-known fansub site declined sharply thereafter.
I'm happy to see legal streams of Japanese anime becoming available, but beyond the big-name shows like Naruto, Crunchyroll still isn't a destination for many serious fans, particularly older ones used to watching fansubs and buying DVDs. If you browse the anime discussions at Amazon, which has an older audience than most anime sites, Crunchyroll hardly ever gets mentioned there. BTW, I thought Nicoletta had a Japanese father and was living in Japan just before the show begins. Sounds like I was wrong. |
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David.Seth
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I thought the exact same thing. Oh well, its still a good series 
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Agent355
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Dear Japan,
People in Europe don't bow unless they just finished a performance onstage or are greeting royalty. Thanks. I'm intrigued by the mother-daughter storyline. It sounds like it has a lot of potential for drama, but is it the sort of thing that's ignored till the last ep? |
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