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poonk
Posts: 1490 Location: In the Library with Philip |
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Just judging by the reviews so far, this B Gata H Kei series sounds like the anime embodiment of the virgin/whore dichotomy. I think I could somehow respect the concept more if she were just going about sleeping with hot guys on her own terms or something (still wouldn't watch it) but does she really need to start out targeting the "nerdy unattractive" guy? (answer: yes, of course she does). I haven't actually watched the show and I have zero plans to do so, so I think I'll stop here. Thanks, reviewers, for taking the bullet for us. Well, some of us anyway.
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hissatsu01
Posts: 963 Location: NYC |
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Zac, I am shocked and appalled by your lazy fact checking:
"Chu-Bra!!, which pretended to be about female puberty but was really just an excuse for otaku to leer at a high school girl who wouldn't shut up about her panties" Ahem, middle school girl (12 years old). See, that makes it sooo much better. I feel the need to watch one episode of B Gata H Kei just so I can be done with it. I should keep count of how many times I roll my eyes. I could make it a drinking game, but I'd probably be unconscious (or sustain permanent liver damage) before the episode was over. Last edited by hissatsu01 on Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:13 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Nagi21
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B Gata H Kei...her "goal" is to sleep with 100 men. Really? This concept actually got a greenlight for a full blown series? Seems more like something for a 1-2 episode hentai OVA at best.
The overall impressions of Heroman sounds just like I would expect, same with the latest Ikkitousen. |
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Dmysta3000
Posts: 50 |
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So I guess the average opinion is:
Heroman - good Ikkitousen - meh B Gata H Kei - crap Well I'm glad to see Heroman is getting some love, I just saw the first episode and I loved it |
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ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Ah, good to hear. Those are three of the four shows on top of my list as well. (The fourth being Hakuoki). I find our taste in anime is usually quite similar so I'll be very interested to hear your take on them. |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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B Gata H Kei's premise is inherently stupid, it really and truly is. Couldn't the writers have made it a bit more palatable? Like, have the girl be a slut with a dozen guys "under her belt" (or in her panties, if you know what I mean), who falls in love with her next target. Then she tries to woo him, which is hard because he actually has a spine of sorts and is wary about going out with someone whose history suggests she just wants a meaningless empty fling. He makes her realise that she doesn't need lots of sexual partners to make herself happy, because one genuine guy is better than a dozen of the sort of drunk guys she meets at wild parties (or wherever). Whether or not they end up together is besides the point; what matters is how she grows as a person, and how he (oh, let's say) develops confidence in himself and in his skills at interacting with members of the opposite sex.
Hey, at least the story could then be touching in parts, with room for realistic characters rather than the less-than-one-dimensional characters found in B Gata H Kei. Yeah, it could get rather sappy, but it would still be orders of magnitude better than what it is now, which appears to be a painfully unfunny risqué "comedy". |
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garfield15
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Same here, along with Arakawa and Yojo-han. I wonder who will be the brave soul to tackle SD Gundam: Sangokuden (and the bigger question, who's doing the new Koihime Musou? ) |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3492 Location: Back stateside |
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I'd watch that. Heck, it would resemble a gender-inverted Wedding Crashers, or any number of other raunchy romantic comedies. Just make her a college student while you're at it, please! |
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bayoab
Posts: 831 |
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spoiler[She doesn't end up getting 100 guys. She doesn't even get past the first. That's basically her motivation as it turns into a romance comedy.] |
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Yeah, but what they've done is spoiler[make a "Romance Comedy" with apparently no romance and comedy that only appeals to a limited group.] Kind of defeats the point, right?
Cheers. I wasn't aiming to make it seem like a Romantic Comedy, more like a touching Drama with elements of Romance and Comedy. That was my personal goal mind you, not the "correct" interpretation. If you want the girl to be a college student then that's fine. I personally would prefer if she was in her last or second-to-last year of high school, if only to keep her slightly more naive about relationships and whatnot. But yeah, fifteen is just too young in my opinion, even if the show is supposed to be a light-hearted Comedy. Yuck. |
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Vent
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If Tim was referring to the spoiler[broken planet at the beginning] of Heroman as being a hint to Galactus cameoing, it's sadly not what it looks like. spoiler[The alien villains are locusts who loot planets of their resources and leave them ruined.]
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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Any chance of seeing the first Eden of the East movie here? I haven't downloaded it yet because of the massive filesize the fansubbers are insisting on (like 2.7 gigabytes; F!@#), and I was wondering how good it was.
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TimMaughan
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Aw, really? That's a shame. But then I'm also intrigued spoiler[by the aliens themselves, who do kind of remind me of the Dire Wraiths and the Skrulls. In fact, for some reason Heroman is giving me a strange Rom: The Space Knight vibe.] If not true then that's a shame, a cross-over to the Marvel universe in form of some bad guys - or even a cameo from another hero - would be a great direction for the show. I mean, why else set it in the US? (Apart from wanting to sell it there, obviously...) |
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Brack
Posts: 287 Location: UK |
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Marvel have nothing to do with Heroman. |
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Hentai_JP
Posts: 605 Location: Toronto, ON |
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And this is the perfect place to make your silly, totally related question? Complaining about file size doesn't make you look better or legit btw, as well as insulting fansubbers who use their time and effort to translate the shows into English, which you are still going to watch. (don't bother saying that you didn't insult them this time... that Katanagatari thread is in my blood now.) |
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