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What's a whoopie pie? =o

It's as if your lover told you it's time you found a lover of your own.

Is all of One Piece like this? In another 100 episodes will they still be finding islands and solving problems?

A few months ago I had a nightmare that there was a Dragon Ball Z live action drama currently airing in Japan and that Funimation would be importing it soon. I woke up in a cold sweat, terrified of having to watch the Freeza saga again this year. Then this arrives in the mail…!

The girl-girl relationships (with the exception of Sei's and her ex) aren't meant to be romances, that it really is just a sorority-sister-BFF thing.

vashfanatic wrote:

The girl-girl relationships (with the exception of Sei's and her ex) aren't meant to be romances, that it really is just a sorority-sister-BFF thing.

You mean Class S, which emphasizes tightly close-knit girl friendships between an upperclassman and underclassman. Maria-sama ga Miteru is a modern homage of the genre. Class S was a genre of Japanese literature popularized by Japanese novelist Nobuko Yoshiya during the early 20th century in Japan where many of her works emphasized strong romantic friendships between teen girls. This was even found in all-girl's schools during the time period which was seen as a phase of growing up by Japanese society before facing arranged marriage after graduation. This article offers up more details on the genre and the time period it was used.

I rented the first part of Maria-sama ga Miteru season four. I've only seen the first two episodes of season one, but I've heard enough about the show to get the gist of the “seour system” (girls pair up in intense mentor/sister couplings) and to know what's going on. I never finished watching season one because it was way too slow for my taste, and by all reports I heard there wasn't as much lesbianism as I'd hoped for.

I thought this show didn't take place in the present for some reason, so it was weird to see the characters in modern clothes.

If the intense same-sex friendship trend has persisted longer in Japan than in America and Europe, well, three guesses why.

Someday Japan is going to figure out how to make a live action DBZ drama. Everyone will be a handsome metrosexual young man, even Bulma.

I've yet to watch the fourth season... or the end of the third for that matter, since it was licensed. Was this sent to you, or did you rent it somewhere?

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I thought this show didn't take place in the present for some reason, so it was weird to see the characters in modern clothes.

No cellphones, Can you imagine a real girl's school with no cellphones? That's how you can tell its a fantasy series.

agila61 wrote:

Quote: I thought this show didn't take place in the present for some reason, so it was weird to see the characters in modern clothes. No cellphones, Can you imagine a real girl's school with no cellphones? That's how you can tell its a fantasy series.

I heard that the author said that somewhere; that it's set in an alternate present with no cell phones. I almost put that into the review but I didn't have time to source it, so the line got cut.

Is all of One Piece like this? In another 100 episodes will they still be finding islands and solving problems?

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Is all of One Piece like this? In another 100 episodes will they still be finding islands and solving problems?

Yes. The next few hundred episodes in fact. I finally quit reading the manga after the Thriller Bark arc. Apparently there are some "big things" that happen afterward that involve the World Goverment, but at that point I pretty much way past the point of caring.

And Oda says the story may not even be 60% (or whatever) done.

Right now I'm just wondering how far along we have to go before One Piece becomes the punchline Dragon Ball Z eventually became...