Forum - View topicAnime that made us lads realize we're sissy girls
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Doc Tater
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I know there are some manly men (or men who want to think they're manly men) on these forums, I being one of them. For example, I play Warhammer 40,000, a game in which 8-foot tall superhumans shoot each other with .75 caliber armour-piercing rockets. I watch anime like Black Lagoon, in which spoiler[desk clerks take down helicopter gunships with torpedoes]. My tastes in movies are very simple- include big huge battles with limbs and head flying everywhere, and I'm happy.
In short, I felt secure in my manliness- and then I picked up Kannazuki no Miko, a three-year old anime. Why? Why not? It ha giant robots, plenty of fanservice, and canon lesbians. You knwo what, let's say that again: CANON. LESBIANS. How could I say no? But next thing I know, spoiler[I'm crying like a little girl from episodes 10-12, and the tears really started flowing when they confessed their loves to each other], and at the end spoiler[when they get a happy ending, the joy it gave me] made me cry even more. I frak you not, I was CRYING, tears streaming down red-puffed cheeks, sniffling, the whole none yards. The next day, I bought Maria-sama ga Miteru. But enough of the poor Livejournal entry- to all the lads out there (and I mean LADS, you know, the lot who read Maxim and drink Foster's while watching footy and such), tell your stories about how certain episodes of anime/animes as a whole made you want to sit down and cook dinner for the family- like I ended up doing after KnM. |
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abominaSion
 Posts: 125 Location: U.S...maybe |
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I don't considere myself a fighting,shooting,drinking,hunting with oversize guns, kinda man. but a man nontheless.
Inuyasha's "Return to the place where we first met" I don't even want to explain why. That scene in R O D the TV where The three sisters spoiler[meet and anita refuses to embrace michelle and even screams at her resulting in Michelle screaming back.] That scene brings out the sister in me... 
Though it's of topic, singing the Haruhi themes takes out all signs of manhood. |
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Truered
 Posts: 515 Location: Uni |
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End of Evangelion. I still feel miserable and sad when I think of it (mainly the first half) let alone watch it.
The most recent would be Azumanga Daioh. spoiler[Chiyo's tearful joy at getting the best results award and being applauded by Tomo, then Tomo and Osaka and finally the whole school nearly set me off. Chiyo's tearful rendition of the school song shortly after] left me with actual tears in my eyes. Also Excel Saga spoiler[I know the no gimmick was the gimmick, and it was a comedy, but damn it, Il-p turning against her killed me a little inside, especially when she tried desperately to find him] |
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Levitz9
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Quoted for truth. That said, I don't think I belong in this topic.... 
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Veoryn87
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Except that Haruhi is aimed at more of a male audience. I highly doubt anything with lesbians, like Kannazuki No Miko, is aimed at a female audience. Now a truely "girly" anime would be Fruits Basket, which I love.
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KyuuA4
 Posts: 1363 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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Just take any series with the genre "Romance" -- and that should do the trick.
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stormcrow22
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Not sure about the sissy girl part, but there have been a couple of moments in some anime that have elicited a tear or two. The final fight between Mahoro and Feldrance and what happened afterwards (Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden). I initially watched the fansubs and then went out and bought the $100.00 DVD box set. I tried to re-watch it but every time I thought about that scene, I would stop cause it'd be too sad. So yeah, that sucker's still unopened after these years. Haha.
The other example I'll share is from the anime version of Negima! For those who have seen it, you can probably guess that I'm refering to when spoiler[Asuna dies]. How that episode ended and the beginning of the next episode. Wow. But yeah, this is an interesting thread. I'd like to see what other people have to say. |
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Duphman2
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Dude, watch Kannazuki no Miko. If there is a show for the female audience, its that one. |
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KyuuA4
Posts: 1363 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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Pssh. That doesn't work here - as it was an ending worthy of making one feel... "gipped". It was an ending where the production team simply said, "I'm sorry guys. We screwed up."
Indeed. For a jackass like myself, that series made me sappy. Despite the crudeness of the giant robots, fanservice, and lesbianism... it was the hot hot passionate love between the two lesbians that... "kicked it up a notch" -- in a non-manly way. 
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Patachu
Past ANN Contributor
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I'm guessing you're not familiar with the works of Kiriko Nananan or Takako Shimura. :P "Yuri for girls" is pretty much what does it for me. They don't really ever get adapted into anime (no market for it) but some of the manga about female relationships just break my heart. Maybe it's because it's all girls and the emotions are portrayed as really fragile. (And I'm not even supposed to be reading that kind of stuff seeing as I am neither female nor lesbian....) As for Kannazuki no Miko ... eh, too emo for my tastes.  Kaishaku's stuff just doesn't make any freakin' sense.
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KyuuA4
Posts: 1363 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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Strawberry Panic. There is nothing manly about that series either and brings about that same effect. |
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sanbyaku
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The ending in Chrono Crusade was a tearful one, especially when she saidspoiler["i dont want to die!" ] damn that was when i decided to do the whole anime stuff by myself cause nobody that i know would get it and theyd take the piss seein me like that...
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HMMcKamikaze
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I don't consider myself a manly man, but I did cry during the ending of Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora.
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Kruszer
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Kannazuki no Miko and Fruits Basket are excellent examples of series I thought were demasculating but excellent as well. There's also:
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabito if you're into the lesbian scene. I'm not really, but to each his/her own. It wasn't that great of a series honestly but it was well animated and the story and relationship was decent. I'd much rather recomend Rumbling Hearts and Kanon (2006) however. Rumbling Hearts is about a love triangle and a whole bunch of drama that ensues when one of the girls falls into coma for several years after an accident and her boyfriend Takayuki moves on and shacks up with her best friend. Kanon follows Yuichi who returns home after a long time and finds that he has certain gaps in his memories of his childhood. Through his interaction with his friends he gradually starts to recover his lost memories and gets closer to the tramatic trigger that caused it. |
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PorscheGTIII
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For me, it would have to be Air TV when spoiler[ Misuzu wanted to reach her goal and then died]. I couldn't get out of that sad and depressed mood for a day or so! Kanon 2006 comes in at a close second. spoiler[ "They are called miracles because they never happen." ] Wow what strong words.
They were manly tears I tell you! Manly Tears! |
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