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mdo7



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:53 am Reply with quote
I just finished watching the 1st episode of Please put them on, Takamine-san! on CR (sadly, I don't have CR Premium to watch any future episode), and let say my reaction is that anime is a bit wild. I'm glad to see CR is using the uncut and uncensored broadcast from AT-X and not the censored broadcast found on other Japanese terrestrial channels (Tokyo MX, BS11, etc...). I need to check out Kowloon Generic Romance too (I can watch the 1st episode though).

About Please put them on, Takamine-San!, I just recently read a Screen Rant article on the anime's controversy, and I'm not sure if anybody can validate or agree with this. What are your thought on the SR's article on it?

Anyway, that's all I have to say.
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Andrew Cunningham



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 11:08 am Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
About Please put them on, Takamine-San!, I just recently read a Screen Rant article on the anime's controversy, and I'm not sure if anybody can validate or agree with this. What are your thought on the SR's article on it?


You really need people to assure you that an article handwringing about nipples is written by a deranged right-wing reactionary incapable of rational thought? The moment you see them use the word 'prevalent' in cold blood, stop reading and never visit that site again.
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mdo7



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 11:14 am Reply with quote
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
mdo7 wrote:
About Please put them on, Takamine-San!, I just recently read a Screen Rant article on the anime's controversy, and I'm not sure if anybody can validate or agree with this. What are your thought on the SR's article on it?


You really need people to assure you that an article handwringing about nipples is written by a deranged right-wing reactionary incapable of rational thought? The moment you see them use the word 'prevalent' in cold blood, stop reading and never visit that site again.


Yeah, I just looked at the author, and I wish I would've done more research before I posted that article from SR. I apologize for that.
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tinyirnfist0



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:22 pm Reply with quote
mdo7 wrote:
Andrew Cunningham wrote:
mdo7 wrote:
About Please put them on, Takamine-San!, I just recently read a Screen Rant article on the anime's controversy, and I'm not sure if anybody can validate or agree with this. What are your thought on the SR's article on it?


You really need people to assure you that an article handwringing about nipples is written by a deranged right-wing reactionary incapable of rational thought? The moment you see them use the word 'prevalent' in cold blood, stop reading and never visit that site again.


Yeah, I just looked at the author, and I wish I would've done more research before I posted that article from SR. I apologize for that.


The writer is a right-winger? I thought ScreenRant leans towards left. I've seen comments on the website that complain about articles being "Woke" or something. Not like it matters as the guy got fired by ScreenRant. It was only two days ago. [url=https://medium.com/@steven.wyman.blackburn/screen-rant-let-me-go-after-nearly-5-years-21f2b9a15b77]
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FishLion



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 4:48 pm Reply with quote
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This show doesn't have to invent ridiculous circumstances to make Reiko attractive; it just places the viewer in more intimate or naturally provocative moments with her, and that immediately creates a sense of connection and desire.


I wish more romcoms took this approach. I feel like a lot of romcoms about average people could benefit from enjoying women existing as women and not trying to create some character that exists only in fiction completely unlike a woman to fulfill fantasies.

Don't get me wrong, 100 Girlfriends shows that you can make any setting madcap and entertaining if you try (so much happens on that one school rooftop), but I feel like many take that approach and don't do half as a good as job as 100GF would benefit from a touch of realism to make the situations seem plausible so viewer can imagine them better.

That is how I like my romances with or without fan service anyway, might as well let people enjoy a situation that could be real. (Again unless you are 100GF or similarly hilarious, once you reach silly escape velocity goofy fan service is the best kind.)
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Piglet the Grate



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 7:58 pm Reply with quote
Lucas DeRuyter in TWIA wrote:

And with that, I think we've gone through every isekai and rom-com to release this season!


Is not Rokku wa Redi no Tashinami deshite/Rock Is a Lady's Modesty going to end up a yuri rom-com?
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 11:43 pm Reply with quote
I feel like it's underselling Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? when I feel like the production values are great, the leads are pretty likeable and have good chemistry, and I feel like the relationship set up so far I think are pretty believable by romcom standards.
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WITCH WATCH is a STRONG frontrunner for the best OP of the season.

Agreed. But it is YOASOBI, and they just don't miss.

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I love that [Catch Me at The Ballpark!]'s already getting into more niche stuff around baseball like the socio-politics of being a player's partner by episode 2, and this anime is an early frontrunner for best ED of the season, if not year!

It's certainly one of the better EDs of the season, but for the year? It's not half as catchy as the ED for Guild Receptionist was.

Of the titles mentioned in the article, Witch Watch and Gorilla Girl have entertained me more than expected, but I'm wavering on Kowloon; something about its aesthetic doesn't quite work for me. Takamine-san should be right up my alley, but I'm finding the titular character to be too mean-spirited and manipulative to be likable, to the point that it's a probable drop already. I'm reserving judgment for now on Evil Overlord; if it goes in the direction I think it will, it could be neat, but we'll see. Jury's also still out for me on the rest of the isekai, Boy-Girl, and Shiunji Children. Probably won't continue with at least some of those; I'm going to have limited time to keep up with anime in June, so I'm looking to go with a bit lighter regular viewing list this season.
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