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Stall_19 posted:Man, you have 1 rape scene in 1 episode of 24 and you're known as a 'rape anime'. Okay.... Well, yeah, that's kind of how things work
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icantfindaname posted:Well, yeah, that's kind of how things work it probably makes finding a good hentai confusing. "...the rape one." 
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Oct 28, 2014 20:57
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Are there any other series (or manga) with strong female protagonists and a story that doesn't revolve around romance? I was just thinking about this and realized that I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. I think I've heard that Seirei Moribito is like this?
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Ytlaya posted:Are there any other series (or manga) with strong female protagonists and a story that doesn't revolve around romance? I was just thinking about this and realized that I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. I think I've heard that Seirei Moribito is like this? Lots? Kino's Journey, Psycho-Pass, Madoka, Kyousougiga, and Battle Angel Alita should get you started.
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Ytlaya posted:Are there any other series (or manga) with strong female protagonists and a story that doesn't revolve around romance? I was just thinking about this and realized that I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. I think I've heard that Seirei Moribito is like this?  , Kino's Journey, Humanity Has Declined, and Ghost in the Shell are the first things that come to mind.
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Ytlaya posted:Are there any other series (or manga) with strong female protagonists and a story that doesn't revolve around romance? I was just thinking about this and realized that I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. I think I've heard that Seirei Moribito is like this? Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. (Manga) Which also happens to be one of the best works of sequential art around. Edit: I'd 2nd most of the examples in the previous couple posts too. a kitten fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Oct 29, 2014 01:19
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Bodacious space pirates. I really wish they had come up with a better title.
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Blhue posted:Bodacious space pirates. Yeah, it's like the single biggest title/show disconnect in the past few years.
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Gundam: Build Fighters Try is shaping up pretty good as this too.a kitten posted:Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. (Manga) If you're going to get this though, do yourself a favour and get the big-rear end boxed hardcover set. It's gorgeous  .I can't find an amazon listing, so you'll probably have to look in actual stores for it, but it looks like this.
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Ah, thanks, I hadn't heard of Kino's Journey. I've read Battle Angel Alita, which I suppose also meets my criteria, though for some reason I have trouble articulating I don't really think of her as "strong." She's physically powerful, but I don't think she's been a very strong character otherwise in recent chapters (I don't really like this god-like cat android thing she has going on right now). I used 12 Kingdoms as an example because the main character has a pretty clear development arc that ends in her being a much more mature, well-rounded person. I've also never seen/read Naussica, though I've been telling myself to for years now.
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Blhue posted:Bodacious space pirates. It's less bad when you realize they thought of it as a portmanteau of bold and audacious, but yeah.
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unpronounceable posted:It's less bad when you realize they thought of it as a portmanteau of bold and audacious, but yeah. Reminds me of that one series about girls making manga, and the author thought it would be clever to call it Mangirl!
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Ytlaya posted:Are there any other series (or manga) with strong female protagonists and a story that doesn't revolve around romance? I was just thinking about this and realized that I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. I think I've heard that Seirei Moribito is like this? Moribito is one of the best examples of that. Balsa serves more of a maternal role in the story, while also being a competent badass. Show has a loving amazing OST, too. Also, unironically, A Certain Scientific Railgun. It's basically a standard Shounen Battle show(which means there is fanservice, full disclosure) except with an almost entirely female cast.
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So I finished watching AngelBeats after a recommendation here. It was pretty good, the ending was sad but not soulcrushingly so. I was hoping to clarify a couple things from the ending though. First, so Otonashi's heart went to Kanade as a donor. I guess the passage of time in an eternal place like purgatory doesn't mean anything, so there was just some indeterminable amount of time in which Otonashi was just "floating" around before he arrived at purgatory? Especially since it seemed Kanade had been there a while before him even though she died some time after him due to receiving his donor organ. Secondly and more importantly, from the very end when Kanade is humming Isazawa's song and Otonashi walks past and then doubles back. Is this a reinforcement of the Buddhist reincarnation theme? Like, is it actually supposed to be they were reincarnated and reunited in new lives? And then, more related to Buddhism-- is permanence of memory of past lives part of that cycle? Or was that just for the story's sake/artistic interpretation? Thanks for the recommendation!
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I think the ending is more just Key's preference for having their cake and eating it too when it comes to their tragedies. The characters are put through the wringer but because of ~Magic~ it works out in the end anyway. You've probably put more thought into it than they did. Now despite what I just wrote above I don't really mind this sort of thing, at least when it comes to Key. I even kind of like what they did with Angel Beats, Clannad, and Little Busters all told. It's their bread&butter and hey it seems to work well enough for them.
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Nate RFB posted:I think the ending is more just Key's preference for having their cake and eating it too when it comes to their tragedies. The characters are put through the wringer but because of ~Magic~ it works out in the end anyway. You've probably put more thought into it than they did. Now despite I just wrote above I don't really mind this sort of thing, at least when it comes to Key. I even kind of like what they did with Angel Beats, Clannad, and Little Busters all told. It's their bread&butter and hey it seems to work well enough for them. Clannad's ending worked in my opinion, since the entire thing felt like a bit of a fairy tale. I feel that the discrepancies in Angel Beats ending will be worked out in the VN since they'll have more than 13 half hour episodes to tell a story. That being said, Angel Beats managed to blind side me and I was a blubbering idiot during most of the ending. Still not sure how since it hasn't affected me that heavily on rewatches. TARDISman fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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TARDISman posted:since it hasn't affected me that heavily on rewatches. Isn't this the case with almost everything in life, though? For the record, I got a little teary-eyed at the end of Angel Beats, as well.
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Drifter posted:Isn't this the case with almost everything in life, though? For the record, I got a little teary-eyed at the end of Angel Beats, as well. In contrast, four parts of Clannad never fail to get to me, namely the end of Kotomi's arc, and the endings of episode 16, 18, and 22 of After Story. I think it was just me being completely caught off guard by the scene itself, probably due to the music and the voice actors really selling it. I honestly can't tell why it hasn't affected me like that again, since My Song still gets to me. Maybe I'll watch it again next year and get blown away, who knows!
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It's because Angel Beats is relentlessly mediocre, while Jun Maeda and his waifu whacking ways managed to somehow make something that while flawed is actually genuine in Clannad, much like Fleming discovering penicillin hth
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Cake Attack posted:It's because Angel Beats is relentlessly mediocre, while Jun Maeda and his waifu whacking ways managed to somehow make something that while flawed is actually genuine in Clannad, much like Fleming discovering penicillin Does Clannad have a character say "get chance and luck" though.
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Strange Quark posted:Does Clannad have a character say "get chance and luck" though. If TK were more important in Angel Beats it may have had a fighting chance of being good.
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I like a lot of individual parts of Angel Beats a lot, but when strung all together it doesn't really work. Maybe it would've been resolved with more than one cour, maybe not. We'll presumably have our answer if the VN ever comes out (it's a footrace between it and the Tsukihime remake I guess). The ending or at least the last episode is one of the parts I liked at least though. Repeating the ED sequence but with the characters disappearing from it in the order they did in the show? Clever girl.
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Redcrimson posted:Moribito is one of the best examples of that. Balsa serves more of a maternal role in the story, while also being a competent badass. Show has a loving amazing OST, too. The first season was mostly shenanigans and physically lesbian agression, but was ok. The second season A Certain Scientific Railgun S is where the show really distinguished itself. Nate RFB posted:I like a lot of individual parts of Angel Beats a lot, but when strung all together it doesn't really work. Maybe it would've been resolved with more than one cour, maybe not. We'll presumably have our answer if the VN ever comes out (it's a footrace between it and the Tsukihime remake I guess). Imo, all of the show's flaws would have been fixed with a second cour. It's a drat shame. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Ytlaya posted:I can't think of a single thing other than the 12 Kingdoms that fits this criteria. That's probably the reason why in this instance. 
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What the gently caress is a cour?
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Drifter posted:What the gently caress is a cour? A mini season I think. ~13 episodes usually
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One cour is about 13 episodes, two is 26 etc.
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Drifter posted:What the gently caress is a cour? It's what we're calling 'seasons' now, apparently.
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Sakurazuka posted:It's what we're calling 'seasons' now, apparently. if we didn't then we'd have to say that the first season of psycho-pass is two seasons long and that's really dumb
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Outer Science posted:if we didn't then we'd have to say that the first season of psycho-pass is two seasons long and that's really dumb It did air through two actual seasons.
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Outer Science posted:if we didn't then we'd have to say that the first season of psycho-pass is two seasons long and that's really dumb The first series of Psycho-Pass is two seasons OH MY GOD
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except that's not how people use series for the most part (i know they do in britain but lol britain) series refers to the entire show.
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I am in Britain so shut the gently caress up
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Just get used to calling them cours, it's not a hard word to understand, and this way people who aren't British know what you're talking about.
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NO, it sounds silly. From now on I will refer to the first season of Psycho-Pass as season 1-1 and season 1-2 and will obviously refer to the second season in a similar naming convention once it reaches the stage where I have to. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Oct 29, 2014 |
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Oct 29, 2014 19:00
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cours "Cours (TV production), a unit of production in Japanese TV programs equivalent to 13 episodes" Educate yourselves nerds, there's a reason why they're referred to that way.
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Maybe we can compromise, we'll start using programme/series instead of series/season if you folks stop saying "zed" instead of "zee".
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Zed's dead, baby, zed's dead.
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Sakurazuka posted:From now on I will refer to the first season of Psycho-Pass as season 1-1 and season 1-2 and will obviously refer to the second season in a similar naming convention once it reaches the stage where I have to. Actually, since anime seasons rarely air sequentially and often make big changes between seasons, it's more useful to think of them as sequels. For example, the official title for the second season of Psycho-Pass is just "Psycho-Pass 2", and this time it's only 1-cour instead of two.
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