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Contemporary Anime/Manga in the vein of Gundam/Macross?
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If youre into shows like that, then H20 has a similar characterYeah it's kinda fucked up!
What's wrong with the character?
And no shonen-ai suggestions? Random people on the internet (you guys are friends, after all ) seem to think Loveless is a good place to start.
I think it's my English Lit brain, but I'm just in a weird "I want to analyze this stuff" mode.
And no shonen-ai suggestions? Random people on the internet (you guys are friends, after all
) seem to think Loveless is a good place to start.I think it's my English Lit brain, but I'm just in a weird "I want to analyze this stuff" mode.
I must admit, out of all the anime I've watched, the one genre I havent really tried out was shonen-ai lol. That said, some of CLAMPS early stuff has some shonen-ai aspects to it. X/1999 for example has some shonen-ai under tones to it though it really isnt a shonen-ai anime.
While it isnt a shonen-ai anime at all, the anime Genshiken is a good place to learn about shonen-ai. it s about male and female anime/manga/game otakus in Japan and is one of the funnier animes out there
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While it isnt a shonen-ai anime at all, the anime Genshiken is a good place to learn about shonen-ai. it s about male and female anime/manga/game otakus in Japan and is one of the funnier animes out there
EDIT:fixed a retarded dumbass typo
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Hrm, yeah. Although Wikipedia says it's unfinished, which is kind of unfortunate. I guess that's when you switch over to the manga I suppose.
With most anime, what happens is they adapt the manga to the anime before the manga is finished and create an ending for the show. Thats what happened with X. The unfortunate thinga bout X the manga is that the manga itself is unfinished and probably will be for a while (its been on hiatus since early 2000)
So they usually wait for the manga to end before ending the anime? They can't just have the manga writer come up with an ending to the anime on its own?
I've gotta' say I avoid the shounen ai genre like the plague personally so I'm not really of much help there. All I could do is point you to a popular one like Gravitation. Romance between two guys doesn't interest me in the slightest. I'm also a guy myself and that kind of stuff is targeted at and consumed more by the rabid female fans.
For another show in the vein of Genshiken I'd highly recomend Welcome to the NHK as well. It's about a paranoid otaku loser who's basically become a hikikamori; meaning socially phobic geek who shuts himself in their house and does nothing but watch anime and play video games. He meets Misaki a woman who claims she can save him from his hikikamori ways though counciling sessions with her. Suspicious, he agrees to try and find out what her angle is and what she gets out of it.
For another show in the vein of Genshiken I'd highly recomend Welcome to the NHK as well. It's about a paranoid otaku loser who's basically become a hikikamori; meaning socially phobic geek who shuts himself in their house and does nothing but watch anime and play video games. He meets Misaki a woman who claims she can save him from his hikikamori ways though counciling sessions with her. Suspicious, he agrees to try and find out what her angle is and what she gets out of it.
Usually thats exactly what happens, the manga writer (or the anime staff) come up with their own ending. The manga often times ends many years after the show has come out. I can only think of a couple of shows (death note, monster) that completed its run as manga and was then made into a show
I don't really understand why they do that sometimes, because the anime will typically follow the manga up until what is current then branch off into a new direction, there are a few anime that tried to run concurrently wth the manga, Dragon Ball Z for one (filler, filler, filler)
Can you feel the love in this room?!you guys are friends, after all
Naruto and Bleach are two other criminals in this department
Personaly, I prefer the way haruhi, FMP, and Shakugan no Shana do it. Instead of being based off of manga, theyre based off of novels, which generaly have more conclusive endings. It makes it easier for the show to have a conclusive season but at the same time leaves the door open for possible sequals/spin offs
Yeah, I can imagine. To be honest, I kind of wonder who the shoujo-ai stuff is aimed at, because it's relatively tame in terms of even fanservice type stuff and it's fairly "gushy" (which is perfect for me, but I'm an abnormal (relatively) straight male
). I figure straight girls probably aren't interested... but there can't be a large lesbian population in Japan.But it really is an academic interest at this point. I mean, it's not like the "girls school/boys school" thing doesn't happen in American media, but it almost always ends in tragedy or whatever. In these series, people just hook up because they like each other. What a weird concept.
On a side note, I think hikikamori and NEET are the best terms I've learned from watching anime.
I think I'm too old to be in the shounen-ai category though.Can you feel the love in this room?!you guys are friends, after all
Naruto and Bleach are two other criminals in this department
Personaly, I prefer the way haruhi, FMP, and Shakugan no Shana do it. Instead of being based off of manga, theyre based off of novels, which generaly have more conclusive endings. It makes it easier for the show to have a conclusive season but at the same time leaves the door open for possible sequals/spin offs
You know, that's sort of an odd thing... are these genre "light" novels written with a certain style in mind? Like, when I think of Western SF, I just can't see them being adapted into anime without major changes.
I almost wonder how the FMP novels read. I imagine it being frenetic whenever Chidori gets pissed.
And come to think of it... I wonder how Japanese novelists do "shouting", since there's no real way of USING ALL CAPS. Maybe with bold font?
Oh yeah, something totally unrelated - but is it common for people to refer to themselves/others in third person in Japan? I've noticed that a lot in this one series I'm watching.
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Well, in a sense, yes. The grammar structure is very different and they don't really have personal pronouns. Really, they almost always talk that way. There's just different "articles" (for lack of a better term) they use depending on the situation.
EDIT: I should add that the whole third person thing is kind of proper and formal thing. It's used a lot in anime to be sort of like a sign of pretentiousness.
EDIT: I should add that the whole third person thing is kind of proper and formal thing. It's used a lot in anime to be sort of like a sign of pretentiousness.
Well, there's novels and then there's light novels both can and have been adapted into anime. Novels would just refer just normal books of fiction same as what's written by people over here, whereas light novels are normal books with an illustration every once and a while for an important scene.You know, that's sort of an odd thing... are these genre "light" novels written with a certain style in mind? Like, when I think of Western SF, I just can't see them being adapted into anime without major changes.
I almost wonder how the FMP novels read. I imagine it being frenetic whenever Chidori gets pissed.
I'm actually reading one them at the moment, the first book of Scrapped Princess series. You can also find a couple of Full Metal Panic novels out in the states here as well as Blood: The Last Vampire, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, the Crest of the Stars novels, Moribito, Twelve Kingdoms, and the first Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya book translated.
Yeah, I can imagine. To be honest, I kind of wonder who the shoujo-ai stuff is aimed at, because it's relatively tame in terms of even fanservice type stuff and it's fairly "gushy" (which is perfect for me, but I'm an abnormal (relatively) straight male
Shoujo Ai is usually targeted at guys and usually features a ton of underwear shots and shower scenes and angst. Usually not my thing either aside from Kannazuki no Miko which I liked.
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Yeah, I must be watching the "wrong" shows because there's absolutely no service whatsoever... unless you count schoolgirl uniforms I guess.
What's doubly odd is that one of them has that "sit far away in a well lit room" disclaimer, so I almost assume that the show is meant for children... but I sort of have this (mis)conception about Japanese society where I can't imagine parents wanting little girls/boys watching a show about girls falling in love with each other.
God knows how many complaints the FCC would get if there was a similar cartoon like that in the US anyway.
I'm watching "Marimite", as fans seem to call it, and it's set in a all girl's Catholic school so that might explain it.
It's kind of weird when two people are talking to each other and they refer to each other by their names instead of by "you".
Sorry guys I've been gone doing something else! Now what show creeped out ''clint g''? I must know!
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