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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on December 01, 2010, 08:05:27 pm
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(http://www.hexellent.com/files/80/nyarlathotep.png)
ALL OF IT :[
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Indeed. I really hope this moeblob bull**** winds up bankrupting a few studios.
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WHO IS MOE IS HE DANGEROUS? OHGOD
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Japan: Making everything better. :cool:
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What is it with Japan and little girls in stripper outfits?
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I'm curious as to how the hell Japanese people pronounce Nyarlathotep. At least it'll probably be more consistent than it's usage in Duct-tape-erelict
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What's with the Cthulu hairgrip? It looks like some kind of boiled sweet got stuck in her hair....
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(http://www.colonydrop.com/media/blogs/main/images/operationbritish05_001.jpg)
These two (http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/11/10/moe-studies-the-fetishization-of-mental-illness-early-wip-1?blog=1) articles (http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/09/16/operation-british-phase-ex-in-our-lifetimes-key-will-destroy-the-nation-of-japan?blog=1) from Colony Drop are very much relevant.
Excerpt:
"Operation British, Phase Five: Within Our Lifetimes, Key Will Have Destroyed The Nation of Japan
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The Key setup is always the same: an antisocial young man not unlike the player meets and forms relationships with a number of sad, mystically doomed girls, all of whom who are somehow deeply connected to, and hopelessly dependent upon, him in ways which become clearer as the story goes on.
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They haven’t a shred of humanity to them: they are entities consisting only of moé. And then, as it must, tragedy strikes. In Air, heroine Misuzu– the one that says “gao"– is doomed by various supernatural factors to a terminal condition I and many Internet commentators have dubbed “Space AIDS.” <snip> he Key heroines are all in varying states of suffering, illness or death: indeed, this is the crucial moé point. It’s not enough that the girl is mentally unsound, physically weak, dependent, and perpetually shivering in pain: it turns out that for otaku, the most desirable woman is actually dying.
PS.: if you want something romantic with actually somewhat realistic characters try Kannagi (http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2009/07/30/kannagi-not-a-super-robot-show?blog=1), or Kare Kano (http://www.sleepisfortheweak.org/pics/karekano/) if you want a tad of drama (and navel gazing) to go with your romance, or check out Fruits Basket (http://) if you want something genuinely funny. Heck, if you just you *gotta* have something with Kugumiya Rie (read. immature girls with temper issues) in it check out Toradora (http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=1118), at least that titles eventually manages to step out of the genre bounds and go somewhere.
Post-post script:
It could be that I'm absolutly off the mark. For all we do know this title could be a wonderful satire with a setup so over the top that at first glance you can't belive it could be any good...
There are, examples to the contrary though, like Seto no Hayanome (http://www.atmaxplorer.com/2007/10/seto-no-hanayome-series-review/)
These are titles so over the top, that they can take refuge only in audacity. Most of the genre sucks, but every once in a while a title comes along that just "clicks" and you can't believe you haven't watched anything so funny in so long.
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(http://www.hexellent.com/files/80/nyarlathotep.jpg)
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One is colourful?
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uguuuuuu~
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i think we need to nuke them again
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I think you're just about the only person on the planet who can say that and not sound horrible in the process. :p
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The worst thing is Japan has actually done Lovecraftian horror with little girls and it was good.
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What is it with Japan and little girls in stripper outfits?
Yeah, that's totally odd.
It'd be better, if they put mid-twenty aged girls into stripper outfits.
Would be far more appealing and would make the anime stuff interresting. At least for me. :P
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you aparently missed this thread (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=72890.0)
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something about anime makes it feel wrong if i get a woody while watching it. cant seem to put my finger on it
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the fact that it is pure fantasy? the fact it is generally associated with children in western civilization?