*braindeath from too much consecutive Kanon* X_x

Red Garden gets a visit from the Subtext Fairy.

AS IT TURNS  OUT, THIS IMAGE IS PRETTY BIG.

O lawd.

Last edited by Hinotori (03-07-2007 03:04:27 PM)

Anyone getting excited for the upcoming Spring series? I feel like the winter season was pretty much a wash for new anime (although, admittedly, it usually doesn't have much to offer), so I'm getting all excited for the new season coming up.

Animes I intend to check out:

Chikyuu he... (a.k.a. Toward the Terra) - I feel like I keep running into this anime's movie version over and over recently. I'm actually quite surprised its getting a TV series - the move came out in 1980, so that's nearly thirty years! But I'm all excited.
Romeo x Juliet - While Romeo and Juliet is probably Shakespeare's most done to death play, this looks really freaking cool. The animation looks amazing, and it actually sounds like it'll be interesting take on an old story - I like all this Montagues as dictators thing, it sounds like it could be wicked awesome.
Hitohira - I have low expectations for this one really - I'm not even sure why I'm checking it out. Probably because I'm a sucker for mute characters.
Hayate the Combat Butler - I like the manga
Darker than Black - Oh please please please be better than Ayakashi Ayashi - god, that show had such wasted potential! But this one looks cool. Of course, so did Ayakashi Ayashi, but then it suffered massive pacing issues.
Kamichama Karin - Oh, the cuteness ;_; That was a happily crying face, for the record.
Princess Resurrection - I honstly don't know anything about this, except it's apparently horror, and I am sure I'll be missing horror when Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori ends.

It does seem like we're never gonna get anything as good as Maria-sama - now that was good shoujo-ai.

Oh, and I must say I'm hoping that Romeo x Juliet does not have a happy ending - even in a re-envisionment it should NOT have a happy ending.

Last edited by A Day Without Me (03-08-2007 05:18:19 PM)

YamPuff wrote:

I have to ask, is Kanon any good? I saw a few clips from my brother and it looks very OMG KAWAII GIRLS. He wants my 9 year old sister to watch it. :eyeroll:

I feel so weird saying this, because it is harem, but... yes, it actually is good. And, shockingly, pretty much appropriate for a 9 year old - I'm not sure she'd be interested, but Kanon is extremely clean, and completely devoid of panty-shots or any of the more adult fanservice stuff. The only episode where we get anything close to 'adult' fanservice is that there's a dance in one episode, and some of the girls have dresses on where they have cleavage - but that's it! Harem with almost no fanservice? I never knew ye existed!

Another thing it doesn't have in common with many staple harem shows is that the girls themselves actually behave like normal human beings - there aren't constant scenes of girls throwing themselves in degrading fashion at our main guy, which is such a relief. In fact, so far none of them have explicitly stated that they like the main guy. One of them kissed him on the cheek, but that's the most any of them have done. And the main guy is actually a good guy, not one of those bland things that usually get the male lead in these types of shows - this is a guy where it actually makes sense that girls would like him.

Anyway, it is a lot of OMG KAWAII GIRLS, but the show is overall pretty serious in tone. It's not a happy story - bad things happen to the cast members. I suppose one could take it as being a bit angsty, although it seems to maintain a somewhat hopeful tone despite bad things happening. It's hard to say much without giving away entire story arcs.

I would personally recommend it, although I would never say it was something anyone would enjoy. On the flip side, I am not a person who usually enjoys harems, so I'd say it probably has at least some appeal outside the target audience. All I know is I've managed to watch 18 episodes in less than a week ^^;

YamPuff wrote:

She's the type who always cries during Disney's Fox and the Hound.

Hey, that was a sad movie!

First of all, Day, you and my sister need to have a long chat about Kanon.


Second of all, Tohru from Fruits Basket is so adorable...

I've been rereading the manga while sitting through those horrible loadtimes, and now I want to watch the anime again so that I can hear her use formal language.

She loves it.

The reason why it's a harem anime is because it was based off of a visual novel. A visual novel is like a book, but there are CG's of the characters on the screen while you read, and you get to choose options that affect the plot. Originally, you would get one scenario for each girl, which is why the anime turns into such a harem anime. The visual novel version of Kanon was very popular in Japan.

Even so, I was complaining about the fact that it's a harem anime as well when I watched it.

(*Subliminal Messages* WatchAirWatchAirWatchAir.)

That's the problem with anime based off of visual novels. The entire time I watch, I always think, "Somewhere in the world, there's hentai of that guy fucking that little girl." Well, maybe the girls in Kanon aren't that little. How old are they?

Hina the Prince wrote:

Razara wrote:

The entire time I watch, I always think, "Somewhere in the world, there's hentai of that guy fucking that little girl."

Isn't it like that with every fandom in existence?

Yeah. There is porn on everything. Even Calvin and Hobbes (don't ask - I was scarred for life).

Razara wrote:

How old are they?

Well, the oldest one is supposed to be eighteen, two of them are supposed to be seventeen, and the youngest is supposed to be sixteen - but, of course, they don't look remotely their age (although, the main guy doesn't really look like he's seventeen either, I suppose). One of the girls simply doesn't have a clear age - its never stated, and it technically doesn't really matter anyway because SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER she's not human anyway.

Lightice wrote:

Hina the Prince wrote:

Razara wrote:

The entire time I watch, I always think, "Somewhere in the world, there's hentai of that guy fucking that little girl."

Isn't it like that with every fandom in existence?

Yeah. There is porn on everything. Even Calvin and Hobbes (don't ask - I was scarred for life).

WAIT WAIT WHAT

Yeah, Rule 34 is evil. Invoking its power casually is a recipe for disaster.