Blog Talkback: Toons of the 2000s: Anime We Hope Never Come to America

I have to say, this read more like a rant about fanservice, moe and loli. It's true that the three are overrated, and that the shows mentioned are all mediocre at best, but that fact remains that there are many shows that are much worse, or that would cause just as much--if not more--of a negative reaction in the media, especially if you include OVAs.

Imagine if Angel Sanctuary, for instance, got licensed. I personally loved the show, but many did not. First, the plot is rushed, second, it is blasphemous as hell, and third, it has incest. This series, if it got licensed and released, would cause an outcry much more massive than if Chocotto Sister got licensed (and honestly, if they just edited out the fan-service the series would have been a lot better--it certainly had some genuinely dramatic moments, like the pet dying or the man's wife and child's ghost).

As for Kiss X Sis... I can only imagine it getting licensed as porn. There have been plenty of similarly themed smut OVA licensed and released without affair, and I doubt they would be advertising it on daytime TV or anything like that. Kodomo no Jikan would probably cause a outcry, admittedly, but I don't think that justifies the #1 position (personally, I was hoping for Akikan).

School Days was incredibly violent and perverse. That said, it earns major points in originality for not being merely another high school themed harem comedy.
 
And, that kills any interest I have in the show. Not like I was particularly interested in the first place (hence why I read the spoiler instead of leaving it alone), but this just further cements that I want nothing to do with it.
 
I dunno, this is some bottom of the barrel stuff.

I mean, I'm still lukewarm on School Days (being the worst of anything and all) but like, Ultimate Girls is just a bad show altogether. Same with Chokotto Sister.
 
Ive never even heard of "Sky Girls"

(Also Im suprised no one responded to my earlier post...I mean I would expect some feedback, be it Negative or otherwise.)


But I digrese, I just hope that Companies will slow down on the niche & Fanservice stuff in the future & give some focus to Older anime series.
 
Hey Media Blasters. What happened to that dub of the second half of GGG and where's GGG: Final? Oh that's right, you cared more about freakin' Queen's Blade.

In defense, the problem with most of these newer ecchi is that they're all 12-13 episodes and could really care less about the story. Just the pandering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5S8PDguFpg

Now you have.
 
Apparently, School Days has been available in the US on Crunchyroll since April. I just discovered this minutes ago, and double-checked to see if the other 4 were listed (they aren't). And, yes, the final episode is there.

The anime wasn't on the streaming list, so I wondered if "Crunchyroll licensed" counted or y'all just forgot.
 
Well, the staff working on the article didn't really feel it met top 5 either. Like I said though, so much crap made it over.



Eh, way old stuff has been the only thing that sells worse than over-servicey and over-intellectual titles (shame, cause I like over-intellectual titles, and there are some old gems like Ideon that'd be neat to get boxsetted domestically.) Plus, Japanese companies aren't hustling to move their classics - yet. They are however chopping prices on some of the recent d-grade stuff, allowing it to come in.
 
Well, the description of School Days certainly made it sound awesome, what with the dude getting what comes to him. But, alas.

Exactly who's reading this article? That's a lot of thurabs-downs at the bottom, there. O_o
 
I disagree with #5 and #1.

If Kodomo no Jikan ever makes it stateside, the R1 company should put out 2 separate releases - an edited and an uncut (under an 18 or 21+ label) version. The show, despite its nudity, is really quite sweet and touching. It's a case of "looks can be deceiving." While tame in comparison, Popotan has been licensed and released twice.

As for School Days, it's only a matter of time until it gets licensed here. It's not if, but when. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's a good "shock value" anime if anything. Higurashi is a "shock value" anime and its done pretty well here.
 
You'd think it's horrible, but the main character is such an a-hole throughout the show that more people cheered at the scene than be disgusted.
 
If you can't buy it on DVD, then no. It has to be licensed by a US distributor.



There is nothing similar between a psychological/mystery horror with an overarching plot to a subversion of a harem anime (And a bad one, at that.)
 
Harem anime are almost always bad, for every 9 bad ones, there is 1 good one. That's why School Days is so refreshing to the genre. It truly set the bar for a true harem end should be.
 
Nnnnnnnot really.

That was something I liked to have seen once and only once. I do not want to see every harem be a deconstruction/yandere frenzy. It's like if every mecha anime tried to deconstruct the Giant Robot genre like Evangelion did. I think the best way a harem end (and actually nearly any romantic anime actually) should be is something like Clannad where the relationship develops past the "I love you" stage.

Besides I think Higurashi deconstructed the Harem genre enough.
 
I'm repulsed. I mean, killing the jerk is one thing. But the pregnant girl getting killed and the fetus...

Can I go ahead and say it totally figures /a would find that sort of thng endearing? I mean, it just seems like a crapstorm for the sake of "Lawl! People die! We're adult!
 
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