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

And you can be that wrong and funny (see: Puny Puny Poemy.) You have to be brilliant about it though. One misstep and you've fallen off a cliff.
 
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.
 
Is it worse than the actual Japanese version? Also, I'll probably choose Sky Girls over Strike Witches as well.

Does anybody else think that Kodomomuke titles should get some love?
 
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. :p
 
Yeah, it takes it self as seriously as the most overwrought KyotoAni adaptation. It even has a Kajiura-esque insert song during the climactic scene!
 
If you're a fan of trashy soap, you'll wonder why the whole show wasn't like that. I think if School Days was full of murder, pregnancies and mayhem from episode 1, it would have reached a trashy god-like status. Instead it's like 11 episodes of characters going through the motions of boring harem romance and then throwing a weird insane ending at you.

But I would absolutely not dock the show because of its ending. Kill the show because it's 11 episodes of generic boringness, but not because it's 1 episode of tastelessness. I love tasteless trashy soap! It's ridiculous, but so was the ORIGINAL Melrose Place. And I loved that show.
 
This list is weaksauce.

When it comes to lolicon, moe, and fanservice type anime and manga I think naysayers have a "I dont find that stuff appealing therefore its bad" mindset. Instead of owning up and admitting to their ignorance, critics take the easy way out by something is "awful."

It's like watching a hardcore porn video and then criticizing it for having too much explicit sex and not enough story or character development. Your completely missing the point.

But hey, this isn't the first piece of media people bash unjustly. Violent video games, rap, heavy metal, slasher flicks, and torture porn. People just dont get it.
 
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