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sasazuka said:
I'd hate to admit I outgrew anything in anime but harems might be the exception, or maybe Love Hina is just a lame harem compared to Tenchi Muyo, not that I've seen beyond the 3rd OVA series of that one either.
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I don't think you outgrew shit---I just think harem anime got worse. Speaking as someone who avoided harem stuff for years, and mean literal decades, I watched Tenchi Muyo fairly recently for the first time, and found it a joy to watch and utterly refreshing in the wider sea of tired formulaic harem tripe. Instead of the usual, grating character archetypes, Tenchi was actually filled with likeable characters, many of which simply existed to be fun additions to the cast, rather than love interests for the main character. The interactions and storyline didn't constantly revolve around competing for the protagonist's affections, and the humor of the scenarios stemmed largely from fun chemistry between the girls, rather than the eye-rolling fanservice and cringe comedy of modern harem shows.

And I don't think this applies to just Tenchi, ether. In my itch to find another show that would give me the same vibes as Tenchi, I gave Oh My Goddess! a shot on numerous recommendations, and I found it just as good, and even more wholesome and sweet than Tenchi.

I genuinely think harems and comedies were just built differently in the 90's...and I say that without a lick of nostalgia for or personal history with that era.
 
Blasterman said:
That's how incest really works.
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That called Genetic sexual attraction (which is still controversial in biology). The Westermarck effect is supposed to prevent it from happening normally, but it shows up in situations of parents or sibling, who either were separated early or never knew each other while the child was growing up, and then meeting each other years later as adults.

BananaSplit² said:
It's fiction after all,
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I understand that its fiction. That doesn't mean I want to read it. And it sure as hell doesn't mean I want it to show up in a story that I was already enjoying and had no inkling it was even going in that direction to the latter half. That the problem. Usagi Drop wasn't setup as an age gap romance story. It was setup as a heartwarming slice of life story about an irresponsible young man suddenly finding himself forced into the role of a father figure to this young girl and having to try to figure it out how to be a father and "man up" as it where.

The problem is that the content of the second half the story completely invalidated and soured the first half, because it didn't meet the expectations the first half had set.
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
I don't think you outgrew shit---I just think harem anime got worse.
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It's most likely this. Love Hina is supposed to be the foundation of what has become harem anime, but something had changed along the way since then to where modern harems don't exactly have those same archetypes anymore.

Speaking of, so I've read two volumes of it thus far and... I don't exactly hate it? Yeah, Keitaro gets smacked/punched around quite a bit over misunderstandings/accidents when he's not tripping over his own feet, but Naru is not the queen bitch she's portrayed as in the anime. She might be quick to the punch at times, but she and Keitaro still have meaningful conversations with each other and she throws him pity bones more often than not. Mokoto also has of yet to run out of the dorm screaming about leaving like she did in the first episode, and she's one of the more level-headed of the girls besides innocent Shinobu. Fanservice has weird moments like the impromptu strip poker-esque trivia quiz, but I guess it picks up soon since starting volume three, the rating gets bumped up.

I've heard the anime made a lot of changes to the characters and that it was a disaster from the start, but I have to find that one Tumblr post about it that I had skimmed through years ago 'cause I honestly didn't get what the OP there was saying lol. But I take it anyone can back that up in that the manga is actually so much better and the anime might've been sabotaged despite the popularity of the series.
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
I don't think you outgrew shit---I just think harem anime got worse. Speaking as someone who avoided harem stuff for years, and mean literal decades, I watched Tenchi Muyo fairly recently for the first time, and found it a joy to watch and utterly refreshing in the wider sea of tired formulaic harem tripe. Instead of the usual, grating character archetypes, Tenchi was actually filled with likeable characters, many of which simply existed to be fun additions to the cast, rather than love interests for the main character. The interactions and storyline didn't constantly revolve around competing for the protagonist's affections, and the humor of the scenarios stemmed largely from fun chemistry between the girls, rather than the eye-rolling fanservice and cringe comedy of modern harem shows.

And I don't think this applies to just Tenchi, ether. In my itch to find another show that would give me the same vibes as Tenchi, I gave Oh My Goddess! a shot on numerous recommendations, and I found it just as good, and even more wholesome and sweet than Tenchi.

I genuinely think harems and comedies were just built differently in the 90's...and I say that without a lick of nostalgia for or personal history with that era.
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I agree 100%. I avoid harems as well, but I really enjoy Tenchi Muyo. I watched the ripped Toonami broadcast versions because I knew they would be less fanservicey, and I had a fun time watching them. It's a charming combination of sci-fi, comedy, and romance. All the characters were sympathetic and likeable, and the romance wasn't cringeworthy. I especially liked Washuu and her funny hijinks. I also watched the first Tenchi Muyo In Love movie, which managed to be incredibly heartfelt and beautiful as well. This isn't to mention that Tenchi's world is a vibrant, fun, wacky sci-fi world with stuff like plant spaceships, lightsaber duels, log guards, time travel, and space police -- all rendered in beautiful hand-drawn, hand-painted animation. Tenchi Muyo's spinoffs like Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure and Pretty Sammy are fun as well.

As for Aa Megami-sama, I plan on watching the Mini-Goddess show sometime because it's short, has no fanservice from what I understand, and focuses more on the goddesses' adventures.
 
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>check upcoming releases next year
>5 territory management anime
>realist hero and it’s consequences

In other news I am catching up on “Welcome To The Impregnable Demon King Castle” and really hoping this gets an adaptation. Has some good characters and considering how characters fight as flashy as possible since they are entertainers I feel it would adapt well.
 
The new Bleach anime is getting newly censored Japanese dialogue for international releases such as Disney+ in America.

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It's not about Bleach. It's about the translators fucking up the dialogue to appease their politics. There are lots of cross dressers, fags and pedos in anime but if the translators happen to like said character or want to flex their failed writing skills and appease their ideology, they rewrite the fuck out of the scripts.
 
The Token Ethnic said:
It's not about Bleach. It's about the translators fucking up the dialogue to appease their politics. There are lots of cross dressers, fags and pedos in anime but if the translators happen to like said character or want to flex their failed writing skills and appease their ideology, they rewrite the fuck out of the scripts.
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the bigger surprise is actually watching bleach to notice that
we live in a world where they inserted a line about gamergate in a raunchy ass ecchi ajacent anime adaption years ago
 
Trombonista said:
Okay, so 12+ or 15+. My point still stands. I can understand why people think the change is unnecessary, but it's clearly not political.
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we all know disney
I honestly still have no fucking idea how it ended up on Disney+ of all streaming services. That's something from an abridged series, one of which made a short exactly about that.
 
Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
No fucking wonder, the kikenigger troonslators at Disney fucked it up.
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The Token Ethnic said:
It's not about Bleach. It's about the translators fucking up the dialogue to appease their politics.
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God of Nothing said:
we live in a world where they inserted a line about gamergate in a raunchy ass ecchi ajacent anime adaption years ago
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Things like the infamous gamergate line in Prison School was something added to the English dub. People were able to verify it because a) the Japanese dialogue clearly didnt mention it and b) the subtitles were accurately translated and had no mention of gamergate.

What's notable about this recent example is that the change already happened on the Japanese side. The international version of Bleach has accurate subtitles because the international version has literally different dialogue performed by the Japanese actors. Meaning that someone along the chain of custody told the Japanese producers to record alternate versions of the dialogue for international markets. Translators can't be blamed here because they don't touch Japanese scripts that Japanese actors read.

When American TV networks still aired anime, dubbing companies would at many times record alternate dialogue to appease TV network standards. But AFAIK this is the first time it's done by the Japanese simply to appease international markets.
 
I know I'm geeking out here, but they finally revealed that the next Madoka Magica film is coming out Winter 2024.

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I'll have been waiting over a decade for it when it releases.
 
FLCL: Grunge Episode 1 released a couple hours ago. I wasn't going to bother with it after Prog, but I had some time to kill tonight. The art style is going to filter out some people, but at least they tried something new with it. The plot seems to be a rehash of the OG FLCL again, which is disappointing but what do you expect at this point? At least there's none of that gay rapping again - so far. At least it's not Prog - the protagonist, Shin, isn't just some vacuous girl with no personality or motivation. I guess the twist this time around is "Naota, but proactive." Maybe it'll go somewhere interesting.
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
I don't think you outgrew shit---I just think harem anime got worse. Speaking as someone who avoided harem stuff for years, and mean literal decades, I watched Tenchi Muyo fairly recently for the first time, and found it a joy to watch and utterly refreshing in the wider sea of tired formulaic harem tripe. Instead of the usual, grating character archetypes, Tenchi was actually filled with likeable characters, many of which simply existed to be fun additions to the cast, rather than love interests for the main character. The interactions and storyline didn't constantly revolve around competing for the protagonist's affections, and the humor of the scenarios stemmed largely from fun chemistry between the girls, rather than the eye-rolling fanservice and cringe comedy of modern harem shows.

And I don't think this applies to just Tenchi, ether. In my itch to find another show that would give me the same vibes as Tenchi, I gave Oh My Goddess! a shot on numerous recommendations, and I found it just as good, and even more wholesome and sweet than Tenchi.

I genuinely think harems and comedies were just built differently in the 90's...and I say that without a lick of nostalgia for or personal history with that era.
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Eh, I think El Hazard is better than Tenchi. I hated how in one of OVAs they literally made Tenchi a god. That shit made me quit the franchise whole stop. OG Tenchi is still decent though.
 
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