[QUOTE=Orkel;22703288]a man can dream :saddowns:
(literally)[/QUOTE]
Ohoho
[URL="http://nedroid.com/2010/06/battle-ready-extra-ready/"]This makes me think of TTGL.[/URL]
Been away from this thread for 5 days and only 700 new posts and not a new thread. I'm proud of you guys.
[QUOTE=Calkkuna;22705335]Been away from this thread for 5 days and only 700 new posts and not a new thread. I'm proud of you guys.[/QUOTE]
It has for a long long long long time taken 1 - 1 1/2 week to get a new thread going.
[editline]05:23PM[/editline]
What in the love of God.
Who the fuck spends this much time reviewing a standard typical ecchi show that is B Gata H Kei?
[quote]Well, whaddya know? Girls can be total perv-monkeys too.
Not that this is any kind of secret. In a risqué (but sadly, not risky) way, B Gata H Kei attempts to dispel the illusion that anyone possibly has about things like, "Girls never think about sex!"
Girls are human. That means they're animals. And nobody seems to be a bigger predator or dog in heat than Yamada, a girl so pervtastically fun that she has her own ero-gami (sex god) delusion encouraging her to go get 'em, tiger! "Them", of course, refers to guys. Not two or three or even ten. About one hundred to be exact.
Tired of being an obsessed virgin insecure about her body sexually, she embarks on her journey to be an intercourse artist, an ero pro, a sexpert, an all-rounded base-rounder-- you get the idea. As they say, every journey begins with the first step, so naturally Yamada needs to score her first guy. Just not any guy, of course. He has to be her experiment, someone she can just use and throw away afterwards like a condom, someone who wouldn't realise that Yamada herself might suck at sex because he would obviously be worse at it than she is. So her sights are set on Kosuda; a boy so average and unnoticeable, shy and insecure that he must be suffering from a worse case of Virgin-itis than Yamada. Who better to pop your cherry than a cherry-boy?
It's tremendously obvious from the start just what is going to happen to Yamada's goal of laying 100 guys. Hell, she probably wouldn't even be able to do it with 10 guys without garnering hatred from the audience for being a "slut". So instead of being the kind of anime that could really analyse things such as sexual double standards and expectations, budding sexuality and gendered attitudes to sex, this title instead tries the more light-hearted but audience-friendly approach. Essentially what you get is a story quite like any other ecchi one... just this particular series focuses on a girl's take on it.
Sexual frustration? Age gap love affairs? Incestuous love for a sibling? Public indecency? It seems B Gata H Kei gave itself a pep talk: Let's blow it up and go over the top! To handle such controversial or scandalous material, the anime makes sure to do it all so heavy-handedly that not for a minute would it be subject to actual deeper regard. Despite living in an era where teen sex proves quite popular (amongst teens and for older others), some folks reveal themselves to be quite conservative. As far as anime goes, it's now okay to over-sexualise everything and have the characters just shy of doing it, but notice how they never seem to actually... do it. Sex has always been a fetish, though lately the route many mainstream anime have taken debunks any ideas that a girl will be "unpure" by having or having had intercourse. It's okay to show a girl having her boobs groped or land crotch-first into the face of a guy she's interested in. But have sex with him? Or any other guy prior? No way.
The only characters who seem to actually have sex at all in anime and manga are ones from series for older, mature audiences. No, I'm not talking about hentai. What is being referred to are seinen and josei titles in particular, or indie and arthouse productions. And how well do these titles fare...? The truth is that series are governed by their audiences. You may wonder what the point of this lesson is about, but it leads into why exactly B Gata H Kei is such a different kind of anime, but at the same time, it so disappointingly "follows the rules" as to not alienate its key audience.
As much as the story extends in turning the conventions of ecchi on their heads, it still adheres to the same-old, same-old rules and plods through the typical events and service set-ups: accidental boob-groping, competition from other girls, tons of misunderstandings and fanservice. What the story boils down to is an attractive girl falling for an average brown-haired loser with a heart of gold. When has THAT never happened before? Think about it this way-- this is just a regular ecchi rom-com... told from the perspective of the girl in the harem who eventually "wins", and not from the perspective of the guy. Just instead of having a bevy of girls actively pursue Kosuda, the rest of the females are rivals in other senses. Thankfully, this is not harem and in its sincerest moments, tries just to be a story about a boy and girl without too much outside interference. The biggest obstacles are Yamada and Kosuda themselves.
A lot of it is cute whenever it isn't being a faithful servant to its genre. Watching two totally dorky and incompetent people try to work through the stages of a relationship is absolutely fun and a bit touching. In many (slightly skanky) ways, it works through the levels or stages of deepening emotional and physical bonds between two people. Some moments end up making you smile or actually get your heart pounding because you're so invested in what's happening between the characters. Drunken collegiate humour aside, much of it is sweet. Still, it's hard to think of this as something romantic since not wearing underwear in school, fooling around on your friend's bed and love hotels don't exactly scream "classy".
While on the topic of "classy", the anime seems to downplay the use of fanservice as much as it uses it. Curiously, the fanservice does not arise out of the sexual situations but things surrounding them. Some of Yamada's getups to try to turn Kosuda on pretty much scream "service" but funny enough, animating her getting naked or him having an erection does not have the same effect. These instances are handled are not for titillation of us only, but are done for the characters too. As for the animation on the whole, B Gata H Kei does not boast smooth movements or a very attractive art style. It looks average at best. It sounds a lot better, though.
While the theme songs might be stuff to enjoy out of personal taste, the background music is a medley of fun, energetic tracks and some emotionally stirring pieces for the show's more serious moments. What steals most of the attention however is the voice acting. This series has just about a huge cast of famous seiyuu, some notably playing roles quite different from what they are used to, others fitting in quite exactly into the types you expect. Noto Mamiko definitely has one of her most unusual roles here. She does not play the quiet girl or the shy one. Instead she acts as Kosuda's boisterous, raunchy sister. Where did her traditional elegant whisper of a voice go? Humorously out the window. But for every instance of hilarious seiyuu-role-swapping, you get stereotyping as well. Hanazawa Kana plays exactly that innocent, sugary sweet type she's pretty much typecast into performing now. The main attraction is Tamura Yukari who plays Yamada. While her voice may be too high-pitched for some, the level of control she exudes for her role is quite commendable. She really makes Yamada... Yamada.
While on our protagonist, it must be noted that she is one of the very few and rare female leads of an ecchi. It's far too often that girls are the main focus of ecchi anime, but it's not quite as common for them to adopt the role of main protagonist or in this case, lecherous wolf. Without her, B Gata H Kei's comedy just might not work. She's just a total bundle of fun and she pretty much voices what a lot of guys and girls alike might be thinking were they the single-minded sort. Yamada is the kind of girl who gets jealous whenever she finds out someone else is getting laid more than she is-- when have you ever met a girl like this in anime?
Kosuda is a genuine and normal guy (and not a total scumbag or gross old man on the inside). As aggressive as Yamada is in pursuing this guy for sex, she always ends up in the more submissive positions any way. Again, catering exactly to what the typical ecchi audience wants. Despite that, Kosuda still manages to be a pretty nice guy. That kind of makes Yamada's use of him both sleazy and exploitative, but when she starts falling in love with him, it makes a lot of sense. He might not be handsome and he's totally awkward, but the nice guy prevails. The only problem with him is that frustrating inconsistency in his development. He can touch a girl's chest and stick his tongue down her throat, but he is dead-scared of saying he likes her? That's just dumb.
The rest of the cast are so totally pointless that it makes one wonder why they get any screen time at all. They serve as foils in various regards, but their importance to the audience and even to Yamada herself is so minuscule that it makes the viewer wonder what's the point in her even having friends. There's the typical supportive best friend, the evil ojou-sama, the nice girl, the cool older sister, the more mature younger sister, and the two filler guys who always show up to occupy the classroom scenes. Most of them exist to be roadblocks or green lights for Yamada and Kosuda, but again, their interference remains quite insignificant in the larger scheme of things that it seems arbitrary and pointless that they even try. The ero-gami (Yamada's sex god and Kosuda's... penis pundit) however, totally capture a viewer's attention and have some of the best lines in the series.
B Gata H Kei had the potential to just blow what people perceive about girls who want to have sex out of the water... but it's still written for a male audience. It might be a stretch asking for an ecchi anime to try to be different, but considering that this series went so far as to even have a female protagonist who is the perv, then why stop there? For every two steps it marches forward, it seems like it's pushed one step back. The romantic dilemmas just end up being frustrating. The sexual problems, however, end up being hilarious, and that is the second saving grace of the series. The first being its unsuccessful attempts to be totally different from what one normally sees.
I mentioned earlier that B Gata H Kei was risqué, but not risky, and there's a reason for that. For all it does in trying to push the envelope, it seems dead scared of really trying to be dissimilar from other ecchi series. To be truly risky, the anime should have dealt with Yamada and Kosuda's budding sexuality in less of a "Haha, but it's a joke, see? Not to worry!" manner. The slapstick and light-heartedness is fine, in fact, it is more than welcome. Yet considering the subject matter, if this was handled differently it could have been a seriously good and insightful (not to mention, true-to-life) depiction about how teenagers deal with sex. It doesn't so much walk across hot coals with feet planted firmly with each step as it guns right across them on tiptoes. Think about that for a minute.
It COULD have been a great romantic-comedy series about a guy and a girl who want to have sex with one another just absolutely failing or messing up. Their differences in temperaments and personalities and their similarities in being totally incompetent and insecure would have made for excellent conflict chemistry. But all that it "could have been" aside, the anime manages to be amusing and sometimes dead hilarious at points. As far as ecchi goes, it pushes boundaries but does not quite cross them.
Unless this is your first ecchi anime, then the kind of situations are just so commonplace that they can barely count as extraordinarily different (except whenever Kosuda gets boners. Also, a handful of the cast are admittedly non-virgins-- that's something you rarely see talked about in these kinds of anime as well). It just is a bit different since the protagonist is a girl, and not a guy, and the aim of said protagonist is to get laid (and funny enough, despite most anime being hyper-sexual, they never seem to properly address the issue of actual sex at all).
When the story is just being itself, it manages to be very funny. Girls talking about losing their virginities or imagining that what guys do in a bathhouse is compare dick sizes-- that sort of thing makes the series just work well, because it takes such a open, direct attitude towards sex and sexuality. Teenage boys and girls are sexually active (or woefully to most of them) inactive-- there's no getting around that or hiding it. Their "troubles" and concerns over their sex lives at that point in time is something the anime attempts to cover, and when it does, it does it well, with comic tones and good humour. It's when it slips back into being a typical ecchi rom-com that it disappoints. It isn't unfunny. It's just so disappointing that you cannot really enjoy it completely as it had the potential to comically address an issue that is never really dealt with in anime: female sexuality. Well, you may be disappointed if you're a viewer expecting something more from this series. If you just want mind-in-the-gutter jokes and a romping good time, you can get that too.
For anyone who watches this and actually thinks for a bit, all this show mostly serves to do is point out a ton of double standards in not only the anime world, but the real one as well. While watching it, I couldn't help but wonder how this series would be regarded if it really was about Yamada just using Kosuda to fulfil her goal. It's not acceptable if a girl wants to be horny and do it with whatever guy or however many guys she wants. It's totally okay if she is a total horndog over one guy, though. Still, as far as leads go, Yamada still makes one refreshing exception to the norm, and as far as ecchi goes, B Gata H Kei bends and plays with the conventional without ever breaking away from it.
Then again, what am I talking about-- nobody watches ecchi and THINKS about it.[/quote]
To top it all she only gave it a 7/10 too.
[QUOTE=dgg;22705367]It has for a long long long long time taken 1 - 1 1/2 week to get a new thread going.
[editline]05:23PM[/editline]
What in the love of God.
Who the fuck spends this much time reviewing a standard typical ecchi show that is B Gata H Kei?
To top it all she only gave it a 7/10 too.[/QUOTE]
I bet if she watched the Coal Guys subs it would have gotten an 8, just because Coal Guys makes it that much better.
[QUOTE=Calkkuna;22705335]Been away from this thread for 5 days and only 700 new posts and not a new thread. I'm proud of you guys.[/QUOTE]
Steam.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;22702563]Finished B Gata H Kei. Loved this show, can't wait for a second season if theres ever another one.[/QUOTE]
just watched the final too, t'was awesome
As a break on Friday from me busting my ass out as a working student studying in college, my 6th grade elementary brother working hard to bypass his failure mark from the 5th grade, my 3 year old sister's recent pre-school week and parents working hard to pay for tuition fees and
school requirements.
Me and my family went out to see Toy Story 3 in iMax Digital 3D which just premiered recently here.
Pure awesomeness and heartwarming, Pixar really knew how to capture new and old audiences alike. The beginning went a little bit too fast but then again so was the first two if I can recall, lots of funny gags and awesome scenes, as well as memorable characters from the past and some cool new characters for this one. Story is pretty decent but was executed pretty well. Gotta love the intro's imagination play scene, which was Pixar eye-candy and digital 3D awesomeness. As well as nostalgia value. And the rest of the film was just awesome, not gonna spoil anything but I can say it was done really well. Talking about graphics, Pixar did well, graphics are sharp and nice to look at, tons of color, shading and suberp models and animations. Also, it connected to a lot of old fans like the grown up kids going to college, the parent's watching over their now growing child, as well as the new generation, like the pre-school children or elementary children.
Whole cinema was full, lots of kids with happy screaming and laughing along with adults, me smiling through the whole thing, it was a nice experience, with memories back in the 90s taking me back. From beginning to end, it was fun for all of us.
Also Spanish You Got A Friend In Me, nuff said'
Totoro's cameo was also pretty kawaii~ ^_^
Well all an in all B Gata H Kei wasn't all that good. I fucking loved the first episode, then the following episodes up to episode 9 were "eh, has it's moments", and then episode 10 and 11 very really funny and episode 12 looked like it had some potential but killed it all by just dragging out like the typical show it wanted to be. I was going to praise it for being a show that even though it dragged shit out and took a goddamn long time to get things going it would in the end always cause the characters to come out with it and do it. Well, they came out with it, but noooo, we're not going to let them do it.
7/10. Had potential but they put the potential in the garbage bin and liked the look of it when it rottened and went with it.
episode 10 and 11 was fucking hilarious
[QUOTE=Nintendo-Guy;22707107]episode 10 and 11 was fucking hilarious[/QUOTE]
It was, it really was.
[QUOTE=Bakaraptor on K-ON]Mio is a terrible character, though she’s not really a character so much as she’s a prop. Props change depending on the nature of the scene. So does Mio. Whatever the scene requires, that’s what she is. Responsibility? Mio. Carelessness? Mio. Optimism? Mio. Fear? Mio. Violence? Mio. Submissiveness? Mio. Is there a personality trait she doesn’t exhibit?
Rather than her character driving the show, the show drives her character. Face it, Mio is nothing more than a pander machine. The only flaw in her design is that she’s too developed for the truest of pedophiles, which is why mini-Mio (a.k.a. Asuza/Asu-nyan/Asu-nomalocaris) was spun-off.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.baka-raptor.com/2009/06/07/i-watch-k-on-so-you-dont-have-to/"]So true.[/URL]
Just watched the last of [B]B Gata H Kei[/B]. :) 8/10
saw Working ep #11
[img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/84-248-97-141_1276938556.jpg[/img]
good episode
Falcon Punch?
[QUOTE=NeoTheOne;22708239]Falcon Punch?[/QUOTE]
Falcon is like a pussy compared to her, so that would be an understatement.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw[/media]
[editline]01:31PM[/editline]
mr falcon would like to have a word with you :colbert:
[QUOTE=Tor Johnson;22709020]Falcon is like a pussy compared to her, so that would be an understatement.[/QUOTE]
I disagree.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw[/media]
[editline]12:37PM[/editline]
God damn it Jasper! :colbert:
[QUOTE=<VET>Jasper;22709138][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw[/media]
[editline]01:31PM[/editline]
mr falcon would like to have a word with you :colbert:[/QUOTE]
I've seen it many times before. It's nothing like her. Weak shit.
No.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;22709400]No.[/QUOTE]
Yes. I win.
/discussion.
[QUOTE=Kabuto;22700631]the OP needs to get out of my head
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azwcfs2AZtE[/media][/QUOTE]
First opening > Second opening
[QUOTE=Tor Johnson;22709436]Yes. I win.
/discussion.[/QUOTE]
Cheater! I`m telling on you!
Man I had this awesome dream
I can't recall all of it but it started out with me sitting inside of a spacecraft. It kind of looked like one of those scent things. It was large enough to fit five people but for some reason the only other people in it where my dad and my little brother. So I looked out the window and I saw the moon coming right at us, and for some reason my dad was piloting. I was like oh shit look out for the moon but my dad was like "no don't worry it's not going to hit us" and for some reason we went around it without doing anything.
Then when we got around the moon I started to see a planet rise up, I thought it was earth for a moment then I looked closer. The oceans where green, and so was all of the liquid. The atmosphere kind of had a greenish tint too. We started on approach and then landed in a spot in between two fields of green grass on some kind of dirt road lookin' thing.
The two fields had this green water around them I went up to it and my dad was like "No don't touch it! It will take all of the oxygen out of this area and we'll all suffocate." I was like whoa and I stepped back. Then I saw this alien bird thing which kinda looked like a dog poop but it was smooth and green, had two eyes a beak and was flapping it's wings. It landed on the grass and I was like GASP! but then my dad explained that it only takes the oxygen away if the person touching the water isn't from the planet. I was relieved and then I took a picture of it and my dad was like "Come on we gotta go home before your mom finds out we're gone." and I was like o and we went back to the earth.
It only took a few minutes to get home and then the space ship all of a sudden had wheels and we were on the highway. My dad was like "Wait mom doesn't get home until tomorrow lets go back to the planet."
My little brother got off and said he had things to do and then we took off again.
Then I found out my dad was some kind of space pilot for the american government and the planet had some kind of secret research base on it that was abandoned for some reason. and the chinese weren't our allies for some reason.
then all of a sudden we were already at the planet and then the ship transformed into some kind of helicopter flyer with two seats. It was really badass and then we saw some chinese flyers and tank things going on the roads. My dad was all like "o no we can't let the chinese find out our secrets." so then he said "Hold on!" and then we dived through the flyers and then we slightly touched the water. All of a sudden I felt all of the air taken from me and the chinese where chasing us and shooting us with machine guns. then they all started to fall and explode which i assume was because of the oxygen. but then we were running out too so we turned into the pod thing again and my dad tried to get out "hit the x-" and then I was like what X then I saw and i tried to reach for it, my vision was blacking out but then I felt my hand hit it.
the ship jerked up and then we went into space and all of a sudden i could breath again. I yelled "YES we made it!" my dad didn't say anything
I looked back at him and he was still laying down, I started tearing up and saying "No....NO! NO! NO! you can't be dead, can't be!" so i went up to him and started hitting him on the chest. then he said in a weak voice "stop hitting me."
and then i was relieved and i woke up.
btw the release date of the blu-ray/dvd of the UBW movie is september 30th
it'll be released along with the long delaying PC game of Type Moon "Mahotsukai no Yoru".
[QUOTE=Teh man;22709679]be released along with the long delaying PC game of Type Moon "Mahotsukai no Yoru".[/QUOTE]
baw it will takes ages to be translated
I thought type moon didn't like foreigners
[QUOTE=Akuma_lektro;22710045]baw it will takes ages to be translated[/QUOTE]
just a couple of years
:sigh:
[editline]07:16PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;22710074]I thought type moon didn't like foreigners[/QUOTE]
what?
i think you're referring to the guys that did the ef VN
yeah i forgot their name
o
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