Chatterbox - Anime & Manga

On a tangent, I think Artland is a really underrated studio. Their animation in Mushishi is just frankly amazing.

i'm reading holyland atm. i'm enjoying it; the plot and characters aren't bad, and the focus on realistic street fighting is cool. i just wish the art was better. it's kind of wonky and amateurish, probably the worst thing about the series.

Pretty much.

To be specific, I'm looking for a protagonists, harem or otherwise, who are:

• Very popular with girls.
• Likes girls and knows that he is popular with girls.
• But actively refuses to get involved in romance, because there is something more important occupying his mind, be it his job, study, saving the world, etc.

I can't remember anyone like like this.

I mentioned someone, but I considered it a spoiler for season 2 so it was tagged.

Does it have to be anime? I could think of several visual novels that fit the bill. Sort of. They get stuck with romance eventually, for the most part.

edited 22nd Oct '14 10:30:39 AM by Arha

Yeah, I agree, it's a fairly large spoiler. Still, d Roy, that is one.

Negi

Not sure he knew he was popular.

Possibly Shido

It's pretty common in western fiction, like, say Elric, but I can't think of any anime examples offhand. Then again, I most watch anime with different hangups than what I"m used to.

Not sure if he knew he was popular, not explicitly showed any romantic interest.

Well, he did state that he like someone in...during the event of...near the end of manga where...

I'm trying to think of an event, but my brain is actively filtering it out, as if my brain refuses to believe it ever happened.

I don't think Shido counts, since he actively has to pursue relations with the entire harem. If he does, though, so does Keima.

Festival arc after being flat out kissed by Nodoka and had the huge discussion with Yue very clearly put him in that category.

YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE-Oh, you were talking about Mahorafest Arc.

Hmm, I guess he fits.

And he does get informed that he's even more popular than he already thought he was by Akira, during the last quarter of the Magic World Arc, when he's spending time inside that Year Inside, Hour Outside crystal-ball thingy to reattain control over Magia Erebea.

edited 23rd Oct '14 1:18:38 AM by MarqFJA

While this happened a year ago, I thought this ought to get mentioned...

You know how over here in the USA, we have a tendency to make our nostalgic childhood cartoons into live-action movies?

Well, we're not the only ones who do that...

EDIT: And then I found out Tatsunoko's let more of their properties become movies... even Gatchaman!

edited 24th Oct '14 3:27:08 PM by Aldo930

yeah, this has been a thing in japan for a while. i've actually seen the live-action casshern movie. it's not necessarily *good*, but it's pretty intriguing. certainly a lot more interesting than anything hollywood has done in the last few years in terms of superhero films.

I found a decades-old Japanese live-action Lupin III movie!

Pri Para was sold out the day it was released. Wow, this is insane. For an anime aimed for little girls, this is a very impressive feat. Not even Aikatsu can do that.

I'm sure there's a a very logical and disturbing explanation for that.

I sometimes wonder if I'm stuck in an awkward middle ground between not liking fanservicey/ecchi stuff, or huge amounts of moë, or the "super-manly"/blood-and-gore stuff.

I guess the stuff I watch — drama and some light comedy set in fantasy and/or sci-fi settings — kinda falls in that space.

Have you seen Planetes? You might like it.

It's on my watchlist.

So Funi is going to be streaming not-quite simul-dubs (a month off) for Psycho-Pass 2 and... Donten ni Warau (Laughing Under the Clouds). I'm confused right now

Let me stress this, for those who have a habit for skimming words:

SIMUL-DUBS.

My impression from the article is that they're gonna like half-ass the dub! But seriously, I think this is in response to the positive response of Space Dandy, where the episodes were dubbed something like only a few months before the broadcast due to the schedule. I think they're experimenting with how fast they can actually dub other shows.

edited 29th Oct '14 5:24:01 PM by kyun

In any case, it pretty much proves that the dub-haters are pretty much just a vocal minority.

Is there a difference between "dub haters" and "people who just don't like dubs"?