Anime/Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko

This show is pretty good so far, but there haven't been any scenes that really stand out for me. I'm thinking it will get more interesting now that the premise has been introduced.

edited 16th Apr '11 3:11:35 PM by Funnyguts

Highlight of today's episode: their class has a pretty messed up clock.

edited 21st Apr '11 8:01:39 PM by LORd

Much higher level of Shaft-ness this episode. Definitely going to be keeping up with this one now

So I guess everyone is weird. This correlates with reality, in my experience.

The girls in this show are rather unreasonably hot.

And a girl in a sandwich costume should not be that sexy.

I love Erio's futon voice. IHOKO!

I demand that all Moe shows from now on have at least one character with futon accent, the ultimate moe trait.

Ryuuko is an slightly more mature Ayu, and since i really love the ditzy Cloudcuckoolander Moe characters like Tsukasa and Yui, she is my favorite character of the show.

I think that Erio did was kidnapped by aliens during those six months she went missing, or at least some weird thing happened to her.

edited 23rd Apr '11 10:36:32 AM by shark33

We should come up with a list of things that may have happened to Erio in those six months.

She got adopted by Nagato Yuki and Asakura Ryouko.

I find it odd to joke about this when it's pretty clear that it's going to be a source of drama in the show itself. That topic was the only time when it backed off from wacky humor and took itself really seriously.

This series is a pretty sweet deal. Watching it mostly because I can relate to it and how everything is nice to look at. Especially the girls.

I like how even the 'normal' girls in this series are completely whacked. Poor Makoto doesn't stand a chance.

Clarste, you take your fictional characters way too seriously.

^No, he has a point. It's obviously going to be the main drama point/mystery of this series - what exactly happened to Erio.

I guess you would explode/already exploded from confusion after watching Madoka Magica episode 3 and then looking up Charlotte at Danbooru.

No, that was completely expected. It already happened after all, not much the fandom can do but roll with it. In this case someone wanted to trigger presumably silly speculation about a dramatic plot point. It'd be closer to... making jokes about how some character is going to die? Something like that. Not to say that it'd offend me or anything, it's just bizarre.

And you try to White Knight on the behalf of series you like receiving the slightest bit of implied criticism. We all have our quirks.

On the other hand, have you considered that you don't take them seriously enough? It seems to me that you lack the basic premise of perceiving the characters as people with their own motivations and such. Must be hard to enjoy fiction when all you can see are cutboard cutouts to masturbate to.

so that's why there's so much ugly porn made...

Woah getting a little harsh there...

Anyways this is probably going to go along with Bakemonogatari where the comedy and drama are pretty much fused at the hip so I wouldn't start a flame war about it.

edited 26th Apr '11 12:46:27 AM by Raso

It's a little much of a leap to go from 'let's speculate about what put Erio in the futon' to 'you are incapable of empathizing with anime characters and obviously do nothing but fap to them', Clarste. Let's try to keep things civil, shall we?

One of the better shows this season IMO. I'm reserving the title "best of the season" to another show however, quite easy to see what I'm talking about.

edited 26th Apr '11 11:25:14 AM by entropy13

I kind of like the chatty, rapid-fire dialogue. Overall interesting characterization, but I really don't like the character designs (the aunt excepted)

Eh... I'd say both Ano Hana and Hanasaku Iroha are better thus far, and that's just of the shows belonging vaguely to the same genre.

edited 26th Apr '11 11:30:21 AM by Arilou

The big guy redeemed the former for me, while I dropped the latter after 4 eps. Regardless, Denpa's "one of the better shows", i.e. I'm not automatically discounting those two you mentioned, even if I dropped one of them and I almost dropped the other. And it just so happens I personally think Deadman Wonderland is the best overall for this season.

edited 26th Apr '11 12:06:06 PM by entropy13

On the whole, I'd say this season is full of fairly high-quality and somewhat odd shows. No need to fight about it

On the other hand, have you considered that you don't take them seriously enough? It seems to me that you lack the basic premise of perceiving the characters as people with their own motivations and such. Must be hard to enjoy fiction when all you can see are cutboard cutouts to masturbate to.

Oh give me a fucking break. I'm entirely capable of seeing characters as "people", having fun speculating with them, and looking at porn of them!

Setsuna, you take your forum posts way too seriously.

Please don't pull the "reverse the subject of a previous persons post as a way of getting them back" maneuver, it almost never works, and it certainly does not work here.