Discussion History Anime / VoltesV

Yep, the Japanese do LOVE tragedy, and that\\\'s what I blame for the DarkerAndEdgier and TrueArtIsAngsty worship/trend that\\\'s the cause of me [[AngstAversion not wanting to watch any more of \\\"mainstream\\\" \\\"mature\\\" anime]], but that\\\'s for another topic.

How realistic does your perspective have to be about a giant robot anime? Depends on how much the audience is willing to suspend their disbelief and not cause massive [[WallBanger wall banging]]; which is, it takes very little to crash the audience of today\\\'s suspension. The concept of giant robots by itself is already outlandish, so there must be some form of reality in other grounds (eg, the story itself). Because let\\\'s face it, it\\\'s as if AMillionIsAStatistic is used a LOT in these shows, and the millions of faceless lives lost in the war just don\\\'t count against the sympathetic backdrop of the perpetrator. Sure, he shouldn\\\'t have died, but like I said in the opening post, if he survives, what if he gets capital punishment? He would be damned anyway....and on the other hand, a life sentence is not that bad. There\\\'s always the GetOutOfJailFreeCard nearby, if anyone wants to use his ahem, talents.

Not to sound confrontational or anything, but do you have anything (interviews, articles, etc) that could prove that the creators intended the fangirl response? From what I can make from a translated transcript of an interview with Nagahama, it seems that his and the team\\\'s only intention was to challenge the BeautyEqualsGoodness and BlackAndWhiteMorality trend in mecha shows at that time (the 70s), and that the fangirl response was [[PeripheryDemographic purely accidental]].

By the Voltes V fandom, I don\\\'t mean a particular fansite or anything, but by my frequent net-wide rounds in search of forums with topic threads on this show for the past 10 years, and that\\\'s where I found those rather challenging views on how the \\\"mainstream\\\" audience who watched the show view the ending. And yes, the Godaikin Wars. Frankly, that {{GIFT}} of an author almost makes me ashamed of being a Filipino Voltes V fan. And also, I have already gone to Setsuna Yuuki\\\'s site long before you told me. Damn, [[DudeLooksLikeALady I will never see Heinel in the same way again]]. And I don\\\'t even like {{Yaoi}}.

Yep, the Japanese do LOVE tragedy, and that\\\'s what I blame for the DarkerAndEdgier and TrueArtIsAngsty worship/trend that\\\'s the cause of me [[AngstAversion not wanting to watch any more of \\\"mainstream\\\" \\\"mature\\\" anime]], but that\\\'s for another topic.

How realistic does your perspective have to be about a giant robot anime? Depends on how much the audience is willing to suspend their disbelief and not cause massive [[WallBanger wall banging]]; which is, it takes very little to crash the audience of today\\\'s suspension. The concept of giant robots by itself is already outlandish, so there must be some form of reality in other grounds (eg, the story itself). Because let\\\'s face it, it\\\'s as if AMillionIsAStatistic is used a LOT in these shows, and the millions of faceless lives lost in the war just don\\\'t count against the sympathetic backdrop of the perpetrator. Sure, he shouldn\\\'t have died, but like I said in the opening post, if he survives, what if he gets capital punishment? He would be damned anyway....and on the other hand, a life sentence is not that bad. There\\\'s always the GetOutOfJailFreeCard nearby, if anyone wants to use his ahem, talents.

Not to sound confrontational or anything, but do you have anything (interviews, articles, etc) that could prove that the creators intended the fangirl response? AFAIK, when I read a translated transcript of an interview with Nagahama, it seems that his and the team\\\'s only intention was to challenge the BeautyEqualsGoodness and BlackAndWhiteMorality trend in mecha shows at that time (the 70s), and that the fangirl response was [[PeripheryDemographic purely accidental]].

By the Voltes V fandom, I don\\\'t mean a particular fansite or anything, but by my frequent net-wide rounds in search of forums with topic threads on this show for the past 10 years, and that\\\'s where I found those rather challenging views on how the \\\"mainstream\\\" audience who watched the show view the ending. And yes, the Godaikin Wars. Frankly, that {{GIFT}} of an author almost makes me ashamed of being a Filipino Voltes V fan. And also, I have already gone to Setsuna Yuuki\\\'s site long before you told me. Damn, [[DudeLooksLikeALady I will never see Heinel in the same way again]]. And I don\\\'t even like {{Yaoi}}.

Yep, the Japanese do LOVE tragedy, and that\\\'s what I blame for the DarkerAndEdgier and TrueArtIsAngsty worship/trend that\\\'s the cause of me [[AngstAversion not wanting to watch any more of \\\"mainstream\\\" \\\"mature\\\" anime]], but that\\\'s for another topic.

How realistic does your perspective have to be about a giant robot anime? Depends on how much the audience is willing to suspend their disbelief and not cause massive [[WallBanger wall banging]]; which is, it takes very little to crash the audience of today\\\'s suspension. The concept of giant robots by itself is already outlandish, so there must be some form of reality in other grounds (eg, the story itself). Because let\\\'s face it, it\\\'s as if AMillionIsAStatistic is used a LOT in these shows, and the millions of faceless lives lost in the war just don\\\'t count against the sympathetic backdrop of the perpetrator. Sure, he shouldn\\\'t have died, but like I said in the opening post, if he survives, what if he gets capital punishment? He would be damned anyway....and on the other hand, a life sentence is not that bad. There\\\'s always the GetOutOfJailFreeCard nearby, if anyone wants to use his ahem, talents.

Not to sound confrontational or anything, but do you have anything (interviews, articles, etc) that could prove that the creators intended the fangirl response? AFAIK, when I read a translated transcript of an interview with Nagahama, it seems that his and the team\\\'s only intention was to challenge the BeautyEqualsGoodness and BlackAndWhiteMorality trend in mecha shows at that time (the 70s), and that the fangirl response was [[PeripheryDemographic purely accidental]].

By the Voltes V fandom, I don\\\'t mean a particular fansite or anything, but by my frequent net-wide rounds in search of forums with topic threads on this show for the past 10 years, and that\\\'s where I found those rather challenging views on how the \\\"mainstream\\\" audience who watched the show view the ending. And yes, the Godaikin Wars. Frankly, that {{GIFT}} of an author almost makes me ashamed of being a Filipino Voltes V fan. And also, I have already gone to Setsuna Yuuki\\\'s site. Damn, [[DudeLooksLikeALady I will never see Heinel in the same way again]]. And I don\\\'t even like {{Yaoi}}.

Yep, the Japanese do LOVE tragedy, and that\\\'s what I blame for the DarkerAndEdgier and TrueArtIsAngsty worship/trend that\\\'s the cause of me [[AngstAversion not wanting to watch any more of \\\"mainstream\\\" \\\"mature\\\" anime]], but that\\\'s for another topic.

How realistic does your perspective have to be about a giant robot anime? Depends on how much the audience is willing to suspend their disbelief and not cause massive [[WallBanger wall banging]]; which is, it takes very little to crash the audience of today\\\'s suspension. The concept of giant robots by itself is already outlandish, so there must be some form of reality in other grounds (eg, the story itself). Because let\\\'s face it, it\\\'s as if AMillionIsAStatistic is used a LOT in these shows, and the millions of faceless lives lost in the war just don\\\'t count against the sympathetic backdrop of the perpetrator. Sure, he shouldn\\\'t have died, but like I said in the opening post, if he survives, what if he gets capital punishment? He would be damned anyway....and on the other hand, a life sentence is not that bad. There\\\'s always the GetOutOfJailFreeCard nearby, if anyone wants to use his ahem, talents.

Not to sound confrontational or anything, but do you have anything (interviews, articles, etc) that could prove that the creators intended the fangirl response? AFAIK, when I read a translated transcript of an interview with Nagahama, it seems that his and the team\\\'s only intention was to challenge the BeautyEqualsGoodness and BlackAndWhiteMorality trend in mecha shows at that time (the 70s), and that the fangirl response was purely accidental.

By the Voltes V fandom, I don\\\'t mean a particular fansite or anything, but by my frequent net-wide rounds in search of forums with topic threads on this show for the past 10 years, and that\\\'s where I found those rather challenging views on how the \\\"mainstream\\\" audience who watched the show view the ending. And yes, the Godaikin Wars. Frankly, that {{GIFT}} of an author almost makes me ashamed of being a Filipino Voltes V fan. And also, I have already gone to Setsuna Yuuki\\\'s site. Damn, [[DudeLooksLikeALady I will never see Heinel in the same way again]]. And I don\\\'t even like {{Yaoi}}.