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Well, in general how do you ever get a male character to fall on a female character amidst a chaotic situation and somehow end up with both his hands on her breasts? That's one of those things that's like...that's just there for fanservice, and has no other explanation.
Also, Oreimo is a show about a little sister who plays loli imouto eroge. Saying that there's no hints of incest fanservice is... pretty dishonest. Though it's true that it doesn't generally go beyond that, and there's not any actual incest stuff in it.
I just sort of filed away the bits with eroge as humor related to the subject matter, though I guess one could look at it and think it's too fanservice-y. I really just thought it was humorous on account of the whole premise's absurdity I don't remember any of those scenes really being that bad (certainly not as bad as the scene I already mentioned, which wouldn't even be non-par for the course if it didn't involve brother and sister), and they often just paralleled the main plot. The bit with the fighting game was sort of sketchy, I guess, but mostly I laughed.
Well, it's more like... The story would work exactly the same if Kirino was just into less sketchy otaku stuff. Like if it primarily focused on her obsession with Hoshikuzu Witch Meruru and they never mentioned anything about eroge (or at least was less specific about it, or could, you know, play non-porn visual novels). As it is, she plays eroge about little sisters because it implies that she wants her brother to bone her, or something. And he even asks her about that and of course she says no, but she does it in the most typically-tsundere way in which of course no means yes... Not that that has any bearing on the actual story but it's pretty clearly set up to be interpreted that way by (at least some of) the audience.
Isn't OreImo that series whose name translates to "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute"?
If so,
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Oreimo is actually pretty funny and not very skeevy... usually.
Speaking of fanservice, it really annoyed me in Dog Days how there would just be a random scene with one of the girls naked in every episode. I mean, what was that about? It was like they gave them fanservice quota and they worked it in without caring.
Yep.
Come to think of it, has there been anything we've agreed on besides relatively easygoing stuff like K-On! and Spice and Wolf, and superhero movies?
I thought you liked James Joyce, or were at least okay with him. Hopefully you like OreImo, though.
Ah. So we basically are in agreement, then!
If that's the kind of comments I get...
The best series aren't 1 and 2, so good for you. Fist of the North Star is especially awesome, though I prefer the anime.
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So, episode 8 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was mostly cool, but the bit where Barry the Chopper gives Al the idea that he's just a puppet is beyond stupid, and I'm annoyed that it's actually carried through into the next episode.
Yeah, that subplot was kinda facepalm-worthy. Though in Al's defense, his condition probably has him pretty depressed already, which made convincing him of that a lot easier.
It made sense to me for INUH's reasoning, as that would be a legitimate thought lingering in the back of my mind as well if I was apparently brought back directly after learning that resurrection was impossible. Especially if I were a little kid at the time.
Well, yeah, I don't doubt that the condition would depress him significantly. What I doubt is that he could possibly, seriously carry the notion that his brother would deliberately betray him like that, especially coming from the mouth of a crazy mass murderer.
Yeah, that's why I still described it as facepalm-worthy.
Eh, once the seeds of doubt are planted and all.
Maybe Al had had similar thoughts himself but thought they were stupid, and then hearing someone else say them...
Overall it wasn't a great plot but I don't think it was that unbelievable.
Teenage angst, too.
Didn't it also happen in the first anime? I remember it happening there, at least.
According to Nyktos, this happened before the divergence point between the two anime, so it would have come from the manga itself. But if it happened in the first, it would be equally as unbelievable there.
Yeah, I think it did happen in the manga.
I think the only difference between the manga and Brotherhood is the first episode (which was added for foreshadowing purposes) and that Brotherhood tells a few early events in flashbacks a good deal after when they actually happened.
Though I haven't quite finished Brotherhood, so there might be some slight differences at the very end.
It did happen in the first anime, yes.
From what I've heard, it went on way longer in the first anime and everyone hated it even more.
Well, Hughes just threatened a bunch of four-year-olds with a gun, so I feel compensated.
^ I guess I should be glad that I went with Brotherhood.
It did indeed go on for much longer in the first anime. One of the few plot points that outright sucked.
Hughes is pretty much awesome.
At Anime North this year there was a Hughes cosplayer who actually carried around a bunch of pictures of Hughes's family and showed them to people, it was awesome.