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  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Happosai is like the ur-Mineta

    For real, even as young as I was, I would seethe every time he came into an episode because he would be this crazy overpowered grandmaster who just waltzes in and just repeatedly molests as many females in a single episode as possible and suffers little to no repercussions for it. Like my memory is a little hazy, but does he like ever get any comeuppance for acting like the dirtiest shitbag by the time the show was over?

    Also Ukyo was definitely solid. She just wants to make her Okonomyaki and get good at it. Ain't nothing with her for sure.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the fact that happosai was written by a woman is baffling to me
    the character archetype of the hilarious serial sexual harasser was so normalized in 70s-80s japanese comics

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the fact that happosai was written by a woman is baffling to me
    the character archetype of the hilarious serial sexual harasser was so normalized in 70s-80s japanese comics

    Happosai is a villain (as much as a romantic comedy has one), we aren't supposed to cheer for him, the idea was that he's so bad that Genma and Soun tried to get rid of him and manage to look sympathetic, despite everything, for doing so. And there's the obvious reference to the ancient master martial artists of movies and the like, he and Cologne are there to mark the power level of "you have to be this strong to be on top".

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  • AbacusAbacus Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Also, dudes like the guy that writes MHA not getting that everybody really, really, REALLY hates Happosai and the only reason he's still around is because he's one of the strongest characters on the setting is not on Takahashi.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Happosai's an antagonist but he never gets comeuppance for his crimes beyond comedy pie in the face shit, he's always back molesting people the next story, he's a joke pervert there to deliver groping scenes

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  • ThegreatcowThegreatcow Lord of All Bacons Washington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Happosai's an antagonist but he never gets comeuppance for his crimes beyond comedy pie in the face shit, he's always back molesting people the next story, he's a joke pervert there to deliver groping scenes

    Gah that's even more infuriating. The fact that even by the end of the show he's not either defeated/neutralized/outcast just makes his behavior all the more galling.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Look, I try not to get into "best girl" arguments because it's asinine

    But Ukyo is the best girl and I will fight anyone that disagrees

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  • notyanotya Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yeah Happosai is the only problem. Ranma never does ANYYYY sexual assaults.

    The author just likes sexual assault. She wants the villains to do it. The heroes to do it. The dads and the uncles and everyone in between (except for the nice guy character).

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    feels like it was practically obligatory in 70s-80s comedy manga and thus anime

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Isn't Roshi still around and doing... his usual bit?

    Along with all the rest?

    These characters have gone out of fashion, but certainly aren't rare nor have not gone away.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I feel like you could have just said "obligatory in 70s-80s comedy" as well

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've read of bit of Mao, Takahashi's current series, and you know what? It's pretty okay.

    A lot darker and more serious than most of her previous stuff though. Kind of in the ballpark of Mermaid Saga in a way. Zero gross humor so far too.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    it was already less common in Inuyasha as far as I remember, though still present to some degree

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Nabiki was my favorite for the longest time. Her pairing with Kuno is pretty hilarious(and fitting), too.
    (I recall once reading a fic that paired her up with Ranma instead of Akane, which worked better than you might think.)

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Happosai's an antagonist but he never gets comeuppance for his crimes beyond comedy pie in the face shit, he's always back molesting people the next story, he's a joke pervert there to deliver groping scenes

    Gah that's even more infuriating. The fact that even by the end of the show he's not either defeated/neutralized/outcast just makes his behavior all the more galling.

    TBF(?) Takahasi is a veteran of making indefinitely serialized manga. She neeeever throws away any character that she can recycle in the future.

    Anytime she needed a quick plot for next week's chapter and she didn't have anything else in the tank she could just throw in Happosai.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    it was already less common in Inuyasha as far as I remember, though still present to some degree

    Miroku's whole thing was copping a feel on Sango, unfortunately.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm sold

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    You should check out the other, superior ridiculous food reaction anime, Yakitate Japan.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tspyjSStVo0

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yakitate is bad though. It starts out great, right up until halfway through the French tournament arc when bread stops being just really tasty and inspiring amusing pun reactions to literally warping space/time and evil sentient demon bread.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Madican wrote: »
    Yakitate is bad though. It starts out great, right up until halfway through the French tournament arc when bread stops being just really tasty and inspiring amusing pun reactions to literally warping space/time and evil sentient demon bread.

    That sounds fantastic to me.

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  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    It does get kinda mean people get transformed into a wall or something like that at some point. Reading just the manga, would agree it's a fun time up to the point that they lean in on the permanent reactions of the bread tasting.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    ArcTangent wrote: »
    Isn't Roshi still around and doing... his usual bit?

    Along with all the rest?

    These characters have gone out of fashion, but certainly aren't rare nor have not gone away.
    During ToP he "trained" with Puar until he could control himself around naked ladies. So maybe?

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Yooooo they're doing more Spice & Wolf but it's like a reboot or something idk

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  • NeveronNeveron SwedenRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    maybe they're going to commit to adapting the entire thing this time? I dunno.

    I guess the author did make a sequel series recently, IIRC, so maybe this is to drum up interest in those books?

    No, wait, it's the 15th anniversary. That makes sense.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    simulacrum wrote: »

    Come for the naked wolf lady, stay for the detailed medieval economics.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    For those who haven't seen it, Holo is actually very rarely naked (despite being an extremely old school harvest goddess) and the tone is very old school, classy romantic bantering. Like Hepburn and Tracy. It's mega cute.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the thing is in the first episode she's extremely naked so that's what people will remember

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    the thing is in the first episode she's extremely naked so that's what people will remember

    Ah yes, "extremely" naked, the state where you have no clothes on... very much? A great quantity of no clothes on.

    I'd also disagree with the implication, she's just standing there extremely casually, not doing sexy poses or something. You know, like how a non-human entity would perceive nudity as nothing worth noting until deliberately trying to respect human customs.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    I've seen Interspecies Reviewers, my definition of 'extremely naked' is very different.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    ah good point, she's regularly naked

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The 100 Girlfriends manga officially came out in English this week.

    I'd forgotten that at the start of the first chapter, Rentarou actually had a childhood friend character that disappears. I remember for a long time people kept expecting that friend to turn back up and have secretly been a girl and become one of the 100 girlfriends.

    Also, I was surprised to notice that Shizuka and Nano actually appear in the background of the panel before Rentarou first bumps into Hakari and Karane.

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Glal wrote: »
    I've seen Interspecies Reviewers, my definition of 'extremely naked' is very different.

    "And this...is to go...even further beyond! Ara araaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    JJK movie in theaters March 18th. This wasn't on my radar at all, but an ad on YouTube just alerted me.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Watched Evangelion 1.0 with my 12 year old last night cause he borrowed it from the library he has never seen any of Eva before I was wary but I figured if we watched it together it would be ok

    He liked it but was very grossed out when he realized Eva's aren't robots.




    Also every time I watch it I think of it but goddamn the mechanical/infrastructure design in that movie is like top of the top class

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