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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Here's a funny story from when I was in high school many moons ago. I was dating a girl in the class above mine and I was petrified of trying anything funny to her above holding hands. I was on the football team (editors note: I sucked at football) and I hated using the locker room. She came to watch my game one time (I didn't get out on the field at all lol).

    Before the game I hid my sports bag behind some storage sheds by the back of the field. I told her after the game to meet me by them so I could grab my stuff. Well, she thought this was some slick plan to get her by herself so I could lay smooches on her (I was not that clever). So when I got there I was like, my bag is behind this shed, I walked her around to the back and

    She kissed me, and I just about died on the spot. That's some 'lucky protagonist' shit from one of these anime. I was awkward as shit and never would have tried something like that but, anime like those posted above kinda reminds me of those times. I didn't know what the hell was going on, you just kinda let those feelings grab you and its awkward as hell. I relate more to the protagonist of most of these shows because I'm not good at pursuing women, so they end up going after me much to my own confusion. It takes me literally years to sus out that oh, that person was flirting with me

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  • silence1186silence1186 Character shields down! As a wingmanRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    100 GFs Anime is an unequivocal good for the world. Bravo. Well done.

    Legitimately one of the best gag manga ever.

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Here's a funny story from when I was in high school many moons ago. I was dating a girl in the class above mine and I was petrified of trying anything funny to her above holding hands. I was on the football team (editors note: I sucked at football) and I hated using the locker room. She came to watch my game one time (I didn't get out on the field at all lol).

    Before the game I hid my sports bag behind some storage sheds by the back of the field. I told her after the game to meet me by them so I could grab my stuff. Well, she thought this was some slick plan to get her by herself so I could lay smooches on her (I was not that clever). So when I got there I was like, my bag is behind this shed, I walked her around to the back and

    She kissed me, and I just about died on the spot. That's some 'lucky protagonist' shit from one of these anime. I was awkward as shit and never would have tried something like that but, anime like those posted above kinda reminds me of those times. I didn't know what the hell was going on, you just kinda let those feelings grab you and its awkward as hell. I relate more to the protagonist of most of these shows because I'm not good at pursuing women, so they end up going after me much to my own confusion. It takes me literally years to sus out that oh, that person was flirting with me

    this is a cool story ngl

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 13
    RT800 wrote: »
    Are Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail just bait for lonely nonweebs?
    I mean I haven't seen either of these movies.

    Hey, you should watch those movies. They're quite good.
    god, what is a recent romcom

    Crazy Rich Asians, Palm Springs, The Big Sick, Plus One, Happiest Season, What If, ect...

    They make so many romcoms every year...

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I do appreciate the lengths some harem stories go to so that their protagonists don't just seem like scumbags.

    "Alright, here me out - what if he truly loves them all and also is the last guy on earth and also if he doesn't date them they will literally die?"

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If everyone involved is ok with it, it doesnt matter.

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  • localhjaylocalhjay Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If everyone involved is ok with it, it doesnt matter.

    Well, and are adults.

    Stuff like World's End Harem is like, the whole scenario is manufactured to be as titillating as possible. One of the protagonists is the only dude at an all girls school where everyone including the teachers is trying to get in on the repopulating action

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    It's all the same harem bloodline to me. I feel like I can directly trace its evolution through stuff like A!MG, Love Hina, Kanon/Clannad, Shana/Zero, Bakemonogatari/Yahari, and now back full circle to either the Yamato Nadeshiko who dotes on the dude, or the tsundere, with the occasional particularly weird and unpleasant side jaunts, like the couple years of incest thanks to OreImo. Yeah, there's often one 'main' girl, but it's always that Johnny Generic has some girl drop into his lap that fawns over him because he's a Nice Guy™, and 90% of the rest of the characters are other girls who only exist to also fawn over or be won over by him. If they actually bother developing the characters, or have some other claim to fame in story, comedy, action, yeah, sure, there's at least some substance to it. There are some I have quite enjoyed and would recommend.

    But like isekai, the overwhelming majority, even the popular ones... especially the popular ones don't bother, and I feel like this problem's gotten immeasurably worse lately with the VN industry crash and takeover of gacha/LNs. I also personally really, really dislike the entire "did one nice thing, once, and now they're devoted forever" trope that absolutely fucking plagues them, especially when for so many of them, it's not so much a nice thing as like... returned the shopping cart to its proper receptacle two years ago. And many don't even bother with that.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If everyone involved is ok with it, it doesnt matter.

    Well, and are adults.

    Stuff like World's End Harem is like, the whole scenario is manufactured to be as titillating as possible. One of the protagonists is the only dude at an all girls school where everyone including the teachers is trying to get in on the repopulating action

    that's also an ecchi

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    This does remind me that I recently read a sci-fi book where the author thanked 'Darling in the Franxx' for "inspiring the idea of boy-girl mech pilot pairs and using piloting a mecha as device for exploring adolescence, gender, etc" and noticeably did not mention anything positive about the show's quality or writing and I was very amused

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  • ArcTangentArcTangent Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    JayKaos wrote: »
    This does remind me that I recently read a sci-fi book where the author thanked 'Darling in the Franxx' for "inspiring the idea of boy-girl mech pilot pairs and using piloting a mecha as device for exploring adolescence, gender, etc" and noticeably did not mention anything positive about the show's quality or writing and I was very amused

    You have a problem with the premise that Lava is sentient and geothermal power kills the planet oh also mind aliens want to make us immortal but unable to reproduce except for teenage test tube babies who fight the lavas mechs?

    It's amazing how that show starts off just being super weird and gross about sexualizing teenagers, goes off the deep end into weird-ass literal lizard people nonsense, and somehow ends with "unabashed genocide with WMDs is great, actually."

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I mean I never watched the show because everything I'd heard about it was related to all the awful love triangle stuff and lemme tell ya you are not making me regret that decision

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    JayKaos wrote: »
    This does remind me that I recently read a sci-fi book where the author thanked 'Darling in the Franxx' for "inspiring the idea of boy-girl mech pilot pairs and using piloting a mecha as device for exploring adolescence, gender, etc" and noticeably did not mention anything positive about the show's quality or writing and I was very amused

    You're thinking about Iron Widow, where the author has been very clear they were powered by Spite in part.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I mean I never watched the show because everything I'd heard about it was related to all the awful love triangle stuff and lemme tell ya you are not making me regret that decision

    in case it wasn't obvious darling in the franxxx is dogshit yes

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    JayKaos wrote: »
    This does remind me that I recently read a sci-fi book where the author thanked 'Darling in the Franxx' for "inspiring the idea of boy-girl mech pilot pairs and using piloting a mecha as device for exploring adolescence, gender, etc" and noticeably did not mention anything positive about the show's quality or writing and I was very amused

    You're thinking about Iron Widow, where the author has been very clear they were powered by Spite in part.

    Bingo. Hadn't gotten that context until after the fact but my book club greatly enjoyed it.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    darling in the franx did give us a bunch of horny zero two cosplay, so who's to really say if it was good or bad

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  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    In the latest Vinland Saga, Cnut really gets ahead.

    The only thing I remember about Darling in the Franx is that some of the early fight scenes were fire. But I also dropped it about a third of the way through because I could see the "oh this is gonna be garbage they have no idea how to write a plot" writing on the wall.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched a Nagatoro and whispered, "Manic pixie mean girl" to myself.

    Of course it's wish fulfillment for lonely people that's what most of YA fiction is and that's what most anime is and young adults are all lonely, even when they're not, because their brains are rapidly breaking and reforming into something even more broken.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Also you can be attracted to people for like, a variety of reasons. Like in Uzaki chan, the male lead is shredded to fuck from constantly working out. So you could say it's wish fulfillment on both sides for that one lol

    Also: interviews with monster girls, which always seems to be sort of teetering just on the edge of being a harem, but then again the main character has the heart of Mr Rogers and the body of Jack Reacher, so like... shit, it'd be weird if the girls weren't crushing on him a bit, he's like the opposite of random schlub wish fulfillment protagonist. You're just supposed to think he's great, too.

    Also since he's a responsible adult he never even looks twice at the girls, just the adult female teacher.

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  • djmdjm Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Interviews With Monster Girls is _great_, yeah; I'm sad that it looks like the next volume is going to be the last one.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    TNTrooper wrote: »
    Whippy wrote: »
    I mean they're just romcoms right? Are Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail just bait for lonely nonweebs?

    I mean, some of those anime are quite a bit hornier but then we can make comparisons to 50 Shades of Grey. Of course, really I'm not even opposed to the existence of fanservice.

    do you have any examples for romcom that aren’t 15-30 years old

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    Me and my wife went to see Deadpool on Valentine's Day - and then I proposed to her.

    ...that explains a lot about us, I think.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    If everyone involved is ok with it, it doesnt matter.

    Well, and are adults.

    Stuff like World's End Harem is like, the whole scenario is manufactured to be as titillating as possible. One of the protagonists is the only dude at an all girls school where everyone including the teachers is trying to get in on the repopulating action

    The point of minors is we don't consider them capable of being "ok with it". They're not considered capable of giving consent.

    So when I said that everyone being an adult was the default assumption.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I watched Darling in the Franxx up until about episode 20 and was basically ok with it?

    For one reason or another I had to stop and then I forgot about it (this happens with many things regardless of quality, and means nothing. LOTG is now my favourite anime but I took two months long breaks in between watching that show, one two months long and another about six months).

    And now people keep talking about how shit the ending is an I'm wondering if maybe I should just leave it alone.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    I remember that I watched Darling in the Franxx.

    I just don't remember anything about it.

    There was a girl with horns. And then she turns into a mech at some point.

    The End.

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  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    The only good harem anime is DragonBall Z and Goku's ever increasing collection of battle waifus.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Darling in the Franxx is in my brain for two things, one is as a horrible replacement for Kyoko in Initial D (who always referred to her crush as 'darling'), and the other is

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYY7YM3E9aw

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    Reading about Darling in the Franxx fills me with morbid curiosity about what watching it would actually be like.

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    it's forcefully het

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  • AnzekayAnzekay Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 13
    het is okay if it's like, I dunno, still cute

    and like... not ultra stiff crappy het. but if that's what you mean by forcefully @Whippy then... oh well, interest lost

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  • LanzLanz ...Za?Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Listen if I’m gonna watch an anime about sentient lava and the repercussions it has on the planet, there’s only one Anime I’m trucking with
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU



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    DO I COME FROM THE FIRE?
    WE'RE GOING BACK, OH YEAH!
    SO SPEND SOME TIME WITH ME
    I REALLY LIKE YOUR COMPANY
    WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT
    FLIP THE COIN IT DOESN'T MATTER
    AND IF WE DON'T SURVIVE
    I'D RATHER DIE THAN LIVE A LIE

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    Lanz wrote: »
    Listen if I’m gonna watch an anime about sentient lava and the repercussions it has on the planet, there’s only one Anime I’m trucking with
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU



    j9z2nbqmfk4x.gif

    DO I COME FROM THE FIRE?
    WE'RE GOING BACK, OH YEAH!
    SO SPEND SOME TIME WITH ME
    I REALLY LIKE YOUR COMPANY
    WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT
    FLIP THE COIN IT DOESN'T MATTER
    AND IF WE DON'T SURVIVE
    I'D RATHER DIE THAN LIVE A LIE

    is that promare?

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  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited April 13
    Anzekay wrote: »
    het is okay if it's like, I dunno, still cute

    and like... not ultra stiff crappy het. but if that's what you mean by forcefully @Whippy then... oh well, interest lost

    it is the upsetting, not cute kind of het.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    There is a clear lesbian, who wants to try and pilot, but cannot, because her partner is also a woman and therefore they can't fuckjumpstart it.

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    Naphtali wrote: »
    Lanz wrote: »
    Listen if I’m gonna watch an anime about sentient lava and the repercussions it has on the planet, there’s only one Anime I’m trucking with
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU
    TRAILS OF FIRE
    YOU ALWAYS KNEW
    THEY WOULD CARRY ME HOME
    THEY'D LEAD ME TO YOU



    j9z2nbqmfk4x.gif

    DO I COME FROM THE FIRE?
    WE'RE GOING BACK, OH YEAH!
    SO SPEND SOME TIME WITH ME
    I REALLY LIKE YOUR COMPANY
    WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT
    FLIP THE COIN IT DOESN'T MATTER
    AND IF WE DON'T SURVIVE
    I'D RATHER DIE THAN LIVE A LIE

    is that promare?

    Sure is!

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited April 13
    man I've forgotten how promare goes then because I don't remember that at all

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  • TNTrooperTNTrooper Registered User regular
    edited April 13
    My take away from watching a couple eps of Darling in the Franxx is the director has a doggy style fetish.

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