Untitled [Weeaboo] Thread: All according to plan.

Bad Kitty

Clawshrimpy wrote: »

I really am trying to get my position stright on the Fanservice thing, and I'm trying not to repeat my mistakes, and actually try to establise a clear position on it that makes sense. it's just hard because I'm just not good about talking about sexulization as a person who just isn't interested in the opposite sex in the slightest. I mean, I'm just, well, I get embarassed when I see a lot of fanservice, and feel more comfortable with the action.

You know Shrimpy I appreciate that. When you first started posting about it I was absolutely horrified about your views. I can tell your thinking about it and I agree with you on gratuitous amount of fanservice. Although I have no idea how you distinguish this from eyecandy. It still seems that you're concerned and disturbed only by the sex and not by the sexism. Like, how you're okay with "bridge bunnies" without recognizing that they're essentially subservient roles like demeaning OL jobs.

I know you hate Eva, but compare the bridge bunnies there with those on Macross 7. 2 guys, 1 girl. And hey, guess what, Maya is smarter than them is is Ritsuko's right hand gal. I haven't watched the remakes and don't really want to but I found a few of the fanservice in the TV series to be more disturbing considering all the mommy complexes.

Lanz

outside of one or two episodes, I never noticed Eva's fanservice being that overt.

In fact, it always seemed to me that Misato's promises of fanservice in each next episode bit was vastly exaggerated.

Slicer

Lanz wrote: »

outside of one or two episodes, I never noticed Eva's fanservice being that overt.

In fact, it always seemed to me that Misato's promises of fanservice in each next episode bit was vastly exaggerated.

I always assumed it was a joke or some such.

Joule

Slicer wrote: »

Lanz wrote: »

outside of one or two episodes, I never noticed Eva's fanservice being that overt.

In fact, it always seemed to me that Misato's promises of fanservice in each next episode bit was vastly exaggerated.

I always assumed it was a joke or some such.

Yeah, I can't recall very many overt scenes of fanservice. Misato let me down with her promises of dai sabisu.

Clawshrimpy

Bad Kitty wrote: »

Clawshrimpy wrote: »

I really am trying to get my position stright on the Fanservice thing, and I'm trying not to repeat my mistakes, and actually try to establise a clear position on it that makes sense. it's just hard because I'm just not good about talking about sexulization as a person who just isn't interested in the opposite sex in the slightest. I mean, I'm just, well, I get embarassed when I see a lot of fanservice, and feel more comfortable with the action.

You know Shrimpy I appreciate that. When you first started posting about it I was absolutely horrified about your views. I can tell your thinking about it and I agree with you on gratuitous amount of fanservice. Although I have no idea how you distinguish this from eyecandy. It still seems that you're concerned and disturbed only by the sex and not by the sexism. Like, how you're okay with "bridge bunnies" without recognizing that they're essentially subservient roles like demeaning OL jobs.

Yeah, let me cite another example, one of the reasons I really love GaoGaiGar was there
was a decent ratio of the operators. there were only really two Brdge Bunnies, Swan White and Mikoto. (well, three if we are counting Papillon in FINAL.) the rest of those positions were operated by men. such as Hyuuma, Professor Shishioh, and others. and FINAL had a female character in an active role (Renais Cardiff Shishoh.)

Also, it's just well, it's just kind of unrealistic to expect no ee candy at all, I mean, it might be the case in very few select series, but those are extremely rare. by all means make females have a role in a show, but as something other than a source of titties and ass. I mean, that's what I really loved about COmbattler V and Voltes V, they were 5 pilot Super Robots, each having a female member, and thus a protagonist.

Der Waffle Mous

Kelor wrote: »

ViolentChemistry wrote: »

Thetheroo wrote: »

Well, I'm starting Macross, and is this a sequel to something?

Do I need to watch the other series?

It seems to be the furthest forward in the timeline.

Macross Timeline as best I can figure:
Macross Zero -> Macross -> Macross Plus -> Macross 7 -> Macross Frontier

Fire Bomber apparently plays on oldies-stations in Frontier.

Cheat sheet version of Macross:

Macross Zero: Prequel to the first series. Interesting, but certainly non-essential and probably my least liked.

Macross: Do You Remember Love (Condenses the original Macross series into a movie. Overall I like it more than the series) Recommended.

Macross Plus: 4 episode set of OVAs. Stands well by itself but overall the best in the series. Like Top Gun but with giant robots. Recommended.

Macross 7: Sort of the wildcard of the series. Rock band plays in space inside giant robots. My second favourite in the series, but it tends to be something people either love or hate. Not essential for viewing, but it picks up around the mid 20s episode-wise. Recommended.

Macross Frontier: Most recent series. Recommended.

The Movie version of Plus is my preference.

You're losing the initial battle scene, but there's actually an ending this time!

OtakuD00D

And Guld isn't quite a so much of a dick either!

Clawshrimpy

OtakuD00D wrote: »

And Guld isn't quite a so much of a dick either!

I prefer Guld being a dick.

if only for the "2 FAST 2 FURIOUS" moment.

PikaPuff

Guld and Isamu are fanservice for girls.

Elki

What I said at the end of the last thread goes.

Does this mean no pictures at all? OMG! OMG!



PS. Don't start a contentless thread.

Tycho wrote:

The Avatar had a link to a Register article we found highly amusing, something about being awarded a patent for the circumvention of spam filters. Now, I believe with unwavering certainty that there is a reasonable and perhaps even noble reason for wanting to mail people who don't want to be mailed. I would never disparage corporations, which I think of as fountains of goodwill. For example, I have full faith that AT&T's new rapedroid - with a bank of three hideous, whirling cocks - is... Well, it's hard to imagine a proper purpose for such a thing.

A small bit of Final Fantasy news that might invigorate the enthusiasts - after Square Enix released that teaser poster a short while back, clearly showing a surly Bangaa in the lower left, many humans were left curious as to what that exactly it meant. Check out The Magicbox for the answer - the entire next game takes place in the world of Final Fantasy Tactics, called Ivalice. It would be very interesting indeed to see in what other ways the two games are related if at all, but with the release of Final Fantasy X-2 this month - as well as the upcoming Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - revisiting established worlds is something we can expect more of. Also, speaking of Final Fantasy X-2, when people were importing it I was reading previews that were predominantly negative. Now that the US release is upon us, and people understand the language the game is in, wouldn't you know that their little ears just perk up! Gaming media is adorable, like a yarn basket full of kittens.

Sort of off topic for the site, but I saw a band called The Polyphonic Spree on Monday that I think people might enjoy. It is essentially cotton candy you can listen to - sample lyric, "Hey, it's the sun! And it makes me shine!" It goes on like that for about five-and-a-half minutes, but honestly you don't mind because you are starting to feel like everything is going to be alright. The band is more than twenty people, I don't know how many exactly, but a lot. Grab a song like the one I mentioned, entitled It's The Sun, or my personal favorite Soldier Girl - it's on iTunes if you're trying that out, it's on Buymusic.com, and you may be quite sure it is on your filesharing service of choice. I don't know if I would sit and listen to a whole album straight through, but as a playlist additive it comes highly recommended. The album, recorded in three days, is a perfectly satisfactory production but I listen to it mainly to remember what they were like live - aurally enormous. We were lucky enough to have a Sign Language interpreter at our show - I don't know if you've ever seen someone speak it, it looks like karate, like someone could get hurt.

Have we really been doing Penny Arcade for Five Years? I guess there's no way to argue against it, the date is right there in the archive. It snuck up on us before we could even plan some kind of festive event to accompany it. It is difficult not to descend, as I so often do when trying to express gratitude, into that Hallmark realm of platitudes and couplets. I appreciate very much your taking the time to visit the site. Gabe asked me what I thought was on the menu for year six, and that's easy enough to discuss without humiliating myself or saying something that rhymes. People are always asking us how they can get jobs in the Industry, except we don't know how, we just sort of made ours up - so we're going to fix that. We'll have a searchable job finding thingy in the very near future. We'll have a picture of a turkey you can print out and admire, also, we now revere Quetzalcoatl the Feathered Serpent so look forward to frenzied dancing according to the ancient ways.

(CW)TB out.

and it makes me shine