Anime/Manga Aficionado's Lounge! II

[Len Ikari145]

EDIT:Crap.

[Eternal Torment]

Meanwhile, in Freezing....

Chiffon: *breaks out of concrete*

*tears an opponent's arms off*

Chiffon: You two totally deserve to be called Monster more than I do.

[Pong]

Beelzebub is out:

Oga being badass like it was going out of style

There's omake too and it's hilarious.

[Len Ikari145]

Just thought I'd put this old bit of news on "Kodomo no Jikan vs Negima" on the table and see what your thoughts on it are.

[Nik Hasta]

I have always thought that the premise of Negima was weird and skeevy.

In other news; Toriko seems to have a taken a turn for the weird.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Beelzebub is out:

Oga being badass like it was going out of style

There's omake too and it's hilarious.

While this is all true I never liked the whole "We will kung-fu fight and this person will be the prize" situation.

To me it just seems horribly degrading to the character in question.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Just thought I'd put this old bit of news on "Kodomo no Jikan vs Negima" on the table and see what your thoughts on it are.

There's a large amount of double-standards in regards to this stuff. Haven't read Nymphet but from that article it does sound less "odd" (in lack of a better word) than Negima, which kind of got really WTF-bad in certain situations.

[Pong]

While this is all true I never liked the whole "We will kung-fu fight and this person will be the prize" situation.

To me it just seems horribly degrading to the character in question.

Humor at the expense of someone's dignity? In my Beelzebub? Surely you jest !

But seriously tho, it's not like they were giving her into slavery or something. Poor sod just wanted to ask her out.

And i still doubt that Oga even realized what this has to do with him. He just punches things until they stop being annoying. I like that about him.


But man he is even stronger than i though he is.

Just thought I'd put this old bit of news on "Kodomo no Jikan vs Negima" on the table and see what your thoughts on it are.

Comparing Negima to Kodomo no Jikan?



Seriously, just no.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Humor at the expense of someone's dignity? In my Beelzebub? Surely you jest !

But seriously tho, it's not like they were giving her into slavery or something. Poor sod just wanted to ask her out.

I was more talking about the trope in general. Not just in Beelzebub. It's just a pet peeve of mine.

And i still doubt that Oga even realized what this has to do with him. He just punches things until they stop being annoying. I like that about him.

Personally I think that it's been taken a bit too far in this arc. At first it was funny and then at some point I just want the dumb-fuck to react instead of just making that annoying indifferent face.

Props to Aiba for not backing out or even hesitating once he saw Oga's power. Hopefully he'll be able to get back up and continue the fight in the next chapter.

[Robotech Master]

It's too difficult to make such a broad comparison to Kodomo and Negima.

Yes, I get the feeling that there is a double standard at play for Negi and Rin's situations. At the same time, you're talking about girls who are also underage, merely older, fawning over a younger boy, in comparison to a man in his 20's being hit on by a much younger girl and being occasionally flustered.

Yes, Kodomo no Jikan is NOT as bad as any media will ever make it out to be, but it DOES have whole splash pages of Rin naked, not covered up or anything, and to an anatomical standard exceeding what Negima's girls show in their buff scenes. Furthermore, to make this comparison parallel, we would have to look at how often Negi, and not the girls, is shown suggestively nude and sexualized. Eva is the only one who has occasionally approached him in such a manner, and it is hard to find a circumstance in which Negi himself is sexualized by the viewer/reader, as opposed to the perspective of the girls. In contrast, Rin often finds her attempts to be sexualized by the male lead to be rejected, but a number of her scenes are clearly fanserviced from the readers perspective.

There is a considerable difference in the verbal innuendo as well. Negi himself doesn't really say much that is suggestive, certainly not intentionally, and what the girls say tends to be pretty PG-13 at most. Rin outright tells Aoki that they should get married and she'll let him do her in the ass for being quick about it.

It is true that because the male lead doesn't really respond to these advances with anything other than anger and frustration, that this is considered mildly risque in Japan, because the humor is just that a child is saying an doing such inappropriate things. But I think its important to note a pretty strong contextual difference in exactly what is being presented and how.

[Nik Hasta]

Meanwhile over in Magico...

So... Raven's pretty damn dangerous in a fight.

[FarBeyondC]

Noblesse:



Really, now?

I can't wait to see the look on bat guy's face when he realizes who the boy he's grabbing truly is.

[Hazard]

Saint Seiya Omega:

That's it Lionet! Burn that Cosmo! Kouga is lucky to have found a bro like him.

Gundam Age:

Really? I mean, just like that? Asemu is missing and his body or Gundam was never found? Come on, everyone knows he is alive. It is a cheap way to create suspense, especially since Super Pilot Asemu is the best thing in this show.

Vanguard:

So, it seems not even they remember Royal Paladins. Then again, it is possible that Aichi just didn't explain himself well enough.

Also, I really don't like seeing Misaki lose. Damn her touching backstory!

Girls of the Wild:



So close. Just a few more chapters.

[Siriel]

Vanguard:

So, it seems not even they remember Royal Paladins. Then again, it is possible that Aichi just didn't explain himself well enough.

Also, I really don't like

Really, I'm more annoyed by Aichi's depressive reaction.

Why does he react like that? He already knew that he had to get stronger for that tournament.

Hell, Kamui spent all those weeks training and for some reason he's depressed too!

What the hell?

I mean, at least Misaki was obviously not taking things seriously enough so it makes sense that she would be surprised/depressed at the fact that she's falling behind a bit, but the other two's reactions make no real sense.


Also, now I want to punch Rekka or whatever her name is. She lacks Ren and Aichi's stylish smug superiority and instead just becomes annoying.

[master of read]

Noblesse:



Really, now?

I can't wait to see the look on bat guy's face when he realizes who the boy he's grabbing truly is.

let me put it this way: rai, pissed off, is a scary thing to see. the bat elder found that out the hard way.