Youkai_Lady wrote:But I still love Sesshoumaru more let me make that clear!
Ok, Youkai, what about Inuyasha, remeber Karu threaten to kill him. Would you be upset if she did??? I would
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Ok, Youkai, what about Inuyasha, remeber Karu threaten to kill him. Would you be upset if she did??? I would
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A thread about Inuyasha, 8/11 pages of which is a 'who is hotter' yelling match. The question: How to contribute something substantial to this thread? The answer: Hell if I know.
I don't like Inuyasha. When I first heard of it, a friend of mine lent me six books that she had of the manga. I thought it was cute, and I really liked the main character and his 'devil may care if I mock the pretty girl' attitude. The main girl was actually funny and engaging, and I completely sympathized with her annoyance toward the rude dog demon. The art style was pretty, a little thin during the fight scenes, but not bad, and the dialogue was cute and simple, nothing too deep or hard. It made for a nice refreshing read. Then my friend lent me her bootlegs and fansubbed tapes so I could see the anime itself. Over 120 episodes of it. My opinion quickly went downhill.
That refreshing girl turned into an emotional wreck, the epitome of the teenage girl who goes from being normal to instantly in love and tortured by his inconsideration towards her. Those formerly funny 'sit' scenes turned into a cliche for the anime, used any time she was upset as if that were the only reasonable conclusion to an argument. Why bother talking about it or behaving maturely when the character is the epitome of the immature teenage anime girl? No need for anything that might garner respect as a female character, just throw a tantrum and make the audience laugh. After all, no one cares about the person on the receiving end of the abuse.
New characters were introduced to go with this new level of immaturity and slapstick humor. A cute little fox kit with the ability to shape shift and thereby add all sorts of adorable antics to the show. The villain is revealed, with an almost adult explanation for his actions - a major point in favor of the otherwise childish plot devices. Enter the seemingly betrayed female character to counter the immature one - but make sure she's completely unreasonable so the viewers don't like her. After all, the viewers are supposed to only like the immature girl who no feminist would respect in a million years. No point giving the strong female character any redeeming qualities. And since we have two females and a child, introduce the counter male character - a womanizing monk modeled to add to the humor and serve as a second romance just in case the first one didn't do a good job at hiding the fact that the plot is as thin as a spider web stretching over a three mile river. And now that we have the unsavory second male, enter a third female to go with him.
But here the anime does another positive bit, by introducing this new female as a real character with a past, substantial motivation for her actions, and a mature depiction. Only that's a little to respecful for a female character, so quickly divert the attention from her redeeming qualities and go back to the main triangle. Let's see that immature girl throw some more tantrums when the male she's set her heart on still cares about the person he liked from the start. And when we're done with the typical angsty romantic triangle, shift back to that formerly strong female and show that she's actually as useless as the main girl. After all, we wouldn't want to give our female viewers the wrong idea by making them think females could behave like adults. That would go against the entire genre of useless immature females as seen in Fushigi Yuugi and other romantic anime hiding behind facades of plot.
And since there might, just might be viewers out there who want something to happen every thirty episodes, why not have the villian create some henchment to keep things rolling. No point having any drect confrontations that last more than two minutes, just give a mess of pointless minor villains the way any drawn out anime would. It worked for Sailormoon, after all. And while the plot pretends to be moving with the villains attacking and a shard per episode guarantee, add in something for the softies. What about that other male character who shows up once in a while to motivate the main romance? He worked great to introduce the idea of the sword that protects humans and thereby makes the main guy useless unless he's being nice to the main girl. Now it's time to add to that by making that sword become a weakness. After all, the main girl is supposed to be useless, being a girl and all, it just makes sense that the sword meant to protect her would be necessary for the guy not to go nuts. So give him the sword, and then mention, by the way, that if he loses it, he'll go nuts and kill everyone. How's that for a plot device?
Excellent. So now we have a guy who's best weapon makes him completely dependent and therefore useless without it. And since that adds guilt to his role, thereby pushing him into the girl's arms, the minor male character has done his job. But wait, the female viewers like him. We can't have the girl viewers liking someone who hates humans, so let's give him a little girl of his own to soften him up and make him have a weakness just like everyone else. The only one we can have in an anime without a weakness is the main villain after all, the one we hold onto just in case we decide to end the series. And now that we've made that minor male character soft by giving him a kid to care about, the viewers want more of him. So why not take more time out from the already slow plot to give him some encounters with the villain's henchmen that add nothing to the storyline, but give the perfect excuse for him having screentime. After all, the viewers want to see him, it doesn't matter if it adds nothing except eye candy. That's half what the anime is about, eyecandy and weak characters in romantic settings as they pretend to move toward an ultimate goal of defeating the main villain. And so long as we have the shards taken back ever so often, we don't have to worry about the anime ending. A shard per episode, minus a handful every few episodes and we can go on our happy little anime for as long as we want. Just keep up the slapstick humor, immature and unfounded romantic drama, and eyecandy for the masses and they'll probably never notice.
I like Inuyasha at first, and I still like some of the characters, some of the time. Each one had something good going for him or her, and the idea of the anime was a good solid one. But somewhere along the way it turned into something as repetitive as Sailormoon on a bad day - only instead of having a new half-naked villainess per episode, we have the same five or six people showing up again and again and again for a few hundred episodes so we can keep showing the cute/sappy/funny/angsty/romantic stuff indefinitly.
It's what I think of as an anime with a lot of potential, and driven right into the ground by ignoring that potential and giving in to as wide a variety of fanservice as possible in one show.
A thread about Inuyasha, 8/11 pages of which is a 'who is hotter' yelling match. The question: How to contribute something substantial to this thread? The answer: Hell if I know.
I don't like Inuyasha. When I first heard of it, a friend of mine lent me six books that she had of the manga. I thought it was cute, and I really liked the main character and his 'devil may care if I mock the pretty girl' attitude. The main girl was actually funny and engaging, and I completely sympathized with her annoyance toward the rude dog demon. The art style was pretty, a little thin during the fight scenes, but not bad, and the dialogue was cute and simple, nothing too deep or hard. It made for a nice refreshing read. Then my friend lent me her bootlegs and fansubbed tapes so I could see the anime itself. Over 120 episodes of it. My opinion quickly went downhill.
That refreshing girl turned into an emotional wreck, the epitome of the teenage girl who goes from being normal to instantly in love and tortured by his inconsideration towards her. Those formerly funny 'sit' scenes turned into a cliche for the anime, used any time she was upset as if that were the only reasonable conclusion to an argument. Why bother talking about it or behaving maturely when the character is the epitome of the immature teenage anime girl? No need for anything that might garner respect as a female character, just throw a tantrum and make the audience laugh. After all, no one cares about the person on the receiving end of the abuse.
New characters were introduced to go with this new level of immaturity and slapstick humor. A cute little fox kit with the ability to shape shift and thereby add all sorts of adorable antics to the show. The villain is revealed, with an almost adult explanation for his actions - a major point in favor of the otherwise childish plot devices. Enter the seemingly betrayed female character to counter the immature one - but make sure she's completely unreasonable so the viewers don't like her. After all, the viewers are supposed to only like the immature girl who no feminist would respect in a million years. No point giving the strong female character any redeeming qualities. And since we have two females and a child, introduce the counter male character - a womanizing monk modeled to add to the humor and serve as a second romance just in case the first one didn't do a good job at hiding the fact that the plot is as thin as a spider web stretching over a three mile river. And now that we have the unsavory second male, enter a third female to go with him.
But here the anime does another positive bit, by introducing this new female as a real character with a past, substantial motivation for her actions, and a mature depiction. Only that's a little to respecful for a female character, so quickly divert the attention from her redeeming qualities and go back to the main triangle. Let's see that immature girl throw some more tantrums when the male she's set her heart on still cares about the person he liked from the start. And when we're done with the typical angsty romantic triangle, shift back to that formerly strong female and show that she's actually as useless as the main girl. After all, we wouldn't want to give our female viewers the wrong idea by making them think females could behave like adults. That would go against the entire genre of useless immature females as seen in Fushigi Yuugi and other romantic anime hiding behind facades of plot.
And since there might, just might be viewers out there who want something to happen every thirty episodes, why not have the villian create some henchment to keep things rolling. No point having any drect confrontations that last more than two minutes, just give a mess of pointless minor villains the way any drawn out anime would. It worked for Sailormoon, after all. And while the plot pretends to be moving with the villains attacking and a shard per episode guarantee, add in something for the softies. What about that other male character who shows up once in a while to motivate the main romance? He worked great to introduce the idea of the sword that protects humans and thereby makes the main guy useless unless he's being nice to the main girl. Now it's time to add to that by making that sword become a weakness. After all, the main girl is supposed to be useless, being a girl and all, it just makes sense that the sword meant to protect her would be necessary for the guy not to go nuts. So give him the sword, and then mention, by the way, that if he loses it, he'll go nuts and kill everyone. How's that for a plot device?
Excellent. So now we have a guy who's best weapon makes him completely dependent and therefore useless without it. And since that adds guilt to his role, thereby pushing him into the girl's arms, the minor male character has done his job. But wait, the female viewers like him. We can't have the girl viewers liking someone who hates humans, so let's give him a little girl of his own to soften him up and make him have a weakness just like everyone else. The only one we can have in an anime without a weakness is the main villain after all, the one we hold onto just in case we decide to end the series. And now that we've made that minor male character soft by giving him a kid to care about, the viewers want more of him. So why not take more time out from the already slow plot to give him some encounters with the villain's henchmen that add nothing to the storyline, but give the perfect excuse for him having screentime. After all, the viewers want to see him, it doesn't matter if it adds nothing except eye candy. That's half what the anime is about, eyecandy and weak characters in romantic settings as they pretend to move toward an ultimate goal of defeating the main villain. And so long as we have the shards taken back ever so often, we don't have to worry about the anime ending. A shard per episode, minus a handful every few episodes and we can go on our happy little anime for as long as we want. Just keep up the slapstick humor, immature and unfounded romantic drama, and eyecandy for the masses and they'll probably never notice.
I like Inuyasha at first, and I still like some of the characters, some of the time. Each one had something good going for him or her, and the idea of the anime was a good solid one. But somewhere along the way it turned into something as repetitive as Sailormoon on a bad day - only instead of having a new half-naked villainess per episode, we have the same five or six people showing up again and again and again for a few hundred episodes so we can keep showing the cute/sappy/funny/angsty/romantic stuff indefinitly.
It's what I think of as an anime with a lot of potential, and driven right into the ground by ignoring that potential and giving in to as wide a variety of fanservice as possible in one show.
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