Of course you don't have the slightest clue. YnM makes, in the immortal words of Joss Whedon, the kind of sense that doesn't. And really, the anime is in some ways even worse than the manga for sense-making, because the material is just as incoherent but there's so much less of it there to pick and choose when you're trying to make the whole thing work.
I've seen about six eps for WK, but they left me utterly baffled. I was reasonably confident that I had a recognizable, if not an accurate, mental portrait of (at least one) fandom vision of WK, but to this day I have no damned clue about the real thing, the show that isn't all about Team Evil. Except for the part where I think it must be kind of tedious, because if it weren't the fandom's amazing writers would have done something with it.
All I remember from watching it when I was fourteen years old is that were flowers. Like, a lot of flowers. And now I already know I can write some cheesy villain scene about ikebana.
Unless these characters named Aya, Youji and Omi are really Americans living in New York City. With 90s anime, you really can never tell.
That was pretty much my impression of it, too! And I tried to watch it more recently than you did.
Except for the guys possibly living in New York, at least, because there were all these schoolgirls in it acting like Not New York schoolgirls. Although now I think about it, that doesn't exactly constitute proof that the people making the anime didn't intend us to think they were in New York.
After reading Banana Fish, Petshop of Horrors and a dozen other like manga, I'll never again take it upon myself to discern the exact identity of X Metropolitan Area in an anime/manga unless the location is actually stated. Petshop of Horrors breaks this rule, even--the manga-ka can't decide where her story is set: New York or Los Angeles? I think most Americans can testify that they are two very different towns.
If you and I got the same thing out of it, perhaps you'll do WK again, this time with a little Meine Liebe thrown in? Camus, trench coat, assassin, suspenders. Boots with heels.
...I couldn't figure out how to summarize Gaiden suitably, though. :p
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On the other hand, I've seen maybe 6 eps, plus the OVAs (OAVs? help...) for WK, and feel like I have a reasonable grasp of it. :p
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Of course you don't have the slightest clue. YnM makes, in the immortal words of Joss Whedon, the kind of sense that doesn't. And really, the anime is in some ways even worse than the manga for sense-making, because the material is just as incoherent but there's so much less of it there to pick and choose when you're trying to make the whole thing work.
I've seen about six eps for WK, but they left me utterly baffled. I was reasonably confident that I had a recognizable, if not an accurate, mental portrait of (at least one) fandom vision of WK, but to this day I have no damned clue about the real thing, the show that isn't all about Team Evil. Except for the part where I think it must be kind of tedious, because if it weren't the fandom's amazing writers would have done something with it.
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WK is pretty straightforward. Just, you know. Terrible.
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Unless these characters named Aya, Youji and Omi are really Americans living in New York City. With 90s anime, you really can never tell.
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Except for the guys possibly living in New York, at least, because there were all these schoolgirls in it acting like Not New York schoolgirls. Although now I think about it, that doesn't exactly constitute proof that the people making the anime didn't intend us to think they were in New York.
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If you and I got the same thing out of it, perhaps you'll do WK again, this time with a little Meine Liebe thrown in? Camus, trench coat, assassin, suspenders. Boots with heels.
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