Comments | futuresoon: And the animation is surprisingly good for a series that didn't need much in the way of it, too.

futuresoon

And the animation is surprisingly good for a series that didn't need much in the way of it, too.

Jun 15, 2010 11:22

Basically a summary of what I have been doing for the last while is "watching 25 episodes of Toradora in two days", ha ha. And other things! But 25 episodes of something in two days probably outranks them in term of time consumption.

Toradora is an anime that we watched in anime club like, two years ago or something, I don't even remember. We didn' ( Read more... )

sophie scholl: the final days, episode ramblings: doctor who, i rec stuff, doctor who, ain't no het in hetalia, toradora, i like movies, i like anime apparently

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harena June 15 2010, 18:28:52 UTC

But it has a happy ending, right?

. o O (ohgods, i don't even know why i'm asking, it is not like i'd ever get around to watching it; never got past episode 11 or so of Hetalia ;p)

futuresoon June 15 2010, 19:23:55 UTC

Toradora? Weeeellll, I haven't quite decided whether or not the ending is a satisfying one; it sort of...is happy, then not happy, but happy again, but the not-happy affects my judgment of the final happy? Something like that. I will say that their first kiss is crazy-adorable, though.

harena June 15 2010, 20:07:59 UTC

In spite of crazy-adorable first kisses, i don't guess i'll be in any big hurry to see this one what with that assessment and all ;P

thewaterbandit June 15 2010, 19:16:02 UTC

A romantic anime without fanservice or harems? CAN such a thing exist? :o

(The Lodger succeeded in worming Eleven right into the very inner recesses of my heart, and now he is stuck there for good. So I suppose I rather liked it!)

futuresoon June 15 2010, 19:29:51 UTC

Well, there's some fanservice, but the character who provides the majority of it is doing it on purpose because she thinks that's the best way to be popular, and it's not nearly as over-the-top as it is in most others. Same for the harem aspect, really; it's there, but not openly stated, and for the most part the guy doesn't even realize it. And it's a comparatively small one, anyway.

(Eleven wormed his way into my heart in the first episode, so it is excellent to see that this is happening to others! All the fun of Ten without the Epic Manpain, at least so far.)

thewaterbandit June 16 2010, 08:53:25 UTC

If you're looking for an anime with literally no fanservice or harems, I can recommend Lovely Complex! It's about a very tall girl who falls in love with a very short boy, but there's a lot more to it than that, and it's very charming in a goofy way (much like the girl herself, really). Sounds like if you liked Toradora you might like this too.

(You know my love for Ten is deep and all-encompassing (even the Epic Manpain) so falling for Eleven was quite unexpected!)

futuresoon June 16 2010, 17:14:06 UTC

Ooooh, I'll have to check that out! I've heard the title but didn't know anything else about it, and er tall girl/short guy is another one of the things that I kind of really like so yeah. *cough*

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selenak June 15 2010, 19:20:29 UTC

Never mind your parents, I'm shocked there is Hetalia fic about Sophie Scholl. (Also prone to ponder whether fandom's - justified - uproar about the latest SPN fail re: using the Haiti earthquake as background for RPS means I can object to a real life heroine of mine whose sister was alive until only a few years ago being used for cartoon fanfic. Otoh, I presume without said fanfic you would not have heard of Sophie Scholl, so that there is education?)

Anyway. I visited the same university the Scholls did, and there is a memorial to them and all the White Rose students and their professor in the aula where they were arrested after dropping their leaflets, which I passed countless times. The house where she and her brother Hans lived in an apartment also has a memorial marker. At the end of the film Downfall/Der Untergang you get an excerpt from an interview with the real Traudl Junge, the one of Hitler's secretaries who is sort of the central character, and she talks about having been in denial about her own part, telling herself ( ... )

futuresoon June 15 2010, 19:58:30 UTC

Since Hetalia is kind of all about history, yeah, there's a fair amount of fic that has real historical figures in it. And in cases like this, the fandom takes it very seriously; nobody tries to make jokes about real atrocities, and if they do they're immediately ostracized (I've only seen that happen once, in a post about a cosplay incident; hundreds if not thousands of people in the comm immediately expressed shock and rage over the whole thing, and nobody tried to sympathize with the ones responsible). The Sophie Scholl fic was very good, and very well-handled. We're a lot smarter and a lot more aware of the dangers of our fandom than people think we are. And yeah, I hadn't heard of Sophie Scholl before it; I hadn't heard of a lot of things before I got into Hetalia. If there's one thing you can say about the fandom, it's that you certainly learn a lot from it. And the things you learn aren't necessarily happy ones.