Full disclosure: I may be slightly hooked on that new Tiger and Bunny thing

[rallamajoop]

Five Things About Superheros that would Make More Sense if they were all contestants in a Corporate-Sponsored Reality TV Program

1. The brightly coloured spandex ("They need to show up on camera! They need to be recognisable, especially when they're moving at superspeed and all the camera gets is a red blur crashing into a brown blur! Think about how

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[sansele]

I don't have enough YES in my vocab to describe how much I agree with this entry.

[rallamajoop]

Like everyone in fandom hasn't made the Barnaby=Batman jokes already by this point. ;) But what the hey, I jumped the bandwagon late, I am entitled to my share of making fun of the obvious stuff. >D

[sansele]

Barnaby = Batman jokes will never get old, trufax. XD

[miconazole]

Re: skimpy swimsuit costumes, I saw this the other day: Male superheroes in Wonder Woman's pose.

[rallamajoop]

I totally had an intelligent comment to make about that and then I got to Cable and lost it completely for some reason. BAHAHAHAHAHA! XD

[etrangere]

Yeah, it's a pretty amazing reconstruction show :)

[rallamajoop]

It's been vaguely bugging me since the first episodes that there are so many things! that they could be doing with the premise that would make it much more of an outright commentary on/parody of all the traditional superhero tropes - only they're not, because that's clearly not the direction they want to go with the idea. Which is cool, but it doesn't stop me having ideas all the damn time. ^^;

But mostly, I'm just really enjoying seeing something so new and different come out of the anime market for a change, y'know? And all those unexpected developments that have come up just in the last few episodes sure don't hurt.

[etrangere]

only they're not, because that's clearly not the direction they want to go with the idea.
actually I find that pretty refreshing, because there are so many parodies, commentaries & deconstruction of superheroes out there, in a whole variety of media, and some of them are very good, but a lot of them feel very... like, rote criticism by now? So the whole PoV of "okay, we know about those stuff, but how do we make a fun, heart-warming show out of them?" feels kind of original and nice.
Though having ideas to explore the setting is also great for fanfics, which cannot be a bad thing ^^

But mostly, I'm just really enjoying seeing something so new and different come out of the anime market for a change, y'know?
God yes. Especially after the pretty drab seasons we've been having recently -_-;

[rallamajoop]

Well, mostly I just really want to hear more about the history of heros and hero TV, you know? There's such fantastic scope for a scenario where heros started off as the traditional masked vigilantes who only gained widespread public acceptance and popularity when someone came up with the idea of putting their whole careers on national TV and getting the sponsors in on the act. Doesn't seem so likely now since we've seen everyone treating a character like Lunatic as something scary and new, and considering all we've learnt about Mr Legend's true legacy they're certainly not shying away from introducing a few darker themes and deconstructing parts of their own mythos, but overall I think there's plenty of space to explore that kind of stuff without losing the whimsical tone. As they would seem to be in the process of doing. And that in itself does make a very refreshing change. :)

[celadonite]

I really need to catch up on that show. It's like Watchmen on crack meets American consumer culture or something.

[rallamajoop]

Heh, that's a pretty good description. You've got to admire their balls in taking all that sponsorship money and turning it into a feature rather than just a bug. IMO, definitely worth catching up right now. It may have took a little while to grab me initially, but lately it's just been getting more and more engrossing with every episode. =D

why do I not have a bunny icon

[velithya]

my parents are deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeead

I cannot imagine, you should really do something about that

[rallamajoop]

http://zer0graves.tumblr.com/post/7043519384

Re: I cannot imagine, you should really do something about that

[velithya]

heh, I already saw that one a while ago ;P

Fine then

[velithya]