Forum - View topicNEWS: Daichi Sorayomi's Keijo!!!!!!!! Aquatic Sports Manga Gets TV Anime
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Double Jeopardy! I'll take "Guy who should not antagonize other users with undue snark". So how about we all keep it civil. Thanks. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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It seems that Keijo could be a counterpart to Free, as they both have to do with aquatic sports. I think I might give it a watch sometime, since I'm interested in how this titular sport show will play out.
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John Hayabusa
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By the way, I kind of noticed that Nozomi looks like Love Live's own Nozomi. They even share the same name.
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Chagen46
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Woa-ho, this looks like hot garbage. And this is a shounen series? Jesus, what happened to shounen?
Sad part is if this dropped the anime cheesecake angle it could actually be a pretty good fighting series. I'd pay to see and read cheesy shounen King of the Hill (the game, not the cartoon) with cute girls. |
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Amiantos
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I took a look out of curiousity since I like to give shit a look before judging it. Series turned out to be highly amusing. |
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yusuke19
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Thank you |
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kevinx59
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I...like how this looks like. I really like the artwork, and the story sounds amusing. Plus, the girls look cute. I'm defiantly gonna watch this.
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Ninjajake12
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I remember reading the first chapter of this a while back. It was ok. No, it isn't as 'disgusting' or 'filthy' as a lot of people are assuming. Can anyone tell me when a synopsis was ever a great source to represent a series? It's something written to give you an idea of what the series is about, but not what the entire series is about.
For comparison, let's take the synopsis of 'Free!' from ANN: "Four boys named Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa and Rin all participated in a swimming tournament shortly before graduating elementary school and later parted ways. Years later, they reunite when Rin challenges Haruka to a race and wins. Not wanting to be defeated so easily, Haruka gathers Makoto and Nagisa and a new recruit named Rei to form the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club." So it basically makes it out to be a generic, swimming-club series. But from what I've heard, it's much more than that. The synopsis is supposed to give you a very generic understanding of what the genre is. Perhaps it will have surprising character development and a storyline. Obviously they won't give it away in the intro summary. So fanservice, yes. Outrageous, disgusting fanservice (from what I read), no. Always be wary about judging a book by its cover. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it misguides you. |
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ptj_tsubasa
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You do realize this isn't an invented sport, right? It's a thing that exists. The joke is that in this series it's an actual sport with lots of money going around, and not just sideshow entertainment like in the real world. |
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CrowLia
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Could you point me to more information on the subject? When I search for Keijo (not sure if the sport has any other name, but the article implies that's the name of the sport), the only results I get are screenshots from the manga, which aren't really helpful. Even searches under the Japanese title only seem to point at the manga. I have a hard time imagining there's a real "serious" event that consists of women shoving their boobs and asses against each other. The premise of shoving people off a platform into a pool is not unheard of, it's the MO that makes it suspect and eye-roll worthy |
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leafy sea dragon
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Well, some people call all-girl mud wrestling a sport when that's clearly fanservice.
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ptj_tsubasa
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I'm not sure it actually even has a proper name - not more than "girls playing tug-of-war while standing on floating platforms" does. Which is also a thing that exists.
It's not like they're "proper" or "serious" things or anything, or even actual sports for that matter. But it's most definitely not something that the mangaka came up with himself. This actually reminds me of the time when people had no idea that ouendan is a thing, and were completely baffled by Elite Beat Agents. |
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Snomaster1
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I've read a little bit on "Keijo!!!!!!!" and judging by the response to it,it looks like this is going to be pretty controversial. I agree with those who say it's "Free!" for the male set. You can be sure about this. Feminists aren't going to like this one,not one bit.
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