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REVIEW: Comic Artist and His Assistants Episodes 1-12 Streaming

And all this while in a position of power over most of them. It's a very queasy-making situation (even if the show or the characters don't seem to realize it), all the more so because the most explicitly sexual situations are reserved for the most explicitly helpless character. That would be assistant Sena, who is not only young (looking?), but is specifically presented as physically powerless. When they meet Aito force-cuddles her, knowing full well she can't resist. When Sena punishes him for that, he turns the beating sexual, which reasserts his dominance. In a later vignette he Svengalis her into peeing into a plastic bottle...and letting him help. Their scenes together get their "humor" from tearing down her pride, stripping her of strength and power. She's proud and aggressive and female and thus must be brought down. That alone would tank the series.

mangamuscle wrote:

Then he goes on to say that the whole deal with Sena "only makes whole enterprise that much ickier." <--- see again the passive aggressiveness? It is not comedy, it is something only perverts would enjoy or at least is what he wants us to feel.

So Carl saying that he feels a certain apsect is icky means that anyone who likes the show is a pervert? This reeks of a case of taking criticism on show as a personal attack, when it's not one at all.

I am clearly saying that he is making things up (aka lying) to make the ignorant (since he/she has not seen the series) reader feel that the show is disgusting (and therefore only disgusting people would like it). Because no matter how you dice it, a show can be boring, cliche, whatever; but when you draw the disgusting card you are inviting the reader to either completely shun the series (or, if he/she knows better) tell upon the lie being said.

It just seems like a story made by a pervert, about a pervert, for perverts, none of whom want their story to be critiqued, even though it's as deserving as anything else.

just a harmless bit of ecchi fun

A good review is measured by objectivity and the ability to put yourself in the shoes of both sides, take the target audience into account, modify your rubric accordingly and weigh the pros and cons and be man enough to say: "I don't like it, but perhaps people who enjoy such comedy will"

Can I make the daring suggestion that someone liking a "disgusting" show (not even necessarily this show) does not automatically make that person a disgusting person?

Now let me explain you why your daring suggestion is plain wrong, bear with me, I cannot do it in less than 15 words. Imagine yourself hearing the radio, a local and popular host is doing his daily talk show. Then you hear he say "Anime is disgusting!". Lets forget for a moment you felt rage (why would you? unless you feel it is personal of course). You calm yourself and continue hearing, trying to find out what show is he talking about, no doubt he is talking about one you feel is disgusting. But lo and behold, the show he is talking is where in one scene one human being starts gushing streams of blood from his nose! It does not matter if he is saying this out of sheer ignorance or he is doing it on purpose ("lying thru his teeth" we would say), he continues to describe how disgusted and revolted he felt and how common it was in anime. Now lets be honest, you might try to explain to close friends and relatives what it really means/the context, but there is no way you are going to tell coworkers or people you see daily but barely know their names that you like anime, why? Because their reaction, their faces would say "Yuk, you are disgusting!".

I'm more likely to interpret their reaction/faces as "Eh, that's kinda weird, but whatever floats your boat."

But even if they did outright call me disgusting for that, why would that mean I am disgusting? If someone is overly judgmental of another person over what they like, that is their problem.

If I may make a friendly suggestion, how about not basing your self-worth on what relative strangers think about you? Or at the very least, not basing your self-worth on what those people think about the things you like?

(And I was using quotation marks because I was referring to any show that is called disgusting in one place or another, not just the subject of this thread.)

Never fear, not for a moment I calculate my self worth by the opinion of strangers nor do I lose sleep thinking about what people might think about what I like.

mangamuscle wrote:

Never fear, not for a moment I calculate my self worth by the opinion of strangers nor do I lose sleep thinking about what people might think about what I like.

It always amuses me that after making post after post and leaving behind a wall of text, someone says, "Not that I care..." I always find that tremendously psychologically convincing.

Oi vey ... is that your idea of a zinger? Yeah, you may want to think about firing whoever is writing your lousy dialogue.

I like reviews to have personality. Entertainment is subjective. If Carl found aspects of the show distasteful, the review should reflect that.