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REVIEW: Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3 Episodes 1-6 Streaming

@ Key: I disagree with your assessment that Yura has been portrayed as spoiler[self-centred] right from the get go. To me, in the early stages, Yura was portrayed as nice but shy.

And Rin's characterization seems off too (sorry, I'm going beyond the scope of episodes 1 thru 6 here). She's established as a ruthless, win-at-all costs character but in ep 10 spoiler[she's suddenly all about teamwork as opposed to winning results.] Horse-phooey, sez I.

@ Polycell: I just don't buy what was set-up. We see Yura being spoiler[incredibly effective and contributing to Meisei's victory at the start of the episode. But supposedly Rin sees something she doesn't like so she deliberately puts an emerging star into a role where her aggression and skill can't be put to the best use?] Baloney. Psychologically, I could see if the show was trying to indicate that Rin wasspoiler[ jealous of Yura and felt her Queen B status was threatened,] but the show doesn't seem to be taking that tack.

Since Japanese otaku usually are averse to dramatic changes in established formats, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this one doesn't go over well sales-wise.

Oh, remember Upotte? As far as I can tell, it was right in line with what you'd expect to appeal to otaku with the premise and it sold pretty badly. C3bu was 'dead on arrival'; it never had a pre-order heartbeat, so it nothing to do with Yura's character arc.

@SquadmemberRitsu: Have you actually watched the show at all? That's not what it is and not what happens, not by a big stretch.

@HitokiriShadow: In a way, it does: a number of elements were poached from other characters' manga arcs for Yura's anime-original arc and from what I've seen quite a few fans aren't happy with Gainax's changes.

Upotte's, like Ebiten's, sales can also be partly be blamed on the ONA style streaming instead of normal late-night run. C3-bu has the "Gainax" label, for whatever that's worth, and it's also not running as an ONA, and yeah, even the first week stalker points had it near the bottom.

I mean, why do they even need Evangelion levels of wangst in a show about little girls playing a harmless sport?

All this stupidity because the people at Gainax were too damn lazy to do a little research on airsoft and try and make up something in the same vein as the source material.

Because of that I looked at this show to learn stuff about airsoft and I get... 2deep4u supernatural explanations, random pretentious bullshit (AIMING WITHOUT AIMING) and silly over the top joke tactics that make no sense in a real world context.

The characters suck, the plot sucks, the drama sucks, the airsoft sucks and the show has zero charm. Basically the show has nothing going for it which is evident in its sales.