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Or a lead of either gender and a platonic relationship with someone of the opposite gender? Finding a truly platonic relationship between men and women in fiction is like finding hen's teeth.

musouka wrote:

Or a lead of either gender and a platonic relationship with someone of the opposite gender? Finding a truly platonic relationship between men and women in fiction is like finding hen's teeth.

Indeed. I'd love more of this, but writers/directors/creators just can't seem to resist tacking on a romance (often either barely developed or any development that does exist detracting from the story rather than adding to it). It's as if they can't imagine a man/boy and woman/girl having a relationship that's anything but sexual or that a man being 'just friends' with a woman would be just horrible....

When Harry Met Sally already settled that question all those years ago!

enurtsol wrote:

When Harry Met Sally already settled that question all those years ago!

Uh, no. And frankly I wish people would stop trotting it out when the subject comes up.

I prefer female leads, but its not like a show having a male character is a flaw.

rederoin wrote:

I prefer female leads, but its not like a show having a male character is a flaw.

No, the show being painfully bland and unoriginal looking is a flaw. Also a waste of Studio 8's time.

Fencedude5609 wrote:

rederoin wrote: I prefer female leads, but its not like a show having a male character is a flaw. No, the show being painfully bland and unoriginal looking is a flaw. Also a waste of Studio 8's time.

Hasn't aired yet.....

Kaioshin_Sama wrote:

Fencedude5609 wrote: rederoin wrote: I prefer female leads, but its not like a show having a male character is a flaw. No, the show being painfully bland and unoriginal looking is a flaw. Also a waste of Studio 8's time. Hasn't aired yet.....

Its the cool thing to do now-a-days, judge an anime-orginal show before it has aired.

rederoin wrote:

Kaioshin_Sama wrote: Fencedude5609 wrote: rederoin wrote: I prefer female leads, but its not like a show having a male character is a flaw. No, the show being painfully bland and unoriginal looking is a flaw. Also a waste of Studio 8's time. Hasn't aired yet..... Its the cool thing to do now-a-days, judge an anime-orginal show before it has aired.

We're saying that the show looks painfully bland and unoriginal based on the PV.

Thats not my point.

Its the cool thing to do now-a-days, judge an anime-orginal show before it has aired.

Or a lead of either gender and a platonic relationship with someone of the opposite gender? Finding a truly platonic relationship between men and women in fiction is like finding hen's teeth.

The interesting thing is that I'm pretty sure that the people acting the most butthurt are in no way the target audience to begin with if their primary concerns for an upcoming mecha show are the number of female cast members present (of which there actually appear to be plenty going by the character sketches) and whether they can get a yuri relationship somewhere in the show.

Kaioshin_Sama wrote:

The interesting thing is that I'm pretty sure that the people acting the most butthurt are in no way the target audience to begin with if their primary concerns for an upcoming mecha show are the number of female cast members present (of which there actually appear to be plenty going by the character sketches) and whether they can get a yuri relationship somewhere in the show.

Yes, Kaisos. I totally hate mecha shows and have no interest in them at all.

Which is totally why I spent $400 last year to buy the Special Edition of The 2nd Super Robot Wars OG. Not to mention importing numerous other Super Robot Wars games.

Kaisos, please. Stop acting like people can fit into nice, neat categories. I happen to be a mecha fan and a yuri fan and a fan of female lead characters in general.

And speaking as the first, this show looks [expletive] bland as shit.