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What are you watching right now? Why? (please read 1st post)

I'm going to be completely honest with you. I don't particularly care for Nunnally. At all. Forstadt's performance does NOT help much, since she's trying way too hard to sound like a little girl (Nunnally is about fourteen). But even then, it's partially not her fault. The character is so generically nice and cute and utterly inoffensive that it's hard to get me to give a sh*t about her.[...]there is no role for Nunnally to play in the story that cannot be filled by Shirley or Sayoko or even Marianne. Nunnally, to put it bluntly, is POINTLESS. When I look at her, I do not see a character. I see a marketing tool calculated to squeeze as much money from moe-loving otaku as humanly possible.

Akane the Catgirl wrote:

I'm going to be completely honest with you. I don't particularly care for Nunnally. At all. Forstadt's performance does NOT help much, since she's trying way too hard to sound like a little girl (Nunnally is about fourteen). But even then, it's partially not her fault. The character is so generically nice and cute and utterly inoffensive that it's hard to get me to give a sh*t about her.[...]there is no role for Nunnally to play in the story that cannot be filled by Shirley or Sayoko or even Marianne. Nunnally, to put it bluntly, is POINTLESS. When I look at her, I do not see a character. I see a marketing tool calculated to squeeze as much money from moe-loving otaku as humanly possible.

To be honest, I think it's difficult to clearly draw the lines without direct knowledge of the situation. In a few words, storytelling and marketing are often overlapping in anime as well as in the entire entertainment industry.

I don't have any sort of personal interest in "moe" (neither in the purely protective sense nor any other) and I didn't really like the performance of the English voice actress either. However, the character still ended up playing a practical role in the story as it stands, regardless of whether she was handled perfectly or not. If you want to talk about a truly pointless character, there's always Rivalz.

I can see how you could split Nunnally's existing role into several characters and that would seem to work in several cases, especially during the first season, but I think that would lead to some very different consequences in the long run. If you take her out of the story, I don't see Lelouch reacting in quite the same way to various events, nor would the dramatic irony of the whole situation come across in the same manner at certain points. It's also possible that the character might end up playing a completely different role in the upcoming production, thus further modifying the analysis in retrospect. That said, you are clearly free to think otherwise.

Also, Chiibi is threatening our friendship by refusing to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Its pretty hard on me.

@ Chiibi

Don't look at CLAMP; they only did the character designs.

(yeah, I love Eren too :3 lol I should finish AoT so I can enjoy season 2 with the rest of the world )

Well, back in 2014, I watched the first cour in about two days and really enjoyed it. Then I got mad they changed the OP.

Chiibi wrote:

Well, back in 2014, I watched the first cour in about two days and really enjoyed it. Then I got mad they changed the OP.

WHAT? The 2nd opening is good too. Or decent. I thought both openings fit the show very well and I like them but I wouldn't listen to the full versions.

Umm.. Code Geass' S1 opening 1 is fantastic, the 2nd opening almost makes my ears bleed. Why the fudge did they use the awesome 3rd opening for only like 2 episodes? What a waste. Should have ditched that 2nd opening and use the 3rd one instead.

BECK is one of those "dub or go home" shows