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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:12 am Reply with quote
Um, I can't vote on the new poll. Confused
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tintor2



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:43 am Reply with quote
The old poll also seems recycled. I'm pretty sure ANN made the one about longhaired characters months ago.
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Roxas4ever



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:52 am Reply with quote
Great list, Lynzee! Hopefully we will see less of the "fanservice fall" in the future Anime hyper
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Sahmbahdeh



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:56 am Reply with quote
Yeah, I can't access the new poll, either.
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WingKing



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:04 am Reply with quote
tintor2 wrote:
The old poll also seems recycled. I'm pretty sure ANN made the one about longhaired characters months ago.


Yeah, I think there was an editing mistake. The poll question at the end of last week's column was, "Who is this season's best hero?"

I remember getting a good laugh from Toradora when it kind of lampshaded the "maid cafe" trope by having basically every class in the school doing a maid cafe except the protagonists' class.
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MarshalBanana



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:29 am Reply with quote
Everytime I see that laugh, I think I'm going to hear "Ranma sama"
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Animegomaniac



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 11:42 am Reply with quote
5A. If You're a Shonen Anime Protagonist, One or Both of Your Parents Are Dead

5B. If You're a Harem Anime Protagonist Related to Tenchi Misaki in Some Way, Your Parents Are Enforcing the Harem... And Work at Home.
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AnimeLordLuis



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:05 pm Reply with quote
I can't believe that shouting at the top of you're lungs before you attack someone isn't on the list it's literally in every Anime action series ever made. Rolling Eyes
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belvadeer





PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:30 pm Reply with quote
The ohohoho laugh isn't even relegated strictly to ojousama types either. Plenty of regular girls do it too, for one reason or another.
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K.o.R



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 12:47 pm Reply with quote
FORUM DAAAAAA! Very Happy
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JacobC
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:28 pm Reply with quote
Sorry about the issues with the poll stuff at the bottom guys, I've created a new poll and updated the results from last week's poll.
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killjoy_the



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:39 pm Reply with quote
Thanks Jake

Kinda surprised with some of last week's results, particularly Fate's. Thought most people disliked Sieg.
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 1:46 pm Reply with quote
I've seen a couple of "evil oujo-sama" characters in recent shows, but they tend to be more complex than their original incarnations. Diana in Little Witch Academia clearly draws on this tradition, including her adoring followers Hannah and Barbara, but Diana has a lot more depth and grows considerably over the series. Princess Principal introduced such a character in the last episode, along with her two lackeys, but she has deeper motives as well. We haven't seen enough of Lily Gaveston yet to know if she will play a bigger role or not. Lily does get cut down to size by Princess who delivers one of the best lines of dialogue of 2017. spoiler["I thought you were my friend. Maybe I should reconsider?"]
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nechronius



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:07 pm Reply with quote
#4 has what appears to be a borderline misleading thumbnail. It took a bit of staring to figure out that there's actually THREE people in that picture, not two. Otherwise the mysterious pair of legs looks like a fall that went HORRIBLY wrong.
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Zin5ki



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 2:17 pm Reply with quote
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5. If You're a Harem Anime Protagonist, Your Parents Are "Gone on Business"

It could be far worse! An equal number of such unseen characters transpire to be conveniently dead.
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