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I find it really hilarious that you resort to being smug and condescending in order to devalue being educated about something. I guess making fun of ourselves for being pretentious wasn't enough for you?

Then again you're usually peddling lazy populist BS about how noble it is to just love Z-grade sex comedies so it doesn't shock me that you feel threatened by anyone talking about entertainment beyond "i liked the boobies and the fart jokes!".

As for your second comment, sorry, I was raised in the southwest and continue to live here. "Like" is and forever will be part of my vocabulary. You'd know all aboot obnoxious regional dialects, though, wouldn't you?

Splitter wrote:

I hate critics who say that their position means they can't be objective. You choose not to be objective. You choose to lord your opinion. This excuse that a critic's job means being entirely subjective is effectively killing the entire industry of paid critics, making their voices worthless because no one is going to give any credence to someone who just wants to listen to the sound of their own voice.

When you talk about critics being "objective", what does that actually mean? Unless we're using very different meanings of the word, objective in this context to me implies the existence of a view about a movie that is factually accurate and which can be verified by all observers. Which is clearly not the case.

Your post is complaining about fanservice, not moe. Ranma824 talked about moe in the post you quoted, and you used it as a launch pad for a rant against fanservicy anime like Ikkitousen and Queen's Blade, ...

Lolicon goes beyond "cultural quirk" and into the territory of wondering about people who are unable to see what is so icky about it.

I would never devalue being educated about anything. Spouting pretentious twaddle about how you are so much more alive to *snooty-sniff* cinema than those poor blighted masses who don't share that background...yeah, I don't value that so much.

I just not an admirer of your lazy, unprofessional, "form an opinion based on the premise before I actually watch the material in question" style of "reviewing."

And verbally punctuating sentences with "like" is not a regional dialect. It is an odious strain of teenybopper argot that has been around since the 1960s and is usually abandoned by anybody over the age of 22, assuming they attain even a modest level of articulateness.

agila61 wrote:

Lolicon goes beyond "cultural quirk" and into the territory of wondering about people who are unable to see what is so icky about it.

While it is "icky", alot of people agree that there are worse things then people getting their fix from drawings.

Then there is always the, "who gets to define what icky is" segment of people as well.

Shorter me: IkkiTousen would be better anime with gangs of high school kids with magical earrings beating the stuffing out of each other along the vague plotline of the 3 Kingdoms but without so much lazy fan service and with some of the female character designs that looked like they had not had plastic surgery (not great anime, but better). OTOH, if its got a market, I'm happy that it keeps some animators in work, and I am happy that Funimation was able to do well in the Xbox360 download market with one of the series.

Good show Zac, except for one problem.

I listened to it through my stereo, and it has some sounds problems through out, where the volume rises and fades. This resulted in me having to lower and raise the volume a few times.

You might want to check out a program like Levelator, that might help even out the overall volume level to a reasonable point, no matter who's talking.

How is it lazy fan service? Have you not seen teenage females in real life with fairly large breasts, I know I sure did a lot when I was in High School.

Okay having not so many large breasted females in the show would not have been so bad, but I don't see nothing wrong with as it is.

Lazy because they have so little variety in their T&A fan service. Compare to the crazy Book of Bantorra / Armed Librarians which has the Asst. Director with 'uge tracts of land ... the scantily clad Noloty, while well endowed, is far from qualifying to be a HS girl on Ikki standards ... and Mirepoc is {shock, horrors} normal.

And the mandatory minimum quota of panty shots and exploding female shirts?

agila61 wrote:

Lazy because they have so little variety in their T&A fan service. Compare to the crazy Book of Bantorra / Armed Librarians which has the Asst. Director with 'uge tracts of land ... the scantily clad Noloty, while well endowed, is far from qualifying to be a HS girl on Ikki standards ... and Mirepoc is {shock, horrors} normal. And the mandatory minimum quota of panty shots and exploding female shirts?

I don't think you need that much variety for a show like Ikki Tousen. It's fine the way I see it. I really don't think there a mandatory minimum quota for those two, it's more along the lines of well how much more can we put in each episode while still having some "plot" along the lines.