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Mr Adventure
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 Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:34 pm
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| Juhachi wrote: | | I've always heard about this series but never really looked into it. Reading a bit of the summary from Jason's article, it seems pretty intriguing, and I must echo a previous poster:
How is it that a series like this, which seems to get more or less universal critical acclaim, does not have an anime adaptation? Is the current anime market too overrun with moe and otaku fodder that a series like this doesn't have a chance in hell in getting adapted? |
It got three live-action feature films. Which was probably some kind of feat.
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Shay Guy
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 5:43 pm
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| Quote: | | My favorite character was Kyoko Koizumi, the schoolgirl with the rotten luck, who makes all those wonderful exasperated expressions (in both manga and live-action movie). As much as she tries to avoid being entangled in the fight between Kenji's group and the Friends, she ends up more entrenched in it by sheer coincidence, and it's both comical and tragic how she ends up getting wrangled back into things. |
Yeah, "Disaster Child" is hilarious. Has the same "stumbled into significance" feel of the main characters, except she didn't inadvertently cause the plot, she just poked her nose in the wrong place and met the wrong person at the wrong time. And eventually, we find out she does have an extraordinary talent, which has no plot significance whatsoever.  "I don't even want this [trophy]!"
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penguintruth
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
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Location: Penguinopolis
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:26 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | Yeah, "Disaster Child" is hilarious. Has the same "stumbled into significance" feel of the main characters, except she didn't inadvertently cause the plot, she just poked her nose in the wrong place and met the wrong person at the wrong time. And eventually, we find out she does have an extraordinary talent, which has no plot significance whatsoever. "I don't even want this [trophy]!" |
Hey, that second bowling boom is coming one of these days!
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:24 pm
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| Shay Guy wrote: | Yeah, "Disaster Child" is hilarious. Has the same "stumbled into significance" feel of the main characters, except she didn't inadvertently cause the plot, she just poked her nose in the wrong place and met the wrong person at the wrong time. And eventually, we find out she does have an extraordinary talent, which has no plot significance whatsoever. "I don't even want this [trophy]!" |
I agree that was an excellent note for the very very very ending. -_-
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GVman
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:12 pm
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| Mr Adventure wrote: |
| Juhachi wrote: | | I've always heard about this series but never really looked into it. Reading a bit of the summary from Jason's article, it seems pretty intriguing, and I must echo a previous poster:
How is it that a series like this, which seems to get more or less universal critical acclaim, does not have an anime adaptation? Is the current anime market too overrun with moe and otaku fodder that a series like this doesn't have a chance in hell in getting adapted? |
It got three live-action feature films. Which was probably some kind of feat. |
Wasn't the first one the most expensive film Japan had ever made, too?
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v1cious
Joined: 31 Dec 2002
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:34 am
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Damn I need to finish this manga someday. I read all the way up to where Friend dies, and then I just stopped for some reason. Don't know why.
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