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The Fall 2014 Anime Preview Guide

Why is no one, and I repeat, no one ever bringing up the fact that the humanoid cockroaches in Terraformars look like incredibly-racist caricatures of black people?

The bottom age would have to be 18 if they're holding down jobs, or multiple ones at that, as well as living independently. Joshiraku did the same thing with not making it perfectly clear how old the girls were when they all looked young, but I think a few of them were in their late 20s and married, and all except Kigu were at least 20.

Terraformars - This is a pretty awful show so far quite honestly. It's comically overwrought. The dialogue is awful. Back-story is clumsily and literally explained. The plot is very piecemeal so far. Nothing actually struck me as remotely interesting about the characters either. And finally, visually the show is actually quite ugly. The budget is obviously miniscule and the action scenes are tremendously insubstantial and the art style isn't much better either. It's like an attempt to ape the washed out, shadowy look of an old early 90s OVA but with none of the visual flair that actually made some of those works interesting to look at. I'm hoping it will get more interesting or at least entertaining once they get to Mars but so far I'm totally unimpressed. - 1.5/5

Gundam Reconguista in G - This show looks quite nice. Minimal CG, nice clean and colorful character and mecha designs and none of it is over-designed/over-detailed to the point of all blending together. Can't say as much for the story though. It's borderline passable I guess. It's not super coherent though and there are already way too many characters. The main character is also bordering on annoyingly perfect and hyper-competent. Could well get it together but so far I'm less than thrilled. - 2.5/5

Chagen46 wrote:

Why is no one, and I repeat, no one ever bringing up the fact that the humanoid cockroaches in Terraformars look like incredibly-racist caricatures of black people? As an actual black person, they turned me off immediately to the series and I refuse to watch it no matter how good it could possibly be.

When I first read this I rolled my eyes and said, "oh there goes that wacky Chagen46 being Chagen46-ish again." I have only seen the first episode of the TV series and as JesuOtaku says, you don't really get a good look at the Cockroach Peeps.

So I image Googled and... dayum ... Chagen46 might actually be on to something.

jl07045 wrote:

4chan's been on to the similarity and making jokes out of it for quite some time.

Thats 4chan acting like 4chan always does, I don't see how that is relevant.

HitokiriShadow wrote:

There's "iyashikei", of which Aria is the defining example. I'm not sure it really applies to this, but it's not like there are specific requirements for show to be considered that, and like 'moe', it seems somewhat viewer dependent. I don't consider cute-girls-doing-things to be inherently 'iyashikei' though, and I don't see it used for most such shows.

It does apply to these kind of shows at all, its for shows such as Aria, Sketchbook, Non Non Biyori, tamayura etc..