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1) "artistic merit"  All shows require uncommon, specialized, artistic skills and talent to produce. That means that Queens Blade also has artistic merit.
2) Since QB does have merit by any objective standards, even if the artistic skills is applied in a way you don't like, we have to restate what you mean instead as heavy fanservice You are implying that there is some kind of inherent mutual exclusion. If you are right, that the majority of people only buys these types of shows at the expense of others, then other types of shows would not be made. Yet year after year, we see that is not the case in the slightest. How do you explain that for this past winter season alone, out of 30 shows, or about 26 excluding shorts/specials, only one show, Highschool DxD, is like this, with heavy ecchi and nudity? (I can concede including Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father if you want to include something much tamer) How do you explain the existence of Brave 10, Mouretsu Pirates, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi, Aquarion Evol, Ano Natsu de Matteru, Daily Lives of Highschool Boys, Another, just to name some of the others for the past season... and sports shows like Prince of Tennis 2 and The Knight in the Area--you know, that shounen soccer show--kinds of shows that are also continuously made? |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Otaku trash has been killing anime since the 80s. Nay, since the 70s if you trace it back to Cutey Honey. Anime sure is dying constantly, isn't it? Japanese PTAs complained about Maicching Machiko Sensei having too much ecchi and sexual content, and that anime is 31 years old. Having seen only the first two episodes, my impression is that it's kind of a precursor to works like Mitsudomoe no Kodomo no Jikan. And what exactly is "artistic merit"? Heavy dialog and focus on deep subject matter only? I for one don't want to see anime only be a Ghibli and Oshii world, that would be dreadful even if I do like both of them. And it's not as if Chagen even has an argument to stand on, there's a few "artistic merit" shows airing next season and Queen's Blade isn't stopping any one of them from getting made. I guess people complaining about anime sucking now and not everything being a Cowboy Bebop or GitS clone are a staple of anime fandom, and those arguments have been around even before GitS was made. Like people complaining about Sailor Moon and Slayers and asking whatever happened to Queen Millennia or Harlock-like shows. I love space and military shows the most, but I also love that anime can give us ecchi schoolgirl harem shows or fantasy or shows to relax to. I just ask the producers give it them budgets and try hard to make a good result, regardless of content. |
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Gon*Gon
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eh, GitS sucked anyways, glad they don't make too many things like that. Transhumanism never works as a theme.
That said, "artistic merit" is probably one of the most subjective and most overrated quality imaginable. Noone can agree what it even is to begin with. First, how does any anime lack "artistic merit" in the first place? Just a single minor conversation takes up hours of work animating character movements, character design is taken into account, and even background music is taken into consideration. Now if we talk about Queen's Blade, it has fight scenes, which requires more attention to movements than a simple conversation, and it has exceptionally wild character designs thanks to it's source materials. And even if it lacked artistic merit...how does that hurt anime in anyway? |
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ArsenicSteel
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Transhumanism always works as a theme.
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scineram
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People like this are the Cancer Killing Anime. |
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TheAncientOne
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Both were acquired as library titles from Media Blasters. If CR acquired Rebellion as a simulcast, it would have to be without and possibly in competition with Media Blasters. |
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Dakaran
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Aya Endo in Queen's Blade ... . . .... /shock
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enurtsol
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So, Branwen is like Bane?
Every entertainment industry has that, even Hollywood/Bollywood/Wire-Fu/etc. Why expect difference?
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