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Shelf Life - Okami Pinkos

HitokiriShadow wrote:

All of them, however, use something over the "o" to indicate long vowels.... at least some of the time.

All of them have a way to represent these vowels, yes. But again, in practice, they often are ignored.

Zalis116 wrote:

I'd say the best part was the flashbacks in episode 6 into Ryouko and Ringo's past, particularly Ringo calling out Ryouko on the latter's sleep-talking.

Ringo was, in general, a very interesting character. I would have liked to see more exploration of her feelings for Ryouko, as unrequited as they clearly were.

a collection of only boob anime? I can't say I don't have any or don't like the romantic comedy but my palette is bigger than that.

Anyways LoL Heros seems like something I could watch if I run out of things and want to buy it. Space brothers I already watch and semi-enjoy. The score is beautiful as she said. As for the first one... The number 1 thing that is turning me off anime is that it is just all cliche and nothing new or creative, and if a review says it has alot of that I probably won't be watching.

Zalis116 wrote:

I'd say the best part was the flashbacks in episode 6 into Ryouko and Ringo's past, particularly Ringo calling out Ryouko on the latter's sleep-talking.

Ringo was, in general, a very interesting character. I would have liked to see more exploration of her feelings for Ryouko, as unrequited as they clearly were.

I only caught a bit of the dub; while I make no statements about its overall quality, I do have to wonder why they had to preserve "Okamisan" instead of just using her last name.

zensunni wrote:

All of a sudden, I could pay attention to the really very good art, enjoy the humor of the narration and the characters 4th wall violations, and the really fun way they twist the fairytale stories into, yes, fairly typical anime tropes and cliches. I usually don't have that much trouble with cliche elements in shows anyway, since, in my opinion, they are always there in most every type of entertainment and people tend to complain about them too much.

First, the art is only slightly better than average, and second, your opinion about cliches might change after you've seen the SAME DAMN ONES for the last 6 years running. Just sayin'.

Zalis116 wrote:

Quote: Unfortunately, Ōkami-san turns sour every time it resorts to clichés, tropes, and anime standards. I see this line of criticism in a fair of Shelf Life columns, and just about every time I feel like pointing out these: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TropesAreNotBad http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTropelessTale Saying "it's bad because it has tropes" isn't a valid criticism, at least not with the generally-accepted meaning of the word "trope."

Generally, I think it's implied that the problem is it isn't doing anything interesting with the tropes. It throws them out there because it's expected to have them, but it's like they're there to fill space rather than for actual execution. No one complains about a trope being presented in an interesting way.

You probably don't remember because so far you found the show to be bothersomely mediocre, but Terri Doty was also in Fairy Tail as Virgo, the celestial spirit with the maid outfit Lucy has (I apologize about the size of the image, I couldn't find a smaller one).

I don't really understand why you would have confused it with a fox deity-based title, since there are not fox-dieties in the show. Yes, the title refers to a wolf, but not a wolf-deity.

I suppose she's older depending on your age, but at 31 Satomi Arai isn't really THAT old, and with me being 35, she'd actually be a younger lady doing the narrating

Or to use an English example, Aaron and Erin are not the same, even though to many people, they sound quite similar. Very likely Aaron would not like people writing his name as Erin, and vice versa for Erin.

I can attest to Aaron hating it when people spell it Erin. Or Aeron. Or Aron. Or Eron. Or Aren. I've seen it all.

Geez, this statement, along with the rest of your staff saying things like "the Redline dub is lifeless", "Darrel Guilbeau is perfectly fine in Durarara!!", "the Madoka dub was great", and perhaps the WORST offender, "the Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal dub gets an A", gives me the honest impression that you people wouldn't know a good dub if it bit you on the butt.

Sure, anime has some that are 'peculiar' to it, like bloody noses, etc... but for the most part, they are all over the place in every form of entertainment.
... But really, it was just one cliche after another! That Shakespeare guy is a real hack!

To be fair, there are a lot of characters in Fairy Tail!

It has "kami" in the title, doesn't kami mean god? A deity schoolgirl with pointy canine ears... that seemed to be the salient point.

Kami can also mean "paper".

Eastern Asian languages are infamous for their abnomally large amounts of homophony.

I heard Funimation is trying to standardize the abbreviation of Legend of the Legendary Heroes as LOL Heroes, and I'm delighted to perpetuate that abbreviation.

Kami can also mean "paper".

Eastern Asian languages are infamous for their abnomally large amounts of homophony.

erinfinnegan wrote:

It has "kami" in the title, doesn't kami mean god? A deity schoolgirl with pointy canine ears... that seemed to be the salient point.

Yes, "kami" means "god"

"Ookami" means "Wolf"

"Okami" means "Woman who runs an Inn"

Kami can also mean "paper".

Eastern Asian languages are infamous for their abnomally large amounts of homophony.

I heard Funimation is trying to standardize the abbreviation of Legend of the Legendary Heroes as LOL Heroes, and I'm delighted to perpetuate that abbreviation.

Is there a reason that pointing a misspelled title prompts such a vitriolic reaction?