Forum - View topicShelf Life - Ray's Anatomy
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erinfinnegan
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This is rapidly getting off the topic of anime, but yes, of course I went to sleepovers and birthdays, lame ones with other nerds for the most part. The sort of party featured in Can't Hardly Wait was more like the kind I didn't get invited to... In any case, I hated high school. Years later I met people who loved high school, (even the very school I attended) and when I questioned them closely I found the majority were people who had skipped school a lot. Basically they'd enjoyed their teen years by avoiding school entirely. This was a foreign experience to me, because I was focused on getting good grades and playing sports in order to get into the best college I possibly could. In other words, I continually worried about my future and lived to plan for it. As an adult, I still do this. Generally speaking, I like making plans and having plans. Questioning your teenager about her future could be quite stressful for her. (Or not, it's not like I've met her.) A lot of young people, and even 20-somethings agonize over deciding what to do with their lives. |
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Mohawk52
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eyeresist
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Why can't a slice of life also be a comedy? |
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fireaxe
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I'm not saying they can't, just that there's a distinction to be made between comedies using a SOL elements (shows that make you laugh), and other slice-of-life series that are a lot plainer in tone (shows that make you, or me, go "aaww"). Curing SOL series which UtenaAnthy was referring too represent the latter. But that being said, I might have overlooked the part where you said your were "using a fairly broad definition of the term", my mistake, but I just wanted to point out that there are indeed different genres within the genre. |
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eyeresist
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Hmm. For me, comedy is ideally a part of a healing anime, because, you know, laughing cheers you up.
But in this context it has to be character-based comedy, i.e. the laugh comes from feeling close to the characters and sympathising with their flaws. It's a loving laugh (as opposed to the hateful, sneering Family Guy type of laugh). So for me a healing show with no humour is definitely lacking something important. I haven't seen the Hidamari Sketch animes, but I've read the first couple of volumes of manga, and it seems to have the kind of humour I'm talking about. EDIT: Loving Laugh or Love Laugh would be a great title for an anime! Lafu Lafu! |
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Moonsaber
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Agreed. Ray is not bad, if you can bear with the animation. But that shelf life collection, pretty nice! Thanks for sharing that! |
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Kiyomaro
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How do you know you'll never play it? Never is a pretty strong term. |
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erinfinnegan
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I suppose you're right. In a future of infinite possibilities all things are possible. I could've said I'll "probably" never play it, but I feel like I use the word "probably" too often. But I didn't like the TV show or the movie all that much, so I don't feel compelled to play the game. If I was at a friend's house and they stuck a controller or keyboard in my hand I guess it's possible...? I haven't seen Fate/Zero. Maybe it's really good and would change my mind on the franchise. |
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