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panzer.time
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 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:21 pm
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I'm kind of in the school of thought that a show should be at its best in the first episode or two, cos, you know, prospective fans watch that first. Of course, I also know that that doesn't always happen, e.g. Lucky Star.
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Animehermit
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:22 pm
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after having heard the tumultuous uproar this series caused, i checked it out. I know it sounded bad, but i wasn't expecting THIS bad. I thought it would be sort like an awesome bad, i was completely taken off guard.
I could Handle the seires if all it was was the nudity and acid spewing nipples(lmao), but the plot is just absolute garbage, each scene solely exists for showing off each figurine or breasts. The whole thing is ridiculous, I've seen hentai with more convincing plots than this.
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luckyxmas
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:47 pm
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| animehermit wrote: | | I could Handle the seires if all it was was the nudity and acid spewing nipples(lmao), but the plot is just absolute garbage, each scene solely exists for showing off each figurine or breasts. The whole thing is ridiculous, I've seen hentai with more convincing plots than this. |
Given that you say you've watched hentai, I'm surprised you're as uptight about this as you are.
I've seen enough regular anime with less convincing plots than this.
I was actually pleasantly surprised, having had zero expectations for the plot beforehand - this being an adaptation of what is essentially a bunch of titillating artbooks.
And of course the series is going to show off their figures, that's kind of the point of an ecchi anime with a cast consisting mostly of impressively proportioned, sparsely attired women.
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walw6pK4Alo
Joined: 12 Mar 2008
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:57 pm
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| Zac wrote: |
| BellosTheMighty wrote: | | That means either that the series hit it's nadir right there- in other words, it was *uphill* from that point- or we have a thread full of people ragging on 11 episodes they haven't seen even a still of.
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Won't someone please think of the boobs?!?!
Actually, staff critic Theron Martin has been enjoying Queen's Blade, I guess. He's mentioned it a few times.
Not going to apologize for shredding the first episode. It was awful, and gave me zero reason to watch more. Life is too short to say "Hm, maybe this ludicrous over-the-top bullcrap gets better if I watch another 5 hours' worth of it!" |
It all depends on expectations and what you want out of a show. I was fairly familiar with Queen's Blade before the show started, and it delivered exactly what I expected it would. I'm pretty sure it's one of those shows where you either adore it despise it with not a whole lot of middle ground, probably because it was always stretching fanservice and character designs to the extreme. I have no faith that it would get a DVD release here, but I'd support it. Then again, I was never really watching the show for whatever piss poor characterization or plot they could try to give it, so watching it raw was great.
| animehermit wrote: | | after having heard the tumultuous uproar this series caused, i checked it out. I know it sounded bad, but i wasn't expecting THIS bad. I thought it would be sort like an awesome bad, i was completely taken off guard.
I could Handle the seires if all it was was the nudity and acid spewing nipples(lmao), but the plot is just absolute garbage, each scene solely exists for showing off each figurine or breasts. The whole thing is ridiculous, I've seen hentai with more convincing plots than this. |
You'd be surprised at the number of hentai with decent stories. Luckily it's not like real life porn where they can't act, I've heard Wakamoto and Kikuko Inoue in quite a few hentai. But then again, animated porn isn't for everyone. Queen's Blade probably should have been released on OVA to make it practically porn, but doing it in a TV series only makes it more scandalous.
As for the figurines, I'd say they come highly recommended. What I love most about Queen's Blade is that it's not more little girl fanservice. They might be impossible proportions for real women, but at least they look somewhat like mature women.
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Charred Knight
Joined: 29 Sep 2008
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:29 pm
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| Zac wrote: |
| BellosTheMighty wrote: | | That means either that the series hit it's nadir right there- in other words, it was *uphill* from that point- or we have a thread full of people ragging on 11 episodes they haven't seen even a still of.
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Won't someone please think of the boobs?!?!
Actually, staff critic Theron Martin has been enjoying Queen's Blade, I guess. He's mentioned it a few times.
Not going to apologize for shredding the first episode. It was awful, and gave me zero reason to watch more. Life is too short to say "Hm, maybe this ludicrous over-the-top bullcrap gets better if I watch another 5 hours' worth of it!" |
I have no problem with your reviews, I have a problem with people denouncing the series based off of your review of one episode.
This series is to stupid to be angry about, and frankly if it takes 4 years for a series to gain enough support to be succesful than the anime industry has nothing to worry about.
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Shadowrun20XX
Joined: 26 Nov 2007
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:49 am
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| vashfanatic wrote: | | Okay, before we begin, SPACES man, SPACES after commas and periods! |
Sorry grammar cop.
| vashfanatic wrote: | | And now for my snark: Right! we totally cannot judge other cultures! If they beat women for showing their faces (Taliban) or brutally discriminate against people based on their race (Apartheid) we totally cannot judge. It's a different culture, ideas like equality and not objectifying women are just our personal morals and don't hold any weight outside of our own cultures.
*sigh* You give cultural sensitivity a bad name by making statements like this, Shadowrun. It's one thing to be able to look at things from another perspective and be respectful, it's another to resort to total non-judgment on the grounds of moral relativism. |
Nice text book answer. *Sigh*? Please.How bout this...other countries have different rules. What is illegal in the U.S is not exactly illegal in Japan.Try importing a car from Japan.They gotta dumb that shit down here.Age of consent is super young.Their workweek is a lot longer than ours.The list can go on forever. When people mention stupid shit like "it happens to be bad for the industry in the long run on top of being wrong." Wrong? Adults watching adult animation is wrong? I'll be damned.It green-lit another season,how is that bad for the industry?
Because he don't like it?  BS
| reanimator wrote: | | How do you know that shows like Strike Witches outsells mainstream? Do you have reliable fact that supports your words? |
Everything they produced for Strike Witches sells well/out.There is also second season on the way.
I would also have to say "current mainstream" since I don't include the shonen juggernauts that all technically started 7 to 10 years prior.They had their train time to build up to that size.Besides,I'd need a time machine to go back to when it first came out to show you when it was number one.I also don't play your silly "prove me wrong" text games.Sorry. Maybe later.
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| reanimator wrote: | | I haven't watched Queen's Blade except few clips from Youtube, so I can't comment how good or bad the show is. Let me ask you this: How do you know that shows like Strike Witches outsells mainstream? Do you have reliable fact that supports your words? |
Have you seen the sale charts that are posted on ANN. Strike Witches is the biggest hit Gonzo has had since VanDread. |
reanimator wasn't paying attention when ANN posted it several times.I don't play the "look up the past" game for other people.I was there,I speak from experience.Season 2 and a Nintendo DS game were on their way last I remember.
| reanimator wrote: | | I'm collector myself too, but I try not to blow money something worthless. |
Alright.You are a choosy collector.Wish I had that growing up.
| reanimator wrote: | | I'm not mainstream, but there are different communities of people who don't waste time watching some distorted fantasy. |
What goes around comes around.It's our time.You will get yours again.I had to wait a while to get "naked chicks fighting with swords" again.Let it go.
| reanimator wrote: | | So do we need another season of "Queens Blade"? It'll feed starving animation artists for few months, but they won't get anything good out it in long run. |
Maybe a third season?
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| BellosTheMighty wrote: | | Why do I get the strange feeling that this thread is seven pages and counting of Queen's Blade being bashed by people who watched at most two episodes before discarding it as the WORST SHOW EVAR?
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because thats all we need to watch in order to judge a show as garbage |
You judge by the cover? Nice stereotype.You'll miss a lot of good anime doing that.
| Blood- wrote: | | I wonder where Protoculture ranked Queen's Blade on its "80 Anime You Must Watch" list? |
Obviously they're not going to to use the newest anime titles that we English speakers are illegally viewing through downloading.Man. Nice sarcasm though.Har.
| dtm42 wrote: | | Acid spewing nipples. |
I don't care what camp you are in,you gotta see more than the first episode.You got ten more to go.
| DPX wrote: | I wonder if they'll include some Rebellion characters in the new season. Wouldn't mind some Annelote, and some Murimu 
Though I wonder if Vante and Yuito would make it. As their books don't officially come out til Aug...
Oh, I apologize for being on topic  |
Right on,I completely understand.I can't wait to see what Menace (my favorite character) does in episode 12. There also looks to be a good doppelganger battle ahead.
| Zac wrote: | | Not going to apologize for shredding the first episode. It was awful, and gave me zero reason to watch more. |
The first episode was ridiculous,but you are Zac.The guy that ditched YuYu Hakusho to go watch a Pixar movie.I'll agree that the first episode was crap.
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jr240483
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:02 am
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Well i've never seen the first but if it's anything like ikkitousen i'll be all for it.The problem is who's gonna license it??? I pray it aint media blasters
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walw6pK4Alo
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:39 am
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| jr0904 wrote: | | Well i've never seen the first but if it's anything like ikkitousen i'll be all for it.The problem is who's gonna license it??? I pray it aint media blasters |
Media Blasters would be the only ones who would, except for maybe Rightstuf, but I doubt they would.
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Dorcas_Aurelia
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:41 pm
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| Charred Knight wrote: | | The average hater of Queen's Blade read ANN's coverage of episode 1 thought it was complete shit, and then decided the rest of the series must be complete shit as well. |
Or maybe we watched it ourselves and decided it was complete shit. I knew very well going in that it was going to be ridiculous fanservice, and I was looking forward to it, but when I watched it, the animation quality was horrible, the fanservice was unappealing, the plot was expectedly dull, and there was no humor (aside from the OMG acid-spewing nipples LOL type incidents, and that's not so much humor as absurdity).
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| vashfanatic wrote: | | Okay, before we begin, SPACES man, SPACES after commas and periods! |
Sorry grammar cop. |
It's not about grammar, it's about readability.
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panzer.time
Joined: 25 Oct 2008
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:47 pm
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Besides, punctuation isn't grammar. It's just punctuation.
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DPX
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:33 pm
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| jr0904 wrote: | | Well i've never seen the first but if it's anything like ikkitousen i'll be all for it.The problem is who's gonna license it??? I pray it aint media blasters |
if Ah, My Buddha is any indication, MB may have the highest chance.
Still, I wouldn't be surprised to see this licensed over here, either my MB, Nozomi, or even Funi (they tend to get some surprising series here and there).
Season 2 needs some more Nyx and Ymir (some people find her annoying, but I like her) as well. Here's hoping for the best.
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Charred Knight
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:41 pm
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I would love for someone to bring over the PSP game, it looks like it might be interesting.
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Liclac Atra
Joined: 30 Jan 2009
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:58 pm
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| Charred Knight wrote: | | I would love for someone to bring over the PSP game, it looks like it might be interesting. |
Glad I'm not the only one.
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Animehermit
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:18 pm
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| Shadowrun20XX wrote: |
| animehermit wrote: |
| BellosTheMighty wrote: | | Why do I get the strange feeling that this thread is seven pages and counting of Queen's Blade being bashed by people who watched at most two episodes before discarding it as the WORST SHOW EVAR?
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because thats all we need to watch in order to judge a show as garbage |
You judge by the cover? Nice stereotype.You'll miss a lot of good anime doing that.
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actually not even the cover, I've been burnt by shiny packaging before.
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:54 am
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| Shadowrun20XX wrote: |
| animehermit wrote: |
| BellosTheMighty wrote: | | Why do I get the strange feeling that this thread is seven pages and counting of Queen's Blade being bashed by people who watched at most two episodes before discarding it as the WORST SHOW EVAR?
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because thats all we need to watch in order to judge a show as garbage |
You judge by the cover? Nice stereotype.You'll miss a lot of good anime doing that.
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So is there some drastic change in the style, tone, or quality of the series from the first episode to the last? If it does change, how long does it take? If we watched the first episode or two and found it unbearable, we have given it a chance, and found we could endure no more. That is not judging a book be its cover, that is judging a book by the first few chapters, and Queen's Blade makes it clear from the outset what it intends to be. No need to get sanctimonious defending such low-brow fare.
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