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Joe Mello
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I know this is out of context, but...
That is an awesome statement. I mean nothing but respect when I say you are the Dennis Miller of anime reviewers. |
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everapril
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Wow. Thanks to your linking that article, I've realized I can't live without a model of female Kaoru from Evangelion! I could have gone my whole life not knowing such a thing existed and been perfectly happy, but now that I do I want it in a ri-dic-u-lous way. Last edited by everapril on Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:22 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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vashfanatic
Posts: 3489 Location: Back stateside |
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Wait, so you mean at some point it stops being all about how to degrade, torture, and objectify its female leads? 'Cause really, there was nothing in the first two episodes that made me want to endure any more of that single-minded, repeated mistreatment of its main character other than the grim hope that it would finally just stop already. I really don't count myself as a prude (dear God, I read Berserk!), but there was just something so damn vicious about the way the first two episodes treated Rin. If you're telling me it gets better, I'll believe you, but man was I shocked to see that misogynistic thing get a Shelf Worthy rating from you! |
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erinfinnegan
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I thought of the panel before Jason wrote this, but: http://io9.com/5403562/militant-cute-and-sexy-politics-in-japanese-moe-comics-%5Bnsfw%5D (NSFW)
The characters fought their way out of several situations, especially in the first half, and specifically in that Colosseum episode. I may have misread the show, since Morte carries around a huge weapon, and it's based on a video game, I kinda assumed more fighting was going to happen.
I could get it for like $30-ish used on amazon.
There are a lot of reasons one might want to own the DVDs anyway, despite the lackluster release. Say your parents are still on dial-up, or you have a 14 hour flight ahead of you, or you want to loan it to friends...
Oops!! 70's shoujo does deal with gender issues, but Glass Mask doesn't - at least, not in the first half. Although there is a Takarazuka-style character, so maybe that counts? If you listen to the podcast episode I linked to (it's a two-parter) you'll get the names of some good gender-issue manga series. |
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Dorcas_Aurelia
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No. No it doesn't stop treating the women like their much more than chew toys and sex objects. The plot is also terrible, contrived, and deliberately thick and unintelligible. |
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Shinn AsukaGSD
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actually i loved the english dubbed for Rin,the japanese audio i didn't like at all.
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tuxedocat
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I guess I'm going to check out Sands of Destruction now.
My friends have already warned me off Rin. Ero-Guro is so not my thing. I plan to buy Glass Mask, it is just other titles and situations keep changing my buying priorities. Last week's news about Media Blasters makes me want to buy thier titles, and now Right Stuff is running a sale on their Nozomi line, ...Bandai sale last week.... Just not enough money for everything I want... Are sales for Glass Mask really that bad? Maybe I should bump it up in priority |
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Ai no Kareshi
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There are some interesting ideas in Mnemosyne, but like Dorcas_Aurelia said, it does not ever stop treating women like dirt. Those ideas deserve better than to be used as excuses for überviolence and fetish sex. I dropped the series after the second-last episode.
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TheTheory
Posts: 1029 Location: Central PA |
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High standards are not a bad thing, but to base that on fallible ratings seems like an iffy proposition at best. Everyone's tastes run differently, so that kind of philosophy really closes the door on discovering neat little gems. Some of my favorite series are those that deviate from the high ratings and are either too obscure to get highly rated, or are simply something that clicked with me in a way that most viewers didn't experience. By the same token, just because something is highly rated doesn't mean that EVERYONE will get anything out of it. |
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Mylene
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I wasn't planning on blind buying Glass Mask, but if a fellow Swan fan loves it so much, perhaps it would be a safe bet. It's one I'm interested in, but admittedly moreso in the older versions and manga--I rather enjoy very old-school character designs.
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YotaruVegeta
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I guess I have to spend a little time on Hulu, because I wanted to see Sands of Destruction (isn't it called World Destruction or something originally?) for a while now.
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SDS
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Glass Mask actually aired at like 2am in Japan.
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FlyingFox
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Sadly, so did I and I was sorely disappointed for my mistake. |
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Moonsaber
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Looks like you read that the same way I did. By filling your shelves with what other people consider the best, what good are you truly doing for yourself? Besides, I didn't see a single film by Studio ghibli there! The shame! My recommendation, friend, is to keep your standards high, and dispose of things that don't meet your tastes or expectations if you do happen to buy them, if you want to keep your shelves of the highest quality. That, and invest in Ghibli DVDs |
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vashfanatic
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I guess the way I'd characterize the first two episodes of this series is, if you'd told me the writer had just broken up with a woman named Rin and this was his revenge on her, I'd believe you. It was just so single-minded in doing everything nasty it could to her specifically. It would be like if, instead of just implying the awful stuff that happened to Czes in Baccano!, which humanized a character who so far had just been a standard Creepy Child, you'd shown exactly what had happened to him, in detail, for over an hour, while also sexualizing him somehow. At that point, it's like, no, you've gone too far. You can do cruel stuff to your characters, but if the entire story revolves around how to do cruel stuff to your characters (spoiler[because she can't die no matter what you do to her, and the Big Reveal is that she turns into a dribbling idiot around angels and tries to have sex with them as they eat her]), then... ...seriously, Erin, this is the kind of thing that got you into anime in the first place??? Or is that a reference to things that happen later? |
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