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Shelf Life - Battle Girls Gone Wild

Surrender Artist wrote:

Battle Girls Time Paradox... if only we'd known that it was a harbinger. Oh well, at least it lacks, so far as I know, boob bouncing through a metal breastplate.

eh, kinda hard to remember, but I think Nobunaga does occasionally bounce a bit in her metal bikini chestplate.

But I think Bamboo is right to be disappointed in the slap-dash mysto-babble used to wrap up the ending. The show did a good job while it was manipulating carbon markets and otaku expectations, but then stumbled when the denouement was wrapped in carbon-fiber nanofilament ley-lines.

CrownKlown wrote:

Question. Are those the premium sets of the NIS releases? The look kind of like books are something. The shape is really odd, and as you can see in the shelf they are kind of hard to put in shelves due to the size.

Yeah CK, those are the IS premium sets, and like you said their a pain to fit in a normal shelf but I love them just as they are. Anyway I'm glad we have similar taste in shows and i hope to see some of your collection someday.

Either they do it (Dubbed BluRay) based on stream numbers or they do it arbitrarily. Sometimes it appears that it shouldn't add up, but Sentai doesn't give out their reasons for what they do.

The real crime of Battle Girls is that a show with so little going for it somehow got a BluRay/Dub release from Sentai, while a show with actual good writing and beautiful background art that was just released got only a subtitled DVD release. I am referring to one of my favorites: Waiting in the Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru). It is a shame that Sentai chose to spend their dub and BluRay money on a show like Battle Girls while giving WitS a bare-bones release.

I know that I can't expect a series like Battle Girls – Time Paradox to be a beacon of intelligence and thoughtful storytelling, but one always hopes to find a few gems hidden under the layers of predictable shlock. Sadly, there is none of that in this series. It is 99.9% fluff and nonsense.

It brings me to this. Battle Girls – Time Paradox is what it is. It's a booby fantasy show. The characters are shallow, the action is passable, the conversations are trite, and the story is silly. If you want a fanservice show, then you've got one.

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

Either they do it (Dubbed BluRay) based on stream numbers or they do it arbitrarily. Sometimes it appears that it shouldn't add up, but Sentai doesn't give out their reasons for what they do.

Boob shows are proven sellers, so I'm not surprised. A show like AnoNatsu is a bit more of a risk.

Question. Are those the premium sets of the NIS releases? The look kind of like books are something. The shape is really odd, and as you can see in the shelf they are kind of hard to put in shelves due to the size.

zensunni wrote:

The real crime of Battle Girls is that a show with so little going for it somehow got a BluRay/Dub release from Sentai, while a show with actual good writing and beautiful background art that was just released got only a subtitled DVD release. I am referring to one of my favorites: Waiting in the Summer (Ano Natsu de Matteru). It is a shame that Sentai chose to spend their dub and BluRay money on a show like Battle Girls while giving WitS a bare-bones release.

Thank you for saying what I was thinking!

And with a pedigree like Waiting for the Summer has, I would have expected more too! I dearly want to buy it and shelve it next to my Please Teacher and Twins box sets, but I am hesitant.

What makes it a bigger risk than something like, say, Heaven's Memo Pad? What makes the ef series or Kamisama Dolls less riskier than the show directed by the man behind Toradora, written by the original creator of Please Teacher/Twins, and handled by the studio responsible for Shana?

And if boob shows are these big time hot shot sellers, where's Kampfer's dub? Or Mayo Chiki's, or To Love Ru, or Seikon no Qwaser's, or any of the other various "boob shows" they haven't dubbed?