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Sanosuke_Inara
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Kit-Tsukasa
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To be honest, I don't see why everyone hates on moe. It's just another genre. It' the mentality of rejecting such genres along with drama, romance, school-life, and other similar genres that prevent anime from growing any further here. Moe is what made this past decade actually worth watching, especially between 2000 and 2006.
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hissatsu01
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Despite the degradation of the term "moe" into being nearly meaningless, I don't see how you can call it a genre. Any genre can contain/inspire moe (depending on what your definition of the word is). Sci-fi, slice of life, romantic comedy, drama can all be/inspire moe. Eva's Rei is considered by many to be one of the archetypical moe characters - is Eva in the same genre in K-ON!?
If you use the original definition of moe as a protective feeling towards a character, it's not a genre. If you consider certain character types to be moe and would consider shows such as K-ON! moe, it's still not a genre. If you just use it synonymously with "cute," it's still not a genre, unless if cute is now a genre in and of itself. Moe is as much a genre as "anime" is a genre. |
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GracieMarie
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The 9th Volume of K-ON!! will have 3 episodes, which is the 2 exrta episodes and the sidestory one. Can't wait when the sidestory episode comes out!
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Charred Knight
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Moe isn't the problem, the problem is that frequently there's no substance to moe. You can make a dynamic thought provoking story with moe, anyone whose read the Negima manga can see that, but frequently they do nothing with it. Instead of having the story, or dialogue be the reason why you watch the series instead it's because the fans find the character design's pleasing. This leads to things like Endless Eight where Kyoto Animation doesn't even care about crafting anything actually new. |
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Ranma824
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I think I'm just weird enough to enjoy anime that have good stories, and enjoy shows where nothing really happens at all. The character interactions are the "substance" for me in the latter types of shows. (I'd have no problem renaming K-ON! "Character Interactions - The Anime") |
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Joichiro Nishi
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Satoshi Kon is dead and K-on sell 500000 BDs. Life sucks |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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Just putting this out there, I don't hate moe with a burning passion like some people.
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XXghostface
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Suck that we people in the west get K-ON and we still don't have Bakemonogatari I personally think that the better show.
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luffypirate
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This. More people need to realize that Blu-ray enhances the whole experience, not just the visual part. |
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Jessica Hart
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I pity people who have 'taste'. They seem to spend more time raging and complaining about how life sucks than actually watching anime. Meanwhile, other people can watch and love K-ON and enjoy it and have fun with it's numerous other fans and be happy. 'Taste' seems really boring and overrated. K-ON? Sure, I'll watch it. Azumaga Daioh? Bring it on. Lucky Star? Sure, why not. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya? Don't mind if I do!
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pajmo9
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It does suck to have "taste". I've tried to get rid of mine but still haven't managed to yet. It will slowly devour your soul until there is nothing left but hatred and sorrow. |
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superunature
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lol and I bought
8/520,000 of those blu-rays sold. and looks to be about 9/560,000~ next month 
certainly isn't cheap. Doesn't really matter who gets top top, or who sold more volume. There is going to be arguments of "k-on merchandise sells better" or "this sold more per volume" etc. There is going to be fans of every show, there is going to be people disliking the show. all a personal preference. There are shows I don't like that are extremely popular, like "One Piece". how each manga volume sells millions of copies, I have no idea. but there are fans, and they are entitled to like the franchaise. I bought the k-on blu-rays only for the tapestry, otherwise, heck would I be spending $80 per volume on a few stickers and episodes that I could easily BT. Honestly....I don't even have a blu-ray player. ---------------------------------- As for Bandai release, I don't think it would do well. I heard official chinese dub, and english dub. and both sounds rather terrible. and what is on disk release generally gets uploaded to the internet the same day. and collectors (Like me) generally only goes for the original. (Unless of course, low-budget collectors who wants to own it but not pay the high price) |
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mudduck454
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[post deleted].....
oh never mind, since I must not have "taste" I have no comment, so I will just say, I enjoyed K-On, and hope to enjoy it more and more, once I get it on blu-ray Last edited by mudduck454 on Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:06 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Sanosuke_Inara
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And for the record, I love Azumanga Daioh. Haven't gotten around to buying that one yet, though. :/
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