Forum - View topicThe Hidden Depths of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
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TenCentFang
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I wasn't really arguing against you or anyone else, just saying that there's equal, legitimate justification for a lot of views and they don't necessarily cancel each other out. I don't wanna be all "calm down everyone the truth is in the middle", because that's a cringy stupid stance to take on everything, but everyone is always arguing if something is gross trash or an insightful masterpiece. People need to look at the big picture and realize why the other person feels the way they do. In the case of Dragon Maid, I know someone who I really wanted to show it to but decided on advising them against it because I knew they'd be too repulsed by the more questionable stuff despite how much I like it personally. There's no amount of arguing that's going to convince them to be able to just edit it out of their brains as they watch. It's not 100% garbage but like, I get why people walk away with that feeling. To an extent, yes, some are being overdramatic, ie the whole milf-coded boondoggle, but ultimately it's Dragon Maid's fault when someone gets sick of it's lesser aspects that it's happy to have front and center. |
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relyat08
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Can you source where the author said the guy in I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying was based on him? I don't really doubt you, but I still haven't seen any kind of actual confirmation.. which is what's bugging me.
Yeah, I'm not really in either camp. I just like the show and see some merit in it. So do a lot of people, hence articles like this, which somewhat explain why some people might be liking it. That's kind of all my point is. I also just found uguu's bitter comments to be a bit unnecessarily hostile and trollish. Totally fine if they don't like the show, but their comments are a bit much. |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
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Yeah, I don't recall any suggestion that the guy from I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying was based on the author - and in any case it's not unheard of for male characters to be based on women and female characters to be based on men. I Can't Understand What My Husband is Saying is actually what makes me suspect the author is female - there's nothing specific about it I can point at, but there's a lot of little touches that I more often see in shoujo or josei titles than in shounen or seinen. |
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jymmy
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He's a dude according to his Pixiv account.
I did think there was a feminine touch to some aspects of the writing – hard to put your finger on it, as Sakagami Tomoyo says, but some moments just feel that way. Like the moment at the end of the first season where Kaoru spoiler[discovers she's pregnant and the two share a beautifully understated, quiet moment of wonder]. Could just be Kaoru being written convincingly. |
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relyat08
Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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Ah! Thanks. Yeah, that scene definitely struck me similarly. It was very effectively written. There are a lot of similar scenes in his work, that have struck me that way. |
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Dracospirit121
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Well that explains why something about the show rung a familiar bell 
Anyhow moving onto the shows themes, it central theme is certainly family, especially the idea of making family work with less than traditional parts. It's also about how a family develops, rather than the finished product. I'm also inclined to believe Kobayashi isn't fully clear about her own feelings towards Tohru and that's a important element of the story. Even with the 'little person' in the picture, she not really sure if Tohru her weird roommate.. or the person she want to spend the rest of her life with. While she seems to be inclined to give Tohru little victories and progress, she's clearly not exactly in full a relationship either. There bond in a strange place.. but I think that's the authors intent. |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
Posts: 940 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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To split hairs a bit, the statement is "I am not a girl with boobs", which could either mean "I am a guy" or "I am a flat-chested girl". |
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zrnzle500
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^Gender: Male tends to mean "I am a guy", odd ways of stating that aside.
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relyat08
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If you're referring to his "Self Introduction", that's him just making a sort of unfortunate joke. He's saying: "I like boobs, not girls with boobs, I like boobs." But yeah, under gender it says "male". |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
Posts: 940 Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia |
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I must need my eyes checked, because I absolutely cannot see that anywhere, but if two of you are saying so, I'll take your word for it.
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EmperorBrandon
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Here's the full profile (I think you may have to be logged in to Pixiv to see it). |
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