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EmperorBrandon
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Fixed it. |
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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Discuss both here. |
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Ashen Phoenix
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Thigh High: Reiwa Hanamaru Academy sounds incredibly dated in its humor. I realize the prominence of the LGBT community is different in Japan, but I can't help thinking this could've read as completely different had it approached the premise sincerely or even alongside the reality of being trans or cross-dressing; hell, it can STILL be hilarious without needing to resort to making jokes at the expense of the characters' femininity.
Maybe I'm thinking too much about this but it feels like a lost opportunity. |
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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Oh, it definitely tries for that serious stuff, but it does stuff like spoiler[rape victims "converted" by rapist's gigantic penis into sex addicts] or spoiler[current villain threatening the MC into raping a woman or his girlfriend will be raped instead, in front of the victim and her boyfriend who can hear the threat, and despite it being perfect moment to give villain to cops to protect the GF and claim to cops he was just threatened into compliance he goes along with it.] It's the type of edgy plot that demand most characters to be complete idiots for the plot to go as it does. |
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trilaan
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Hehe, yup, Thigh High has my boat afloat.
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TarsTarkas
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Hazure Skill
I picked up the light novel and the manga based off of the reviews here. They were spot on. One of the best things about this story, is that the main couple are actually having a physical relationship. Which is was one of the good things that Arifureta had going for it too. None of this, will wait to the end of the franchise before getting them together. And I am actually invested into the two main characters. So it seems it is going to be a long wait before the next volumes of the manga and the light novel. |
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Shay Guy
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An awkward, personal question I'm not sure how to phrase:
If Inori wasn't capable of impressing someone like Tsukasa, would this still be a lesson worth learning for her? If so, does Medalist convey that effectively? And if not, does that compromise the theme by implying "the value of believing in yourself" to be contingent on "being good enough to be worth believing in"? It's a question I've struggled with for a long time -- are there people who just don't have what it takes to succeed in [insert field here]? And if you're one of them, is there really any value in believing otherwise, beyond "you can't know for sure"? Because in my experience, when a fictional character grapples with self-doubt, the narrative usually doesn't actually deny that "incapable" people exist, only that the character in question is among them. Which makes it harder to draw confidence from such narratives, if you see yourself in the struggles but not the strengths. (Think of how Sheska from FMA fears that her obsessive book-reading will prevent her from ever being able to hold down a decent job. But hooray, she's wrong! …because she just happens to also have a memory that borders on a superpower, a trait not shared by most people with discipline problems.) |
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Alan45
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@Shay Guy
For every form of endeavor, there will be those who lack the mental or physical abilities (or both) to succeed. There will also be those who can succeed with hard work and a few who cruise through to success without effort. In between these are a whole continuum of people with varying degrees of success. This includes those who have the talent but lack the work ethic to go the distance. In competitive sports, which is what is under discussion, every win by one person comes at the expense of a loss by someone else. By definition, a champion involves losses by dozens of people. In team sports you have the added frustration that people can have the talent and work ethic and still fail due to a failure of teamwork. The bottom line is that there is a whole world of losers for every champion. Very few authors write books about losers. No one cares about them. Even the individual or team that lost only to the champion is nothing. Competition can be extremely destructive. |
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Oggers
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Nice to see that Medalist got a good review. I'm already a fan of figure skating and Yuri on Ice is one of my favourite anime, so more anime and manga about figure skating are always welcome in my book. I'll definitely pick Medalist up.
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njprogfan
Collector Extraordinaire Posts: 1162 Location: A River Named Toms |
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I just want to say I love this guide and the work you two women are doing. It has given me a bunch of titles to hunt down and purchase. Please, keep up this great review column and I'm looking forward to the Summer edition.
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Shay Guy
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I find the notion that the vast majority of people aren't worth caring about to be pretty bleak. I'm also not sure well it's backed up by sports-based fiction. Admittedly, I have very little experience with the genre, but I have seen Rocky, which made a big point about how spoiler[Rocky knew going into the fight that he didn't have a chance against Apollo Creed, but he wanted to end it on his terms by going all 15 rounds without being knocked out, even if it meant nothing to anyone but himself]. (Granted, most sports movies aren't Rocky, and 勝利 isn't in the old Jump motto for nothing.) |
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Sven Viking
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That’s one of the main reasons Rocky is a great film, in my opinion, though to be fair it’s also not far off being the exception that proves the rule amongst other sports stories.
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Alan45
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Shay Guy wrote:
Of course. I don't like it but that is the way the world works. That is why I usually don't like sports anime or manga, or the way the Japanese tend to try to make everything a contest (got to go to nationals, don't you know). |
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
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Thanks for adding that sentence at the beginning, or I would never notice the title is different from what I first thought. |
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Terry Lang
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I count 48 titles reviewed. Not too much that I am interested in myself, maybe Hana-chan or Call of the night. But I appreciate the enormous amount of work that must have gone into this!
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