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Dark Mac
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This is in no way a shojo anime. It's a shonen romance, in the same vein as other shonen romance like Tonikawa or whatever. Personally I found Tamako the most entertaining character. Show was always interesting while she was around. |
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Minos_Kurumada
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Well , if you want more drama, it's... "sequel" is way darker.
Is another couple all together, and the main cast is now supportive though. |
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Spastic Minnow
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This is true. If anyone is confused, usually ONE question solves it. Who is the idealized object of desire? Usually primarily placed to help the opposite sex in their journey (delegating their own struggles as secondary). If it's a boy or boys, it's almost certainly shojo (Fruits Basket). If it's a girl, or girls, it's almost certainly shonen (Quintessential Quintuplets). |
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Kaoru G
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I liked this show and its sweet ending.
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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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I agree that Tamako was the best. I really appreciated how in the last arc, spoiler[she got freaked out and started crying because she really is young to be going through all that.] I thought it was a nice, thoughtful bit of character writing. |
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Swissman
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Why so complicated? Just look in what magazine the original manga has been published. It was Jump square, a monthly shounen magazine. And there you have it. As for the criticism about Yuzuki being one-dimensionally cheery and lacking interiority to the rest of the cast and being a perfect little wifey, I disagree. Sure, she's super cheerful and accepting, but the show made it very clear that it was a choice for her in the beginning and that she wasn't madly in love with Tamahiko yet (she says that herself, but I forgot in what episode). Being cheerful, optimistic and altruistic in the face of tragic circumstances needs courage and mental thoughness. If you will, this makes her a good template for a ideal Yamato Nadeshiko or Ryousai Kenbou (good wife, wise mother), which perfectly suits this story which takes place in the Taisho era and doesn't shy away from setting the story in one of the biggest tragedies of 20th century Japan. |
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Spastic Minnow
Bargain Hunter Exempt from Grammar Rules Posts: 4609 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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The point is that it's not complicated. There's no need to look up a magazine source for confirmation of something you can tell with the merest amount of content comprehension over a couple minutes. Are they perving over the boys or the girls? Who is the insert character? There you got it probably over 90% of the time. Even Seinen and Josei have pretty close to the same sort of easy to get difference, except the opposites tend to be less idealized. |
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Swissman
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@Spastic Minnow
You are not wrong, but personally I find it easier to have a glance at the source material (I own the japanese tankoubon in this case) than judging by the content when I want to know the target demographic. Moreover, judging the target demographic solely by a story's content and characters can sometimes be misleading (especially when it comes to the distinction between a series aimed at older teens and adults (seinen) and younger teens (shounen). |
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Cryten
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^ remember that magazine do sometimes run material contrary to their primary demographic. A horror story in a romance magazine, a reverse harem in a boys magazine, etc. Rare but happens, the whole introduction of clamp style character designs into shonen magazines was also a way to please more female demographics with their more universal works.
I think Taisho Otome Fairy Tale is a perfectly good quick watch show. Quickly consumed and quickly left behind as a pleasant memory. I agree that more depth for our rescue girl of the show would of been good, as the only time we see her hesitate on her direction of devotion to the main character is on thinking of her school times. And that was prompted by Tamazaki. It was those glimpses of grief and vulnerability that humanised the fruits basket characters. |
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Key
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While I will acknowledge that Yuzuki is a bit idealized (and certainly in the vein of a yamato nadeshiko), I felt the series established well enough that "make the best of a bad situation" was initially her coping mechanism. In addition to the merits Caitlin mentions, the relationship which developed between Yuzuki and Tamahiko carried consistent emotional resonance for me (much more, frankly, than many of the tediously-drawn-out relationships in Furuba did), and the later parts about the Great Kanto Earthquake (including historically-accurate details about the devastating firestorms which resulted) gave the series enough punch that it was my #5 series for last year, despite its mediocre technical merits.
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MFrontier
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I really enjoyed this series! I hope they license the manga (and it's sequel) at some point.
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Yuvelir
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I understand that Yuziki's choice to be cheerful was a conscious choice for the sake of self-defense, to avoid being miserable.
But I agree there was too little of that, like it was more of an after thought than something central to who the character is and how she was written. |
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