February 17, 2013

In search of cheesecake

I've been keeping up on downloads of Fairy Tail but I'm not watching them. I won't start watching again until the current story arc is over, how many ever weeks or months that takes.

I've got 95 more images from Fairy Tail I haven't added to the top rotation yet, but I want to try to find something else to add at the same time. So I'm in the process of downloading a BD rip of Haganai. It's not a series I have the slightest interest in, but I recall that it had some decent candidates.

And after today's episode of Senran Kagurai shows up, I may go through it to see what I can locate. The last episode was a total loss but some of the earlier episodes had some good stuff. And I don't think it's really worth waiting for the rest of the series.

I was thinking I might do the same with Girls und Panzer but then the first BD came out with a 15-minute fan service omake, so now I have to wait for the rest, since it's obvious we're going to get 5 more 15-minute pieces of cheesecake goodness.

Campione had some good looking women in it, but I don't remember it having a lot of candidates i.e. images that compliment the women's figures and don't include any men. Anyway I don't really want to go visit that one again; it really was mediocre. Bad memories.

I suppose I could catch up on the latest iteration of DaCapo. It was a stupid story, but given that it's an H-game adaptation it surely had the girls (especially the incest fetish, wowee).

UPDATE: For the last three months I've been trying to download a BD rip of Softenni. Problem is, it isn't seeded. Actually, every once in a while someone shows up and seeds for a while, and then goes away again. I started the torrent in November, and now I'm at 84%. I figure if I stick with it I should have the whole thing by June.

I'm undecided whether I want to use it. Why is it that the target of fanservice shows these days has moved down to middle school? Used to be it was high school girls, but now we're all supposed to lech after 13 year olds?

Vividred Operation is like that; the main girls are in middle school.

UPDATE: Some of these shows where I'm looking for cheap thrills and really don't want to know about the story, I watch the episodes in reverse order with sound and subtitles both off. That insulates me from the idiocy, to some extent, but it can still be rather painful.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Site Stuff at 03:13 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 "Why is it that the target of fanservice shows these days has moved down to middle school? [...]  Vividred Operation is like that; the main girls are in middle school."

Same reason as all the imouto fetish shows lately, I suppose... taboo is cooler than not-taboo.

And when they're drawn the same no matter how "old" they're supposed to be, does it matter?  I can scroll down to your last Vividred post and see something(s) in a yellow bikini that didn't exist in any middle school I ever went to...

Posted by: Mikeski at February 17, 2013 03:41 PM (DU6Ja)

2 I was thinking about mentioning Himawari. There was another like that, in Kamichu, who was grotesquely over-developed for her age.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 17, 2013 04:04 PM (+rSRq)

3 And I have a vague memory that the girls in Softenni were like that, too. They didn't look like they were intended to be middle school; they looked totally physically mature and at their full heights.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 17, 2013 04:05 PM (+rSRq)

4 It's not that the target has moved - see Senran Kagura from this season. The high school stuff is still alive and well.

It's just that there's another target, situated somewhat uncomfortably in between "healthy high school girls" and "Japan, why must you be like that". They're not trading explicitly on the girls being pre-teens (usually. hopefully.), but on the idea that they're innocent and thus it's plausible for them to do things like "dock" and plant kisses as part of a transformation deck without any of them hunting down the pervy grandpa plushie and feeding him to a woodchipper afterward. It's a tough target to hit because, frankly, this is a character archetype that is damned unusual in real life.

Miss on the high end and you get a bunch of girls who are implausibly oblivious despite being about to graduate high school. Miss on the low end, and well... "Japan, why must you be like that."

That doesn't mean that you can't have a good show despite not quite having hit that section squarely. Nanoha somehow managed to miss in BOTH directions (the first season has plenty of "Japan, why must..." moments, but by Strikers you're shaking your head at the complete lack of sexual tension between the leads) and it was still a great show. Hanamaru Kindergarten hangs a lampshade on the whole concept by going all the way to cute 5-year-old blobs. But then you get shows like Kodomo no Jikan... which might have actually been good for all I know, but I'm just not going to watch it to find out.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at February 17, 2013 07:55 PM (GJQTS)

5 I might have actually been the last seed off that torrent last year.  You're not missing much from Softenni.  I "watched" most of it, but it really wasn't funny and the 1080p really wasn't a big issue.  The 720p version should be fine.  (It is the Rizlim torrent, right?)

As for Haganai, if you like Buriki's designs (which I really do), then there's a good number of shots.  Sena is pretty much made for that type of cheesecake.  You'd probably not get through the first 10 minutes of the actual show, however, haha.  (I call it "Spite the Animation" for good reason)

Campione won't have a lot of solo cheesecake shots.  That's not really the series shtick.  Though eps 1 and 8 should have a few of the Witch of Sardinia.

Fan Service OVA 5 for Fairy Tail will be out sometime in summer, btw!

After its run, Maoyuu Maou Yuusha will actually have a good number, as strange as that sounds.  Mostly as they like to have Maou (with her massive rack) in nicely tailored nightgowns.  Its classy cheesecake.  (Also, if Maou's seiyuu was teaching Macro Economics, I think a whole lot more people would pay attention)

Posted by: sqa at February 17, 2013 08:43 PM (dvTNf)

6  Yeah, that's correct. I don't suppose you could seed for a few hours and let me finish it?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 17, 2013 09:46 PM (+rSRq)

7 Okay, that wasn't the torrent I was thinking.  Though I can see why you went for that one, given that Rizlim's 720p is 16 gigs.  [ Other options here: Rizlim + Softenni ]  It does actually look quite good and the rip is really smooth, but the only series that should be 16 gigs over 12 episodes is Dennou Coil.  (And only because grain is an integral part of the series' visual style)

The 720p Rizlim encode is up on BakaBT though.

Taking forever to get a copy the first time, and being painfully dulled by the series itself, made me think it was the same torrent.   But it wasn't.  I tossed my seedbox on there anyway, in case for some odd reason I could see a seed but you can't, but I doubt that'll happen.  Though, stranger things and all that jazz.

Posted by: sqa at February 18, 2013 01:44 AM (dvTNf)

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