February 19, 2012

Quick Takes 12

It's been three years since the last one, so here it is: Ladies versus Butlers, Sengoku Otome, Sacred Blacksmith, Aika Zero, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 12:13 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
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1 I'd really like to see a show that has an accidental compromising situation — except the girl doesn't freak out, and the boy doesn't melt in embarrassment.

I'm not even sure how I want that to work. I dunno, something like...these?

Both surprised, but... "I kinda like this. We should do more of it." "Maybe in private?"

Surprised and embarrassed at first, but bystander leering goads them both into honest smooching?

Girl enjoys the situation, but boy maintains his own dignity and the girl's because he actually does respect her, maybe? "Girl, if I ever grope you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you won't be carrying so many groceries you can't see where you're going."

It could be a fun setup, but it gets wasted time and time again. In exactly the same way. Boring.

Posted by: refugee at February 19, 2012 01:14 PM (ayoGu)

2 There's an accidental compromising situation in the second episode of Nanoha StrikerS featuring Caro and Erio. It doesn't proceed like you were thinking; Caro just ignores it and treats it like the accident it was.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 19, 2012 01:25 PM (+rSRq)

3 Sengoku Otome was fairly good.  Again, better than it had any right to be.  I liked the relationship between Mitsuhide and Nobunaga a lot.

Posted by: tellu541 at February 19, 2012 03:06 PM (pJ1uW)

4 "There's an accidental compromising situation in the second episode of Nanoha StrikerS featuring Caro and Erio. ...Caro just ignores it and treats it like the accident it was."

That doesn't sound like any fun; why did they bother?

Posted by: refugee at February 19, 2012 03:29 PM (ayoGu)

5 They were attempting to establish that Caro is not your average anime bratty little girl.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 19, 2012 03:32 PM (+rSRq)

6 I think it was precisely to underline that they weren't telling that kind of story. Virtually every character in the show is a complete innocent when it comes to romance (even to the point of implausibility when it comes to Nanoha and Fate.)

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at February 19, 2012 03:40 PM (GJQTS)

7 How about Kodaka from Haganai? Gets out of a couple of exposed-girl situations by steadfastly refusing to admit he saw anything...

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at February 19, 2012 03:47 PM (GJQTS)

8

I think it was precisely to underline that they weren't telling that kind of story. Virtually every character in the show is a complete innocent when it comes to romance (even to the point of implausibility when it comes to Nanoha and Fate.)

Except for the scene where Subaru molests Tia.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 19, 2012 03:53 PM (+rSRq)

9 (delete this comment after reading, Steven)
FWIW, the font size in the piece changed almost per line in the second half of the post... at least for me.  I'm using Firefoxy and XP, and don't usually have difficulty with your formatting.

Posted by: Wonderduck at February 19, 2012 05:24 PM (ZNgWw)

10 Wonderduck, should be fixed now.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 19, 2012 05:35 PM (+rSRq)

11 When this happened in Princess Lover, the girl was mostly amused. Yuuko in the upcoming Tasogare Otome x Amnesia isn't fazed by anything involving her ghost body, but freaks out when her bones are seen.

Posted by: muon at February 19, 2012 05:43 PM (JXm2R)

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