30 Days of Anime, Day 9ish & 10: Idek
Aug. 15th, 2010 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plasmoidsI'm not going to do Day 9, which was "Saddest Anime Scene." I don't think I've ever cried watching anime, and I somehow doubt I ever will. It's anime, for Christ's sake. Also, I pretty much never cry at anything media related. I'm kind of heartless like that.
So.
Favorite Slice of Life Anime
I legit find that picture hilarious. What the flying fuck, Madarame.
Anyway. Genshiken is indeed my favorite slice of life anime. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm an uber nerd and have a hard time truly relating to realistic storytelling unless it involves nerdity of some kind. If it's SF, fantasy, whatever, I can enjoy it for the non-reality of it. But if it's slice of life and it's normal people? Well, that's just boring.
Genshiken is the story of a bunch of otaku in college who sit around reading manga, watching anime, playing videos and making model sets. So it's kind of what I do as a college student and I find I relate to many of the characters, even though it's best female character is kind of shallow bitch. (Ohno and the self-hating otaku girl do not interest me, and I hate their stupid fucking feud. I kind of hate that the creator made them basically battle each other for the 'token girl' spot. Whatever.) I guess what I like about it is that I totally GET IT. Not a lot of media comes along that goes "HEY, I TOTALLY GET YOU" unless you're a gorgeous supermodel spy or something.
I loved season one and there were some episodes of season two that were really hilarious, but I kind of wish they'd shoved the OVA and the second season together and skipped over some of the boring drama bullshit. It was like, it's about a fucking nerd club. I liked it a lot better when they were actually interacting, being dorks and creating emotion through interaction rather than when they suddenly started passive-aggressively fighting and graduating and creating all cop-out emotional shit.
Lmfao, wow, this post actually makes it sound like I really DON'T like Genshiken all that much, but I really do. When it wasn't straying away from it's core, it was really funny and occasionally even moving. And I enjoyed it because I totally got it. Nerds, man.
PS: I saw Scott Pilgrim. I was happy with it. Haters to the left. The end.
So.
I legit find that picture hilarious. What the flying fuck, Madarame.
Anyway. Genshiken is indeed my favorite slice of life anime. Perhaps it's the fact that I'm an uber nerd and have a hard time truly relating to realistic storytelling unless it involves nerdity of some kind. If it's SF, fantasy, whatever, I can enjoy it for the non-reality of it. But if it's slice of life and it's normal people? Well, that's just boring.
Genshiken is the story of a bunch of otaku in college who sit around reading manga, watching anime, playing videos and making model sets. So it's kind of what I do as a college student and I find I relate to many of the characters, even though it's best female character is kind of shallow bitch. (Ohno and the self-hating otaku girl do not interest me, and I hate their stupid fucking feud. I kind of hate that the creator made them basically battle each other for the 'token girl' spot. Whatever.) I guess what I like about it is that I totally GET IT. Not a lot of media comes along that goes "HEY, I TOTALLY GET YOU" unless you're a gorgeous supermodel spy or something.
I loved season one and there were some episodes of season two that were really hilarious, but I kind of wish they'd shoved the OVA and the second season together and skipped over some of the boring drama bullshit. It was like, it's about a fucking nerd club. I liked it a lot better when they were actually interacting, being dorks and creating emotion through interaction rather than when they suddenly started passive-aggressively fighting and graduating and creating all cop-out emotional shit.
Lmfao, wow, this post actually makes it sound like I really DON'T like Genshiken all that much, but I really do. When it wasn't straying away from it's core, it was really funny and occasionally even moving. And I enjoyed it because I totally got it. Nerds, man.
PS: I saw Scott Pilgrim. I was happy with it. Haters to the left. The end.
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Date: 2010-08-15 04:36 am (UTC)YOU'RE MY FAVORITE BUT I DO NOT NEED TO SEE THAT OH MY GOD DDDD:
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Date: 2010-08-15 04:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-15 06:46 am (UTC)I've read the start and end of Genshiken. I should probably read the middle, heh.