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elementalheroAnime club last night: we're watching Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
I spent the entirety of the seventh episode (I missed last week's meeting where we watched the first six :/ had to wiki the summaries just to catch up) with my mouth open.
Where has this series been all my life?
I should preface this by saying that I feel incredibly guilty for enjoying this show as much as I do. To simplify it a lot and be very cynical, you can boil the entire show down to two words: Penis envy. It's a show by men for men, full of female fanservice (and male, I hasten to add; see also: Kamina), about hot-bloodedness and who can be more masculine and MANRY and such. Non-main female characters are essentially there for fanservice only (or are depraved villains :/ even though I kind of like Adiane for no reason) and the one who is the most badass also dresses like a stripper.
I should be mostly exasperated with this at the very least, and yet, I am in love with this show. /sob, is a bad feminist ;;
I mean, I am a fan of overly silly things. It's how I relax! I'm quite easily entertained, in all honesty. And man, is TTGL entertaining.
You've got EXPROSIONS, NO LAWS OF PHYSICS EVER, REALLY RIDICULOUSLY SILLY PHALLIC IMAGERY WHICH IS GOOD FOR A LOT OF LAUGHS, MOAR EXPROSIONS, DRILLS, MANRINESS, HOT-BLOODEDNESS, PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE FACE, KAMINA (hnnnnnnnnnnnngh Kamina), YOKO WHO IS A BADASS LADY SNIPER, SIMON WHO IS FECKING ADORABLE, NIA WHO IS EVEN MOER FECKING ADORABLE (I have a special place in my heart for Nia and I don't know why |D), AND BASICALLY EVERYTHING I COULD EVER ASK FOR IN A MECHA ANIME.
...except gdit I'm trying to watch the episodes I missed on Youtube, and apparently whatever company put them up on Youtube and Hulu for free ONLY PUTS UP THE ENGLISH DUB and I don't feel like scouring the internet for the subs right now, so I have to watch the dub. I mean, I'm sure the dub isn't terrible, I just wanted the sub more. :c
Then I watched the new Alice in Wonderland.
It was....confusing, and I won't say more because I'm too tired to bother. |D
I spent the entirety of the seventh episode (I missed last week's meeting where we watched the first six :/ had to wiki the summaries just to catch up) with my mouth open.
Where has this series been all my life?
I should preface this by saying that I feel incredibly guilty for enjoying this show as much as I do. To simplify it a lot and be very cynical, you can boil the entire show down to two words: Penis envy. It's a show by men for men, full of female fanservice (and male, I hasten to add; see also: Kamina), about hot-bloodedness and who can be more masculine and MANRY and such. Non-main female characters are essentially there for fanservice only (or are depraved villains :/ even though I kind of like Adiane for no reason) and the one who is the most badass also dresses like a stripper.
I should be mostly exasperated with this at the very least, and yet, I am in love with this show. /sob, is a bad feminist ;;
I mean, I am a fan of overly silly things. It's how I relax! I'm quite easily entertained, in all honesty. And man, is TTGL entertaining.
You've got EXPROSIONS, NO LAWS OF PHYSICS EVER, REALLY RIDICULOUSLY SILLY PHALLIC IMAGERY WHICH IS GOOD FOR A LOT OF LAUGHS, MOAR EXPROSIONS, DRILLS, MANRINESS, HOT-BLOODEDNESS, PUNCHING PEOPLE IN THE FACE, KAMINA (hnnnnnnnnnnnngh Kamina), YOKO WHO IS A BADASS LADY SNIPER, SIMON WHO IS FECKING ADORABLE, NIA WHO IS EVEN MOER FECKING ADORABLE (I have a special place in my heart for Nia and I don't know why |D), AND BASICALLY EVERYTHING I COULD EVER ASK FOR IN A MECHA ANIME.
...except gdit I'm trying to watch the episodes I missed on Youtube, and apparently whatever company put them up on Youtube and Hulu for free ONLY PUTS UP THE ENGLISH DUB and I don't feel like scouring the internet for the subs right now, so I have to watch the dub. I mean, I'm sure the dub isn't terrible, I just wanted the sub more. :c
Then I watched the new Alice in Wonderland.
It was....confusing, and I won't say more because I'm too tired to bother. |D
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Date: 2010-03-08 10:06 pm (UTC)I wouldn't actually consider it misogynist as much as. WHY DO MEN HAVE TO BE HUMBLE AND QUIET AND SHIT. WE CAN DIG CHICKS AND STILL BE FUCKING AWESOME.