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Chimera Ant

Chimera Ant

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@ Flame,
Either Cowboy Bebop or Monster I´d say, and since Cowboy Bebop is only 26 episodes long (while Monster is 74 eps) and on of my personal favorites: I recommend that one.
Do watch in sub though, Wakamoto Norio gives a splendid performance of Vicious and Spike's VA is also very fitting. (unlike what I've heard of the dub).

18-May-2012 00:07:38 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 00:13:31 by Chimera Ant

i Revive

i Revive

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I'd say watch Gosick. It's one of my favorite shows. Victorique is the best character ever. Spice and Wolf is very good. I've watched 20 eps of Monster and I've had it on hold for a while but it's pretty good too.
I think Cowboy Bebop is overrated. I think people rate it higher because of the nostalgia feel. It's episodic and not much to the plot. It got pretty boring at times tbh, but it was alright.

18-May-2012 01:11:53 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 01:32:35 by i Revive

Dynamic Hawk

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Guys, about the news article I posted on last page.
The guy was a TRANSLATOR and as such, was doing his job in translating from Japanese to Swedish. To be fair though, how many animes have you seen where scenes of a *exual nature haven't been seen or have you seen any anime where it hasn't been implied?
I somewhat doubt it.

18-May-2012 05:33:08

Steegol

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@ Flame - I'd say go for Gosick, I watched the first ep a while back and it turned out to be very interesting, felt surreal watching it :O .
@ Dynamic - Honestly I think they need to start focusing on people who are really in trouble and solve real crimes, this would be like trying to put me on the record as a murderer because I play GTA.

18-May-2012 06:55:43 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 07:12:22 by Steegol

Dynamic Hawk

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I know what you mean.
The point in games/books/movies are to view or experience things that are either;
A. Impossible
B. Illegal
I mean, I like killing games as much as the next guy, doesn't mean I go around stabbing people in the street does it? GTA is filled with things which are illegal to do in real life, THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT POPULAR, it lets people do things they can't do in real life because it doesn't hurt anyone.
All I was saying was the guy was doing his job.
The majority of people in anime are highschoolers (typically between 16 and 18) and are hardly ever below the age of 14, at least in the animes I have seen.

18-May-2012 07:40:45 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 07:42:44 by Dynamic Hawk

Jesse B77

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This IS Sweden were talking about after all, a country well known for its incredibly, and somewhat ludicrously, hardline stance on exual representation of minors, which extends to cover lolicon ecchi titles as well as full on H. Chances are the manga this guy possessed was something which wouldn't be illegal in the majority of other countries.
Frankly, as long as you keep everything within a fictitious content, I don't see the issue. I cant say for sure how truthful they are, but ive run across several people over time who very much like lolicon content in anime and manga, and yet would swear on their mothers grave that they have no interest in real children.
The argument that engaging in fiction which depicts criminal activity will cause a person to engage such behaviors in real life is greatly flawed and is mostly the product of people looking to media for a scapegoat, because it assumes that people cant make moral decisions based on the difference between truth and fiction. There will always be people who are already willing to commit those crimes that are attracted to the content because they have those tendancies, but this does not necessarily mean that all people attracted to the content want to commit those acts, or that all people who consume that media eventually will. The rise of videogames, an exceptionally more immersive experience than other brands of fiction, somewhat confirms confirms this.

18-May-2012 09:53:12 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 10:29:41 by Jesse B77

Chimera Ant

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@ Revive,
I rate it high because it has style, superb char dev, realistic char designs and personalities, great humor, fun episodic stories, great drama and action, smooth animation and a fantastic soundtrack. ;) All this is done unlike any other series.

18-May-2012 10:30:12 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 10:47:10 by Chimera Ant

Jesse B77

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Also, I don't think that its particularly fair for the Swedish gvernment to instantly demonize any lolicon content, since most often than not this is a knee-jerk of the 'public moral standard' that is taught by society from birth, and not because the content in and of itself is actually something that you would find offensive or damaging to public morals.
Take the manga 'Kodomo no Jikan' for example (chances are you've heard of it, every April fools day at least one anime company issues a joke statement that they licensed the anime), its a lolicon title with a fair degree of exualized content (the plot is about a 9 year old trying to seduce her teacher), and I can see how terrible that looks on paper, but when you actually get into the story, read it and consider it you realize that with the odd exception (there have been a few times were I thought the content crossed beyond the boundaries of good taste) much of the exualized nature of the story is justifiable by the tale.
That is to say, that judging content which may or may not contain some value based on a pre-conveived notion is a bad idea.

18-May-2012 10:37:08 - Last edited on 18-May-2012 10:48:34 by Jesse B77

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