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  Supergrunch said:
But it's not a soap opera, it's adapted from a bishoujo game. Which are undeniably aimed at male audiences.

 

Oddly enough, I find Tomoya by far the most interesting character in the show.

 

  Sheikah said:
I kind of got the feeling that such shows were a hit with women and womenly men, unless guys are really into the whole teen schoolgirl romance issue dramas. :S

 

Seems they do.

 

I also thought this was mainly targeted at a female audience (and indirectly to that male audience). Its not like we expect games or animes to have ugly females characters anyway, why would we consider this one more directed to males just because it has a harem, when in fact it is a romance drama, a genre mainly associated to women.

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  Shino said:
Seems they do.

 

I also thought this was mainly targeted at a female audience (and indirectly to that male audience). Its not like we expect games or animes to have ugly females characters anyway, why would we consider this one more directed to males just because it has a harem, when in fact it is a romance drama, a genre mainly associated to women.

Seriously, there's a massive difference between romance dorama (something like Densha Otoko), and bishoujo. The latter of these is basically rooted in eroges, with a male protagonist and a selection of females to act as "goals" - they're very much an otaku thing, and no socially normal Japanese girl would ever consider buying one. Dorama, on the other hand, is indeed mainly aimed at women, but also collects a fair few male fans. It just so happens that Clannad is one of the least ero eroges ever made, with no porn and very complex (for the genre) characters and story. This means it has some things in common with dorama, and slice of life and so on, but it's still ultimately a bishoujo game that's aimed squarely at male otakus. I mean, it's made by Key...

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  Shino said:
Seems they do.

 

I also thought this was mainly targeted at a female audience (and indirectly to that male audience). Its not like we expect games or animes to have ugly females characters anyway, why would we consider this one more directed to males just because it has a harem, when in fact it is a romance drama, a genre mainly associated to women.

 

I was going to say something about it but I couldn't have explain it better than Supergrunch did.

 

It's not that it needs to have ugly girls to be aimed at girls. But the art style and emphasis on the male characters is usually much more accentuated in anime geared at women.

 

Some blunt comparisons because I can't be arsed to get more pertinent examples:

 

Geared at the ladies:

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Okay, lads. I've installed Clannad as well as a voice patch onto my PC. I know what I need to do for it to work.

 

Now, I can actually click on the game and it will go to the Main Menu. However, I can go no further. If I select anything on the menu it will stop responding and I'll have to navigate away.

 

Not only that, but AppLocale isn't working for me. I try to get it to support the game but it comes up with a message saying that my "system does not have the support for the selected language." which I thought that's what the programme did anyway.

 

Also, here's my problem with parts of the menu without having Japanese on the computer:

 

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And this is what I get at the bottom next to the Start menu:

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It looks like I will need the Unicode. So I need to find an Windows XP disc that I could borrow from somebody so I could install the language. (Do you actually get that CD-ROM with the PC? Because this computer's second hand and so didn't get one.) And then just hope my piece of cack disk drive reads it.

 

Grrr, this is irritating.

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  Blue_Ninja0 said:
I was going to say something about it but I couldn't have explain it better than Supergrunch did.

 

It's not that it needs to have ugly girls to be aimed at girls. But the art style and emphasis on the male characters is usually much more accentuated in anime geared at women.

 

Some blunt comparisons because I can't be arsed to get more pertinent examples:

 

Geared at the ladies:

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  Shino said:
My problem is that I don't see much difference between any of them, even though Kannagi and the other one look more suggestive, which is another thing I don't get, why are Otaku so masochist? What's the point of watching those cock teases, might as well got watch some hentai.

 

I'm sure Clannad has something very different from the usual that makes it great but altering the subject of the story to male doesn't signify change enough to be called a bishoujo instead of Dorama. Maybe I just don't get the nomenclature when it gets this niche. Shounen and shoujo should be enough to tell the target audience and I can't place Clannad in either, apparently.

 

Okay, now you got me very confused. I really can't understand what you mean in the 2nd part of your post but shounen and shoujo are not enough to define a genre of course. There's the age issue, you can't say that Clannad or Death Note, for example are in the same age demographic as, say, Naruto or One Piece.

Well, use this if you feel like it:heh:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php

And even if the artstyle doesn't say much to you, you would notice the difference right away as the story started to advance.

 

Regarding Kannagi (the girl is named Nagi), it doesn't have much fanservice at all. You can say that about Ichigo 100%, which was the picture in the top but I never saw that one. I don't like them. Echi anime is usually very forced.

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I haven't looked at it full screen yet as I've not watched Clannad: AS but there is a diagram explaining the storyline in both the first series and AS.

I'll put it in a spoiler box. It makes me laugh that a spoiler box I create I cannot see the contents of either... But if you're interested as I know a few people here are. Apparently it's quite good.

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Ive seen the 1st 20 minutes of dragonball evolution

 

and in a nutshell I turned it off because it was so bad

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  The Villan said:
It looks like I will need the Unicode. So I need to find an Windows XP disc that I could borrow from somebody so I could install the language. (Do you actually get that CD-ROM with the PC? Because this computer's second hand and so didn't get one.) And then just hope my piece of cack disk drive reads it.

 

Grrr, this is irritating.

90% of the time you get a windows disk with a PC. It might be a 'recovery disk' that contains windows xp.
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Soooo

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Soooo
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We've known that he did that for ages now though. This was more like a transition chapter. A bit calm, but it prepares for things to happen in the future. Also it cleared a few things up.

 

As for Bleach.

 

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HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

BROKAMA FOREVER!!!!

 

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Man I hate Oasis... sounds like every other song they sing.

Shame they're gonna ruin what sounds like an awesome Production IG anime with that song. Although. I don't watch the openings anyways.

 

Naruto, even though it felt slow, that usually happens in any media. A slow bit slotted into a fast paced section just to calm it down a bit.

 

Also I randomly watched the first few seconds of a Eureka 7 trailer, for the series, and it was dubbed. Renton's voice was horrible. It nearly ruined the show for me.

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Cool. I'll give the Evangelion trailer a watch tomorrow.

 

Since you mentioned E7, it made me remember that the movie trailer got released on Monday. Does look pretty good from what i've seen. Better than I imagined anyway. I liked Rentons dubbed voice, thought Johnny Yong Bosch did well :heh:

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