Comic Site Rant: 背中ごしにセンチメンタル
Little late with this one, but that’s because I also updated on Monday and was working on something else site-related on Saturday. I think I should add “manipulative” to one of Tina’s character traits at this point. At first Tina was just supposed to be a straight man to Rets’ antics (and provide needed boobs– this is an any-may comic, after all) but I think it’s more fun to make both of them crazy. Tina’s still mostly the straight man in this lame comedy duo, but as an otaku she needs an insane side. As far as art goes, I’m mostly happy. Panels two and three came out the best, and panel one is mostly ok. I could never get the last one right, and Tina ended up looking really bad. Using my magic, I cut out most of what I didn’t like, but that face still needs lots of work. As you can see, Rets has his dead-end grocery store job again, stocking cans into shelves made out of stolen photos.
Gonna plug some things now– stuff of my own, and stuff for other people. First off, I’ve been doing a season review over the past couple of weeks across a number of blog entries. I do three shows an entry, and currently two entries are up, with a third on the way. I also threw together three reviews of some shows that recently ended, and that can be read here. I’m only plugging these because I want some comments, so humour me, ok? The other plug is for my buddy Kransom who is having an otaku sale. He’s selling manga, doujinshi, video games and more. So give it a look will ya!
I’m pretty behind on the new season, so instead of ranting on for a couple more paragraphs, I’ll get to work on this backlog. Later.
(no, this comic does not mean I watched 00.)
Rets’ reaction seemed to be oddly realistic. (remembering the days when I used to watch entire anime series just because of a single rumored scene …)
I think the manga side story 00F has a loli character named Hanayo. She’s like a Haro-type character with cat ears.
I laughed. weird seeing them in a regular food store rather than anime shop.
00 doesn’t have girls in Moe carrot suits. However, it does have pedophilac poverty princesses, shy bridge bunnies who writes letters to dead people, and Loli-super soldiers (and I’m not lying on this one).
You forgot Nena Trinity, the psycho chick who always does a V-sign.
Yeah, Nena is fucking wacko, especially during her casual massacre of Louise’s family during episode 18. Good thing she got what was coming to her in the death of her brothers.
Though I do admit the best porn of 00 does come out of her, though a good deal of it is Trinitycest.
Is it me or are you starting to use that red coloring they use in “sexy-reflection” on the boobs and tighs?
I’ve been using it on and off for a while.
LOL, kinda how I watched Nadesico ENTIRELY after you said the movie had a great frontal shot of Ruri getting out of the bath.
Indeed, that shot was awesome I regret nothing.
But Nadesico is actually good.
The last 2 episodes of 00 were actually very watchable. Though the rest is pure crap.
Fun fact is that they killed nearly every character I REALLY hated. That’s gotta be worth something, right ?
Though, what I just can’t stomach is that the best fighting scene in the whole season is the last opening…
I mean how sad is that…
Nena won’t die cuz of her VA. Honestly. She has the protection of the god of flame and the god of void. Also an invisible suit of alchemist amour.
>the manga side story 00F
If you’re grasping at straws then Sherilyn is the superior loli in the manga. I mean, those legs, so brown, so smooth, so moe…………
>and Loli-super soldiers (and I’m not lying on this one).
Soma and Nena are not loli no matter what you or anybody on the internets says, so the entire post is dismissed and wah should still not watch 00.
@3x as random: Hahahaha, I never thought of her that way! That’s brilliant!
But yeah, this weeks comic was excellent! Me and two friends definitely got a good laugh out of it, especially since I pulled a joke on one of them a while back that was kind of similar to this.
And I’d buy that Arcana doujinshi and Rec mangas in a heartbeat if he doesn’t mind shipping to the East Coast….. I just need to set up a paypal account though with my debit card first…
LET TALK ABOUT YAOI AND FAGGOTY AGAIN!
It’s not like this have been discuss in every recent post right?
Don’t worry the next comic is about lolis
>>(no, this comic does not mean I watched 00.)
Hey Wildarms, if you can get past the first few eps, the show gets to be made of moe and lolicon! I’m not lying, there’s all sorts of underage girls wearing moe outfits and doing moe things! So you should go watch all the episodes of 00 because it’s made of lolicon! It’s the honest turth so go watch it NOW!
I guess newer Gundam TV shows would always have bishies and stuff. While the more mature and grittier stories (a.k.a UC) would just be OVAs and novels. I really want to read Unicorn Gundam, I hear the story is better than 00. There’s also a possibility Full Frontal is actually Char Aznable. If he is indeed alive then that would be like awesome. Guess there’s MSIGLOO 2 to look forward to.
Yeah, after watching 0083 again this weekend I have to say the way the demographic of what used to constitute a cool character and NOW what’s a “cool” character really has been butchered.
Compare Anavel Gato to Setsuna for example, both are dedicated to their cause in a way that they put it first. Gato is a bit more focused on it for the sake of honor whereas Setsuna is more so for the sake of a weird sense of justice or whateverthefuck, but in terms of a number of other key personality traits like blowing off all the female characters they’re strangely similar…
I don’t really care, all I know is I miss the cool guys like Char and Delaz, or at least someone that was halfway cool like Eledore…
I miss RANBA RAL
http://img151.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sorrowhs5.jpg
Hahahaha
Oh, forgot
>>And I’d buy that Arcana doujinshi and Rec mangas in a heartbeat if he doesn’t mind shipping to the East Coast….. I just need to set up a paypal account though with my debit card first…
K lives on the East Coast so I’m sure it’ll be fine.
>>Soma and Nena are not loli no matter what you or anybody on the internets says,
More talking about Soma, since she has DFC and has that touching moment in 25 with Sergi, the where she stops pursing Halle/Alle to go save him and she tells him that if he died she’d be all alone. That really was Moe, considering she hadn’t shown any emotion for the entire series, except delight at the power of the GN-X or determination at beating the Kyrios.
>>Moonspeaker
Well Sestuna is actually a more complex character than Gato in many ways. Gato’s motivations are kinda easy track: Loyalty to the cause of Gihren Zabi, honor as a soldier, guilt of leaving the battle of A Bou a Qu early. The only curveball thrown is the whole relationship with Nina Purpleton, which was thrown in for not apparent reason at the end. As much as I like Gato and 0083, Gato was a somewhat shallow character. Sestuna on the other hand, actually is influenced by multiple factors. On one hand he has his past: the fact that he killed his parents, his animosity towards Ali, he lack of belief in god. Then, on the other hand, you have his idolization of the Gundam and his belief in the ideals Celestial Beings. Gato himself is a character who is almost never challenged in his beliefs, or at least not by much, I mean the confortaion inside the colony is close, but other than that he’s a cheap version of CCA Char without the whole Newtype revolution thing. Setsuna, however, has his questional beliefs question multiple times, including his decision to attack the Trinitys when their definition of “Armed Intervention” differs with his, or how he reacted when his Gundam was shut down, and even all of his conversations in episode 25 with Alejandro and Graham. I mean, maybe in a simplistic sense, “Gato is cooler”, but as a character, Sestuna is a deeper.
Of course, I’m not comparing 00 to MSG or Zeta, which features other complex characters (what makes Ramba Ral or novel Amuro or Palptamis Scrirooco tick, is more or less the same as level of depth as our friend Soran Ibriham). I’m just taking fault with your example. Stardust Memory was a fine enough show, but it suffered from a bunch problems, enough that I say that 00 is a far better show.
>>Nerf Herder
Good that is good.
>> Nerf:
win.
>>I’ve been using it on and off for a while.
really? first time I notice, I guess it is time to check the whole comic again.
BrendantheJedi:
Oh wow…nice analysis… And yeah, I realize now that probably wasn’t a really good comparison, but the main point I was trying to get across was how what constituted a ‘cool’ character has changed over time in weird ways… Though I know I didn’t necessarily do a good job of that….
@Nerf:
Hahahaha, that was great…
@Wildarmsheero:
I think I’ll try and send him a message then.
Hey moonspeaker – feel free to send me an email at any time, or if you have AIM, if you could post your screen name we could just talk that way.
wah: what kind of bizarro-supermarket shelves arm and hammer right below their salad dressing?? I think Rets needs some more training.
I just noticed this, but the background people kinda are like paper mache men. You should do a strip where Rets and or Tina get captured by Paper mache men and they force Rets to watch Gundam 00 in a chair like that one in clockwork orange. Paper mache men are evil!
Tina lied, people died!
Hmmmm…. well I tried leaving a comment on your sale site but for some reason it isn’t appearing…
In any case, I have an AIM account but I use it through my gmail, and it’s sagara117.
^that was for Kransom