onsdag den 11. januar 2012

Reporting in after an unexplained b&

So, I'm LBM. Also known as Eresh, Ereshkigaal or The Man Who Searches.
Ages ago, my other blog, Mental Fire Axe, disappeared without a trace. I suspect it was baleeted for a rather vitriolic rant about the undesirables in the Eva fandom, a truly grandiose editorial containing the word "faggot" in all its derivatives about ten times and "fuck" a grand total of twenty-five times.
Now, though, it's time for the main attraction.
Loli B-Movie's Winter 2012 Anime Review (and Reviewer Review).
See, I was on ANN, and those fagtrains ticked me off with their reviews. From reading those, I think I've gotten an insight into a few trends in the reviewer community, which are as follows.
1.) The Vitriolic Steamroller From Hell:
Tried and true. "Everything's shit, the animation is shit, the plots are shit, the characters are shit, the whole season sucks. AVI pls." It's gotten a bit old lately, though, since even the tards who used to post this kind of shit are starting to change to another style.
2.) My Precious:
"The new season is shit. Except this one show, which is perfect. Why? It is because it is, and I will tolerate no arguments and uphold that my taste is the universal denominator, even in the face of educated arguments." Way too common - reviewers seem to think that they won't be blamed for bashing a season if they hook themselves onto their delicious little precious and praise it to the skies.
3.) The Sage:
A more erudite version of 1.), which is starting to see a lot of use by reviewers who want to seem mature. "Everything is shit, but it's shit because of some obscure detail in the animation or characterization that only I can see, and if you watch it anyway, you are an atavistic, slope-browed Australopithecus philistine and unfit to carry on the human race." Used by the same pretentious twatsacks who claim to have understood Eva better than anyone. Yeah, if you did, congrats. You are now just as insane as Anno during his bad periods, and in the same fashion at that.

And now, I will review. It'll be short and sweet, and it's not because I'm a lazy faggot.
Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai!:
Another series that gets a lot of flak from oversensitive people. Expecting the first episode to be a loli series, I downloaded it with a smirk on my face, hoping that it had gone the same way as High School DxD and gotten permission to show nipples on national TV. Oh, how wrong I was.
Yes, it's light-hearted. Yes, there's loli. But unlike most other shows of its kind, it has a great deal of respect for established psychological theory. Not only are cousin crushes common in childhood, but in a case where it's an older brother figure who is not related by blood, they're almost unavoidable. Yuuta's sister is presented as just as flaky and dangerously irresponsible as one would have to be to pull off a ploy like the premise, and yes, in the real world, young girls tend to get shamelessly physical. Ask the guy with a 8-year-old niece who will gleefully perform a full-body pajama-clad tackle on his upper body, dangerously close to his face.
All in all, though the premise might be weak, the show avoids the catastrophic pitfalls other shows of its ilk tend to make. Seriously, I've seen plot summaries that would make Freud rotate in his grave. Respect for basic psychosexual tenets isn't something you see often.
70/100. Take it down to 50/100 if you don't happen to be a psychology student, and 10/100 if the whole setting gives you the creeps - but let me tell you, it's not as creepy as it sounds.

High School DxD: Dammit, that's a lot of boobs. Fanservice aside, DxD avoids many of the weaknesses of the harem genre, most noticeably the blank protagonist. Hyoudou is not a blank surface ready for some seriously creepy wish-fulfillment self-projection - in fact, he's thoroughly unpleasant and steers the series out of pandering to fantasies. The supernatural parts might be cliche, but at least they're well done - I actually found myself liking the episode every time the screen wasn't filled with Rias' huge fucking tits.
75/100 - treat this as a 40/100 if you hate fanservice.


Symphogear and Another up next, along with Mouretsu Kaizoku and High School Boys, if I get to it.

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