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Genshiken! An anime about...Otaku?
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anime news network wrote:
College freshman and ACG lover Kanji Sasahara settled down his extracurricular activity in Genshiken (The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture) in order to become a true and thorough otaku. Meanwhile, Saki Kasukabe, the girlfriend of another freshman Genshiken member (also a bishounen) Makoto Kohsaka, was dragged into Genshiken's otaku-ish activities reluctantly, yet her resentful attitude towards otakus is changing without her notice.
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If you liked Genshiken, you might want to check out a really lesser known series called Maniac Road (And it's sequel, Pretty Maniacs). It's short-- MR is 3 vol, and PM is 3. It's a cute little series about an Otaku-themed store in Akihabara. It doesn't focus solely on anime, either--each chapter tends to discuss some new aspect of otakudom: model building, gaming, anime, comiket, etc.
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Kenjimurasame wrote:
As if this isn't said enough, the Genshiken manga is really superior to the anime. Del Rey's publishing it and doing a great job. Kind of slowed down though, since they're nearing the end.
Agreed on all aspects. The manga is just awesome.
There was also an american comic that was centered on that, but it was published by an independant years ago and was not collected in a trade, so it's hard to find.
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Genshiken is great anime, the characters are just so fun... Ohno is so win: "There is no girl who doesn't like homos!"
Kujibiki Unbalance was fun as well. It was so creepy when Komaki (was it her, I'm not sure) told the ghost story, but I don't like the Kujibiki (heart) Balance tv series, the character design is no good and the story is a bit boring.
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The fact that you're posting on a message board devoted entirely to a game (a niche game at that) means you're an otaku too, on some level.
However this topic isn't about why you hate yourself.
Anyway, I did like what they showed of the original Kujibiki Unbalance--the problem is, KujiAn is supposed to be a satire of what's wrong with the anime industry: Each character in it is some bizarre parody of an anime stereotype. However, KujiAn could probably stand on it's own (under the originator's watch, anyway--a newer KujiAn I saw recently was rather under whelming) if it retained the aspects that made it so funny to begin with, instead of becoming just another high school anime.
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Kenjimurasame wrote:
As if this isn't said enough, the Genshiken manga is really superior to the anime. Del Rey's publishing it and doing a great job. Kind of slowed down though, since they're nearing the end.
Yeah, the manga was just plain hilarious, I'm planning on buying a couple of volumes.
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I also loved the Kujibiki Unbalance episodes that came with them. If you guys ever see the 13th Genshiken episode it's aired in the New kujibiki unbalance episodes as an OVA. (They introduce Ogiue)
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Ohno is so cute and nerdy. <3
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SRW has always been and will always be about killing Jewish aliens with your German-named robots.
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