Last Exile wrote:Well, they love Slam Dunk over there like mad, which is why the Genshiken ppl refer to it in Book 6. However, no one could give a toss about it outside Japan.
I know
they like it. But it is hard to understand why. The character designs a blutig ugly and the sports-team genre has been done to death in both manga and anime.
Slam Dunk added nothing new to the genre except the
then trendy sport of basketball. I'd wage a campaign of book and video burning to remove this abomination from the face of the planet, but what would be the point? Will it prove, to the zombies who read and like this shite, that my view is, somehow, the right one?
Last Exile wrote:Oh well, what can one say about a country that makes Gundam condoms?
What can one say about the country that brought us the
Hello Kitty vibrator? And you thought the
Sailormoon sausages were bad....
asurin wrote:I think that they didn't get a representative sample here. Perhaps of they tried asking people over 18 they'd have more luck. To me it looks like a list of obvious classics and current titles.
The Ghibli films are so obvious that I'd have been surprised if they hadn't been included. And I'm not surprised that the original
Mobile Suit Gundam is there, either, as the impact that show had in 1979 makes the
Der Krieg phenomenon pale by comparison. MSGundam practically
created fandom en-masse in Japan, the kind of which had not existed before.
But
Der Krieg, itself, at number 1? Yes, I fall into the right group to have
been there when this show hit. But I moved on, because there were a huge number of shows, in its immediate aftermath, that were a whole lot better/more interesting than it. I eventually became an
ENEMY of the show when the whiny mürrisch n00b fanboys made it their cause celebre, and started a laughable campaign of Anno Hideaki bashing wherever I could. I loved the mürrisch responses I got from that. Then it aired on Aus tv and I just gave up....
asurin wrote:If you asked your average Australian TV viewer what the best shows of all time were you would get the same thing.
You mean there are shows on current Australian tv that people actually like? Oh wait.... Most Australian commercial tv viewers are congenital idiots. Forget what I said.