From: steyn@cs.rochester.edu (Gavin Steyn)
Subject: Re: Japanimation reviews con't (may contain SPOILERS)
Organization: University of Rochester
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:36:59 GMT

I wasn;t going to touch this one, but I need a break from my work...

In article <n112et@ofa123.fidonet.org> Kevin.Kline@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> The 2nd video I picked up was "Beautiful Dreamer" and sorry to say this paled 
>big time to Robot Carnival in terms of animation quality and story line.  
>This was nothing more than trash really.  You have a skimpy-clothed alien
>(Lum) chasing her wimpy boyfriend around (Ataru) and creating havoc with
>everyone.  It turns out her boyfriend chases other women constantly and there 
>are lots of skimpy clothed girls in it.  The other female characters are
>nothing but saucered-eye sluts (sorry to say) that don't do much.  Save for
>Lum who thinks she knows everything (she is what you can consider a "girl with 
>guns" female, for the way she gets angry easily and shoots out lightning when 
>she is angry with ATaru).

Did you actually watch this movie?  I'm just wondering, because she only
uses her shock twice in the entire movie.  Also, for most of the movie
there just aren't any women around for Ataru to chase...

As for sluts, well obviously you must have gotten an uncesored version of
the movie.  In the one I saw no-one slept with anyone else.  You DO
know what the word "slut" means, I hope?  You really might want to find
out before you throw it around so freely.

>  The movie is FILLED with sexual jokes and the guys going around acting like 
>perverts (there is this one scene where they are going through a bunch of
>lingerie and etc.) and Lum gets her top taking off several times.  

I think she loses it once.  Most of the movie she's in a school uniform.

>  As for the last video, Orange Road vol. 1, was unfortantly was just about
>the exact opposite of "Nadia" in that it was FILLED with saucered-eye girls
>(and it was HORRIBLE, they had up to like 5-6 white specs in each eye at
>times).  The main guy acted like a complete wimp (and saucered-eye) and there 
>was this one saucered-eye slut (have to call her that) that did things that
>suggested she was a lesbian!!!!!

God forbid we should watch a show with lesbians in it!  We might pollute
our precious bodily fluids (TM).  And it's a terrible thing to watch an
indecisive guy--the should all be manly men!  drink manly beers!  Set
those women straight!  (In a manly way, of course).

> It seems that Kyosuke likes Madoka (the ohe that
>bosses him around and looks like a slut at time, she drinks CONSTANTLY at bars 
>from what I could see in this 1st volume)

Oh horrors!  Not only does she boss around our hero (TM), but she drinks!
She probably does heroin off screen too.  Doesn't she know that drinking
should be left to real MANLY men!

Note that I'm not defending the plot here (I'm not a fan of those OAVs),
but that's OK, cause you haven't attacked the plot (or anything remotely
coherent, so far as I can tell), just all of those "sluts."  (Just 
another quick check--you do know what the word means, right?  Do you
use it in everyday conversation as much as you do on this board?  (I
think you've used it more in any 5 posts than I have in a LONG time))

Gavin Steyn
steyn@cs.rochester.edu
"So he's had the lifelong ambition of reversing the polarity of the earth?"


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