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Great episode, it was a nice way of finishing off the first season, anyways I intensely enjoyed this season and now I'm off to start the second one^^,

Cool end, nice to see the old chairman is still around ^^

I eagerly await the OVA's and the 2nd Season.

i second this ^^

I am just glad that they made another season.

Okay, let me see if I understand the exact meaning of this.

Starting around 12:21, the blonde woman says,




In other words, Genshiken members are not just dependent on porn, they are not willing (or possibly lack the ability to) substitute normal porn for ero-doujinshi. Thus, they're not just obsessed with their hobby, they're both obsessed and sexually committed to their hobby. Shaming of identifiable, sexually committed subcultures is not unusual. Consider what would happen if a pair a gay men made a habit of strolling around a conservative American town in bondage gear, and compare the probable reaction with equally gay men who were more or less "in the closet" in the same community.

Considering that international condom companies claim that Japan has a very low rate of actual sexual intercourse, it's not surprising that a lot of Japanese adults are dependent on porn. Considering that Hello Kitty vibrators are sold, I don't think this situation is limited to men.

I don't have first-hand knowledge of Japan, but I suspect a lot of people might use ero-doujinshi without being identifiable otaku. A teen or young adult who keeps assorted ero-doujinshi with the rest of a porn collection but doesn't visibly obsess about manga/anime/cosplay is probably regarded as an ordinary porn user rather than as an otaku. In particular, a woman with a stack of yaoi porn but no other notable distinctions is probably regarded as non-otaku.

So I don't know if I'm understanding this episode, but I think that's the message -- that the shame of being an otaku is largely the shame of being part of an indentifiable sexual subculture.

Am I misunderstanding?

I thought this is a 15-ep series...the other 3 was OVA. I didn't feel that it ended ><

This episode just had an overall good feel, Sasahara as the chairman is perfect for Genshiken.

I am confused! Has Kasukabe Quit smoking?

Good...look forward to the OVAs and then the second season. There are some really good laughs for the first season but for some reason I feel like something is missing...don't know what.

That was a great first season, a very enjoyable show that gave me insight into otaku's. Good show.

Third!

can anyone explain to me what does male-orientated Kujian means?

Yaoi? or just male version?

That punch.

Good ending to the first series. :)

The show has it's good parts but there were some slow moments as well. If this was 2004 i would think it was a sorta okay ending, though you can't do much about that with this series, but thankfully the OVA and second season are out from when i started watching.

I can't help but always feel bad for Saki throughout the whole series.
It's just so sad for her. *sniffles*

Nice ending. I'll definitely check out the second season.

and so it finished...ill be watching the 2nd season but not now,sometimes later

7/10

Didn't like the ending but those were some nice 12 episodes.

Great anime, its tough to find satire anime about its own topic. I enjoyed this alot so I'm gonna give it 8/10.