SINCE APPARENTLY MAL CAN'T HANDLE SATIRICAL REVIEWS
HERE IS MY REVIEW OF WHO IS IMOUTO
WHO IS IMOUTO may indeed by an absolute joy of a schoolyard complex mystery cartoon, full of depth and complexity and tits, but what I really enjoy about the show is how well it reflects the cultural values I hold dearly.
Cultural Value 1: Strong belief in purity before marriage.
Our main character, like any growing young man with urges that are totally natural but should be prayed out of you every Sunday, fantasises about being together with these ladies. However, WHO IS IMOUTO values the sanctity of marriage above all else. He doesn’t try to make a move on any of the ladies to devalue them in the eyes of the Lord, nor do his delusions suggest he wishes to. Instead, the End Game is to get married. It’s then, and only then, do they get into bed and get down to making 16 babies to carry on the strong family tradition.
Cultural Value 2: Women who understand their role in raising a family
I could not imagine a cast of girls with a greater education and upbringing than the ones on display in WHO IS IMOUTO. Each of their goals in life is to be the perfect wife. The girl with the spirally pigtails may indeed take part in swimming, but this is clearly to perfect her body for childbearing, rather than going to compete in that multicultural scumhouse the Olympics. The girls in the café are learning how to cook for their husbands. They may treat their customers as brothers, but this is their method of bringing up the importance of family and their ability to provide for it. There’s even a girl whose desire to help childbearing is so great she is already trying to read up about it and practice. Such devotion to strong family values brings a tear to my eye.
Cultural Value 3: Anti-faggot
I was worried in an earlier episode when it appeared that WHO IS IMOUTO would fall foul of the faggot loving world we live in today when another male character tried to make a move on the main character. I was stroking my shotgun in a totally non-Freudian way in preparation for such a horrible deed. Imagine my relief though when it turned out they were a girl all along. The other characters in the show were equally worried, but took a more pro-active approach and have started to cure him. That totally works by the way. I went on one of those gay curing camps once, where we undertook activities like mutual masturbation sessions and The Curing Dungeon where the Gay was beaten out of us by a man in a black mask and speedos. I can assure you that I most definitely do not have the Gay anymore.
Cultural Value 4: Strong Family Values
Most importantly of all are WHO IS IMOUTO’s strong family values. The whole incest angle is just a metaphor for the importance of maintaining our cultural values in today’s society. IMOUTO is the importance of keeping our values within the family, much in the same way the main character has to keep his father’s business, and with it maintaining the family traditions that have been passed down through our forefathers. We must cast aside our sexual deviances and embrace IMOUTO. We must cast aside our sins and come together under IMOUTO.
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Me finishing 2nd in FAL twice and on course to do it again this spring as well.
Thanks, I've watched your vid review on Deadman Wonderland. It's made well. Everything is fine, but the thing I liked most is (surprisingly?) the accent and fluency.
I haven't read a lot of your reviews but I genuinely think Madoka, Kobato., Air and Ouran Koukou Host Club are brilliant. I might disagree with the score and even the general idea of some, but they seemed to me almost immaculate in terms of manifestation of your viewpoint.
I'm rewatching Death Note with a younger friend and generally wondering what happens to Light's mother and sister after it's all said and done; does someone tell them Light's secret identity? Consequently, I'm also noticing how my view of Light's actions, and perhaps my moral views as a whole [deep], have changed.
Objectively, you could say that he's doing something positive for the world, but he's also clearly not motivated entirely by his view of justice, as he takes time to flaunt that fact that he's Kira to people just prior to killing them. There's just a lot of ways to interpret the validity of his actions, because, sometimes, maybe the end does justify the means; so long as the character doesn't lose sight of themselves or their goal along the way.
Basically, Kiritsugu should've gotten a Death Note at the end of Fate/Zero.
How is reading the Death Note manga as opposed to watching it? Unless you have another tab open with Death Note's OST and you're painstakingly clicking each one that fits as you read it then it's probably...less, I imagine.
By the way, pretty much the entirety of volume 3 for Samidare blows, unfortunately. Hopefully it'll redeem itself in some way or another to you. Or not. I mean, because I liked it, and I also like when people whom's opinions I like are congruent to my own.
Well, It is a manga not an anime. But Hajime no Ippo is a really good place to start with boxing so is okay. I hope my recommendation is helpful in the future.
I'll be damned if you don't have quite a bit to talk about in this latest episode of Gargantia; like perhaps the most egregious use of an OP song that I've ever seen.
Ledo is contemplating the slaughter that he himself just carried out, and staring, ashen-faced, at the innards of the little squid girl that he just watched helplessly as she was murde..."FLY HIGH, TO THE FAR REACHES OF YOUR DREEEEAMS!"
I don't know how often you get pestered to write reviews for things, but really it's no biggie. If you already dislike the story it's based on, then you can always stop being such a pleb and widen your appreciation of literature can't really do much about it I guess; I only wrote about it because Kurosawa's day to day activities were so startlingly similar to my own. At any rate, if you don't bear Wank Master much enmity then feel free to read my review, you know, see someone properly gush over it. Or you could check out my review of Wakusei no Samidare, a popular manga which I'm sure you've been bugged to read quite a lot by now. The latter is kind of Trope Heavy.
Off topic, I was wondering: you write a metric assload of reviews, and presumably read quite a few as well, would you say that you get influenced by other people's writing [styles]? Because when I read a particularly good review [sometimes your own], I find myself wanting to write one in a similar format. Then again, that could just be a case of me being one of those young'ins that are easily influenced by, and therefore want to emulate, what I watch and read. I've done a lot of weird shit after watching certain anime; tried to get into chess after Code Geass, picked up a weird incestual tooth-brushing fetish after Nisemonogatari, took penis enlargement medication after watching Gurren Lagann...
You get the idea.
