May i ask you a question what are you thoughts on the anime named Gate Keepers.
how did you like and why or why not. no reason for asking this just curious about how you feel please respond if you want ok. also if you want to ask me a question look at my anime list and ask about one i am watching or have already seen and ask about if i like one or not if you want.
Here are a few more thoughts on the Azuki x Iwase question, since it turned out being more interesting than I expected.
First of all, this really is a weird scene, partly because it goes something like: "I'm smart, and you're smart, so we can share some smart thoughts about another smart person". I read through it a few times in English and in Japanese trying to piece it all together, and this is what I came up with.
They're comparing two allegedly smart girls, because they both agree that smart girls are best. One is Iwase, who grandstands over her high grades and ends up being self-absorbed and, consequently, hard to like (as in "love" like). Takagi says she has a "hokogoshige" personality, and while hokogoshige does have a dictionary translation of "proud/triumphant", it's used more for excessive triumphalism. She's pompous. Besides, Takagi had mentioned earlier that he didn't think his high grades were actually synonymous with intelligence.
That leaves Azuki, who was born smart (according to Takagi) and "gets" the society around her. She was raised to want to be feminine and graceful, and is fine with that. So she's content to use her smarts to glide past high-school and get to what she enjoys doing. Her smarts shine through in understanding that, in her world, being explicitly smart won't help her, and in how naturally she handles a pretty complicated gender identity problem.
Put another way: Iwase is "stupid" because she coasts on grades that mean less than she thinks, and Azuki is smart because she's chosen her goals and has long since made peace with the sacrifices that might come along the way.
So although Japan is misogynistic, Takagi and Mashiro don't seem to be. Takagi says that, for Mashiro, "no matter how cute a girl is, being dumb would be a deal-breaker". And Azuki is only fully "accepted" after they spend three pages appreciating her underrated intelligence.
It's a really unusual and interesting scene, and I'm sure we'll find more to discuss over a few beers.
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how did you like and why or why not. no reason for asking this just curious about how you feel please respond if you want ok. also if you want to ask me a question look at my anime list and ask about one i am watching or have already seen and ask about if i like one or not if you want.
First of all, this really is a weird scene, partly because it goes something like: "I'm smart, and you're smart, so we can share some smart thoughts about another smart person". I read through it a few times in English and in Japanese trying to piece it all together, and this is what I came up with.
They're comparing two allegedly smart girls, because they both agree that smart girls are best. One is Iwase, who grandstands over her high grades and ends up being self-absorbed and, consequently, hard to like (as in "love" like). Takagi says she has a "hokogoshige" personality, and while hokogoshige does have a dictionary translation of "proud/triumphant", it's used more for excessive triumphalism. She's pompous. Besides, Takagi had mentioned earlier that he didn't think his high grades were actually synonymous with intelligence.
That leaves Azuki, who was born smart (according to Takagi) and "gets" the society around her. She was raised to want to be feminine and graceful, and is fine with that. So she's content to use her smarts to glide past high-school and get to what she enjoys doing. Her smarts shine through in understanding that, in her world, being explicitly smart won't help her, and in how naturally she handles a pretty complicated gender identity problem.
Put another way: Iwase is "stupid" because she coasts on grades that mean less than she thinks, and Azuki is smart because she's chosen her goals and has long since made peace with the sacrifices that might come along the way.
So although Japan is misogynistic, Takagi and Mashiro don't seem to be. Takagi says that, for Mashiro, "no matter how cute a girl is, being dumb would be a deal-breaker". And Azuki is only fully "accepted" after they spend three pages appreciating her underrated intelligence.
It's a really unusual and interesting scene, and I'm sure we'll find more to discuss over a few beers.