Besides being a great Ayako Kawasumi in-joke, Jason’s first pronouncement (depicted here - *Warning: possible Fate/Stay Night Spoiler - oh please let it turn out to be a spoiler!!!*) on what would give him pause to quit watching anime also got me thinking about my own Ultimate Fan Service wish. Ya know, official fan service that r0xx0r your socks off so much that one feels that it can never be surpassed and that there’s nothing left to see after that. I almost reached that point after seeing that legendary (and rumoured to official) Evangelion clip where Instrumentality = Shinji bonking Asuka, Rei, Misato and every female member of the cast with Gendou watching and commenting.
Fanfics and fanart essentially rely on that something left that isn’t officially developed in the series but is often hinted at. Or it’s just complete and utter wish fulfillment without any real basis on the canon. Sometimes I wonder if the studios and other creative talents deliberately leave this space to tease the fans (think ShizNats) and to create that buzz which outlives a series air-time on TV schedules or DVD release dates (or BT seed/tracker longevity :P).
Like Jason’s second pronouncement, my own “The End of Anime Watching: Nothing Left To See” ideas revolve around various female characters having the s3xx0r. Right now, I wouldn’t mind a SHUFFLE! OVA which takes the cast a few years into the future when Rin’s married all the girls, Shinkai-style but has now become one of those Mysteriously Absent Husbands. Asa, Kaede, Lisianthus/Kikyou, Nerine, Primula and Kareha are now (edit: sorta de facto) widows in the mould of Ama Shigure, Aki Hinata, Chigusa Sakai et al. A day in the life of the Desperate Tsuchimi Housewives, centred around a visit by a much blossomed Tsubomi while the girls try to present a facade of domestic bliss and normality amidst their intra-marital affairs and manoeuvrings. Of course, no kids yet as Rin is never around and all the girls have are each other. :D~~~
Jason’s new pronouncements may supercede past pronouncements but my own pronouncements are culmulative. Besides as wise man once say: Sky outside got sky, person above got person; one mountain still got one mountain high. (天外有天，人上有人；一山还有一山高。) Just when you thought you’ve seen everything, something comes along that makes even the most jaded fans go ZOMGWTFBBQ!!! ;)
I thought Yuji’s dad was alive.
Anyway, I would rather see the Shuffle girls fight to the death, HIME-style for Rin’s affections. They could even call down giant robots from outer space!
“Widow” was a bit of an exaggeration… meant absent husband, not neccesarily dead.
Yeah, more series should have a HIMELander style battle royale. Useless male lead watches on helplessly as the girls slaughter each other - after that, do you think he’s going to be in any position to refuse the winner? Kekeke. It’s just that for SHUFFLE! it was set up for a possible polygamy ending but the anime didn’t follow up on it.
I think the winner will rape him. o_O
Might be a bit of a problem for Lisianthus/Kikyou unless they declare an alliance…
Hmm. After almost 20 years of watching anime, I don’t think there’s any situation that will get me to completely stop watching, positively or negatively. I’m too into the medium as a whole to completely abandon it at this point.
As for UFSW: At this point, I’d love a complex, intelligently written series featuring a yuri couple as the main characters that blows up and becomes a mainstream success. Speaking of the sexx0r, I’d also like to see a little more of the OC in romance/harem series. I think it’d be nice if they were a little more reflective of reality.