you really think so?
Evirus called Kushieda Minori Top Fuel Genki and possibly even Best Girl in Toradora! In contrast Kabitzin described her as ‘retarded-genki’.
But I can’t help but remember how her cheerfulness may just a coping mechanism to deal with her weaknesses, her fears, her pain. The greater the latter, the more outlandish her genki behaviour. I haven’t seen the manga but Minori strikes me as someone who’s in a lot of pain. Even though there’s not a snowflake in sight and she doesn’t see dead people.
In US politics, having the Big Mo’ (momentum) has sweep candidates to power. But the British have a saying: ‘A week is a long time in politics.’ Likewise, for anime series, momentum can diminish, even disappear, over the span of a week or two.
Hypocrisy is often regarded as an Absolutely Bad Thing. I don’t think it’s necessarily so. Scholars, like Nils Brunsson, have even argued that it is not only an inescapable part of complex social forms of life but also an essential part that keeps things going. While not as essential to anime, the two-faced beauty is often a treat to watch. And we have two such exemplars this fall.
Does J.C. Staff commit sins of anime-original injustice? Myssa Rei contented that ‘J.C. Staff seems to stumble when they have to make things on the fly’. Haesslich pointed to ‘levels of failure‘ in ZnT 2 & 3 as well as parts of Shana 2; J.C. Staff original = t3h suck?
I’m not really able to comment meaningfully on the above hypothesis with reference to ToraDora! or Shana2 because I haven’t seen the manga or light novels respectively and I didn’t even watch ZnT 2 or 3. But two thoughts do come to mind.
I was motivated to pick up ToraDora! after reading about totali’s happiness with the first episode but Kabitzin’s warning about ‘Taiga and her horrible inu comments in the Kugimiya Rie tsundere voice’ stopped me in my tracks. It didn’t help that Mr Love Power himself developed concerns about the quality of manga adaptation. Overall the consensus on the internets is that the show could be good if Taiga doesn’t get too abusive/annoying. If things continue as they did at the end of Ep 2, this could be a very fun and enjoyable series indeed. More power to Ryuuji!
And I just kept thinking that Taiga is Minami Chiaki post-surgical removal of her ahoge. And what we learned when the PPD! gang tampered with Himeko’s should have been warning enough!
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