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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:29 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:40 pm
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Me personally, I don't really have that many preferences toward the genres themselves. It's usually just a matter of do I like this series or not?
I've read at least one thing from every genre and yes there were a lot that I didn't bother continuing. I can't entirely blame the genre, maybe I just picked up the wrong title, but of the genres there are 3 that are more against my preference.
1. Hentai. Why? Personally, I find them boring, they have no real story and even when they do they completely kill it with their hentai. I live for story and they have none!
2. Yaoi. Again, they lack story. With Yuri, you can find some relatively cute and interesting stories and build up, with Yaoi (at least with what I've read) it just seems to come across as awkward.
3. Horror. Honestly, this is just because I can't handle horror very well. Ever since I was a kind I'd scare easy..and even when it doesn't immediately scare me, I have nightmares about it later on. So I tend to try and avoid these, unless the description is too compelling and then it just depends on if it scares me in a good way or not.
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:04 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:23 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:50 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:35 pm
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Kimi Doodles ◘ ◘ ◘
Just piping in to say (and I totally understand that it's your personal preference) but while a large amount of yaoi manga are often just plotless mush, there are also a lot of stories that feature boy/boy romance while still have a rich and enticing story. Like Acid Town for example. It's considered a yaoi, yet has a thick plotline centered around this young guy that gets entangled with mob leaders in order to save his brother. So while it's usually hard to find, there are a few really good plot-driven yaoi's out there.
Anyway, personally I'm not a fan of harems. I don't really know why, but whenever the main character suddenly starts winning the hearts of like six other girls I just... eh... it feels silly to me I guess. Ouran was the only "reverse harem" that I could handle and it was barely that anyway. I guess I just prefer straight-forward romances? I mean even love-triangles bother me to no end.
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(That's quite alright) Yeah, It had crossed my mind that maybe I just had been finding bad titles, but after a while, it seems a bit too monotonous to even look. Shonen Ai titles have their moments from time to time, but personally I've just never found any Yaoi that's...interesting.
That's pretty understandable. Although, when you said Harem, I was expecting something along the lines of, "It's just not possible." type response. Since it's a relatively common factor for people to have something against harem series..out of jealousy..more or less.
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:46 pm
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Zero the Crimson (That's quite alright) Yeah, It had crossed my mind that maybe I just had been finding bad titles, but after a while, it seems a bit too monotonous to even look. Shonen Ai titles have their moments from time to time, but personally I've just never found any Yaoi that's...interesting. That's pretty understandable. Although, when you said Harem, I was expecting something along the lines of, "It's just not possible." type response. Since it's a relatively common factor for people to have something against harem series..out of jealousy..more or less.
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The unfortunate thing about yaoi and shonen ai is that there is so much crap out there that all of the good stuff is buried at the bottom, thus making it terribly difficult to find something of high quality. Kind of odd that yuri often doesn't have this problem, or at least as bad. Most yuri out there will have some sort of development beforehand...
I'm not really sure why harem anime bug me so much, to be honest. They often just leave a bad taste in my mouth, maybe because I'm so used to stories where the protagonist has one, maybe two, love interests at once. There's no competition to win their heart, it's just a slow and deep development between two characters. With so many girls (or guys) fawning over the main character, I feel like it's harder to... I dunno... get to understand each relationship and it's dynamics. Or they just turn out sort of flat.
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:53 pm
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Kimi Doodles ◘ ◘ ◘
The unfortunate thing about yaoi and shonen ai is that there is so much crap out there that all of the good stuff is buried at the bottom, thus making it terribly difficult to find something of high quality. Kind of odd that yuri often doesn't have this problem, or at least as bad. Most yuri out there will have some sort of development beforehand...
I'm not really sure why harem anime bug me so much, to be honest. They often just leave a bad taste in my mouth, maybe because I'm so used to stories where the protagonist has one, maybe two, love interests at once. There's no competition to win their heart, it's just a slow and deep development between two characters. With so many girls (or guys) fawning over the main character, I feel like it's harder to... I dunno... get to understand each relationship and it's dynamics. Or they just turn out sort of flat.
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That, there is. It is rather strange, though it could also be due to the minds of the creators... though that would be even stranger, if you think about it.
I kinda see what you're getting at. Personally, the only pet peeve that I have with most harem series is that you can tell who the main character is going to be with, within the first 5 episodes. It's only once in a blue moon you find one that's end throws you for a loop in the matter of who they're with.
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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:06 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:24 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 1:46 pm
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:38 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:22 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:59 pm
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