Saturday, February 12

Anime

Kimi Ni Todoke, Season 2 Episode 5

Sometimes you wonder why we crawled up out of the ocean, climbed up into the trees, climbed back down out of the trees, discovered fire, invented the wheel, the lever and the other one I always forget, fought wars, went to school, and work forty* hours each week for most of our lives.

Kimi ni Todoke is why.

The reason the Mayan calender stops next year is because Kimi ni Todoke is going to end, and then, the Universe, weary but satisfied, will fold back in on itself.  The world ends not with a bang but with a sigh of happiness.

In the go go beta couple category: Doesn't Chizu clean up nice?

In the war dispatches category: Die, blondie, die!

* For varying values of forty.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:30 AM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 I sure hope KnT is going to end and not drag it out for 3 more seasons.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, February 12 2011 01:55 PM (9KseV)

2 Unless they get married, have kids, and those kids grow up and join the Space Police, that would be excessive, yeah.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, February 12 2011 02:19 PM (PiXy!)

3 How many series do you know where a generation change occurs? Right away I only recall Allison and Lillia. I heard there was something about that in Mai-Otome, but no first-hand experience.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, February 12 2011 04:56 PM (9KseV)

4 Well, there's always Dragon Ball.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, February 12 2011 05:25 PM (PiXy!)

5

Mai Otome only covers a period of a couple of years.

There was a prequel (SiFR) which was about Arika's mother, but it isn't part of the main show, as such. But since Arika's mother is still an otome, then it must happen before she got pregnant.

Mai Otome Zwei takes place about a year after the end of Mai Otome.

But as to DB, the entire franchise starts with Goku being 14, and ends (DBZ) with Goku beginning to train his grand-daughter. (Fans don't consider DBGT to be canon.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, February 13 2011 01:47 AM (+rSRq)

6

Multi-generation anime & manga?

The main character is an un-aging immortal, but 3 generations of side characters in the Maeno family appear in Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne.  With time skips, it only took 4 episodes to go from grandfather to granddaughter.

Same thing with 2 generations of Shibata's in Hell Girl, though it took 3 seasons.

Nanoha, kinda.  The original story is about a grade-school-aged Nanoha; the "Vivid" manga is set several years later, and about her grade-school-aged adopted daughter Vivio.  Though they're probably too close in age to have been biological parent & child, so not sure if it's a "generation" or not.


Posted by: Mikeski at Monday, February 14 2011 04:30 PM (GbSQF)

7 If we look at manga, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure would probably be the outstanding example.  I don't actually like it much, though.

Oh, and Popotan, albeit in reverse.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 14 2011 08:19 PM (PiXy!)

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