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Does "Lucky Star" get better over time?
XinWind:
--- Quote from: Smokeyjr2 on November 19, 2009, 06:51:15 PM ---Have her watch Clannad & Clannad After Story on a serious note.
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I second this big time.
Also as for Lucky Star I agree with ant and say it has a lot of inside jokes that your mom most likely won't understand and won't be a good show to show her.
Lucky Star in my opinion is an anime you either love or you just hate. Reason I say this is there are a lot of people who just hate the random, parody, comedy, and barely no storyline, like animes. If you dislike these kind of animes avoid Minami-ke, Seitokai no Ichizon, most of Hayate no Gotoku(Season 1 after episode 24 or around there), Ramen Fighter Miki, Hyakko, and a few others. I myself enjoyed Lucky Star and all the animes I listed lol. Its funny and are good animes to lay back and relax with after serious animes.
Slice of life: "A slice of life story is a category for a story that portrays a "cut-out" sequence of events in a character's life. It may or may not contain any plot progress and little character development, and often has no exposition, conflict, or dénouement, with an open ending. It usually tries to depict the everyday life of ordinary people, sometimes but rarely, with fantasy or science fiction elements involved. The term slice of life is actually a dead metaphor: it often seems as if the author had taken a knife and "cut out" a slice of the lives of some characters, without concern for narrative form"
As far as other animes to choose to watch with family. I would recommend:
Sora no Manimani
Code Geass
Special A
Bokura ga Ita
DNAngel
Fullmetal Alchemist(Both the new season and old)
Ghost hunt
Kimi-kiss ~ pure rouge
Full Metal Panic(possibly)
and etc.
Usually the romance, slice of life, comedy, school life, or something close to these are what you wanna look for. Especially if they are people with little anime interest and knowledge.
What to avoid are any ecchi, erotic, hard to understand, heavy anime based, or heavy dark animes. A little ecchi might not hurt if its not the main focus, but to me I would just avoid it at all possible cost. Whatever you do avoid School Days. Reason why? Your parents WILL send you rehab or something because of it and will try to make you seek help. Sadly normally I would highly recommend it, but yeah don't feel like being the cause of your parents looking at you FULLY different. Unless you are planning to watch it alone.
Also you could try Fafner with your dad. Its a good storyline(IMO), good animation, and its mecha. It is also english dubbed.
This is the thing with anime usually, you either have comedy be the main focus and lack storyline in the end or you get storylines with little comedy, but great storylines. I mean there are a lot of animes with good comedy and good storyline, but when you boil everything down one is a whole lot more focused on. So I would recommend to keep that in mind a lot of times.
Anyways I hope what I said helped in some way. Good luck with trying to share anime with your parents and hope you find the right animes to pick.
Nikkoru:
Lucky Star has the same problem as PaniPoni Dash and some other modern comedy animes - some major referential knowledge is required - of course if you get the references it can be a deeply fulfilling experience.
If I were to share an anime with my parents, which I probably wouldn't do given certain prejudices - but in theory - I would choose something along the lines of Kino's Travels, Death Note, Ghost in the Shell, Minami-Ke, Azumanga, and NGE or Haruhi if you're really up to it. Nothing with much fan-service or overt stupidity and with a more universal appeal - I know most of those have dubbed versions, I haven't tried all of them in English. Death Note, GitS, Azumanga, NGE, are all fairly good.
Oh, I suggest Cromartie Highschool as well - as a straight comedy it's among the best, live-action or anime versions.
relic2279:
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on November 19, 2009, 11:02:46 PM ---If I were to share an anime with my parents, which I probably wouldn't do given certain prejudices - but in theory - I would choose Haruhi
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That's actually a pretty good recommendation for parents to watch. Even though it's a bit sci-fi, it's almost feels like a modern day twist on Snow White. Albeit, a severe twist. But they can probably relate better to it then most others. Especially at the 'climax' point.
i_am_otep:
My little sister greatly enjoyed Lucky Star despite not knowing what half the jokes meant. In fact, the only parody that she understood was the Inital D one
Anyways, she liked it very much because of the randomness. So if you think your mom is up for random silly things, then it just might work for her. If you're not so sure about this one, try first with Azumanga Daiou and Ichigo Mashimaro. Both are filled with random silly jokes minus the heavy reference on other anime
Nikkoru:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on November 20, 2009, 12:15:26 AM ---
--- Quote from: Nikkoru on November 19, 2009, 11:02:46 PM ---If I were to share an anime with my parents, which I probably wouldn't do given certain prejudices - but in theory - I would choose Haruhi
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That's actually a pretty good recommendation for parents to watch. Even though it's a bit sci-fi, it's almost feels like a modern day twist on Snow White. Albeit, a severe twist. But they can probably relate better to it then most others. Especially at the 'climax' point.
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It's a cleverly written and unique modern comedy, while it has some fanservice and ecchi elements in it - it never relies on it - and most importantly it tends to avoid Japanese conventions for the comedic genre. In other words, it's humour that's not hard to translate.
I've heard bad things about the dub though.
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