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There's an interesting theory that Bravern is Lewis from the future. This episode hinted strongly at that because Lewis is a fan of a toku whose main character strongly resembles Bravern, and Bravern is a fan of the same show, having decorated his room with memorabilia from it. Did I mention that Bravern gets his own room? It has a 3D printer that can generate any object (Doraemon reference, considering the time travelling?) and his logo/name is emblazoned on its walls. Bravern's room reminds me of Lightning Mcqueen's trailer, which is neat. The homosexuality continues unabated because Lewis and Isami had a boxing match where they get fairly emotionally and physically tender. Lulu is an absolute nuisance, though -- probably the most annoying anime character I've had the misfortune of seeing. I still can't get over how wildly racist the captain's design is, but the Allied Forces logo is pretty neat.
 
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God of Nothing said:
The very first chapter lays out Naruto's one goal and what the plot is actually dependent on: him being accepted by everyone. Sasuke was just part of that everyone that went off the deep end
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Except Naruto actually succeeded in doing that by the end of Sasuke Retrieval. Then in Kage Summit or whatever Naruto declares that he can't become Hokage if he can't bring Sasuke back to him.
 
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Trollblade69 said:
Except Naruto actually succeeded in doing that by the end of Sasuke Retrieval. Then in Kage Summit or whatever Naruto declares that he can't become Hokage if he can't bring Sasuke back to him.
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At the end of Pain, actually. And that's just Naruto being sentimental. You are deliberately being obtuse at this point.
next, you'll tell me sasuke really wanted to be hokage
 
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Just wanted to say I really liked the dub on Hokkaido Gals. They gave the main girl a Minnesota accent which I didn't think I needed in my life. The guy is ok. Nothing special. But overall my enthusiasm for this show grows the more it goes on.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
Speaking of foreign IPs done in Japan
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There was also a godawful Stitch anime and at one point there were plans for a Hannah Montana anime done by Toei:

And of course, let's not forget the infamous High School Musical manga. I'm surprised I'm saying this, but that manga is overhated. It's a short one-shot that's basically an ad for the movie, and any awkward wording is probably due to translation errors. It's fine for what it is.
 
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PS1gamenwatch said:
I'm surprised they didn't try adapting Korean stories Unbalance x Unbalance which features a bad boy and a busty female teacher in a relationship since that is their thing, or Girls of The Wild's which has guy go to an girls school or even Hwang Ri Mi's works which are reverse harems with girls surrounded by pretty boys, especially one which has an assertive bad girl trying to monopolize on one guy even though she promised this gay guy to help him.
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Imagine if that happened to other manga with yaoi in them, a girl like this comes along and takes the guy away.
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Girls of the Wild was adapted in live action by the chinese, it was my first and only Type of chinese soap opera. I guess they see live action as easier to do rather than cartoons.

 
Sailor Troon said:
The homosexuality continues unabated because Lewis and Isami had a boxing match where they get fairly emotionally and physically tender
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So far with Bravern, the homo part I see is played as a joke mostly rather than actual bara - yaoi homo. Coincidentally or conveniently for other show with same episode number.
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At least, episode sorts out the angst between Isami and Lewis, because I find Isami is quite unlikable from last few episodes, I like Lewis way more, personality and voice actor reference wise. Though, boxing Isami easily reminds me of Ippo.

I'm not exactly into theory speculation, because it's easily to let down. So all I see Bravern and mechanic girl to certain extend are like parts of Obari otaku self-inserted for now. Although, I won't be surprised if Bravern gets upgrade like how super robot Pop Team Epic episode did with their robots combination.
 
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I haven't seen Bravern, but I've seen enough of Oobari's work to know that outside of chipmunk faces, homoerotic subtext was rather common in his non-hentai works, intentionally or not. Based on everyone's descriptions of it here, it's likely he caught on and is poking fun of himself and the West isn't picking up on that as quick.
 
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Registration said:
Girls of the Wild was adapted in live action by the chinese, it was my first and only Type of chinese soap opera. I guess they see live action as easier to do rather than cartoons.

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I still am curious if Japan would try to adapt this since it seems to be their type of story.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Maybe I will, although I need to refresh my memory of it and catch up a bit. Hopefully it won't be just the two of us there.
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That user with the Vaping Duck avatar should still be around, so at least 3 people.

A.P. Hill said:
Choosing a Japanese series enjoyed by real live Japanese people is probably not the best example there. I'm talking about IPs coming from foreign countries.
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So you're saying that classics like Heidi are not anime and neither are some Ghibli films based on foreign novels (Howl's Moving Castle, Earthsea)? Not to mention works like this one.
 
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ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ said:
That user with the Vaping Duck avatar should still be around, so at least 3 people.


So you're saying that classics like Heidi are not anime and neither are some Ghibli films based on foreign novels (Howl's Moving Castle, Earthsea)? Not to mention works like this one.
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It is such a retarded take... I really enjoy the manga adaptations of classical novels. Kinda wish they did it more and it was translated
 
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Atatata said:
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint was announced to get anime adaption a couple weeks ago.
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The adaptations are the only way I can get my bf to engage with these series. I think he would really like this one, but hes not interested in using webtoons or the print books. He liked the Lookism series though.
 
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