Anime Discussion Thread - Page 217

On February 20 2010 13:59 Ecael wrote:
Oh what the heck, I said not to remind me of it and Triangle just links it, now I stare at it on amazon.jp going for over 20k yen and wish for another production run. The detail on it is awesome, but nothing like that GSC promo for Senjyogahara, all those stationaries!

Funny, I never noticed that about Hayate, though I never paid attention to eyecatches either.


You should've kept quiet! Now we know your darkest secrets!

Not that eroge is a huge deal. Griffon does weird things with their figurines though, kind of nice to see a different color scheme simply for the sake of change.

On February 20 2010 13:59 Ecael wrote:



You should've kept quiet! Now we know your darkest secrets!

On February 20 2010 15:15 bearbuddy wrote:



ROFL, if by we, you mean like 4 people in this thread, then yes. I've been exposed X). But hey, if you realize what I've said, then that makes the both of us > : )

I actually don't know much about figurine and anime merchandise companies. It looks good, though.

On February 20 2010 15:15 So no fek wrote:


I mentioned earlier (probably 100ish pages now ) in this thread that I was addicted to Sengoku Rance. While it definitely isn't a deep strategy game, I had a ton of fun with it. And I'd still have played it, even if all the eroge was cut out (though it would be pretty funny to see how they'd pull it off).

On February 20 2010 15:25 Ecael wrote:

Oh, no pointing hiding for me, considering how much I talk about original material half of the people already would've figured that I also read the eroges, been painted black long ago

I am just sitting around waiting to see how the Figma and GSC version of Senjyogahara turns out, they might really get money out of me this time...I guess I'll go dig up a pic of winter wonderfest or something later...or just tell people to check sankaku for it.


You did? Totally missed that I think. I don't know if Rance makes any sense as a pure SLG without any ero elements though, it just doesn't feel like Rance.

Now this thread has got me wanting the next Alicesoft and Eushully game too, I should get back to healthier reading in English

On February 20 2010 15:34 So no fek wrote:


Yeah, and someone said I should just play Nobunaga's/Romance instead, if I was in it for the strategy. I admit the game wasn't that deep, but it was fun, without being needlessly complicated. I have played in depth strategy games before, and I do enjoy them, but Rance was something different, and it may have been the oversimplification that drew me in.

Excluding the eroge portions, of course. ;p Though this was my first Rance game, I do agree that removing all the eroge elements from it wouldn't feel right. And don't get me wrong, I'd be against it, regardless. But I was trying to get across the I'd still play it, even if it weren't a Rance title (that's probably better wording), as I truly enjoyed the gameplay aspect more than is probably believed (like an I read Playboy for the articles argument). And the story certainly wasn't as good as other visual novels/eroge have shown they can be, it most certainly had some charm to it, and a unique sense of humor.

On February 20 2010 15:55 bearbuddy wrote:
Lol, yeah, no point in hiding for me as well, especially since I'm a low post count noob. I'll probably make a Nasu/Type-moon reference sooner or later, anyway.

It was also my first Rance. Not surprisingly, it's the only Rance with a translation. I enjoyed it tremendously.

On February 20 2010 16:25 bearbuddy wrote:
Right, cause Uesugi Kenshin totally isn't a guy or anything. I also thought that saber was Joan of Arc for the longest time. Alas, there seems to be something going with historical gender bender.

I'm also surprised that Saber beat out Tohsaka by a decently wide margin. I have no idea how popular ToHeart is, and Feena seems like an utterly random 5th rank.

On February 20 2010 18:21 Ecael wrote:
Well, vol 2 is just as depressing, but in a different manner, I'll probably need to reread it just as I needed to read most of the Bronte sisters' works several times (this one was based on Wuthering Heights, not a spoiler considering how we are basically told that from the start). I do think that vol 1 provided excellent shock value to keep readers going even if they don't get drawn in by the characters immediately though (like I do with Touko, how can one not love a character that's willing to learn languages to read the original works). Been breaking up these vols with different readings like Accel World and now Durarara, at this rate I won't be getting any sleep tonight. Kagami syndrome

Well, Sengoku Jidai is particularly romanticized far as a period goes, and the conflicts between Uesugi and Takeda being one of the most renowned ones. It isn't surprising that we see a lot of interpretations on various aspects of it, the biggest surprise in Rance 7 might be how we aren't given a moe version of Takeda to go with everything. Or, that and the Mori, and...actually now that I think about it, Alicesoft spared us a rendition where they'd just have everyone genderbent, like some other works have attempted.