Anime & Manga Thread v.4 FAQ/IRC: See OP. Thread over. Move onto v.5

Yeah. All of them are on vacation in Canada though.

Man imagine if you were an anime kid. You’d have no parents… which would be pretty kick ass and kinda suck at the same time. I guess ideally, you wouldn’t have parents when it would inconvenience you.

What’s the Gunbuster OVA about?

New Negima

Negima 343

Spoiler

http://i42.tinypic.com/5fndoy.jpg

Anime parents are unnecessary for the most part. All they’re good for is to provide some timely parental guidance to one or more of the main characters when they’re feeling down or uncertain. Or being some person of great importance long ago that’s supposed to imply why the main character in a long running shonen manga is so great and where he gets it from like:

Naruto’s parents
Ichigo’s Dad
Goku’s Dad
Yusuke’s "Dad"
Negi Springfield’s Parents
Baki’s Dad (seinen but it still applies)

Or they have some sort of strained or bad relationship with their Protagonist child:

Shinji’s Dad
Kazuma’s Dad (Kaze no Stigma)
Baki’s Dad
Tomoya’s Dad (Clannad)

Overall, anime parents tend to be characters with some sort of personality quirk for comedic effect like overprotectiveness or jumping the gun or saying “ara ara” and dont really make much of a mark in the overall story. It easier to just write them out altogether from the get-go (and sometimes bring them in just to say they exist then take them right back out)

Its a cliche I dont really mind. I rather they not be there at all than be there, but barely be around, or be there, be interesting, then never be around again. Thats why I like Nagisa’s parents from Clannad. They’re there, they’re pretty funny and they’re important characters to the story.

I’m in Canada! :eek:

There should be an anime about the parents that live overseas and left their Japanese child to fend for themselves back in Japan.

They just chopped up the Gunbuster and Diebuster and mashed em into a movie.

Nisenmonogatari and Captain Harlock movie are gonna get got.

Ugh again? At least it looks like Gainax might be reanimating parts looking at the picture in the Winter preview.

Anime parents are as unnecessary as real parents are in Japan.

What’s it like to have real parents?

That is completely not what the description says and that listing doesn’t mention Top 2 at all. It just says it’s a new animated short included with the BD release of Top 1

The main character of Guilty Crown is main reason I want to drop Guilty Crown. This last episode sucked out loud.

I wonder if anyone could screencap the exact moment in Working!! ep 6 that made me pause my player and say “Fuck this show, fuck this fucking character.”

So Gundam Unicorn ep 4 is out

On the Europe Zune marketplace with English dub
My profound sadness is building.

This is implying people actually have children in Japan.

All I’m watching is

Ika
Idol
OP
Fate

S’about it~

Its just a generation of people that realized that having kids ruins your life. They dont want that extra pressure. They know whats what.

Just hopped on the Mirai Nikki train. Damn, this show is good. Love me some yandere action.

Then i was mistaken as to what he was reffering to.

You might want to give Maria-sama a try if you liked Aria.