Hmm, one-panel cartoon idea: Lum, Kirie, Akane, Naru, etc, in a room sitting on folding metal chairs in a rough circle, with Dokuro-chan standing in front of her empty chair somewhere left of center. It could be handled with humor so it needn't go overboard on angst, even.
What I would love to see would be a harem series in which some guy's childhood friend is a tsundere, and he then says, "No, that's it-this relationship is over" and stops associating with the violently jealous bitch until she mends her ways. *sigh* At least with Lum you knew that Ataru deserved his punishment. (And Kirie from Girls' Bravo fit that mold for much of that series, as well.) "You saw some girl's panties! I'm too angry to care if it's your fault or not take this!" Cue the violence. Akane Tendo in Ranma 1/2 was about right for that schtick, and Lum in Urusei Yatsura was probably the exemplar of the breed but Naru Narusegawa in Love Hina was the first tsundere I saw that was so insanely jealous and violent that it was impossible for me to sympathize with her. We've got Love Hina to thank for that escalation of the tsundere'kko. Why is it okay for a female character to do that kind of thing? I'm not a fan of the "tsundere'kko who blames everything on the protagonist and beats the everloving shit out of him every time she thinks he's done something wrong" schtick anyway if it was a man doing that to a woman they'd call it "domestic abuse" and he'd be a skunk. In both cases I found myself wondering why on God's green Earth these series were so popular and even seen as pivotal-they were crap.īut Dokuro-chan's greatest failure, so far, is the predictability. But I initially gave up on Neon Genesis Evangelion, which turned out to be a pile of unremediated turds I stopped watching Love Hina partway through, and-again-picked it up later to see what happened. Precious few series have ever made me stop watching them, so that may not be a good indicator. It hasn't gotten to the point where I've decided against not watching any more yet, though. It would have been better if they'd devoted an episode to the King Game, damn it, and left this one out entirely.ĭokuro-chan is.what is the opposite of having something you don't like "grow on" you? It started out funny, and is beginning to descend into not-funny. It was bereft of humor, the motivations of the characters were stereotypical, and the plot just plodded-things which say to me that Matsura (the manga artist) was not involved with the writing of episode 6. What I do know is that I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I enjoyed the other five eps. It was pretty lousy, and I'm not sure whether it was a case of anime outrunning manga, or just the inevitability of "plot flameout" after the major issue of the story has been resolved. I was really disappointed with the last episode of I"s.