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F!S Anon Meme (the Seventh, and now on DW!)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

I'll be linking some general/general-fandom threads I see so people don't repost new threads with the same stuff.

Unpopular Ships
Obligatory Masturbation Thread
Fandoms you wish existed
How old are you?
What series have you always meant to watch/read/play/etc. but have never?
Time and location
Female-centric works
How do you feel about Tumblr?
Pet thread
Guilty pleasure thread
Favorite old shows
First fandom?

Comments

totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series was my favourite when I was in middle school, don't know how it looks through the eyes of an adult though.

Hotaru no Hikari, a j-drama about a girl who at work pretends to be super-feminine and graceful like a ~proper woman~ is expected to be but is secretly a total dork who fails at romance.

The Tenth Kingdom - both the protagonist and the villain are women, and totally awesome too.

Downton Abbey is not strictly speaking female-centric, but the cast is full of great women.

Michiko to Hatchin - from wiki: "The title's Michiko is a free-willed "sexy diva" who escapes from a supposedly inescapable prison fortress, while Hatchin is a girl fleeing her abusive foster family. The two join forces on an improbable escape to freedom".

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - the title says it all, female protagonist + good sci-fi = one of the best anime movies ever.

Kon Satoshi's Paprika and Perfect Blue have female leads (as must Millenium Actress, but I haven't seen this one). Warning: absolute mindfuck.

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

Michiko to Hatchin and Satoshi Kon, duh. Why didn't I think of them?

Japanese Anime has a LOT of them. I don't think these have been said yet.
-Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
-Sora no Woto
-Strike Witches
-Yutori-chan
-Marie & Gal
-Koihime Musou
-K-ON
-Shugo Chara
-Yumeiro Patissiere
-Ristorante Paradiso
-Kobato
-Konnichiwa Anne
-Victorian Romance Emma
-Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
-Aria the Animation
-Karin
-Princess Tutu
-Lucky Star
-Vampire Knight
-Allison and Lillia

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I forgot to say not all are good and not all have fandoms.

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

Anon, I have to agree with your addendum. Not all of those series are very good. I would actually call at least half of those downright bad, but that might be a YMMV thing.

With anime I think you have to be careful with reccing stuff. Because just because it's female-centric or even has an all-female cast, doesn't mean that it's not otaku-pandering sexist crap. There's a lot of anime out there with an all-female cast that still manages to completely suck at presenting interesting female characters or having good writing.

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I watched most of them for specific tropes and I thought they were decent, if not great, for female-centric anime with those tropes. The only ones I haven't watched were Marie & Gali (not my animation style) and Koihime Musou (RotTK genderbending rehash? No). There are only a few I'd absolutely watch again, not because the rest are shit but because I'm not in the mood for them.

Maybe I have a high threshhold for mediocre anime.

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I think you do, too. Possibly too high, considering that with the sheer amount of female-centric anime out there, why waste your time on mediocre anime when for any given trope that you want to see a female-centric spin on, there are probably quite a few better anime out there?

And "decent, if not great" is far, far too nice a description of crap like Strike Witches.

Re: totally late to the party but...

[(Anonymous)]

I have been rereading the Anne books. And while they aren't as good as I remember, I'm still quite enjoying them. Anne/Gilbert was my first ship, before I even knew what shipping was. And I'm still in love with the pairing.

I really need to rewatch the first two miniseries' (third one, what third one?).

Re: totally late to the party but...

[jaydestarlight]

10th kingdom ftw!!!!