Comments on: KimiKiss 21: Holding ‘em and Folding ‘em http://m3.dasaku.net/kimikiss-21-holding-em-and-folding-em/470/ I knew I forgot to change something up here Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:36:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: CCY http://m3.dasaku.net/kimikiss-21-holding-em-and-folding-em/470/#comment-918 CCY Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:20:46 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/kimikiss-21-holding-em-and-folding-em/470/#comment-918 IKnight: Lachrymose. I learn a new word from your comments every day. That's a good point in that maybe not everyone will have all their loose ends tied up in a good manner by the end of this; from the tone of this show so far I sort of expect a clean-cut, happy and sugary ending but I might be wrong to assume that everybody comes out in the same perfect state that they went in. To be scientific and argue your Yuumi point, the objective reason is pretty obvious (artist wanted to keep it work-safe), and that's probably the best reason, considering that I don't think one could arrange their leg just right to cover themselves up perfectly from a third-person viewer at an awkward angle. "Knowing the viewer's there and doesn't care" implies a sort of carelessness that would imply a more risque shot. Yeah, I'm willing to debate anything. IKnight: Lachrymose. I learn a new word from your comments every day.

That’s a good point in that maybe not everyone will have all their loose ends tied up in a good manner by the end of this; from the tone of this show so far I sort of expect a clean-cut, happy and sugary ending but I might be wrong to assume that everybody comes out in the same perfect state that they went in.

To be scientific and argue your Yuumi point, the objective reason is pretty obvious (artist wanted to keep it work-safe), and that’s probably the best reason, considering that I don’t think one could arrange their leg just right to cover themselves up perfectly from a third-person viewer at an awkward angle. “Knowing the viewer’s there and doesn’t care” implies a sort of carelessness that would imply a more risque shot.

Yeah, I’m willing to debate anything.

]]> By: IKnight http://m3.dasaku.net/kimikiss-21-holding-em-and-folding-em/470/#comment-908 IKnight Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:26:28 +0000 http://m3.dasaku.net/kimikiss-21-holding-em-and-folding-em/470/#comment-908 Like you, I felt that this was a calmer episode, bringing us down from the heights of Eriko's Ultimate Lachrymose Denial Attack in the previous installment. Of course, things may be calmer but they're not necessarily happier and hopefully some emo(e)tional thunderstorms will arrive shortly to clear the air. <em>Kimikiss</em> has achieved a situation where not every character's going to go home happy and yet we still do want smiles all round; I suppose this is standard practice for any half-decent romantic plot which isn't overwhelmingly sugary, but right now I don't particularly care about its use elsewhere. In any case, thankyou for the <em>Kaiji</em> pimping, and I can't help but remark on your rollover comment on the final image: given that Yuumi is looking directly at the image's viewer, conscious leg arrangement on her part is implied. But since simply realigning one's legs falls below the bare minimum reaction expected of any sane anime female upon finding an observer at this angle, perhaps the image suggests that the leg-positioning is accidental - she knows the viewer's there and doesn't care. Maybe I should stop thinking about this too much. Like you, I felt that this was a calmer episode, bringing us down from the heights of Eriko’s Ultimate Lachrymose Denial Attack in the previous installment. Of course, things may be calmer but they’re not necessarily happier and hopefully some emo(e)tional thunderstorms will arrive shortly to clear the air. Kimikiss has achieved a situation where not every character’s going to go home happy and yet we still do want smiles all round; I suppose this is standard practice for any half-decent romantic plot which isn’t overwhelmingly sugary, but right now I don’t particularly care about its use elsewhere.

In any case, thankyou for the Kaiji pimping, and I can’t help but remark on your rollover comment on the final image: given that Yuumi is looking directly at the image’s viewer, conscious leg arrangement on her part is implied. But since simply realigning one’s legs falls below the bare minimum reaction expected of any sane anime female upon finding an observer at this angle, perhaps the image suggests that the leg-positioning is accidental - she knows the viewer’s there and doesn’t care.

Maybe I should stop thinking about this too much.

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