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The Rules of Anime #2

Posted on | August 7, 2006 | No Comments |

Right, still in the middle of writing my next “Yuribou interviews”, so another filler post for today ^_^.

Today’s rule:

#2 High schoolers mate for life.

| An exception to the rule: Sakura spends 6 happy months with Li before Tomoyo converts her to the dark side and they elope to Holland.

In a more detailed summary of this rule, if you were an anime main male lead and you had a multiple choice as to what kind of character you would be, under the choices for “Chances with girls” there would be:

  • No chance (Madarame from Genshiken)
  • Fall head over heels for the first girl you meet and then get married (Keitaro from Love Hina)
  • (????????)
  • “Use ‘em and lose ‘em (Imadori from School Rumble)
  • Rape every girl on sight (All male hentai leads default)

So what is that missing category in the middle? I’ll tell you what it is – REAL LIFE.

How many people do you know that actually married a high school sweetheart, and not only that, but stayed with them all the way in between? I would reckon “not many”, and (though I might be terribly and horribly wrong) I would believe that the same situation is the same in Japan.

I have to say that I would be extremely surprised if a romance anime actually came out in which the main male lead fell for the lead girl and they went out for a while, but in the end he dumped her and went out with someone else ^_^. (Waits for the inevitable torrent of comment replies to the contrary). Oh wait, I can think of one – Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. But it took a car accident and a coma. OK, examples in which he verbally dumps her, not hires a hitman to run her over. Extreme measures -_-.

| Nanoha and Fate – True love aged 9. Don’t laugh! It could happen!

It would be refreshing to see more of the mythical 3rd category, as I have to say that I am finding it harder and harder to believe plotlines where a girl spends all that time chasing a guy. I cannot conceive that first boyfriend/girlfriend relationships really last longer than 6 months let alone forever. How old are these people – 17, 18?

Alternatively, it could be that there is something in Japanese culture that I am sorely missing. Maybe the secret is that in Japan they have invented a device that is implanted at birth that automatically guides you to your perfect soulmate, therefore preventing all that need for messy and disgusting ‘trying around’ before you find your other half.

I think that they should import it over here and install it in all celebrities from C list upwards. Then I could just watch the tabloid headlines decline to “Posh and Becks have slight spat over bathroom tiles EXCLUSIVE!!!” and “Mel C steps out in a PINK SKIRT”. Oh wait. Tabloid headlines are already like that :P.

And the moral of the story is: Don’t set up a dating agency in Japan.

More soon.

Category: Comment, Editorials, Humour?

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