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   XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: bliss@california.com   
      
   richard.smol@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Dec 10, 10:41 pm, AstroNerdBoy    
   > wrote:   
   >> Well, Media Blasters did announce the license to "Genshiken 2" so   
   >> there's your wish granted.   
   >>   
   >> As for the manga, I'm sorry it is at an end, but as they say, "all   
   >> good things must come to an end."  "Genshiken" is a really enjoyable   
   >> manga and while I would never be as hardcore as those guys (I only   
   >> went to my first sci-fi convention a couple of years ago), I can   
   >> appreciate the story of their fandom and the reality of the series.  I   
   >> loved how characters grew (though it was a shame that so few got a lot   
   >> of background given about them) over time and as in real life, people   
   >> come and go.   
   >   
   > My only peeve is that the story became a bit too mushy for my tastes   
   > in the latter half of the series, with all the lovey-dovey stuff on   
   > between Ohno and Tanaka.. and especially Sasahara and Oguie. It is   
   > also a tad unlikely that all the girls in Genshiken would hook up with   
   > some guy within the same club. The ending is also a bit standard for   
   > college: you simply let the main part of the cast graduate. Still, the   
   > general story is great... and the drawings are superbly detailed and   
   > beautiful.   
   >   
   > RS   
      
   	Stories have to have a bit of unlikely coincidences.   
   	One couple knew each other before Genskiken. The girl would have had   
   nothing to do with the club but for the presence of her old childhood   
   boyfriend.   
   	One couple have complimentary interests, both in doing cosplay, one in   
   making costumes and the other as a cosplay performer nearly a   
   perfect match.   
   	One couple ends up both working in the industry, one as editor   
   and one as artist.   
      
   	Nothing is less likely in such a small group, but imagine the   
   story if the club had not had these strong personalities interacting   
   but merely continued as before showing past achievements and resting   
   on laurels.  It would have ended when the Student Council decided that   
   Genshiken was an encubrance and the story would have been over or   
   something completely different.   
      
   	From what i have read in manga and seen in anime a depressing   
   story where none of the girls connected with any of the boys would not   
   be acceptable to the publishers.  We have heterosexuality re-affirmed   
   despite the fantasies of the girls about some of the boys.  And everyone   
   gets a job so it is truely an unlikely and idealised story driven by   
   coincidences.   
      
   	As for mushy, there is no accounting for tastes.   
      
       later   
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