in response to said article (names altered to protect privacy?):
Hei: hahahahahahahahahhahaha. Actually I just realised that what I really want to read is a Kaioshin writing for Colony Drop. Yeah.
Shiraishi: Wow… never has the truth hurt so much…
Hei: Wow, whoever you are, Shiraishi, you’re as retarded as them.
Reinhard: lololololololololololololololololololol. (i think the problem is less of haruhi and more the fact that the show deconstructed the genre, but then didn’t rebuild it in any good way, just leaving this guy to RAEG)
Hei: They started to feast on highly concentrated dumb at the point where they mentioned “harem”, and everything went downhill from that point.
Wenli: Yeah, I think once they mentioned harem this post was done. I guess they missed the memo that most 21st century self-inserts loath true harems. They just want the appeal of one. The QB comparison is particularly laugh-worthy. He tried to contrast them but I guess he forgot about the people who want smug protagonists in science fiction!
Alto-hime: Note the resistance to call anime anime. They gave up because it sounds too stupid to say Harem-Jap-Cartoon or Jap-cartoon landscape. And for Colony Drop to something, ANYTHING intolerable for being smug…I dunno, maybe they read tj_han’s guide to being cool
Hei: Don’t forget the hilarious Intent card where they insist that Kyon approaches some sort of quasi-blank-slate animeveryman archetype without realising that yes, people can be sarcastic in real life, too! Oh, and that his real name isn’t revealed, ergo he must be intended to be some self-insert!
I am as sarcastic in real life as I am online, and this must make me:
1) Unrealistic
2) A self-insert (but of whom?)Speaking of intent, it’s funny how they play the Intent card at the beginning and conveniently forget to play it during the Genre step where what goes unsaid hangs in the air like the silent stench of the stealth fart: It’s only harem if the girls are actively vying for the protagonist, stupid!
I don’t really see how anyone but Haruhi herself approaches anything close to romantic interest in Kyon. Mikuru definitely isn’t, and Yuki, well… yeah. I guess it is some sort of weird triangular non-harem if you consider Itsuki as gay4Kyon but… no. So stupid. Sooooo stupid.