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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1272326" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well, my big point in relation to your post was that this is primarily a thread for posting your opinions.  Your opinions were posted using language indicative of statements of fact, not opinion, with veiled commentary implying that anyone who feels differently is less informed.As for the usual power fantasy garbage, I'm going to stand by it (although tacked-on is probably overdoing it -- I stand by their romances generally being messed up situations that are wish fulfillment for geeks, but the power fantasy "All the hot girls like this guy, but he never realizes it" element is integral to the story, so it isn't tacked on, so consider that rescinded).  Granted, the entire genre is not that bad, but in my opinion, large elements of it are -- and most of the anime-lovers I know do not differentiate between the "geek harem" stuff and the good stuff.  Sure, the same can be said for almost any other genre, but in most other genres, the fans differentiate between the good stuff and the bad stuff.  I mean, fantasy-movie geeks will, on average, consider LotR good, D&D movie bad, and Krull campy, regardless of whether or not they personally like either of the above (I love Krull, acknowledging the goofball factor, and love to razz the D&D movie).Perhaps we're thinking about different ninja scrolls.  Poisoned chick, sword on a little wire, and something involving exploding corpses?  I recall it being pretty, but ultimately mired in the usual brooding hero anime cliches and not interesting enough fight-wise to pull me in -- a movie that is pretty but stupid <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  That is, of course, only my opinion.  And you are welcome to yours.  But telling me that my opinion is the result of a lack of education or deep thought on my part is somewhat disingenuous.</blockquote>

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