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I bought one of the Yawara boxsets from my old buds at Animeigo on preorder.

And just got finished with it.

Any of you folks who were on the Ranma ML and so on remember the reason that license was brought back in and fucked up beyond all repair or recognition retooled because of 'ratings'? It was losing in its time slot to another show...or something.

Well, this is the show it lost to. It's vintage 80's - so vintage, it takes a moment or two to switch gears.

Then you fall in love.

First, the artwork is pretty, characters stay in model consistently and designs don't go chibi on you every other moment. You have nothing to fear, and nothing you have to get used to. It's a manga in color that moves. Scale is used effectively - and action shots are not skimped on.

Those are the production values.

Then your intelligent mind kicks in, and starts making notes of the gender issues.

Unlike Ranma, which puts the feminist issues in the context of 'one splash makes everything different again' - you get one of the best examples I can think of that shows without a doubt what it means by 'who would be special?' What you have to give up to be different - and not even in a gender fashion.

The things you give up to be more than the rest. The things that separate you from the rest of your world - from the things you want to be.

Who the fuck would be famous. Everyone else can have what you want, without trying. What you have is something everyone ELSE wants and you have as easily as breathing, and HATE.

And your family is tickled to death and won't countenance any deviation from being GRREAT.

You just want to be normal and disappear into a routine that everyone else takes for granted.

It's gender roles, preferences and who are you, really? Done seriously. We likes.

I might also add the episodes are a whole lot like popcorn - it shares that trait with Ranma 1/2 - one is just the beginning, and the show only gets better, the more you've seen of it.

This is probably going to be the anime on play for Christmas Eve Open House this year.

(And I'm dropping a note to Robert asking when the second boxset is going to be ready.)

I bought one of the Yawara boxsets from my old buds at Animeigo on preorder.

And just got finished with it.

Any of you folks who were on the Ranma ML and so on remember the reason that license was brought back in and fucked up beyond all repair or recognition retooled because of 'ratings'? It was losing in its time slot to another show...or something.

Well, this is the show it lost to. It's vintage 80's - so vintage, it takes a moment or two to switch gears.

Then you fall in love.

First, the artwork is pretty, characters stay in model consistently and designs don't go chibi on you every other moment. You have nothing to fear, and nothing you have to get used to. It's a manga in color that moves. Scale is used effectively - and action shots are not skimped on.

Those are the production values.

Then your intelligent mind kicks in, and starts making notes of the gender issues.

Unlike Ranma, which puts the feminist issues in the context of 'one splash makes everything different again' - you get one of the best examples I can think of that shows without a doubt what it means by 'who would be special?' What you have to give up to be different - and not even in a gender fashion.

The things you give up to be more than the rest. The things that separate you from the rest of your world - from the things you want to be.

Who the fuck would be famous. Everyone else can have what you want, without trying. What you have is something everyone ELSE wants and you have as easily as breathing, and HATE.

And your family is tickled to death and won't countenance any deviation from being GRREAT.

You just want to be normal and disappear into a routine that everyone else takes for granted.

It's gender roles, preferences and who are you, really? Done seriously. We likes.

I might also add the episodes are a whole lot like popcorn - it shares that trait with Ranma 1/2 - one is just the beginning, and the show only gets better, the more you've seen of it.

This is probably going to be the anime on play for Christmas Eve Open House this year.

(And I'm dropping a note to Robert asking when the second boxset is going to be ready.)