Genshiken
Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuu Kai
The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
SynopsisSasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming.
When he first visited Genshiken, short for "Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuu Kai" (Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture), his groundless pride was destroyed by the plotting of Madarame, a sophomore student in Genshiken, but he still couldn't admit that he is an otaku.
However, as he participates in society activities such as visiting dojin (private publishing) shops and anime festivals, and hangs out with other society members Kosaka (a hardcore otaku despite his extreme eccentricities and good looks), Kosaka's girlfriend Kasuga Saki (who isn't really an otaku), Ohno (a cosplayer) and the others, he opens his mind and resolves that he will make his way into the otaku world. With their help, Sasahara slowly adjusts to otaku life in Genshiken.
Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 10, 2004 to Dec 26, 2004
Producers: ARMS, GENCO, Lantis, KIDS STATION
Genres: Slice of Life, Parody, Comedy
Duration: 25 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Statistics
Score: 8.20 (scored by 2536 users)(indicates a weighted score)
Ranked: #108(based on the top anime page.)
My Reveiw
The first episode was a bit slow but the series got better every episode, the story is about a group of otakus. Through out the show, Sassahara learns more and more of what it means to be an otaku, meanwhile the story also shifts between other group members, Saki falls in love with one of her old childhood friends, Kosaka, which happens to be an advid anime gamer. Saki likes the fact that Kosaka is a hunky dream boat, what she hates about him is his addiction to video games and anime. She tries everything she can to make Kosaka give up his interest, even put some of the other club members down. [spoiler] Eventually Saki becomes a member of the group and then we notice signs of her slowly getting into Cosplay. [/spoiler] This anime bases itself on the advertisement of another anime called, Kujibiki Unbalance. If you are an Otaku and want everyone around you to understand you better, just say "watch Genshiken":P, I recommend this anime to everyone (otaku or not).
8/10
Kujibiki UnbalanceIf your going to watch Genshiken then you should probably watch this too, it's not that long, only 3 25min episodes, and this one doesn't expand on Genshiken at all but it is kind of cool to be watching the anime they watched in Genshiken.
Kujibiki Unbalance is an anime based off of an anime in an anime... :lol:
Kujibiki Unbalance is like a TV series shortened into 1.5hours, The first episode is like any normal episode, but the second episode is a recap episode that recaps the events that happened between the 1st and 3rd episode, the 3rd episode is ok but it ends with a "To Be Continued" and there's no episode after that, thats the end of the series, it's no wonder why it's Ranked #1588. I don't recommend this if you havn't seen Genshiken.
6/10
Next:
1.Gun X Sword
So I'm going to get an Alienware:D no not a desktop but a laptop, I prefer building my own computers, but I can't make a laptop and alienware makes the best gaming laptops available. I'm going to get the not yet released Area-51 m17x, the Area-51 m15x was released yesterday or something. The m17x according to Alienware is "the most powerful 17" laptop ever created". The coolest thing about the m17x & m15x is the lighting, it has 7(estimate) different lighting zones that you can change the colour, set them up to react to sound, flash or whatever you want.
The m17x has:
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Extreme Processors
- NVIDIA® GeForce 8800M GTX
- 667MHz DDR2 Memory
- Three Hard Drives with SmartBay
- Above 1080p Video and HD Audio
also the gamespot best of 2007 emblems just came out:D
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