In The Future We Will All Be Moe
Posted by DKellis in blatant filler, tags: pic ryofuko-chan
What is with the fascination in anime to make the characters from Romance of the Three Kingdoms into girls?
And no, this isn't a complaint about "OMG they're moe-fying everything". Instead, it's a complaint from the other direction: why RoTK? There's plenty of other source material to draw on. I don't think I've seen an adaptation of Sun Wukong (or Son Goku, in the Japanese translation) featuring lots of girls, that one episode of Love Hina notwithstanding. Yes, there's Saiyuki, and the more famous but less faithfully-adapted Dragonball, but those contain very Manly Men of varying degrees of homoeroticism.
Another story I can think of which gets immense attention in anime off the top of my head would be the amalgamation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll, which also gets plenty of mention in non-anime stories. I wonder if there's another reason for their popularity other than simply being familiar.
I wonder how anime would handle, say, the stories of Sherlock Holmes as depicted by cute lolis.
(After seeing how Marvel and DC adapt their own creations without regard for continuity, or more to the point Disney and its interpretations of classic tales, I apologize for nothing.)
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So would Elementary, My Dear Watson-tan retain the deerstalker hat, the pipe and the cocaine and morphine use ('Quick, Watson-tan, the needle!')? We must know.
And Lewis Carroll is frequently accused of being a lolicon.
I wonder how anime would handle, say, the stories of Sherlock Holmes as depicted by cute lolis.
Don't give them any ideas!!!!
That said, I'd watch one episode just for a laugh.
"I wonder how anime would handle, say, the stories of Sherlock Holmes as depicted by cute lolis."
lol neuro
Perdido Street Station would make for an excellent adaptation. I can see it all already… right down to the moe-fied bug girls.
Not a mention of Koi+Hime Musou, the eroge that turns most of the major Sangoku characters into lolis?
As for Alice, as far as I can tell the Alice character or rather the concept of her seems to represent to Japanese writers a symbol of the utmost purity and innocence in a world of corruption or rather the untaintable. In other words the ideal heroine or the pinnacle of the Yamato Nadeshiko (note this is pure speculation based on how I've seen writers appear to regard and portray the character). Such is the appeal of the concept of Alice that an eroge gaming company has taken her moniker and image as it's own, to great effect. I'm talking of course of Alicesoft.