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Sunrise tests the limits of anime fandom

Anime fans are crazy. This is incontrovertible fact. They'll spend money on pretty much anything (last link NSFW) bearing the likeness of one of their favorite characters. But will they buy a DS card with a database of information about anime shows? Sunrise thinks so. They're ... probably right.

If you've ever wanted to read background information about Gundam, Cowboy Bebop, or any of Sunrise's other animated series, in Japanese, and on your DS, then this program, whose title is something like Sunrise's Common Sense, Everyone's Lack of Common Sense, is precisely the product for you.

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Macha881

9-07-2007 @ 8:47PM

Macha88 said...

Doesn't Jump Stars series have something like this in it too?

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Ihar `Philips` Filipau2

9-08-2007 @ 3:19AM

Ihar `Philips` Filipau said...

> Sunrise's Common Sense,
> Everyone's Lack of Common Sense

This is whole point (from their words) of mecha: technical details. They are more fans of plastic models than anything else. They hunt down every technical detail to recreate it in models. Worst part: animators are also into it and are very very very careful with technical details. From one TV shot, Gundam fan is capable telling what next Gundam products will be launched. Some call them insane, Japs call them otaku.

To draw a parallel, look at the StarWars fanidiots - Gundam is the same, just in Japan. Ironically, if you would compare many features you would find the Gundam animes and StarWars series similar. They even appeared literally at the same time.

Read in here: http://aeug.blogspot.com/

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