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Oct. 30th, 2009 12:30 amNaNoWriMo's fast approaching and I am in despair!
Well, not really but I am wondering if there's a point in joining, all the times I've joined I've never really completed it. I wonder if its because fanfiction spoiled me? I mean, in fanfic I wouldn't need to think about worldbuilding because the world is already built but an original story means a new world to create and think about which is really far more difficult than I thought it would be!
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It seems like every time I visit TV Tropes I emerge with a new fandom and this time is no different. I've been doing an Archive Trawl of Mahou Sensei Negima (Magical Teacher Negi) which of course led to an Archive Binge.
It took me a long time to get into this series when I first tried it out I was really, really put off by the fanservice. (Un)Fortunately TV Tropes was very convincing. It wasn't the fan service nor the prospect of finding out who Negi ends up with that caught my interest; actually my interest in Unwanted Harem series are almost nil, the only series I love that had an element of that trope was Ranma 1/2.
The story in a nutshell started out as Harry Potter meets Unwanted Harem and midway through the third volume of the series it shifts to Harry Potter meets Dragon Ball. With a lot of Clothing Damage. A LOT.
It's the clothing damage that kept me away for a long time.
( And then TV Tropes just had to have interesting things to say about Evangeline and Asuna. Spoilers up to current volume. )
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For a Harem series of course a good deal of fan focus is devoted to shipping Negi but I'm actually less interested in that aspect of the series. I really don't care who Negi ends up with and other than the cuteness of Setsuna/Konoka I'm also less interested with the current generation.
The first generation interests me more. The Ala Rubra and their adventures in the magical world. I like how the adventures of the Ala Rubra seems to be a deconstruction of the heroic Shonen series ( spoilers up to chapter 268 )
Well, not really but I am wondering if there's a point in joining, all the times I've joined I've never really completed it. I wonder if its because fanfiction spoiled me? I mean, in fanfic I wouldn't need to think about worldbuilding because the world is already built but an original story means a new world to create and think about which is really far more difficult than I thought it would be!
--
It seems like every time I visit TV Tropes I emerge with a new fandom and this time is no different. I've been doing an Archive Trawl of Mahou Sensei Negima (Magical Teacher Negi) which of course led to an Archive Binge.
It took me a long time to get into this series when I first tried it out I was really, really put off by the fanservice. (Un)Fortunately TV Tropes was very convincing. It wasn't the fan service nor the prospect of finding out who Negi ends up with that caught my interest; actually my interest in Unwanted Harem series are almost nil, the only series I love that had an element of that trope was Ranma 1/2.
The story in a nutshell started out as Harry Potter meets Unwanted Harem and midway through the third volume of the series it shifts to Harry Potter meets Dragon Ball. With a lot of Clothing Damage. A LOT.
It's the clothing damage that kept me away for a long time.
( And then TV Tropes just had to have interesting things to say about Evangeline and Asuna. Spoilers up to current volume. )
--
For a Harem series of course a good deal of fan focus is devoted to shipping Negi but I'm actually less interested in that aspect of the series. I really don't care who Negi ends up with and other than the cuteness of Setsuna/Konoka I'm also less interested with the current generation.
The first generation interests me more. The Ala Rubra and their adventures in the magical world. I like how the adventures of the Ala Rubra seems to be a deconstruction of the heroic Shonen series ( spoilers up to chapter 268 )
