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Postby Fail_safe21 » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:49 am

I was just curious to know some of the shows you guys feel are 'guilty pleasures?' Meaning that you know in your heart you're not suppose to like the shows, but can't help but enjoy watching them.

Gokujo Seitokai and SuperGals! fall into this catagory as my GP shows. Both are a little girly for my tastes, but I for one have a soft-spot for the cuteness and light-heartedness of both series. Also I do, to some degree, watch the more kiddy shows on TV, especially the dubbed version of Doremi.

Don't ask why. :)
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Postby Nate » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:51 am

<.< >.>

Snow Fairy Sugar. ^^;;
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Postby Blitzkrieg1701 » Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:02 am

My guilty pleasure is more of a genre than a specific show, but I indulge in the occasional fix of magical girl shows
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Postby Sephiroth » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:27 pm

heh heh i like gokujo setokai too, though i can never manage to say it correctly
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Postby agasfas » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:10 pm

I really enjoy dramatic type series... Like Chance Pop Session, Kanon and Aishiteruze Baby.

American Cartoon wise, I like Rugrats: All grown up and Hey Arnold.

And finally.... *cough* Yu-gi-Oh!
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Oct 02, 2005 6:15 pm

Guilty Pleasures:
Inuyasha
Yu-Gi-Oh!
FLCL
Digimon
Pokemon
RahXephon
Fullmetal Alchemist
Samurai Champloo
Dual Masters
Cartoon Guilty Pleasures:
The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee
Totally Spies
Code Lyoko
The Tick
Teen Titans
Justice League Unlimited
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Postby agasfas » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:00 pm

Yeah, I also really enjoy the Teen Titans and the Justice League :)
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Postby Blitzkrieg1701 » Sun Oct 02, 2005 8:39 pm

I guess FLCL is sort of a guilty pleasure of mine too. There are enough little things I like about it (great music, cool animation, geeky jokes) for me to watch it, but enough big things that I don't like (lousy writting, too many cliches, rampant fan service) for me to actually call it good.

What's guilty about Digimon, though? :eyebrow:
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Postby Rocketshipper » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:25 pm

>_<. There is nothing wrong with enjoying those kind of shows. If other people think it's shameful or something for us to enjoy so called "Kiddie" shows like Yugioh or Pokemon that's their problem.
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Postby Gypsy » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:36 pm

[quote="kaemmerite"]<.< >.>

Snow Fairy Sugar. ^^]

Me too, waffo!!! (Are you serious?)
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Postby Nate » Sun Oct 02, 2005 9:42 pm

Gypsy wrote:Me too, waffo!!! (Are you serious?)

I'm totally serious! I had heard a lot about it on the net and stuff and decided to check it out...I saw a little bit of it and thought it was adorable, so I bought the box set at Otakon. I only just finished the first DVD, but that's because I stopped for a bit so I could finish up Full Moon first. Now I'm planning to go back and finish this one. ^^ So far Salt is my favorite character, though Sugar is uber-cute too, waffo. :D
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Postby Maledicte » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:44 pm

Yu-Gi-Oh and just about any vampire anime.
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Postby eva-boy7985 » Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:33 pm

Granted, there's a good number of times/situations in which fanservice can be appalling or just down right not worth your attention in regards to watching a show, but sometimes, for me at least, it's freaking hilarious. Thus, I come to my guilty pleasure: "harem" animes and basically wrong-time/wrong-place type shows. I've gone through the whole Love Hina series twice now, and still died laughing both times. This show ends up having a pretty decent point to it compared to alot of other fanservice-ridden shows. I'm also reading the Negima mangas, written by Ken Akamatsu who originally wrote Love Hina. I've seen up to disc 3 for Maburaho, which is probably the worst that I've seen regarding fanservice content. The Tenchis were some of the anime that got me into anime (via CN though so they were thankfully edited at parts, and not so thankfully at others due to making the story choppy/not quite as funny at times). Don't get me wrong, this isn't something that's a big deal in my viewing habits; in other words it isn't a "stumbling block" for me in any way :-) I just enjoy the sheer lunacy and psychoticness of these kind of shows every now and then :-p

Another "guilty pleasure" would be romantic-type animes like Chobits and Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi (actually haven't seen any of the original yet O.o)...

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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:46 pm

I should add One Piece,despite the EVIL DUB COmpany(aka 4kids)I am rather
enjoying it,also Zatch Bell.
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Postby Hitokiri » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:08 pm

Harem and some sexual oriented jokes...:lol:

So, so, so wrong yet....makes me laugh. For instance "Sexy no Jutsu". It is so wrong .... but I laugh nevertheless.
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Postby TrigunX89 » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:36 pm

Tokyo Mew Mew...
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Postby Token Asian » Tue Oct 04, 2005 2:30 pm

Totally Spies and Star Ocean EX.

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Postby Arnobius » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:24 pm

Well, I hate to admit enjoying "The Ping Pong Club" and "Miami Guns"
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Postby Destroyer2000 » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:11 pm

Hm...mistsuki lover, you must dislike alot of anime for no reason. RahXephon is one of the greatest out there.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:30 pm

:hits_self :lol:
Yeah I like RahXephon its my newest guilty pleasure anime wise.I want
to get one of the DVDs and also the movie.Haruka is my favorite character since ep.1 aired on AU.I don't know there's something about girls with
hair braids or ribbons..
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:16 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:Guilty Pleasures:
Inuyasha
Yu-Gi-Oh!
FLCL
Digimon
Pokemon
RahXephon
Fullmetal Alchemist
Samurai Champloo
Dual Masters
Cartoon Guilty Pleasures:
The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee
Totally Spies
Code Lyoko
The Tick
Teen Titans
Justice League Unlimited


Plus or minus a few things, your guilty pleasures are my REAL pleasures! :lol:
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Postby Ren_sama » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:24 am

Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon..^^l
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Postby Hitokiri » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:18 am

Uncut Dragon Ball Z on CN
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Postby eva-boy7985 » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:03 am

If you guys don't mind my asking, but how is RahXephon a guilty pleasure exactly? It's a beautiful show with an amazing plot, and actually carries some very powerful messages with it. One of the few animes that has hit me on a very personal level. Anyways, guess I'm just a bit confused about it being a "guilty pleasure"...
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Postby KhakiBlueSocks » Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:11 pm

Ren_sama wrote:Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon..^^l


Ouch! That IS guilty!
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Postby Ren_sama » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:05 pm

KhakiBlueSocks wrote:Ouch! That IS guilty!

lmao!
And to make matters worse, I'm watching the DUBBED versions of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Postby Mimiru14 » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:13 pm

And to make matters worse, I'm watching the DUBBED versions of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!


Ow!.no..I'm not that much better...I'm guilty of watching the dubbed version of Cardcaptor Sakura...AND Sailor Moon :sweat:
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Postby Ren_sama » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:19 pm

Mimiru14 wrote:Ow!.no..I'm not that much better...I'm guilty of watching the dubbed version of Cardcaptor Sakura...AND Sailor Moon :sweat:

XD Yea, I'm pretty bad. ^^;
Heh, I've watched the dubbed of CCS and SM too...of course that was before I knew about subbed versions. ^o^;
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:36 pm

Considering I have better things to do they're all guilty pleasures...
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Postby Godly Paladin » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:47 pm

GP's GPs would be stuff like Tenchi in Tokyo.
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