Super Gals! eps 16-26

[meganbmoore]

Actually, I don't really have much to say that I haven't already said. Though that was a bit of an odd note to end the season on.

But, seriously, why can't more animes have relationships between girls like this? Or heroines like Ran? I love how, even though there are plenty of boys around, as friends, brothers, love interests and wanna-be love interests, they never factor into girls being friends, or being rivals. None of Ran's rivalries have squat to do with boys(ok, the kogals kinda with their crushing on Rei) but with their all wanting to be the alpha dog. In addition, the rivalries are also fairly clearly pride things covering odd friendships, especially with Mami. Plus, there's never a hint of any "liking the boy my friend likes, thus causing bitterness or rivalry or some such." Plus(yeah, 2 sentences starting with "plus" in a row...oh well) the best looking boy is never once set up as her love interest, but instead, as her shy and sweet friend's love interest. The second-best looking boy is all about her, but does she go for him? No, she goes for the crazy monkey boy(who is really a male, less materialistic version of Ran herself.) Now, personally, I'd go for Yuya. I like Katsukichi, but let's face it, Yuya is much less likely to drive you to drink. Of course, Ran probably drives people to drink, so maybe they cancel each other out. (Though, I'm not sure she fell for him so much as he was the one who asked her out first anyway...I suspect she likes both guys equally, and neither romantically.)

Really, though, why can't more things be about positive friendships and relationships between girls while still having a strong male presence? The only other thing I can think of is Skip-Beat.

I was going to link an MV, but the internet is being a pain. estara linked to it in my last post on the series, though, so go look.

Now to get season 2 and the manga...

Comments

[estara.livejournal.com]

Hmm, another friendship with strong male presence is Nana, I would have thought, but I'm not sure about the POSITIVE bit.

Oh and Gokinjo Monogatari, definitiely, although that also has the male as former best childhood friend dynamic and an initially oblivious heroine, but it's all about the school gang.

That's Ai Yazawa twice...

the bff girl friendships in Fruits Basket and Hana Yori Dango

[calledinvain.livejournal.com]

are pretty strong -Makino and Yukie are pretty supportive of each other, and Tohru and Arisa and Saki are a girl gang in the making.

Kamikaze Girls (live action movie) based off of Shimotsuma Monogatari is a great pop valentine to friendships between two very different girls (I preferred it over to Nana) - a yankee and a gothic lolita.

But I do agree with Skip Beat - Kanae and Kyoto are fantastic together, especially when Kyoto meets Kanae's family.