I was ok with fanservice level until episode two, but episode three and four crossed the line. It’s now just blatant and low (seriously…armpit licking?). But I can see where your masochistic drive comes from, since that’s why I’m watching this show as well. Anyway, not enough history lesson on RoTK characters, expecting more on future blog posts.

Offtopic: I recently finished a cool tactics game called “Legend of Cao Cao”. It’s pretty much Fire Emblem with a storyline that’s faithful to RoTK, from Cao Cao’s point of view, not Liu Bei’s. It’s also hilarious because if you choose “hero” path and not “villain” path, Zhuge Liang becomes villain instead and you (Cao Cao as a hero) have to defeat Zhuge Liang and his evil minions to bring peace to the three kingdoms. Yea…bizarre…

Highly recommended to people who likes tactical games like Fire Emblem or mad about RoTK.

Incidentally, the anime also somewhat changes the characterisation of these bastard-derived girls. Maybe it’s because I’ve only played a tiny sliver of the whole thing, but Guan Yu is (or at least starts as) a girl who has completely thrown away her identity as a woman. She has no concept of shame or embarrassment when Ittou walks in on her naked and is bewildered why he’s babbling apologies. Which is quite different from the anime’s version where she’s very easy to ‘molest’ with words alone (though they don’t stop there).

Not that any of this defends the concept of “let’s turn the Legendary Heroes of RoTK into Moefied girls”…

@Ex: …seems like Rei might be right. That means that we gonna see more yuri for the sake of the fanboys who cannot wait for the girls to screw each other in their fights. Find the number of ways that you can see the previous statement.

I think that the whole fact of putting only Liu Bei as a male will be a cop out of sorts for this anime actually. I mean, they have been trying so hard to do a hard yuri on everyone. Now, if they suddenly just throw it a male conveniently, it will betray their senses. Don’t ask me what I just said. I don’t know.

@LDC: You do know that I have an inherent hatred for anything fanservice. Funnily, I am somewhat enjoying this with a rather sadistic streak. I do not know why too, but I guess it’s pretty different from the usual series that I catch.

That being said,

@Impz: There is always hope impz, when a person has nothing left but despair, can can always be hope. As far as we know, Liu Bei really does exist in that world and still retains his Y chromosome and once he finally gets some screen time, he’ll come and claim his 5 tiger Generals, then the anime can end and i’d be plenty a satisfied… If only…

And no paroxyms of terror at the inevitable arrival of NORIO WAKAMOTO… I mean, Diao Chan yet, Impz?

@Myssa Rei: Seitenkan generally annoys me because I feel that it is really a cheap way of trying to sell fanservice in general. No matter how much Liu Bei looks hot, I don’t care. Plus, I like the Wei faction more anyway.

They would? I would think that Liu Bei will be male and they will be making babies for him. Or something.

I kid about green-haired Liu Bei of course, but the remake WILL feature a female Liu Bei, so when you think of it… I’d say Koihime Musou just jumped off the deep end into very VERY real yuri territory (unlike the original eroge).

And Seitenkan is… Well, Gendeflip/Genderswapping (not Genderbending as exemplified by Impz), and is commonly associated these days with Suzumiya Haruhi (ever heard of Kyon-ko? You should), though the phenomenon is not isolated to that franchise and is kind of part of anime fandom as a whole.

Which is EXACTLY what we have here, minus women-turned men… Which I understand Diao Chan WILL be, in all the Norio Wakamoto-voiced awesomeness (yes, he did the voiceover in the game too).

I’m still hoping for a Hakuoro to appear out of no where and claim the chicks for his own, what a beautiful ending that would be, alas i don’t think it will be likely.

@Lelangir: Except Strawberry panic is way milder and this one can be borderline porn without the naked nipples and everything related to hentai.

@Halcyon: I have no clue what Skinemax is about, and I am pretty damn sure that I do not want to watch this at all. I am also pretty darn sure that they did just that, and just removed the actual sex scenes from the game.

Nonetheless, I think that they will probably have a DVD version where it will be straight out yuri hentai by any standards. I cannot imagine how disturbing that will be. That said, when it gets way too much for me to tolerate, I will just drop this immediately.

@Ex: I really do not think that the blanket is meant to cover it. It’s just to make sure that every person who is watching this darn anime knows what the hell is going on to make the raging hormones happy. I am so sad that it is definitely going down the slippery road of explicit sexual fanservice.

I think with the way Zhang Liao is wearing, there is likely some huge fanservice love between her and Guan Yu. They do have some good scenes in the historical novel, so I expect some interaction her as well. Cao Pi would probably not be covered since they have no time…and no budget.

@Myssa: They supposedly have grand children but it is not going to be covered in this anime, since it will be hard to keep thinking about different fetishes. Since this is a lesbian anime, it is unlikely to make a nice story plot for guys to enter the picture for re-production, unless women can plant their ….never mind.

Who is Seitenkan? Xiahou Dun? @_@ I don’t get the japanese names, and i refuse to use the japanese version of the name.

I think the problem with the anime is that it will probably have a really lame ending since it seems quite impossible for them to have a coherent story other than collecting a harem. They will have some random haphazard ending, and everyone will eventually go like “oh, nice borderline porn.” and forget about it ever.

I’m first to admit to have been enthralled by Seitenkan, but this… I can’t wrap my mind around this, sorry.

Also its sad to think that given Cao Cao’s sexual prefrences Cao Pi will not be born

heres hoping for some Zhang Liao X Guan Yu love or even better just some Zhang liao XD.