Comments on: Random sampling: Kodomo No Jikan

By: nicki minaj naked

nicki minaj naked — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 07:33:40 +0000

I just like to say it how I see it. Take care.

By: Komi

Komi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:09:14 +0000

Regards to all fans!:)

By: otou-san

otou-san — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:20:41 +0000

@Author we had the thought, but values around here are supposedly going to continue to drop for the foreseeable future (measured not so much in months as years) and I don’t want to be a long-distance landlord for that long (or really at all). Good luck to you in that.

edit: decided to rent it after all, it’s working out well, too.

@IcyStorm She seems to have a genuine attraction for her teacher, and though she does tend to try to get him in trouble, it’s basically to blackmail him into doing whatever she wants him to.

@Baka-Raptor I wouldn’t dream of it…

@Shin Seems like it means “Time of the Komodo Dragon” or something and I have a hard time ascertaining the meaning behind that… (also, fixed).

By: Shin

Shin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:03:31 +0000

Am I the only person who noticed that the title’s referring to reptiles P:

Well, I’m not even going to try defending KnJ, though you might want to try out the manga a little further. Things do get serious later on, to some extent at least =D

By: Baka-Raptor

Baka-Raptor — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:44:48 +0000

Many people claim that Kodomo no Jikan is a lot deeper than the pedophilia. They say there are emotional undertones that you don’t have to be a lolicon to like.

Are you calling them liars?

By: IcyStorm

IcyStorm — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:40:15 +0000

I thought KnJ was about Rin using her… looks to attract pedophiles and get them in trouble or arrested or something.

* has not watched or read KnJ *

By: Author

Author — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:55 +0000

Coincidentially, I’m moving out of the house in California on 6/27 and driving to New Mexico. However, we decided not to sell at a loss, and rent the house out instead.

By: otou-san

otou-san — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:38:42 +0000

@CCY I wasn't really repulsed, I think that's too strong a word for a reaction that really wasn't all that strong. In the end, the lead character is very much the same lead character we've seen so many times, which does make me uncomfortable about what our favorite Keitaro-type characters would do in the situation, but mostly makes me hate him for being the classic tired "omg-panty-misunderstanding" series idiot. @Dreanged I suppose I'd have to read a little more of the manga to get a clear idea of whether it's going somewhere, but I've read a good bit and it really should have shown its colors by now. Ultimately, I don't think that KnJ is confused about what it is — I think it's trying to lie about what it is.

By: Deranged

Deranged — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:45:40 +0000

Hm, I didn’t even get past the first episode of this, probably because of anime saturation at the time. I did read a good chunk of the manga, and although it was decidedly not innocent, it had an intriguing story somewhere in it. Took a while to get there though.

Loved the eechi in pedo major line. XD

By: CCY

CCY — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:58:49 +0000

Ecchi in Pedo Major. I like that.

Watched the first episode of this a while back on a ‘sure, what the hell’ whim as well, and my reaction was somewhat the same, although overall I was much less repulsed than you.

For me, the interesting children dynamics (saying that, I almost dare to compare this to Kure-nai) and the random pedobait alerts just about canceled each other out, for a zero-sum anime I’m quite ambivalent about. I do see what you mean by how KnJ seems very confused about what it is – unless it’s trying to pull the ol’ trick of coating the soft, tasty center of storyline and development in a hard shell of fanservice, in order to make it more palatable to the masses.

(Although, in this case, I wonder what kind of masses would flock to this…)