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Wednesday, April 13, 2005Chizumatic has Sturgeon's Law as applied to entertainment (specifically anime), not to mention a great football prank - training pigeons to come for a referee's whistle.Alas, the prank is probably urban legend, but if you're looking for a fun story and a look at what can go wrong with anime, drop by. Don't do much with anime, myself, but I have seen bits of the manga for Love Hina and Negima. The set-ups are the same at their essence, and very familiar: The girls are much more numerous, but there isn't a sight gag in it that couldn't have been used in Three's Company (provided they got it by the network censors). Three's Company, for those too young to remember, featured John Ritter as Jack Tripper, an aspiring chef rooming with a couple women for reasons that had nothing to do with reality and everything to do with an excuse for sexual humor and hijinks (but always this side of innocent). Love Hina and Negima are essentially the same, right down to the numerous oddballs who keep things going between scenes with the main oddballs. Den Beste voices the concern that there are too many characters, but Love Hina and Negima are both set at schools. As with any movies or tv shows in such settings, the cast list is long but the characters worth remembering only number five or six - the three to four in (potentially interlocking) love triangles and the one oddball you like. (For example, does anyone remember anybody other than Dawson, Pacey and Joey from Dawson's Creek?) The bigger issue with Love Hina and Negima is that the sight gags are ninety percent of the story. If you're looking for light laughs with a sweet story lurking in there somewhere, they're great. If you're looking for high art, look elsewhere. 
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