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Titty-explosions and Freudian robots notwithstanding, it seems the "Six Chicks and One Dude" concept pervades this medium. From Love Hina to Happy Lesson (a show about a guy who lives with his beautiful women teachers -- yeah, I bet that's a 'Happy Lesson' all right), the once original idea of having a geeky teenager surrounded by adoring, well-endowed females who for some reason or another are forced to live with him has been recycled so many times, one wonders why anyone bothers to draw up new show ideas anymore. That this strategy is so often employed, and that it has been and still is wildly successfully implies that not only are the animators themselves reminsicing about what could have been when they were geeks (not that they no longer are), but also that the consumer base is largely made up of this same demographic. It is not a stretch of the imagination to say that those who actually go outside and have contact with real, three dimensional females would find the same show-idea regurgitated over and over quite pathetic. Yet this type of show is constantly in demand; perhaps the geeks who watch this soft porn are not old enough to drive to a real porn store and pick up a copy of Forrest Hump. All the freaks who watch these cartoons (Haha, they hate it when you call it that) have broadband -- after all, how else can you illegally steal and distribute copyrighted intellectual property? If jigglies are what tickles their pickles, why don't they put that expensive connection to good use by mass-downloading porn from Usenet, like the rest of the civilized world?
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