The original Otomedius was released in arcade in 2007. The Otomedius games, of which there are two, are not terrible, but they are a bit lower on the quality foodchain than most of Konami’s 90s era shooters, making them feel vaguely exploitive. What’s more is that many other shooters that use similarly sexualized art styles, like Cave’s Mushihime-sama, Deathsmilies, Ibara, and the Touhou entries, the core games are strong enough that make it possible to look past their exterior. While it’s bright and attractive in a colorful sense, it’s also rather off-putting, especially for those outside of the otaku audience. The girls wear ridiculous outfits, cater to a variety of popular fetishes, and have breasts so large that they’re spilling out of their uniforms, or are otherwise shaped like middle schoolers.
The results are, like most things associated with the moe phenomenon, vaguely embarrassing. Frog/Keroro Gunsou, but had also worked on Konami shooters of the past with Detana! TwinBee. The ships themselves are based on a number of classic Konami properties, including the Vic Viper and Lord British from Gradius / Salamander, the Flintlock from Xexex, and others, and the character artwork is provided by Mine Yoshizaki, mostly famous for the goofy manga Sgt. The ladies of Otomedius seem to pilot their respective ships, known as Riding Vipers or RVs, by wearing them around their waist, which looks necessarily odd but emphasizes their characterization.
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A recent trend has been anthropomorphing basically anything you can think of, and turning them into cute girls, with subjects ranging from Windows operating systems to World War II fighter jets to anime mechas, the latter termed “mecha musume” or “mecha girls”. Japan has long been recognized as a “culture of cute”, being the birthplace of properties like Hello Kittyand all. The major difference between Otomedius and other similarly styled shooters lies in how the girls are integrated into the game. Otomedius takes the “moe” trend of anime and manga from the early 2000s, with stories featuring lots of cute girls, and injects it into a shooter. Although a plethora of their games fit the standard mold, including Gradius, one of the forefathers of the modern genre, they had played around a bit with the aesthetics, introducing TwinBee, largely recognized as the first cute-em-up, as well as Parodius, which took the essentials of Gradius and made them incredibly silly. Historically Konami had been more diverse than other companies when it came to shoot-em-ups. The name is a portmanteau of the Japanese word “otome”, meaning (roughly) a young girl, and, of course, Gradius. This can be seen in numerous games from the era, including Cave’s Mushihime-sama and Ibara, Warashi’s Triggerheart Exelica, and Konami’s Otomedius series. It’s hard to say what popularized this, though it’s reasonable to respect the influence of Touhou Project and other similar doujin games, which married a cutesy aesthetic with hardcore shooter mechanics. One of the most popular devices was to replace the boring old flying ship with a hot chick, and call it a day.
Somewhere around the mid-2000s, it began to branch artistically, moving away from sci-fi to other themes. In the 80s and 90s, a vast majority of the genre was about piloting spaceships, flying in outer space, shooting space bad guys. Auditions for cast and orchestra are held at the beginning of every academic year.Harvard College Opera aims to make opera accessible to our local and campus communities.From a thematic standpoint, the shooter landscape of the early 21st century has varied greatly from the years before it. During the spring semester each year, HCO’s Board of Operators names the next music and stage directors, in collaboration with whom the next opera is chosen. Thanks for checking us out, and we sincerely hope to see you at a recital, production, masterclass, or other event in the near future! HCO presents one full-length opera each February with an entirely undergraduate cast and production team. Don’t be shy about reaching out to us - we love nothing more than to hear from audience members, prospective students, alumni, and fellow opera lovers of all kinds. Welcome to the official website of the Harvard College Opera Society (HCO)!Here you can find treasure troves of information about HCO and our mission to bring opera to the Harvard community and beyond, including our nearly thirty-year history, student membership, past recordings, and recent and upcoming events.
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