pagtatalo Topic 12: What are your thoughts on holiday themes, like Christmas, Easter and Halloween, featuring in anime series?

Eh, they're alright I guess. I'm not a huge tagahanga of these kinds of theme uses, but sometimes they can be used well. I liked the Halloween depictions of One Piece characters that have been made - it's a good way to enjoy watching your paborito characters stretch a little beyond that's normal for them and into something you understand at least partially.

The artwork, I like. During the holidays, fanartists draw all kinds of pictures of their paborito characters in holiday scenes, and some are pretty good. On the other hand, I don't really care either way about seeing the actual theme in the series itself. If it just happens to be that time of year, according to the series' storyline, then so be it. But a walang tiyak na layunin filler episode with no real plot relevance to make a joke about the holidays? Oh God, spare me.

I pag-ibig it. It's "fun" to me :) & I wish there was madami of it! I grew up on special shows for kids airing at Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Valentines Day- Charlie Brown, & other kid specials for such times and it always made me happy & excited! I wouldn't miss it! 'But then I am bias.

As a big kid, lol, I like watching certain new shows & I'd pag-ibig my animes to do more. What I do not care for is that special segment aired at an off-time not correlating, lol. (like ipinapakita their pasko episode in March! BOO. lol. That takes the "specialness" out of it when they do that.) But I am a tagahanga of the non-generic madami special the better -NESS. :)

I usually like those episodes.... especially if the anime thinks outside the box of 'cliche' pasko episodes and does something different.

Like the Kimi to Boku episode [pictured]... it was humorous like the rest of the anime so it flowed really well. And they got roped into having to help.... it's like the pamagat should be "The pasko that went Wrong." But it turned out fun in the end and definitely made me laugh.

But overall, pasko episodes make me smile... they are usually cheesy but oh well, they make me happy. Which is what pasko should be. And usually it takes characters out of their usual every araw lives and adds in some fun and cute moments.

I also really like Valentines araw episodes and I absolutely pag-ibig the traditional Japanese festival holiday episodes. :)