This thread, man ...
 

2? Don and Casey.

I thought there were more than those two.

When I saw the thread title I thought you were referring to male fans of the show. :lol:

Same here. My crush on 80's April will stay with me til my dying day.

Since I was a kid when the original toon was airing, I saw 80's April as more of a mother figure. I was way too young to even think about girls that way as a 4-5 year old.

Plus she's old. OT April was 28 years old, which is now young to us, but back then a 28 year old was ancient.

haha, yeah I never saw April as anything but an adult as a kid but I was a child anyone who wasn't my age was ancient, even teenagers seemed so old to me. I think my first cartoon crush was Bulma from Dragon Ball (before Z) but by then I was much older and Bulma was in her teens. Not sure I would've crushed on OT April if I had been older when I first started watching the OT though. In fact any sexualization OT April in my mind is because of all the fanart/cosplay that use her as a sex symbol. It's not like say Princess Leia that I never cared for her as a kid but as I grew up I could now see that she was attracive, then again she wasn't a cartoon so maybe not a good example.

Wow, no April came along just as I hit that hormonal age. I had... thoughts... about her even back then, and this was way before there was internet or rule 34 or whatever (well who knows, I bet rule 34 existed back then in some shape or form, we just didn't have the internet to make it public).

I don't know, back in the day most of us pre-high schoolers used to talk stuff on the hottest celebs and so forth of our time ( I mean, we didn't wanna tap Madonna back in her day). They didn't seem 'ancient' to us. The girls in our own classroom were still boring and 'icky' because they didn't 'blossom' til high school.

Well this was before the anime craze hit the U.S., not all people of today have anime waifu's and talk about which girl they like best. It doesn't help matters Japan is in a moe lolicon idol craze lately.

Most anime now is nothing but shameless fanservice. Remember how classic anime put plot first and fanservice secondary? Now its the exact opposite.

So did I... so did I. :tlol: Thought we were reversing things for a change.


Yeah, since Nick section... just the two? I suppose there could be unknowns at her high school who like her.

Unless it really was being asked about fans. In that case, beats me, no idea how popular Nick April is with the kiddies. Can't say I've seen too much to suggest she's overly popular in that regard, but maybe boys are just quieter about cartoon crushes in the 'age of the internet.' (The young ladies who are Turtle fans... ah, just takes you back, warms the heart a little. lol)

eh... I'm pretty sure 80's April had tons of fans that wanted to boing her back in the day, and before then Teela, She Ra and Cheetara, though I do have to admit, that was before I hit puberty though. In a certain way, all the times April bent over or showed cleavage, or had most if not the whole screen be basically a butt-shot, 80's April did provide a bit of fan service, even back then.

Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure many people wanted to 'show some love' to the Baroness as well, and again, this was waaaaaaay before the mainstream anime era.

Your hatred towards anime is astounding there Cubey-Wubey.

Do you see what anime is like nowadays? Virtually every big show is cute girls doing cute things, harem shows, lolicon shows, yuri pandering, etc.

What a wonderful thread.... :trolleye:

It's pretty much what you'd expect on a fandom forum, unfortunately.

One dude who rants & raves about unrelated media with a slightly racist tinge, another who wants to have sex with cartoons...

Maybe you need to stay away from those kinds of anime. I don't see none of that when I'm watching Attack on Titan, Dragonball Super, Parasyte and Psycho-Pass. In fact I don't the kiddy anime shows they put on 4kids or whatever non-cable shows have any of those things you just mentioned.

Do you live your life surrounding yourself by stereotypes of everything?

I don't watch any of these fanservice shows, but I'm aware of them since I see people constantly talk about them and post pictures/animated gifs from episodes so I see what happens in them.

Look up Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid, a series that just started. And you'll see the current state of anime is like softcore porn.

Yokai Watch? Nininja? Pokemon? Anpanman? Doraemon? One Piece?

Eh, no thanks. That anime harem stuff never got my attention. The closest I got to was Ranma 1/2 and Oh My Goddess. Ranma still had martial arts and silly situations, and OMG had silly situations and whatnot, so the fanservice is forgettable.

Ok, Teela ok, I loved Teela, She Ra, well I loved Teela even more lol. Cheetrara was a cat lol.

I had a crush on 1987 April also. Funny about the whole screen being a butt shot. I just got too season 4 as of right now(Had to take a break, got the complete Bravestarr and Galaxy Rangers series sets, so I finish theses 2 before going back to OT Turtles lol.)
But when Leo and I think Mike got turn into little kids and being hunted by Shredder and gang and some Alien hunter, and April had to babysit, and they got into her printer paper work or something, April grabs them by the arms and walks out the door with the kid turtles, with April's booty covering the WHOLE screen for a while. April was pretty much fan service for a good part of the show.
I think Princess Ariel was my number 1 crush though, No not Disney's Ariel, I talking about the cool one from Thundarr that kick so much butt lol.

Anyway...

After watching previous episodes, I realized both the Mutagen Man and Mondo Gecko had fallen in love with(and had a crush on) April. They were clearly interested in her.

I pretty much took mutagen man as having just heard way too much about April from Donnie and decided he wanted her to be his friend, rather than a crush or anything to do with Donnie. Seemed to me like he even wanted to 'take' her from Donnie. In his now-limited existence (and warped mind), if hearing about April made up a huge portion of it, then maybe everything about her kind of became his world, even if without a crush.

Mondo, eh, too soon to tell, we only saw him meet her once and don't think they interacted in the finale.

Yeah to me Mutagen Man was trying to 'protect' April from Donnie and be her friend. Mondo Gecko is definitely not in love with April. Any guy can say a girl looks hot without it meaning anything. I don't think any of the lads in my course are in love with my Maths lecturer :tlol:.

Off-topic but...

THANK YOU. ;)

It helps that the Japanese consent age is 14, so they can get away with a crap more than American cartoons can when it comes to romantic/sexual adolescent shows.

Still doesn't explain why anime is allowed to get away with child nudity. Girls as young as 10 or younger or shown bare naked in some anime. Its even worse when they're sexualized.

Do you? Cause I get the feeling that you haven't even seen a lot of anime and you're just pulling out this nonsense out from nowhere. Hate to (not) burst your bubble, but not ever anime currently out there focuses solely on fanservice like you think they do. Suck it up and deal with it. Or better yet just watch an actual anime for yourself. :trolleye:

I watch very little anime, other than Dragonball Super currently the last one I watched was Attack on Titan. I'm not much of an anime fan in general, but since I post on various forums where people watch anime, I see what they talk about and they post screencaps or animated gifs of what happens in shows.

Anime has gotten much worse in terms of fanservice now than ever before. Classic anime in the 80's and 90's knew how to balance plot and fanservice, ever since say 2005 or so fanservice in anime has taken over in terms of plot.

I've long since passed the point where I don't need to see underage girls nude in an anime. Its ridiculous how Japan gets away with this stuff.

How they heck would you even know about that when you just said you don't even watch a lot of anime outside of Dragon Ball? :roll: You're just going off on random images that you saw online, thinking that all current shows are like that, and not even bothering to search for the actually GOOD anime that's currently airing. Your argument is complete garbage.

Allow me to spell it out for you so that even you understand: NOT. EVERY. ANIME. CURRENTLY. OUT. THERE. FOCUSES. SOLELY. ON. FAN. SERVICE.

Nuff said.

As much as I hate to say it, Cubed is right, for the most part.

Source: I'm a big anime fan.

You don't have to watch anime to know this, just hang out on websites where people do, & post about it.

However, I have no idea why this is being discussed. It has no place in this thread, or this board, even.

Interesting how this turned into an anime discussion...(For the record, Clannad is the cleanest anime I've seen, everyone should watch it.) Anyway, thankfully April only has 2 guys after her. I'd hate to see anyone else appear with that role.

Mondo Gecko just thought April looked cute so he started to hit on her. I don't think it's anything like a crush considering it happened at the very end of the episode and we have not seen much of him since then.

I think the answer to your original question is the two boys that have crushes on April is Casey and Donnie.

Yeah, this. Just because a guy says a girl is cute doesn't automatically mean "crush". With Mutagen Man, I'm pretty sure he said something like, "April my friend, not Donnie's".

ONLY IF YOU ENJOY CRYING PROFUSELY! :toops:

I've never seen Clannad, but years ago I watched Clannad After Story. Meh...

Despite living in Japan, it's rare I watch any of their anime shows ironically. Only animated programs I regularly watch are Nick Turtles, South Park, and Sonic Boom. I guess Monster Rancher kinda counts...finally found the Japanese version and started watching it about a month ago...still watching it. In a general sense I prefer manga to anime. I lack the attention span I notice as I get older.

Yea, I was close to doing that... even more so with after story.

You have to see Clannad first before after story. It makes a huge difference.

I think what Cubed is saying is that, while not all anime does that, a lot of them- a lot of the popular kinds- do. And frankly, to me, it's kind of disgusting considering it's kids, y'know? So, I'm sure he wasn't talking out of ignorance or nonsense. While you may think, or know, anime that doesn't do that, you can't deny that nowadays it's more frequent and very easy to come across. That's all, my friend. No one meant to be offensive, I'm sure.

Question is highly misleading and unspecific.

No, I have no crush on her, although I am in constant search mode for her real life counterpart.

I guess I should've specified how that type of story doesn't appeal to me. I mostly prefer crime series, which is why I like Detective Conan and the underrated, overshadowed QED.

Ah. That makes sense.