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Our favored method was either tossing them down a flight of stairs or the “Studdly Thunder Drop!”. Anime is fine, I watch some every once in a while. It is the true nutjobs that ruin my enjoyment.
Mr. Roboto | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 4:01 am | #
No, no they didn’t. But I hope that some higher authority strikes them down and makes it apparent that no, Bob, you are NEVER going to be Takeshi. Give it up and stop mutilating the five words of the language you know.
What a bunch of armatures they didn’t even make use of the nail at the tip of the board, get the arch swing correct!
Imon | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:49 am | #
I got an anime face to put all to shame.
(=^o^=)
I call it, “Fat cat on Tin Roof”.
I mean, what else makes a cat’s eyes point up like that, other then scorching pain from its feet?
Whitey, but not White?! | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 11:08 am | #
HAHAHAHAHA!!! 5 fuckin’ words (or less) is all them Otacku-shitbags know! HAHAHAHA! Here’s a skit of just how lame they are!:
Otaku shitbag 1: you look so kawaii in that fuku, bitch-san!
Otaku shitbag 2:oh! bastard-san no baka! Kyaaaaaa! *squeals*
Bystander with a cleaver: AAAAHHH! I can’t take this anymore! Die you motha fuggin’ anime hoes! *stab, stab, stabbity, stab!*
How racist, beating up on the poor, little, stinking fucking Jap, how could you, girlfriend’s cousin? Japs are people too, you know… and who is this Jap, and why is he blonde, and why do you hate him? Please, tell me, I’d like to know…
your cousin’s boy toy | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 1:52 pm | #
Indie chick and super comic guy beat up on cheesy, lame fan comics?
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 8:57 pm | #
“Hyung’s cousin’s toy isn’t a bright one, now is he?”
Tokhai: retards like you that exasperate me and make me weary of the human condition… for someone who doesn’t understand the concept of sarcasm, you shouldn’t be reading comic strips from college graduates, much less making references to messages that are not addressed to you… when I type a message to H.S. Kim, I really am addressing him only, whether your pea-sized brain understands this or not… geez… and my sarcasm is directed to him, if I wanted to talk to you I would be addressing you, not him, moron… I use this message board to talk to H.S., one, because I don’t have his phone number, two, because I fucking feel like it. So considering he’s gonna erase this message soon anyways, and hoping you get to read this before he does, a big “FUCK YOU AND GET LOST” to you, moron… and yes, I AM addressing only YOU now, and I am NOT being sarcastic here…
um…
Like yeah he’s being a jerk, but you You’re being huge gaping asshat, kind of like the one they have up on goatse.
If you want to talk to Hyung in complete privicy then might I recommend you use his e-mail?
Otherwise, deal with the fact that there are idjits out there who just don’t get it, never will get it, but they by GOD WILL NEVER GET IT IF YOU ACT LIKE THIS!
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:16 pm | #
Wooo! I am electic Jesus!
Electric Jesus | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 12:10 am | #
See, here’s the thing about comment boardamajigs like this one. You put comments up on it, see, and that means other people can read your comments and, oh I dunno, comment on them.
If you don’t want other people to react to what you type, then don’t put here on the bathroom wall where everyone can see it when they come in to make their mark.
That said, the comic did make me chuckle. Sure, my miniscule Japanese vocabulary is almost entirely from sushi restaurants and hentai … but I’m proud to say that I haven’t once worked “ne” into my everyday speech.
“Kicking the douche out of this bag” … heh heh heh …
See, it’s funny, cause Hyung’s cousin’s dildo is a pot, calling a bronze kettle black.
To wit, YOU fuck off, and YOU get lost. NOBODY likes you here, and all you really do is make an ass of yourself. As has been stated before, if you wanna talk to Hyung so much, fucking e-mail him, or use the Private Message system that’s on the fucking forums. Christ on a neon cross…
Thank God this sort of behavior only exists in a select group of individuals in a certain genre. I mean how fucked up would the world be if Kurosawa fans dressed up like Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon and ran around screaming. Kawaii! Kawaii desu! Sore dake ka! or fans of French cinema wearing berets and saying formage, and other French words all the time, but never bother learning French. I think these retarded anime fanboys/girls are the genetic biproducts of Rocky Horror Picture Show fanboy/fangirls who don’t have any sort of American cult film witihin their teenage/college years that permits them to dress up like assholes and throw toast at each other, so they latch onto a foreign culture to make themselves “unusual”, not to mention anime gives such a skewed view of Japan (Excluding a few high quality films), that they view this fantasy as a reality. I would like to load all of these fanboys up in a plane and drop them off in the heart of Japan and see how far they get by with their 3 words of Japanese.
I mean seriously, this is the genre that brought you tentacle porn. That’s right, tentacle porn. I really wouldn’t want to associate myself with women being raped in every orifice by multiple tentacle penised demons, but thats just me.
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” -Eugene Debs
Hmmm….Second Eugene Debs quote this week!! See http://www.tcns.us/~ferret/060903and.jpg
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1 Point to DFG!
Honorable mention to Electric Jesus!
Disqualification to LordTaco for bringing up tentacle penis rapings.
Taken out in the first round: that “cousin’s friend” person.
Generalizing Anime as “the genre that brought you tentacle porn”, is not only EXTREMELY ignorant, but fucking idiotic to boot. 90% of Anime is NOT pornographic in the least, and of the shit that IS porno, only 3% of it has anything to do with tentacles.
These types of Otaku-losers act this way because they see Japanese people and Japanese society as a Utopia where they want to be for the rest of their lives. They probably have no idea that racism towards Gaijin (foreigners) is RAMPANT throughout the more rural areas of the country, the Government is as corrupt if not moreso than the US Government, etc etc.
The only way these types of people will learn that its NOT COOL to be fucking otakus is if they live in Japan and see what its like. In the states, “Otaku” is a term that equates being a huge anime fan. In Japan, Otaku means pretty much means LOSER. Enjoying Anime is one thing, but taking is as far as the kid that Hyung saved is gonna get you nothing but trouble. If they see that even Japanese people would shun they’re behavior, they would quit their stupid shit immediately.
Yes 90% of anime isn’t tentacle porn, but there is a hell of a lot of it. No tentacle porn in Hamtaro, but I’m sure you can find a Hamtaro doujinshi with it, but anyway. it exists, there is a lot of it, and its mind numbingly disturbing. The point was to keep in mind how our culture likes to label ourselves to define some sort of individuality, (of course through this negating any individuality), and one should consider all the elements within a culture one is associating oneself. Also the percentage of the total doesn’t matter, it is what is common within available purchasing. Example, go into a video store, go to anime section. You have your typical, Dragon Ball Z and Giant Robot crap, and then you have the other 50% being a hentai section, and a la blue girl box set. lovely. Attending many a convention, in the video vendors (ie: I stole a fan sub and made a shitty copy and now I’m selling it for 25 bucks) sections, you will find that a large portion of it is hentai, and a lot of that is tentacle porn. I went to the Wizard World Con and there was a whole booth dedicated to school girls being attacked by wacky wall walkers. There certainly seems to be a pretty good size market, while anime like Barefoot Gen get lost.
There is a lot of good anime. I’ve seen a lot of good anime, but it is incredibly hard to find, and the market in the US seems to be dominated not by anything of quality.
And by the way labeling “anime the genre that brought you tentacle porn” isn’t ignorant. It’s a statement of fact. Anime did indeed bring you tentacle porn. I have not seen the subject matter in any other genre myself. Unless you can prove that school girls being raped (because the demons never ask and they don’t take no for an answer) by demons originated in another genre, I think it holds pretty true.
With this all in mind, why do people become “otaku”? Yes otaku are looked down upon as losers in Japan, but last I checked they aren’t exactly highly exalted here either. Although shows on Cartoon Network have done a few things for promoting anime past the ‘fanboy’, the drooling fan boy as demonstrated in today’s cartoon is still looked down upon. This is true of pretty much every sub-culture. The people within the culture think each other are “cool”, while the general society think they are twits. Not much different in America than in Japan. So being an Otaku in America may equate to being a huge anime fan, but it also equates to being a loser, by a hell of a lot of people.
People spend too much time categorizing everybody else into “loser” and “not-loser” categories. I’m sure that all these people are Gods of Coolness.
All fanatics are the same. Trekkies, otaku, gun-freaks, car-freaks, cheerleaders, goat lovers and die-hard liberals/conservatives. All the same. Whichever niche you fall into makes you a dumbass to somebody, and chances are you know more about your particular fanaticism than the other guy, and will feel misunderstood and outcast.
Boo-hoo.
Life is more than putting anybody or anything on a pedestal for worship. It’s okay to be a fan; just keep it cool. And it’s ok to dislike a fan, but you don’t have to be disgusting and retarded at the same time.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:47 am | #
Rob isn’t cool, and he spends way too much time dwelling on “coolness”.
Yah know, Taco-dude, tentacle pr0n has its roots in shunga woodblock prints…
I’m not saying it’s freakin’ “high art” (whatever the hell _that_ means), but hey, you can’t have the high without the low. Even the mightiest tree needs the lowliest of dirt.
Um so you are saying almost the same damn thing I have been saying Rob. good job there buddy. Let’s give Rob a cookie. Now lets consider if people become fanatics, not because they want to belong, but because they want to be misunderstood, branded an outcast, and to be persecuted.
Also just a thought, one of the reasons many an American have this grip on Japanese culture is because they have no specific culture of their own. Most white Americans are not first or second generation. They lack any form of cultural roots. They are a German, Native America, Scotch-Irish, Pole mix, etc. Many do not have ancestors they can trace back directly to a country of origin, nor can they trace some sort of culture that identifies their family from it. And since they can not identify themselves with a specific people with customs, and festivals, they seek one out.
meh….the reason why japanese anime is somewhat disturbing and escapist is because of the widely different cultures…the japanese were primarily animists, and believed in demons and whatnot.
and as to mainstream anime being crap…its only the tip of the pile, along with crap sitcoms, crap action series et cetera….people grow up on crap, they expect crap, much to the disgust of people who can actually discern
Idolo | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:08 am | #
… and if a tree falls in the forest does one hand start trying to clap?
Why the fuck are people getting all bonko about anime tentacle penis rape cartoon porn?! Good god! People are taking sides like they’re talking about democrats and republicans!
Change the freaking subject! It’s a pretty damn sick subject. Period. If you believe that is has some worth, whether it be to help you define what is good from bad or just to get off on, have the freaking decency to keep it in the basement closet! Have perverts lost all sense of decency?!
and psychokick you are sort of repeating me to eh? The case in america however is that there are a few great trees, but most of the forest is clear cut, exposing the dark soil for all. It is rare I can find a mighty tree, I certainly find it easy to find a lot of dirt though.
Example, search for Anime on google. the third link is to a hentai page.
Now there are 13,100,000 anime pages.
search for hentai, there are 8,040,000 pages. An informal survey, but something to consider.
can’t argue with that, but it seems that more of the subversive part of anime culture seems to not be played down here, but augmented. we get lots of crap, crap is normal no biggie, but we get a lot of the fucked up shit as well, and its getting to the point where we are getting more fucked up shit than just crap.
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 11:34 am | #
*DFG Cackles*
All of y’all need some edumacation. Let me get a big old stick, and I’ll get back to you.
Now I may be wrong, but out of the stuff in my head.
First “tenticle porn” has it’s roots in some censorship law in japan. NO PENISES ALLOWED. Whether this was the American’s when they occupied or what I don’t know. So as a work around, (I think?) tentacles came into the picture. There’s manga with tentacles, there’s netsuki with octopus. There’s a lot of weird stuff out there. Now either you open your brain up, and accept the fact that people do stuff that you don’t understand, for reasons that you don’t understand or you can get out of the pool, and go paddle in a puddle. ‘kay?
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 1:14 pm | #
I was just about to say that DFG. I think it adds a valid point to the discussion, since it’s not somehting that just got dreamed up out of the blue. It was a loophole, as you stated, since featuring a penis entering a vagina was illegal. So what’s the next best thing? Phallic-shaped objects instead…
Misha | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 7:38 pm | #
“Anime did indeed bring you tentacle porn. I have not seen the subject matter in any other genre myself.” - LordTaco
I hate to break it to you, but there is indeed live-action tentacle porn. I am not shitting you. There is a series of live-action La Blue Girl movies (that’s right, a series. I think there’s 5 of them). Of course, the tentacles are just elaborate dildoes controlled puppet-style by wires, but still, it exists.
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:05 am
Our favored method was either tossing them down a flight of stairs or the “Studdly Thunder Drop!”. Anime is fine, I watch some every once in a while. It is the true nutjobs that ruin my enjoyment.
Mr. Roboto | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 4:01 am | #
So much (hilarious) hostilities!
Imon | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 4:07 am | #
*Cackles*
All is forgiven!
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 5:03 am | #
guh ?
francois couture | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 5:46 am | #
faw ?
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 5:57 am | #
xoh!
xoh | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 7:00 am | #
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 7:06 am | #
I think it could have used about six more panels of stick whacking.
Rapscallion | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 7:42 am | #
*Zooms in on the Minako doll.*
Woohoo!! Panty shots! More fan-service…Is what I would say…if I were a pervert…or eccchi..yeah…
Mmmmmm, panty shots…..
*Gets beat with the stick.*
RabidWookiee | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 9:09 am | #
Could have been worse for the guy in the comic being beaten. He could have been making sprite comics.
Mr. Roboto | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 9:45 am | #
Kawai!!!!!
(^_^)
Dreaded Wheat | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:19 am | #
mhehe, the guy really reminds me of this guy I know…
c-nut | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:33 am | #
I thought people like this died out when anime became mainstream.
Benares | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:35 am | #
No, no they didn’t. But I hope that some higher authority strikes them down and makes it apparent that no, Bob, you are NEVER going to be Takeshi. Give it up and stop mutilating the five words of the language you know.
Misha | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:48 am | #
What a bunch of armatures they didn’t even make use of the nail at the tip of the board, get the arch swing correct!
Imon | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:49 am | #
I got an anime face to put all to shame.
(=^o^=)
I call it, “Fat cat on Tin Roof”.
I mean, what else makes a cat’s eyes point up like that, other then scorching pain from its feet?
Whitey, but not White?! | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 11:08 am | #
HAHAHAHAHA!!! 5 fuckin’ words (or less) is all them Otacku-shitbags know! HAHAHAHA! Here’s a skit of just how lame they are!:
Otaku shitbag 1: you look so kawaii in that fuku, bitch-san!
Otaku shitbag 2:oh! bastard-san no baka! Kyaaaaaa! *squeals*
Bystander with a cleaver: AAAAHHH! I can’t take this anymore! Die you motha fuggin’ anime hoes! *stab, stab, stabbity, stab!*
…ooh. now I feel all genki.
SQUEEEAL!!!
CoCoPuffGirl | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 11:08 am | #
What the hell is a Fuku?
Whitey, but not White?! | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 11:11 am | #
a sailor/private school suit. you know, think sailor moon
CoCoPuffGirl | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 11:18 am | #
Is it just me or does that guy look like La–nevermind…
>What the hell is a Fuku?
The kind of uniform only a twisted and perverted mind would make their students wear.
I blame it on crack abuse.
Rios | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 12:12 pm | #
Nigga please!
If i wanted a recognizable character I would’ve drawn Piro, not Largo.
That being said, because I am a total blowhard crankcase, I now declare myself above posting in my own comment box.
From now on, I will only respond in pictures found through Google image search.
(By first saving it on the hard drive, of course.)
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 12:37 pm | #
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 12:40 pm | #
I thought html tags didn’t work here
Nestor | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 1:22 pm | #
Or do they?
Nestor | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 1:23 pm | #
How racist, beating up on the poor, little, stinking fucking Jap, how could you, girlfriend’s cousin? Japs are people too, you know… and who is this Jap, and why is he blonde, and why do you hate him? Please, tell me, I’d like to know…
your cousin’s boy toy | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 1:52 pm | #
“We’re kicking the douche out of this bag.”
Heh, that’s gotta be one of the best lines ever.
Neo Kojiro | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 1:57 pm | #
A lot of Otaku’s give other ones bad names.
ClicheMan | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 2:55 pm | #
that’s not a japanese boi! think he-a frickin’ snot faced white who THINKS he’s a japanese person
CoCoPuffGirl | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 3:05 pm | #
SeiFuku’s are evil….
speaking of which… I must go get dressed in mine… NOOOOO…..
Sheri | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 3:23 pm | #
I like anime but I don’t think I am Japanese. I am learning the language but if I speak I will not mix it with english like that posser.
Sartan | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 4:31 pm | #
Putting the FUCK OWUCH DONT HURT ME into neko neko wai…
heh… you been smoking drugs with Nate again?
RantinAn | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 4:45 pm | #
Whaddya know, the mitten-hands are back. Hisashi-fuckin’-buri.
PsychoKick | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 5:16 pm | #
Great strip, Hyung.
THese people are the reason I’m losing interest in anime and anime cons especially.
I’m pretty sure if they went to Japan and hung out they might be disappointed.
Nick Pavlovski | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 6:00 pm | #
Hyung’s cousin’s toy isn’t a bright one, now is he?
Tokhai | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 6:08 pm | #
Oh, isn’t *he* sweet. (heesh)
We need them.
For educational purposes.
I think.
VMerken | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 6:56 pm | #
ROFL
this is possibly the most godlike comic you have ever made
eric lau | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 7:55 pm | #
…
has no-one has gotten the ref to the comixpedia article?
http://www.comixpedia.com/html/m…order=0&thold=0
Indie chick and super comic guy beat up on cheesy, lame fan comics?
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 8:57 pm | #
“Hyung’s cousin’s toy isn’t a bright one, now is he?”
Tokhai: retards like you that exasperate me and make me weary of the human condition… for someone who doesn’t understand the concept of sarcasm, you shouldn’t be reading comic strips from college graduates, much less making references to messages that are not addressed to you… when I type a message to H.S. Kim, I really am addressing him only, whether your pea-sized brain understands this or not… geez… and my sarcasm is directed to him, if I wanted to talk to you I would be addressing you, not him, moron… I use this message board to talk to H.S., one, because I don’t have his phone number, two, because I fucking feel like it. So considering he’s gonna erase this message soon anyways, and hoping you get to read this before he does, a big “FUCK YOU AND GET LOST” to you, moron… and yes, I AM addressing only YOU now, and I am NOT being sarcastic here…
Your cousin’s friend | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 9:51 pm | #
um…
Like yeah he’s being a jerk, but you You’re being huge gaping asshat, kind of like the one they have up on goatse.
If you want to talk to Hyung in complete privicy then might I recommend you use his e-mail?
Otherwise, deal with the fact that there are idjits out there who just don’t get it, never will get it, but they by GOD WILL NEVER GET IT IF YOU ACT LIKE THIS!
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.12.03 - 10:16 pm | #
Wooo! I am electic Jesus!
Electric Jesus | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 12:10 am | #
See, here’s the thing about comment boardamajigs like this one. You put comments up on it, see, and that means other people can read your comments and, oh I dunno, comment on them.
If you don’t want other people to react to what you type, then don’t put here on the bathroom wall where everyone can see it when they come in to make their mark.
That said, the comic did make me chuckle. Sure, my miniscule Japanese vocabulary is almost entirely from sushi restaurants and hentai … but I’m proud to say that I haven’t once worked “ne” into my everyday speech.
“Kicking the douche out of this bag” … heh heh heh …
Dragonblink | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 12:12 am | #
See, it’s funny, cause Hyung’s cousin’s dildo is a pot, calling a bronze kettle black.
To wit, YOU fuck off, and YOU get lost. NOBODY likes you here, and all you really do is make an ass of yourself. As has been stated before, if you wanna talk to Hyung so much, fucking e-mail him, or use the Private Message system that’s on the fucking forums. Christ on a neon cross…
Tokkan | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 3:58 am | #
is it a blinking neon cross?
cause I’m not buying it otherwise :/
Seriously Retarded | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 4:15 am | #
Thank God this sort of behavior only exists in a select group of individuals in a certain genre. I mean how fucked up would the world be if Kurosawa fans dressed up like Toshiro Mifune in Rashomon and ran around screaming. Kawaii! Kawaii desu! Sore dake ka! or fans of French cinema wearing berets and saying formage, and other French words all the time, but never bother learning French. I think these retarded anime fanboys/girls are the genetic biproducts of Rocky Horror Picture Show fanboy/fangirls who don’t have any sort of American cult film witihin their teenage/college years that permits them to dress up like assholes and throw toast at each other, so they latch onto a foreign culture to make themselves “unusual”, not to mention anime gives such a skewed view of Japan (Excluding a few high quality films), that they view this fantasy as a reality. I would like to load all of these fanboys up in a plane and drop them off in the heart of Japan and see how far they get by with their 3 words of Japanese.
I mean seriously, this is the genre that brought you tentacle porn. That’s right, tentacle porn. I really wouldn’t want to associate myself with women being raped in every orifice by multiple tentacle penised demons, but thats just me.
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 5:14 am | #
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” -Eugene Debs
Hmmm….Second Eugene Debs quote this week!! See http://www.tcns.us/~ferret/060903and.jpg
Narbonic is (C) 2003 by Shaenon Garrity. This link wil be inactive after 24 hours, you can find it in Modern Tale’s Archives.
Fferret | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 5:36 am | #
1 Point to DFG!
Honorable mention to Electric Jesus!
Disqualification to LordTaco for bringing up tentacle penis rapings.
Taken out in the first round: that “cousin’s friend” person.
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 6:52 am | #
Generalizing Anime as “the genre that brought you tentacle porn”, is not only EXTREMELY ignorant, but fucking idiotic to boot. 90% of Anime is NOT pornographic in the least, and of the shit that IS porno, only 3% of it has anything to do with tentacles.
These types of Otaku-losers act this way because they see Japanese people and Japanese society as a Utopia where they want to be for the rest of their lives. They probably have no idea that racism towards Gaijin (foreigners) is RAMPANT throughout the more rural areas of the country, the Government is as corrupt if not moreso than the US Government, etc etc.
The only way these types of people will learn that its NOT COOL to be fucking otakus is if they live in Japan and see what its like. In the states, “Otaku” is a term that equates being a huge anime fan. In Japan, Otaku means pretty much means LOSER. Enjoying Anime is one thing, but taking is as far as the kid that Hyung saved is gonna get you nothing but trouble. If they see that even Japanese people would shun they’re behavior, they would quit their stupid shit immediately.
Just my 5 cents…
Josh | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 6:53 am | #
Gah, typos. Ignore those! Carry on!
Josh | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 6:54 am | #
Josh likes “tentacle porn”.
Get the stick.
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 6:58 am | #
Yes 90% of anime isn’t tentacle porn, but there is a hell of a lot of it. No tentacle porn in Hamtaro, but I’m sure you can find a Hamtaro doujinshi with it, but anyway. it exists, there is a lot of it, and its mind numbingly disturbing. The point was to keep in mind how our culture likes to label ourselves to define some sort of individuality, (of course through this negating any individuality), and one should consider all the elements within a culture one is associating oneself. Also the percentage of the total doesn’t matter, it is what is common within available purchasing. Example, go into a video store, go to anime section. You have your typical, Dragon Ball Z and Giant Robot crap, and then you have the other 50% being a hentai section, and a la blue girl box set. lovely. Attending many a convention, in the video vendors (ie: I stole a fan sub and made a shitty copy and now I’m selling it for 25 bucks) sections, you will find that a large portion of it is hentai, and a lot of that is tentacle porn. I went to the Wizard World Con and there was a whole booth dedicated to school girls being attacked by wacky wall walkers. There certainly seems to be a pretty good size market, while anime like Barefoot Gen get lost.
There is a lot of good anime. I’ve seen a lot of good anime, but it is incredibly hard to find, and the market in the US seems to be dominated not by anything of quality.
And by the way labeling “anime the genre that brought you tentacle porn” isn’t ignorant. It’s a statement of fact. Anime did indeed bring you tentacle porn. I have not seen the subject matter in any other genre myself. Unless you can prove that school girls being raped (because the demons never ask and they don’t take no for an answer) by demons originated in another genre, I think it holds pretty true.
With this all in mind, why do people become “otaku”? Yes otaku are looked down upon as losers in Japan, but last I checked they aren’t exactly highly exalted here either. Although shows on Cartoon Network have done a few things for promoting anime past the ‘fanboy’, the drooling fan boy as demonstrated in today’s cartoon is still looked down upon. This is true of pretty much every sub-culture. The people within the culture think each other are “cool”, while the general society think they are twits. Not much different in America than in Japan. So being an Otaku in America may equate to being a huge anime fan, but it also equates to being a loser, by a hell of a lot of people.
rant rant rant rant rant
have a nice day
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:06 am | #
LordTaco is undisqualified.
Honorable mention to LordTaco.
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:20 am | #
People spend too much time categorizing everybody else into “loser” and “not-loser” categories. I’m sure that all these people are Gods of Coolness.
All fanatics are the same. Trekkies, otaku, gun-freaks, car-freaks, cheerleaders, goat lovers and die-hard liberals/conservatives. All the same. Whichever niche you fall into makes you a dumbass to somebody, and chances are you know more about your particular fanaticism than the other guy, and will feel misunderstood and outcast.
Boo-hoo.
Life is more than putting anybody or anything on a pedestal for worship. It’s okay to be a fan; just keep it cool. And it’s ok to dislike a fan, but you don’t have to be disgusting and retarded at the same time.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:47 am | #
Rob isn’t cool, and he spends way too much time dwelling on “coolness”.
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:50 am | #
Yah know, Taco-dude, tentacle pr0n has its roots in shunga woodblock prints…
I’m not saying it’s freakin’ “high art” (whatever the hell _that_ means), but hey, you can’t have the high without the low. Even the mightiest tree needs the lowliest of dirt.
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PsychoKick | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 8:57 am | #
Um so you are saying almost the same damn thing I have been saying Rob. good job there buddy. Let’s give Rob a cookie. Now lets consider if people become fanatics, not because they want to belong, but because they want to be misunderstood, branded an outcast, and to be persecuted.
Also just a thought, one of the reasons many an American have this grip on Japanese culture is because they have no specific culture of their own. Most white Americans are not first or second generation. They lack any form of cultural roots. They are a German, Native America, Scotch-Irish, Pole mix, etc. Many do not have ancestors they can trace back directly to a country of origin, nor can they trace some sort of culture that identifies their family from it. And since they can not identify themselves with a specific people with customs, and festivals, they seek one out.
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:06 am | #
meh….the reason why japanese anime is somewhat disturbing and escapist is because of the widely different cultures…the japanese were primarily animists, and believed in demons and whatnot.
and as to mainstream anime being crap…its only the tip of the pile, along with crap sitcoms, crap action series et cetera….people grow up on crap, they expect crap, much to the disgust of people who can actually discern
Idolo | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:08 am | #
… and if a tree falls in the forest does one hand start trying to clap?
Why the fuck are people getting all bonko about anime tentacle penis rape cartoon porn?! Good god! People are taking sides like they’re talking about democrats and republicans!
Change the freaking subject! It’s a pretty damn sick subject. Period. If you believe that is has some worth, whether it be to help you define what is good from bad or just to get off on, have the freaking decency to keep it in the basement closet! Have perverts lost all sense of decency?!
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:09 am | #
and psychokick you are sort of repeating me to eh? The case in america however is that there are a few great trees, but most of the forest is clear cut, exposing the dark soil for all. It is rare I can find a mighty tree, I certainly find it easy to find a lot of dirt though.
Example, search for Anime on google. the third link is to a hentai page.
Now there are 13,100,000 anime pages.
search for hentai, there are 8,040,000 pages. An informal survey, but something to consider.
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:16 am | #
Honorable mention for LordTaco is revoked.
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:19 am | #
I tried to change the topic Disreputable, really I did.
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:19 am | #
Tentacle pr0n is a comprehensive metaphor of the human condition
Nestor | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:23 am | #
DAMN IT! Get a bigger stick!
Disreputable | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 9:32 am | #
Actually, LordTaco, I’d say that even in Japan, anime has a staggeringly high crap ratio.
99% of _everything_ be crap, mon.
PsychoKick | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 10:30 am | #
can’t argue with that, but it seems that more of the subversive part of anime culture seems to not be played down here, but augmented. we get lots of crap, crap is normal no biggie, but we get a lot of the fucked up shit as well, and its getting to the point where we are getting more fucked up shit than just crap.
LordTaco | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 11:28 am | #
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 11:34 am | #
*DFG Cackles*
All of y’all need some edumacation. Let me get a big old stick, and I’ll get back to you.
Now I may be wrong, but out of the stuff in my head.
First “tenticle porn” has it’s roots in some censorship law in japan. NO PENISES ALLOWED. Whether this was the American’s when they occupied or what I don’t know. So as a work around, (I think?) tentacles came into the picture. There’s manga with tentacles, there’s netsuki with octopus. There’s a lot of weird stuff out there. Now either you open your brain up, and accept the fact that people do stuff that you don’t understand, for reasons that you don’t understand or you can get out of the pool, and go paddle in a puddle. ‘kay?
DFG | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 1:14 pm | #
I was just about to say that DFG. I think it adds a valid point to the discussion, since it’s not somehting that just got dreamed up out of the blue. It was a loophole, as you stated, since featuring a penis entering a vagina was illegal. So what’s the next best thing? Phallic-shaped objects instead…
Misha | Email | Homepage | 06.13.03 - 7:38 pm | #
“Anime did indeed bring you tentacle porn. I have not seen the subject matter in any other genre myself.” - LordTaco
I hate to break it to you, but there is indeed live-action tentacle porn. I am not shitting you. There is a series of live-action La Blue Girl movies (that’s right, a series. I think there’s 5 of them). Of course, the tentacles are just elaborate dildoes controlled puppet-style by wires, but still, it exists.
Sweet dreams everybody!
gwalla | Email | Homepage | 06.21.03 - 6:33 pm