How can you guarantee that's authentic? And the seller won't mark it as a gift, so it would be best to look somewhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasuke
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How can you guarantee that's authentic? And the seller won't mark it as a gift, so it would be best to look somewhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tasuke
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Originally Posted by eddiespruce
it's an HK boot, but that's pretty much the only way to date to get an english dub of the film on DVD...
By the way, I've got a wall in my kitchen slashed with red and black paint swatches that automatically make people around here think "asian theme". I also have on my living room wall a framed picture of a medieval Japanese woman holding an umbrella up against a snow storm, with bamboo in the background, and another framed picture that has a poem in kanji and what looks to me like a misty mountain scene. I have no idea what that last picture is really about, or what the poem says.
Am I a Japanese fetishist?
This thread has made me giggle and learn new things. :p
Maybe borderline.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
JK
Yeah, I'm sort of wondering what kind of impression I make on people we have over for dinner now. Granted, the wall of games and consoles, punching bag, and whatnot probably doesn't make a great impression anyway.
;)
I've had my phase as a weeaboo thanks to the brain-washing of internet otaku communities, but I reserve this term for people who live in delusion that Japan is like the stereotypes and is perfect. There are some cultural things I like about it and some I don't. I enjoy studying the language and there are things I like about it much more than the otaku bullshit. I don't care for alot of current japanese games coming out either. I also do NOT agree that all the best games during the 8 and 16 bit eras were Japanese. If you grew up with consoles exclusively you WOULD think that, but there were some brilliant western (us/europe) games on platforms like PC and Amiga which provided more flexibity. I missed many of these games back in the day as I was a console gamer, but I can still see much of their relevance at the time, such as Turrican and Sierra or LucasArts games.
I tend to prefer Japan's contrubutions in the arts like music and literature, whether classical or modern. I enjoy japanese literature and early manga such as Tezuka. I like dabbling in them just like I do with french or italian literature, or whatnot.
I also think Japanese indie music is generally brilliant, and even some of the major artists manage to impress me from time to time. Most of my favorite music is japanese.
Unfortunately alot of things that are accepted in the west aren't always as popular in Japan. If you looked at the internet you'd think Bakugan, Visual Kei, Yaoi, and everything is widely accepted and esteemed publicly but it's not exactly the case. Ask anyone who has lived or worked there and you'll see that the percieved popularity of many western-accepted japanese things has a tendency to be massively exagerrated. Look at popular polls in the media and you'll find that the majority of the most beloved anime is usually not the gruesome or overtly sexual stuff. It's more of an american thing to esteem something simply for being mindlessly offensive. Some americans try and see it as either Democrat or Republican when they observe something in particular done in that culture that resonates with that, but more often I'd say the japanese culture leans towards a form of moderate. The fact that they're censoring not only current US games for their localized release but also their own hentai games for the console editions will show you that Japan is not exactly batshit for puerile raunch like the west believes it is.
It's a matter of time. That much pushing the wall between creative license and porn has to backfire eventually. The public isn't going to forever tolerate series who achieve little besides fetish-izing women just enough to avoid getting relegated to hentai.
Fanservice for comedic effect or even being a normal part of character design is one thing. Overt ridiculousness is another. Otaku won't go away or quit having material made, but they could become further niche by more tasteful products attracting a wider audience.