Apparently I have a third arm growing out of my head. I must do, its the only explanation to why everyone stares at me when I read a comic in public……no wait. The latest edition of my monthly comic has just come out so I leg it down to my local comic book store to buy it. This being an once a month treat I wanna enjoy it, so I buy a smoothie and sit on a bench in the town centre enjoying my comic in the sun. Then my spider sense starts to tingle; I’m being judged for reading my filthy comic out side the confines of Forbidden Planet by strangers!
Usually its single, slightly weird teenage boys that enjoy spending way too much time alone in their bedrooms that are known for reading comics. Well being a non-single female I take great pride in reading comics! I want to know if Catwoman saves Holly or see Ichigo kick the crap out of another Hollow but no, I should be reading “8 ways to find out if he loves you more than his ex” in Cosmo mag. For some reason the people in the UK have never taken to reading comics like the Japanese have. We dismiss them as childish and irrelevant. But the Japanese can read Yuri on a packed out train and no one bats an eye lid. I pull out the latest copy of Birds of Prey and I’m slapped with a literary ASBO.
I’m not reading a ‘proper’ book therefore its crap. I do enjoy reading novels but I get so much more enjoyment from comics. Each window is basically a small peice of art that could tell a thousand stories. The detail and colouring requires a talent that I could never posses and I take such delight in seeing something new every time. People say they are pointless stories about superheros and magic with no relevence to todays society. Once again I disagree. In one particular comic series, Batman:No Man’s Land, is set when Gotham is hit by a earth quake and declared ‘No mans land’. The stories demonstrate the extent people will go to survive and make a profit. The similarities to current situations around the world gave me a bit of a chill as it was written a few years ago. Go and read it, if you instantly see which disaster it is mirroring, I’ll give you some sweets ^_^.
So please dont snuff at comics because they aren’t ‘cultured’ enough. If you read one you might find it has more culture in one page than 100 copies of The News of the World you read every week.
I am a girl and I have a substantial image folder full of Anime girls. I have never been able to explain why this is, it’s hardly to do with my Sexuality, I can say quite easily I find girls IRL sexy but I don’t have a big folder full of them in bikinis or echhi of them. I have some good stock images of my fav hot celebs for use in layouts and such but that’s hardly new. It’s this huge folder of Ecchi girls that always makes me think. If Anime debases women so much and makes them into objects to be lusted after with huge breasts and perfect bodies and bukkake then why do I, and most girls into Anime, find them just as great as the fanboys?
Women are objects of desire in some Anime (not all Anime. Its a huge form of media so I shall not restrict it all here). I mean you can look at some characters and they have full breasts and amazing figures and look hot. There are endless fanservice shots of them in their underwear or closeups of their asses. But usually a hot anime girl comes with a firey, headstrong attitude. It is very rare to see her give in to a man or lose herself around one. It is more likely to see her punch his lights out or hit him. Strong and Sexy, surely thats a great thing to be? Christina Aguilera, The Spice Girls, Beyonce.. they all are strong and Sexy. They are also all objects of desire for men and sell more records/get more publicity because of it. I don’t know. Does that make up for the fact they are obviously there to turn the male viewer on. I don’t know. But the fact it gets the female fan saving images of them and watching the Animes and rooting for them or hating them is always good.
Anime girls are hot. I’m not losing myself in this by the way, I also know they are NOT REAL. *laughs* It’s always sad to see someone who is watching Anime Girls more than Real Girls and fails to have another half because noone in Real Life actually looks like BellDandy. But you get drawn in by an amazing anime style picture thats really well drawn, really well coloured in and just looks amazing. Its a fact. So me, assuming I am the standard anime fan, having a folder full of images that I think are amazing (a lot of them Ecchi xD) is hardly surprising. I used to say that Anime fans tend to have a lax view on Sex and stuff since you are exposed to so much of it in Anime that you just don’t realise it’s there anymore. So all these images I have I don’t see as being Ecchi, or racy I just see them as awesome Anime images to add to my collection.
Perhaps it’s also the fact that Anime women are like… not like normal women. I mean they are like Normal Women obviously but they are also Cat-Girls, Fox-Girls, Bunny-Girls, Elves, Witches, Fairies, Magical School Girls, Girls with Huge Guns… All these things that are interested to watch and things we try and emulate through Cosplay. I know girls that wear Cat Ears and Cat Tails now as part of their daily wear and feel weird if they don’t have them on because they love CatGirls so much. I think that girls love to Cosplay as Sailor Moon, who wouldn’t want to be a hot, magical girl who kicks ass? They may not be the best figures to look up to sure, but you know they are pretty damn cool. I like that anyway, the fantastical and the unreal. Makes things more interesting. Also the people who draw girls like this well make some captivating art that you can’t help but save or buy in poster form to stick on your wall!
I think Women in Anime are misunderstood, but I’m not going to get into that subject here. I don’t think they are treated any differently than they are in any other. They show off their lady lumps in Film, Music, on TV so Anime is no different but I find it funny that it is seen as such a big deal in Anime. That if you say to someone you like Anime they immediately think of some obscure Hentai that was no doubt created in their imaginations with aliens and every hole being filled. If people got over this misconception and actually sat down and watched some Anime without prejudging it then they would love it I reckon. Even the Ecchi High School Comedys (because let’s face it WE ALL have a weakness for them).
God Bless the Hot Anime Girls. Let’s hope they draw more!
I WANT Anime Rants, I WANT New Season LineUps and to be told about what to expect, I WANT Poster and pPull-Outs, I WANT to read Articles about Anime that I am currently Watching, I WANT to know what the ACTUAL Anime Community think, I WANT to read about Anime Culture, I WANT a better kind of Anime Magazine.
No Point In Sitting Around Waiting. Pink Domino-The E-Zine Currently Recruiting!
…you can speak intelligently in Japanese about spirits, demons, war, death, tournaments, magic, and profoundly soppy love affairs, but the prospect of buying a movie ticket leaves you tongue-tied.
…”hai,” “baka,” and “hentai” come to your lips so easily that sometimes you have difficulty remembering what the English words are.
…none of your friends study Japanese, but thanks to you, they all have 50-word vocabularies.
…and if they used them in front of their moms, they’d get their mouths washed out with soap.
…you go native, to the point of buying Japanese rice in 20-pound bags and clearing all of the furniture out of your living room so you can sit on the floor.
…it’s 3 am, and you and your best friend are on the brink of a fistfight over whether Ranma-chan or Ranma-kun is cuter.
…you have a Ranma outfit.
…and so does your significant other.
…you’re keeping an eye on your little sister for signs of slacking off during school, making eyes at the school’s only bishonen, and disappearing suspiciously often for “slumber parties,” because if she becomes a magic girl, you want in on the action.
…your friends stage an intervention.
…but only because they want your tapes.
…some poor ex-mugger still hears the words “LEKKA SHINEN!” in his nightmares.
…you never bothered getting your new apartment hooked up to cable, and even Babylon 5 is a take-it-or-leave-it thing… but anyone who gets in the way of your mission to get the next Slayers volume is dead.
…only, if you’d written the last sentence, you would have worded it, “Anyone who gets in my way is Nakago.”
…you’ve contemplated growing your hair long so that you can put it up in dumplings.
…and you’re a guy.
…you feel like less of a woman because you can’t put away 5,000 calories in one sitting.
…you’re despondent because your chances to become an anime heroine are completely shot–you can cook.
…you refer to 21 as “over the hill,” and get more depressed the closer that day comes; you’re not ready to join the forces of evil, dammit!
…it’s not a bad hair day, it’s a Zelgadis hair day.
…your parents draw you aside and ask you whether you’re a Satanist, since all of those symbols you practice drawing in your notebooks look awfully suspicious to them.
…your kids think that cartoons are supposed to have writing at the bottom.
Supah Mary says:
OH ITS AUGUST
Supah Mary says:
who should be Augusts Pinup?
xgabrielx | outspoken hearts, restless as sharks says:
Eureka?
Supah Mary says:
I was thinking that chick
Supah Mary says:
from Onegai Teacher
xgabrielx | outspoken hearts, restless as sharks says:
YES
YES
xgabrielx | outspoken hearts, restless as sharks says:
YES
Supah Mary says:
xD
Supah Mary says:
whats her name?
xgabrielx | outspoken hearts, restless as sharks says:
MIZUHOOOOO
xgabrielx | outspoken hearts, restless as sharks says:
MIZUHO KAZAAAAMIIIII
I bring your attention to the following report that was on FoxNews about 4chan:
This is why you should not watch news stations like Fox who think THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. I mean look at this thing they claim 4chan users are HACKERS ON STEROIDS, DOMESTIC TERRORISTS and how 4chan is THE INTERNET HATE MACHINE. I mean come on, who is retarded enough to believe this rubbish?
Here are the facts people, 4chan is firstly NOT A SECRET WEBSITE ITS NOT! You can go to 4chan easily enough xD Its got cult status. If you ask most people where 4chan is they will tell you exactly where to go. People know 4chan, its infamous! Secondly THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS. OH COME ON! I think I have said this a million times before but YOU CANT GET HURT ON THE INTERNET. All you have to do is ignore what is going on. OH NOEZ MY MYSPACE PAGE HAS BEEN HACKED OH NOEZ OH NOEZ I AM GOING TO DIE. Stop being so goddamn over dramatic! So they posted some Gay stuff on your MySpace, make a new one. Its not the end of the world. Why doyou have a MySpace anyway? My Space is gay in iteself.
So they say they are going to rape you, kill you and send death threats. The fact is they do not know where you live and unless you are stupid enough to post your address or phone numbers on your My Space accounts or anywhere else online they will NEVER be able to find you. For gods sake. To the mother who says her family were attacked by Anonymous so she bought a Dog, HOW THE HELL IS A DOG GOING TO DO ANYTHING? That’s just idiocy. The fact is you can choose to go on 4chan and you can choose not to go on 4chan. You can choose to ignore if /b/ comes after you or you can shout, argue and spam back. They can’t really hurt you at all via the internet.
THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON IN THE WORLD THAN 4CHAN! THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS AND BUYING A DOG WILL NOT PROTECT YOU FROM IT. STOP WHINING AND JUST IGNORE IT YOU BIG BUNCH OF IDIOTS.
The people at /b/ don’t take anything they say seriously, it is all for the lulz. The report says in shocking tones that they use anti-semetic and racist remarks. To be honest with you I’m sure most of us make racist jokes every now and then, we don’t mean them. My friends call me the Tinted one and Brown Town all the time, but because we know its not serious none of us care. I don’t think anyone on /b/ takes anything said there seriously and therefore don’t take offence. If you do take offence noone is telling you to go there and read whats going on. Why create hysteria about something that is really not doing anything to cause alarm about?
There is news out there that goes unreported. Injustice, death and atrocities that never get the airtime that they should. I am not surprised at FoxNews for doing this I just feel sorry for people who actually believe 4chan is something to worry about when there are so much more important things in the world. I feel sorry for those who think the internet is serious business.
The one, true religion, founded by author and batshit insanefucktard L. Ron Hubbard as a tax shelter, using material from his published works of science fiction as articles of faith. It is also known in its alternate spelling as “Sollontology”, as coined by TV talk show genius Gorgeous George. Scientology is not to be confused with a fabricated web of lies because everything L. Ron says is completely factual.
Adherents of Scientology are primarily Hollywood celebrities, lawyers, and women who want to penetrate Tom Cruise. [2]
Beliefs and Practices
Scientology drama is all too common, and most of it is extremely amusing. For instance, to advance in the faith to OT level III to learn the tale of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who, at least 100 years ago, stacked hundreds of billions of his frozen citizens on planes that looked like DC8’s with rocket engines, and hauled them over to Earth to be thrown into volcanoes before blowing them up with hydrogen bombs and brainwashing them with a “three-D, super colossal motion picture” for 36 days.
The traumatized thetans subsequently clustered around human bodies, in effect acting as invisible spiritual parasites that can only be removed using advanced Scientology techniques. The cost of reaching OT III is only $360,000. Central to the belief is in alien past lives, such as being “deceived into a love affair with a robot decked out as a beautiful red-haired girl”, being run over by a Martian bishop driving a steamroller, being transformed into an intergalactic walrus which perished after falling out of a flying saucer, and being “a very happy being who strayed to the planet Nostra 23,064,000,000 years ago”. All of this was on Wikipedia, so it is guaranteed the absolute truth.
If you are completely and fully suckered in, you can join an elite sector of Scientologists, the Sea Org, which stands for “Sea Organization”. This arm of the “Church” was dreamed up by Hubbard in the mid-60’s because he was (a) really drunk/doped out of his mind most of the time and (b) because he felt butthurt by the real U.S. Navy, who refused to give him ill-gotten glory and fame, so he made a toy navy of some real piece of shit ships. If you’re a good enough and devout enough Scientologist, when you join the Sea Org, you must sign a contract that binds you to the Scientology religion, the Sea Org and L. Ron Hubbard for a billion years, pledging to “come back” in all your reincarnations to serve him for that time. In exchange you get some really nifty things… You get about $16 a week in pay, your personal I.D. taken from you and locked away so you can’t jump ship, you get to do demeaning and degrading physical labor, and you give the Church tacit permission to put you in the “RPF” (Rehabilitation Project Force) which is a punishment gulag that will make you beg, whine, and plead like a little bitch for that degrading regular labor back. You may even find yourself locked in a ship’s chain locker if at sea, or in the basement of the Ft. Harrison Hotel with all that healthy asbestos. The RPF makes Gitmo Bay look like Club Med. In an interesting side note, while the crew of the Sea Org were sweating and toiling at sea on the Apollo, Hubbard’s Sea Org flagship, Hubbard himself surrounded himself with nubile, blonde 13 year old girls in hot pants and halter tops that he dubbed the “Commodore’s Messenger Organization” or “CMO”. He did this because running Scientology is serious fucking business. Sadly for him, he was also impotent.
Most agree that it is batshit insane, and Battlefield Earth was as good a movie as getting jackhammered in the urethra for 3 hours is fun. Scientology is, however, a very important part of society; it is one of the main sources in the Western world for the lulz.
E-Meter Auditing (Galvanometry)
Scientologists use a rudimentary galvanometer to measure the electrical resistance present in people who they call “pre-clear.” The process of lying is more difficult than the process of telling the truth, and galvanometers act like shitty lie detectors. When questions are asked of the “pre-clear” and the needle moves, they say that the little alien in their brain is making up lies for them to recite about their non-existent pre-birth past. Since no one actually knows what happened before their birth, “pre-clears” must learn to lie without affecting the galvanometer. If they can do this, auditors say they have become closer to becoming “operating thetans.” This is done by learning to believe the things Hubby wrote in his books, such as being born for the first time on another planet. In effect, it’s lie detector aided brainwashing.
Jennifier Lopez *Jello*, her father has been a $cientologist for over 20 years and most people make fun of J.LO because she hangs out with Tom Cruise and is known to practice VOODOO on her enemies. [7]
JJ Abrams, former Scientologist, and creator of Lost
Ethan Rom [8], William Mapother [9], this guy IRL is Tom Cruise’s cousin.
The History of Scientology
Battlefield Earth
In 2000, Fageologists discovered a new book of Scientology, called Battlefield Earth. Originally written at least 100 years ago, it is a prophecy about how Xenu will return to Earth and generally fuck everything up and enslave all of humanity to mine some crappy mineral. In the end of the book, some faggot slave finds an old military plane that couldn’t fight off the aliens when they first showed up and proceeded to blow the fuck out of all the aliens with it, saving the day. The moral of the story is: Store planes in caves. They get more l33t that way.
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Everything about Battlefield Earth sucks. Everything. The over-the-top music, the unbelievable sets, the terrible dialogue, the hammy acting, the lousy special effects, the beginning, the middle and especially the end. God above, it’s bad. Sweet baby Jesus, it’s bad. By all that is holy and sacred on the Earth, this is a bad, bad, bad film
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—Jonathan Ross, Movie critic
EarthLink $cientology Drama
It has been charged by most EDiot researchers of the $cam Church of Scientology that EarthLink is a front organization for Scientology. According to skeptictank.org:
Numerous individuals who have worked for this cult front company in the past have come forward to describe the fact that EarthLink’s help desk’s employees are ordered to claim that the Scientology crime syndicate doesn’t own and run EarthLink.NET. (See comments by ex-employees of EarthLink.net on The Skeptic Tank’s web site [10]) The fact is, the security of one’s e-mail which flows through these two companies is highly suspect and users who subscribe to either of these services should consider very carefully the history of the Scientology crime syndicate. In 1998, the weekly San Jose Metro ran an article called “Missing Links”, examining the Scientology-EarthLink controversy:Electronic free-speech advocates are concerned about the Scientology leanings of EarthLink founder Sky Dayton and the church’s history of litigation over copyright infringements on the internets;… Dayton is a vocal follower of the Church of $camientology who in the early days surrounded himself with upper management and private financiers who were also $cientologists;… As the company has grown, EarthLink executives have tried to distance the company from its Scientology roots, and for good reason. Unlike other religions, Scientology has earned a reputation for dragging ISPs into court for alleged copyright violations committed by private subscribers, something which electronic-privacy advocates believe could erode free discourse on the Net [[11]]. Dayton and his two financial backers are Scientologists. When this fact created controversy in the media, Dayton asserted that the idea that EarthLink was owned by the Church of Scientology was absurd, making the comparison, “It was like I’m Jewish, therefore EarthLink was involved with 9/11.”
Official Scientology Orientational Video
Apparently, they’ve gone to great lengths to make sure that people don’t see it. Expect a lawsuit if you even think about pondering the consideration of maybe some day downloading it. HOLY SHIT IT’S ALL BEEN DELETED! SURPRISE! conspiracy.
That made me laugh so much.
THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS.
YOUR VENT CHANNEL IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS.
MMORPG’S ARE NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS.
If you remember these pointers you will have fun on the Interwebs.
If not well.. then I pray for your soul.
Why do people do this? YES WOMAN SOMEONE IN YOUR VENTS SPAMMING IT UP but like why did you get so mental over it? It wasn’t a big deal! It was someone on a vent channel using a soundboard and being quite funny really. If you hadn’t of had such a huge and seriously funny reaction to it then they probably would have left. The other thing is that your fellow Vent members were trying really hard not to laugh at you and props to them for actually almost keeping it together and not laughing at you. The person targetted you because you were the only one freaking out. WHY ON EARTH DID YOU ACT LIKE YOU WERE SCARED AT THE END? ITS THE INTERNET! ITS NOT LIKE HE WAS GOING TO JUMP OUT WITH A KNIFE AND KILL YOU! It is the Internet. The Internet is NOT serious business!
Jesus.
You’d think people would become less retarded but alas no. There will always be morons out there providing us with entertainment.
So Lucky Star has become that sort of Anime that we either love or we hate. Lets look at this for a minute. It is essentially a random sort of anime based around 4 17 year old high school girls that look about 12 thus appealing to the Loli Market which. going by 4chan, is huge at the moment. It follows the events of their lives. That’s about it. There isn’t really any ongoing story, it’s just light hearted and fun. I think the reason for the intense dislike/like of Lucky Star is a lot of Anime fans can see themselves within this anime in either the perverted Loli obsessed father of Konata or in the anime loving, manga reading, MMORPG addicted Konata herself.
Konata is really a dipiction of what a lot of people who watch Anime are. She gets obsessed about new anime and making sure she watches all the Anime. I’m sure we all all ready and waiting each time a new subbed version of our fav anime comes out on AnimeSuki or Boxtorrents and we download and watch and savour just like Konata does. She takes her MMORPG’s seriously, which I know a lot of people do. To them MMORPG’s are like real life and they take partying seriously. That and you’re friends you make via MMORPG’s are improtant too because they are in this world with you. You’d be mighty lonely without them. The fact Konata also plays Dating Sims and probably has a big ecchi collection is a reflection on nearly all Anime fans. All of us have an Ecchi collection (well all us long term anime fans do anyway, its something you aquire with time) I don’t care if people deny it, if they do they are lying. We all love a bit of Ecchi and we all love to play cute dating sims with cute anime girls. I think Anime Fans see themselves in Konata and either are annoyed by how accurate it is or rejoice in seeing a girl just like they are on screen.
I did mention that some people may see themselves in Konatas father. He got his daughter into Dating Sims. Probably plays Hentai games too. Takes photos of High School Girls and gets excited over anything to do with any girl under the age fo 18. I mean in the opening sequence he is seen perving on some High School girls from some bushes. I would like to say I don’t know any anime fans like that, but I have been on 4chan and anime-forums.com and believe you me… I do. There was one guy on Anime-Forums who was obsessed with the little girl in Love Hina and used to harass 13 year old girls on our server. Of course he got banned.
So what do I think about Lucky Star? Well it’s cute and I’m cosplaying as Kagami! What more can I say?
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