Toshi Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 (edited) At least you can point out what led to the to visual kei movement as our culture has always defined beauty in men being rather feminine, but the era of hikki's, 2ch, and the demasculation of men is rather troubling as of late. Edited January 13, 2011 by Toshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topekaguy Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Japanese history is very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 When I explained to my mother what sushi was, I was told I was insane for eating something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 My favorite anime is Touch. There's no catgirls or large breasts or incest or tentacles or robots. It's about a bunch of kids growing up and playing high school baseball. I have a relatively small Japanese LP collection. I try to collect as many of the Peanuts' albums as I can. I also have a few Maison Ikkoku and other LPs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber Rat Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 My favorite anime is FLCL. It has large breats, an episode with a catboy, robots and a giant iron. It is also a story about growing up and has baseball now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshi Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Oh yeah... Lum and Maison Ikkoku... I grew up reading those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 Oh yeah... Lum and Maison Ikkoku... I grew up reading those. I think reading the Viz versions of Lum was what first peaked my interest in anime/manga as well as my interest in large breasts in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted January 13, 2011 Report Share Posted January 13, 2011 (edited) Oh, we're talking Japanese culture eh? http://gizmodo.com/5670648/this-vending-machine-sells-live-crabs (crap, that's in China. Well, Japanese people still love vending machines) Edited January 13, 2011 by Yantelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 14, 2011 Report Share Posted January 14, 2011 I've heard of crane machines where you catch live lobsters but those are akin to edible cockroaches so I have no moral issues about that. Dog vending machines is pretty despicable even for this very dander allergy ridden fellow. And Urusei Yatsura is good but Maison Ikkoku is definitely my favorite. It has just the right level of humor and great heart. Besides, who doesn't like Gilbert O Sullivan? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RctYk3LLGwY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) And Urusei Yatsura is good but Maison Ikkoku is definitely my favorite. It has just the right level of humor and great heart. Besides, who doesn't like Gilbert O Sullivan? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RctYk3LLGwY I'm afraid to be serious in this thread...it seems like I'd be ruining the general tone... But, on a serious note, Maison Ikkoku is the reason I'm here. I wanted to study abroad for a few years. I was lucky enough to qualify for Duke's TIP program, so my summers saw my parents saying, "Why don't you do TIP this summer, and we can talk about next summer next year." Duke's where I learned about fansubs, and while I was mostly interested in the violent and sexually charged anime (stuff like Ninja Scroll), I saw that Maison Ikkoku was nearly 100 episodes, was curious about that and, on a whim, I requested the first 4 on a VHS tape while I was getting two other fansubs. (You could request up to three at a time, so I always did just that.) That was the anime that first had me actually interested in Japanese culture. Onsens, pachinko, oshogatsu, ronin and entrance exams, school festivals, matsuri, etc, etc, etc... The series really is chock full of Japanese culture, without any of it being for the sake of showing people Japanese culture or appealing to people outside Japan. It just happens to take place in Japan...but that just made all of the cultural differences that much more incredible. Maison Ikkoku had me genuinely interested in coming to Japan and finding out more. A few years later, I was on my way over for a year long exchange program, that would see me return three years later for a semester of college and three years after that for work. Eight years later, I have my own business, a mortgage, an amazing wife and two kids...all here in Japan. So, uh, yeah, I really liked Maison Ikkoku, and to say it profoundly impacted myself would be an understatement. I remember getting my wife to read it when we were dating and she was sick. Edited February 18, 2011 by peteer02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteer01 Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) I feel like I'm ruining this thread by seriously responding to an anime discussion. Whoo! Our powers combined, we have ruined this thread with our seriousness. (And seriously, Rumiko Takahashi's stuff is great. Masakazu Katsura is another great who's work did the extraordinary in getting me to actually read Video Girl Ai, in it's entirety, in Japanese.) Edited February 18, 2011 by peteer02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 Hikki's creep me out, and visual kei is an odd movement. I thought that was a sentiment shared by many of us here. I just find them very strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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