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Birthday
• 1990-06-13
Gender
• Female
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• MD, USA
Member Since
• 2003-08-03
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• DES's hikari
Real Name
• Tory (Dori, Tostito)

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• A lot, not that they matter. Anime Club President/Fuhrer till the end of this year.
Anime Fan Since
• (age 4) Tonari No Totoro
Favorite Anime
• Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz, Hagaren (FMA), Kino No Tabi, .hack, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Goals
• To go on an insane shopping spree in Tokyo sometime soon. Gosurori...
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• Drooling. Over many things.
Talents
• I make a mean ramen, mm!

myOtaku.com: shiroikarasu

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Much Ado About Very Little (as always)
Arrrgh. I just saw a commercial for some retarded-looking show called "Kappa Mikey". I'm not really sure what the premise of the show is supposed to be. From what I saw, it looked like it was meant to ridicule (or "parody" as more forgiving people would call it) anime by making fun of its stereotypes. The commercial started out by poking fun at the way anime characters jump and how their faces look "really freaky" when expressing emotion--and immediately alarm bells sounded in my head ("Not another one..."). Its hook was supposed to be, "If you like American anime about other anime..." or something like that. So, as far as I know, this show is combining the two things I hate most concerning anime: worn-out jokes about anime stereotypes, and Americans trying to jump on the anime bandwagon by calling their work "anime" or "manga" as opposed to "anime/manga-STYLE". I have already discussed this particular point in a previous post, but only with manga. Here is my stand on the term anime. Since the word is a Japanese shortcut way of saying "animation" and refers to the same thing that the term "Japanimation" does, you cannot use it for a purely American, albeit anime-STYLE show. But the worst thing about this show's claim to being anime? It wasn't even drawn in the anime style at all! It looked like any other American cartoon. So tell me, how is it anime?

Also, about the anime stereotypes thing ("OMG, BIG EYES LOLWTFROFLOMGBBQ!!!111"). I'm not even going to bother ranting about it. I'll just say this: The joke is OLD, people! It's not even as funny as it was before, which was not funny at all! It's negative in funniness now. Be original. Oh, and research your subject before you begin pointing out its faults, mmkay?

...I just went against my own advice. But what am I supposed to do? The show isn't even airing yet. And I don't want to watch it and therefore not be boycotting it for offending me with its commercials. So that'll be my stand--that the commercials offended me and therefore I don't want to endorse it. Loopholes, hurrah!

And it's not pronounced "cap-a", dickweeds. Stupid American jerks.

Oh, PS: If you haven't already, check out the link on the TheO news page to the Brothers video. Vic's voice is heavenly, and it's a lovely song. A must for FMA fans.
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