Say what?! I'm erotic?!
Something came to my attention as I surfed on my favorite blogs today, after 3 days of home isolation, without a laptop in sight, but enough of me, more on the topic.
I'll keep serious, for this one. It's a MSNBC article about the Otaku culture said to be the reason for the growing eroticism issues, entitled "Anime erotic subculture goes mainstream: More Americans drawn to the 'moral-free zone' of cute, sexual comics". The author is Brian Alexander, a contributor in MSNBC, and you can go kick is cock whenever you feel like it from now on. If you happen to see his picture, just forgive him for having that same stupid hairdo as Tom Hanks had in Da Vinci Code.
Bottomline: His article is a load of wrongs, and is totally not enjoyable to read. He got a rating of 1.5 out of 5, in 603 responses.
Warning: Pardon me for being mean to this d*ckhead, believe me, he is.
Cutting the chase, here are some crappy excerpts from this crappy article:
These cartoony, sexualized characters are all part of otaku culture. Otaku is a Japanese word that has evolved from meaning "techno-geek" to describing devoted fans who pore over Japanese animation (anime), manga (graphic books), hentai (erotic comics) and other comics-derived media. As the recent fashion collaboration of designer Marc Jacobs and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami illustrates, otaku culture has become entrenched in the hip American mainstream.
~Clearly, as of this point, he already doesn't know what he's talking about. There's some truth on the meaning of Otaku as 'techno-geek', but hey, language is dynamic and it some word change meaning through time. Pardon, but Otakus today are visual liberators, this is art, and not just erotic-sh*t that you are talking about in your excuse for an article. Not all of us pore over hentai, and his definition is just wrong.
But sexually-suggestive and explicit anime like "Gurren Lagann" and "Legend of the Overfiend," is finding an eager audience of adult Americans who are drawn to the post-modern, almost post-human mash-up of playful, blurry morality found in the genre.
~Talk about comparing Gurren Lagann to some hentai show; it's fanservice that G.L. shows. That one thing I hate about Hollywood– in Hollywood, Fanservice is labeled as a display of Eroticism. How do they come up with these stuff? They don't even watch these.
“Among Japanese fans — the guys — it is a badge of honor to say, ‘We do not need real women; [these] figures are better, they do not talk back’” said Macias. “Americans are not there yet, but at the rate things are going, we are going to be seeing that.”
~Firstly, it is not anime that influence such things as eroticism and porn, but people– people drawn to desperate deeds of projecting what they're thinking (whatever they're thinking), into the artform that is anime. Thus, this gives anime and manga a bad name.
A reason as well would be society issues. The more advance morality in society gets, the more they want to protect people preemptively, and then they start thinking that this-anime or that-anime might make some people do unpleasant things, and when someone (even just one) does a bad thing because of this-anime, they label this-anime bad, and it gets generalized to anime-being-bad.
Not all anime series show some traces of the perv-angle just for perv-sakes, they do that for the good or the bad of the plot, for plot-sakes. Let's see you do that, Desperate House Wh*res!
Derailed By Darry actually has a very nice take on this topic, good ol' Darry.
Well, that's my toll on it… I hope you guys liked my rant on it. More cranking in the future. If I appear to be wrong in some things, please alert me so I can do a revisit.
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September 14th, 2008 at 6:28 am
The only thing that raged me was how he derived the word lolicon.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Gurren Lagann to Legend of the Overfiend???? How is that even possible?!?!?
What’s next?
One Piece to Princess 69?
September 14th, 2008 at 8:03 am
10 RAGES A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 14th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Huh, this guy obviously has no idea WTF he is talking about, just by reading these excerpts. Lol I suppose this is the new derivation of the meaning “asshole”.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:42 am
lolita comics ROFL! that sounds so made up by someone who needed to finish the article in a jiffy. wikipedia is better than his so-called research.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I LOL’D.
I swear, stuff like this makes me laugh more than it outrages me. I guess it’s because I never really cared what our society thinks of otaku culture, but still, some of this stuff is just plain funny. Lolita Comics? Come on XD
September 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
But to lump TTGL with Urotsukidoji? There’s something here that transcends journalistic error.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I just ignore it when people who have not actually experienced the subculture presume to give critical analysis of it.
Also, my power’s back. Yay~
September 14th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
The article seemed very unfocused to me. Everything seemed cobbled together in an attempt for the author to make a weak point.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:42 am
LOL. The rating of 1.5 out of 5, in 603 response isn’t good enough. That article deserves a perfect 0. So much for the erroneous criticisms like that. He just wanted some attention.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Whew… good thing everyone agreed with me, cool! My predictions were correct after all, everyone’s gonna be after his sh*thole with a bow and arrow.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
OMG HE SHOULD DIE! WTF IS HE THINKING?????? GRRRRR.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I couldn’t even finish reading the article… Yeah, sometimes I think some anime go a bit too far with the fanservice but that’s just some. I think some American shows I worst in the sexual stuff. Now I don’t usually talk about things I don’t watch (unlike some people) but, have you not seen the commercials for shows like Gossip Girl? It looked like all it was about was people having sex. Sorry if anybody reading is a fan of the show but, those commercials did not give me a good impression at all.
Oh one more thing, it’s Loli complex/lolicon. Not Lolita complex. Lolita = fashion style. 9_9 (wow, I kind of ranted. ._.)
September 17th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
well some schmuck like that was bound to pop up sooner or later. just be glad it’s not something as big as he’s trying to make it sound. i mean it could be way worse, look at what people like him are trying to do to video games. although i have to admit it is something that needs to be nipped in the bud before it grows to such a scale.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
@ Авиалегкобыстрый автомобиль: Очень приятно
Also, needs more spam comments like this
January 18th, 2009 at 4:16 am
@Everyone using an alien language: What the heck is this? It’s like you guys are using some kind of zorgon dialect.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Oh my, what a complete and utter moron, although I feel that word woefully inadequate a term to describe the twit.
I mean you can’t even really call the man a journalist after reading that drivel and was his editor smoking or drinking something when they gave the okay to publish that?
Or maybe the standards are just really low for MSNBC. If you’re going to write about something in a negative or even a positive manner you better have done your reading and got your facts straight.
Looks like he might have read a few wiki articles and just tried to string some terms together, because it really does seem he has no idea what he’s talking about.
Its not all pron and fanservice. *Pats her newly complete VF-25G, now on to build Luca’s fighter…
Oh I dread to think what he would have made of Eden of The East and Johnnies! XD