Fandom Lounge's Journal - Day
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
1:38AM - Request for shameful knowledge
This is my first post here, and I regret to say that it is kind of a request for dirty pictures.
It seemed like the place to ask.
I'm in the middle of working on a paper on Chiho Aoshima (literally - it's due tomorrow and this is my idea of a break), and because people don't appreciate art now-er-days, most of the secondary sources I've found are pretty terrible. One of them, an article from a magazine called ARTEXT, references something called "Rape Man," claiming that said exemplary title character is "one of the best-known manga heroes of the past 15 years."
You occasionally see newspaper reporters and people on message boards getting hysterical about "Rape Man" to back up claims about anime/Japan itself/otaku being morally bankrupt, with the details always coming out slightly different - sometimes this is a manga, sometimes it's an anime, sometimes both; sometimes it's straight-up porn, sometimes it's "popular" and "completely mainstream" and "everyone over there loves it," and sometimes "women's groups" got its publisher to drop it (I had a second link for that one, but now I can't find it). The two sources I've found that give it more than one sentence say it's about "a man who rapes uppity women for hire," which does sound plausible enough as a porn premise.
So my question, basically - can anyone point me to any hard evidence that "Rape Man" actually exists? It's obviously not mainstream - I mean, aside from the whole "that's ridiculous" factor, the earliest mention I've found of this was in 1988. Someone in fandom should have heard of it. Realistically, there should be screenshot galleries, a Something Awful feature, an LJ comm, an FF.net category, and a minimum of two wankily competing fansub groups - this just is not the sort of thing that can hide on the internet.
I can buy the "manga getting scrapped and recalled due to consumer outrage" story - that does happen - providing it got scrapped pretty fast. I can definitely buy that there's an obscure porn manga by that title, or even that there are several. So I'm not discounting the possibility. We're talking about the hypothetical existence of a hypothetically dirty comic book in Japan, this isn't exactly free energy and unicorns. I've just never seen any proof that this particular dirty manga is anything but an urban legend.
3:12AM - Just in time for the holidays!
For all you art appreciators out there, the Calamity Carolers of Doom present The 12 isms of Christmas. Brilliant.
10:05AM - Community pimpin'!
A chance remark on my LJ yesterday, along with whimsy and serious procrastination, has led to the creation of the LJ community bish_a_day, the one-stop shopping center for your daily anime/manga/game bishounen-luvin' needs!
Rules in the userinfo, posting access granted mostly by reassuring me you won't be a tool and are there for the fun. And Tuesdays have just been declared Arbitraty Angsty Demon du Jour Days!
Shallow? Of course! Fun? Hell, yes! Come one, come all lotion on the left, tissue on the right!
11:37AM - Some creepy art
As I was browsing the Gallery of the Absurd, I stumbled upon a link for one of my odd interests: crazy-ass vintage cards/advertising. I know it's not even close to Valentine's, but I can't resist. I thus present to you the My Creepy Valentine Gallery!
I'll be your valentine if you promise not to gnaw on my brains after you've stuffed my cold corpse up the chimney
There ain't nothing more romantic than a vaguely threatening monkey
Not only are the voices telling him to beat you to death with those skis, but he seems too happy to see you
What the..? I'm sending this one next year
Hope you enjoy it.
12:12PM - Dude, man, George Takei's coming.
I'm already in misery waiting for the next season to start, so I'm looking for amusing Heroes references in comics to tide me over. Anyone got any they'd be willing to share?
current personal favorite
4:51PM - Is LJ down AGAIN?
I'm having trouble getting LJ to load (if at all). Anyone else having similar issues?
And Neopets is down, too...
EDIT: And they're both back. Yay!
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