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Just another unfunny bitch ([info]dawnswalker) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-08-06 01:45:00


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Current mood:annoyed
Entry tags:anime/manga, elitism, homophobia, my pretension let me show you it

Some Anime Jump! (To Conclusions) Wank
So poster "Ryouga" at the Anime Jump message boards wants to know more about a series called "Alien Nine". His post references the recent review of said series, written by Christian Nutt, who frequents said messageboard under the handle of "ferricide". Notice that he also bashes Neon Genesis Evangelion while he's at it, calling it "impressionistic bullshit", among other things.

ferricide replies, basically arguing with Ryouga over his opinion of "Evangelion" (yet he still manages to answer the question).

Ryouga won't let the subject die. Neither will ferricide. Others come into the fray!



Ryouga: "No, don't misunderstand me. I do think Eva is utter crap, impressionistic bullshit, intellectual masturbation, etc."

"Wednesday":"But you think Ranma is a work of genius.

I think this basically says everything anyone needs to know about where your tastes lie, and therefore it would surely be prudent for you to confine yourself to male-marketed romantic comedy..."


R: woe is me. cry cry cry, I'll never be able to keep up with such highbrow tastes. Maybe if I watch the works of Osamu Tezuka backwards while dancing on one foot in elephant dung and sipping don perignon I can raise my level of artistic appreciation a few points.

Then later on...

"Why don't we skip the anime talk and just fight in the open. flame on."

From then on out everyone else but Ryouga stops taking it seriously, and just goes to pulling up random GIS results. The dates however, indicate that this could still be a wank-in-progress. Fun for all!


But they do not answer the most important question of all! What would happen if David Cronenberg directed "Cardcaptor Sakura"?! I MUST KNOW!!!!111!!1

Edit: What wank would be complete without accusations of homophobia and the hysterical denial thereof?

Oh, and Mike Toole (the big cheese) knows we're watching. *waves*



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[info]rann
2003-08-06 11:15 am UTC (link)
R: woe is me. cry cry cry, I'll never be able to keep up with such highbrow tastes. Maybe if I watch the works of Osamu Tezuka backwards while dancing on one foot in elephant dung and sipping don perignon I can raise my level of artistic appreciation a few points.

... I dunno, I have a hard time arguing with that great burn. XD

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[info]shoiryu
2003-08-06 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Heh, that one is pretty good.

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[info]rikoshi
2003-08-06 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!

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[info]virago
2003-08-06 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Oh yay, I was wondering when someone would find some Eva wank. Its fans can be so damn touchy, probably worse than any other anime I've seen - possibly anything I've seen.

That, and:

>>"But you think Ranma is a work of genius.

I think this basically says everything anyone needs to know about where your tastes lie, and therefore it would surely be prudent for you to confine yourself to male-marketed romantic comedy...">>

God, I'm having flashbacks. This is so very much the anime snob in a nutshell. (Okay, so I've sounded like this on occasion; I'm an ass, and I've repented.)

I'll have to read the whole thread tonight. Eesh.

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[info]rowan
2003-08-06 07:46 pm UTC (link)
I am never, ever, EVER going to a Gainax panel at FanimeCon ever ever again because Eva fanboys are SO CREEPY. *shudders at the memories*

That's pretty much it.

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[info]conchoidal
2003-08-06 10:50 pm UTC (link)
I don't know.. gundam fans are pretty fragile >_

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(no subject) - [info]irk, 2003-08-06 11:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dawnswalker, 2003-08-06 11:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]uniquesnowflake, 2003-08-06 11:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]conchoidal, 2003-08-07 09:27 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2003-08-06 05:19 pm UTC (link)
But they do not answer the most important question of all! What would happen if David Cronenberg directed "Cardcaptor Sakura"?! I MUST KNOW!!!!111!!1

That would be FLCL.

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[info]yadda
2003-08-06 06:51 pm UTC (link)
It makes no sense yet I can't stop watching!

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2003-08-06 06:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rann, 2003-08-07 12:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nita, 2003-08-07 02:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2003-08-07 04:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nita, 2003-08-07 06:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2003-08-07 06:39 pm UTC

[info]feenix
2003-08-07 01:02 am UTC (link)
Another acceptable answer: Excel Saga. Also: I want to have Koshi Rikudo's kids, even though I'm male.

Also: <3

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(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2003-08-07 02:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iris, 2003-08-07 08:34 am UTC

[info]uniquesnowflake
2003-08-06 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Am I, like, the only person on the face of the planet that has never, ever seen even a single episode of Evangelion?

I mean, I don't even need the excuse that I think it's psuedointellectual BS, or whatever. I just think the art for it is really fucking creepy.

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[info]iczer6
2003-08-06 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Well if it makes you feel better I think I'm the only fangirl who hasn't played Kingdom Hearts!

And Eva does manage to reach bold new levels of disturbing.

Also Alien 9 is the type of show you go for if you want the disturbingness of Eva mixed in with bizarrely inappropriate character designs and a female lead that makes eating glass seem like fun.


Icz

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(no subject) - [info]virago, 2003-08-06 08:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]uniquesnowflake, 2003-08-06 11:30 pm UTC

[info]teapotgirl
2003-08-06 08:33 pm UTC (link)
I just watch Eva for the giant robot battles.

Ahh, Robotech...

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(no subject) - [info]eljuno, 2003-08-07 05:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]teapotgirl, 2003-08-08 02:51 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2003-08-06 08:51 pm UTC (link)
Never seen Eva. Don't own a game system. Don't want a game system.

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[info]shoiryu
2003-08-06 10:33 pm UTC (link)
The manga's fairly interesting- not enough for me to declare myself a fan of it, though- and the TV series is, IMO, not too hot. I got bored with a lot of it, honestly.

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[info]rhi_silverflame
2003-08-06 11:17 pm UTC (link)
I haven't watched Evangelion, or played Kingdom Hearts or any FF game . . . but that's because anime really doesn't interest me all that much (translation: I'm too fucking lazy to bother finding some) and I don't own a PS2. (Nor, for that matter, a PSOne. Hell, all I own is a Sega Master System and my GBAs.)

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(no subject) - [info]uniquesnowflake, 2003-08-06 11:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dawnswalker, 2003-08-06 11:41 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rhi_silverflame, 2003-08-06 11:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]uniquesnowflake, 2003-08-06 11:51 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dawnswalker, 2003-08-06 11:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]uniquesnowflake, 2003-08-06 11:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]pradaloz, 2003-08-07 04:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]electricchick, 2003-08-09 02:33 am UTC

[info]nekoneko
2003-08-07 12:52 am UTC (link)
I haven't seen it either. I've had my fill of strange anime with the Utena Movie, thankyousoverymuch. My brain is still healing from that experience.

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(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-07 02:38 am UTC

[info]feenix
2003-08-07 01:07 am UTC (link)
Honestly, you should watch it. You'll probably get over the feelings of squick in a few episodes. (Though, I personally didn't find most of the art creepy, though there were a couple of Eva scenes that still give me nightmares.)

Aside from that...yeah, there's a bad rap from the greasy, unwashed fanboys (which I'll call the Megatokyo effect), but it really is one of the best things you'll see. (Then again, I've watched it subbed. Dubbed, I'm not sure.

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(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-07 02:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]electricchick, 2003-08-09 02:36 am UTC

[info]rikoshi
2003-08-07 02:04 am UTC (link)
My person recommendation:

Evangelion isn't for everyone, I admit. I do think that everyone should watch it at least once, or at least try to watch it, though, because in my opinion, it is a good story. However, I also don't tout it to be the end-all, be-all of anime.

That would be Utena. *snerk!*

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[info]ruaki
2003-08-07 02:15 am UTC (link)
Not like you need more comments about this, but what the hey, I'm annoying.

Heh. I watched Eva a while back in the land before time, never could really see the big deal, but it was entertaining enough. Introduced me to Akira Ishida, possibly the first seiyuu (voice actor) that helped define TEH GAY for me during those budding yaoi-exposure years.

As an aside, RahXephon has prettier artwork, and less of that pseudointellectual/WANK TEH RELIGION feel, so if you're really bored, you can go ahead and watch that and still feel the Eva experience without any of the grease.

Eva does, though, have some really interesting mecha, and that's probably its number one point to me.

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(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-07 02:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2003-08-07 02:39 am UTC
Evangelion is all that - [info]karmakaze, 2003-08-07 03:58 pm UTC

[info]eljuno
2003-08-07 05:27 pm UTC (link)
I've never seen Eva, mostly because I've never been in a position where it was shown, and don't care enough to hunt it down myself.

On the other hand, I love Alien 9, and even slogged my way through the manga (no furigana ughughughno...)

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[info]electricchick
2003-08-09 02:28 am UTC (link)
Don't worry about it. I only started watching it a couple months ago.


Well, okay, so technically I saw part of it at my friend's house when I was 11 but I didn't realize that's what it was until I saw a tape at the video store and made the connection.

I don't think it's as creepy in the series, but in EoE... let's just say it was really, really weird. And I don't get weirded out easily.
But I like the manga better anyway.

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[info]phosfate
2003-08-06 11:00 pm UTC (link)
::waves::

Hi Mike! Hi Prairie! Hi Weds!

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[info]iczer6
2003-08-06 11:24 pm UTC (link)
{If it's number one, then you need to thicken your skin a little. I am straight, I go to Mass every Sunday, I am a registered member of the GOP and a Bush voter, and I am not at all bothered by the fact that several of the manga/anime series I really like are widely percieved as involving homosexuality, mostly because some of them actually do (X, for instance).}

Holy Shit! A straight guy who likes X! I thought they were just myths....



Icz

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[info]uniquesnowflake
2003-08-06 11:27 pm UTC (link)
My friend Jak likes X.

He has a wife, but he also likes Sanrio, so he's debatable.

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(no subject) - [info]rann, 2003-08-07 12:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2003-08-07 12:31 am UTC
Re: - [info]rann, 2003-08-07 12:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ruaki, 2003-08-07 02:17 am UTC
Re: - [info]rann, 2003-08-07 02:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]electricchick, 2003-08-09 02:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]shoiryu, 2003-08-07 01:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]shoiryu, 2003-08-07 01:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]virago, 2003-08-07 05:32 am UTC

[info]uniquesnowflake
2003-08-06 11:35 pm UTC (link)
FERRICIDE: Death by iron will!

Or, also, what happens when you purposefully step on those rusty nails.

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(no subject) - [info]feenix, 2003-08-07 01:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rikoshi, 2003-08-07 02:00 am UTC

 
   
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