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Sister Psychosis (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bohicamouse) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2004-10-01 00:21:00 |
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| Current mood: | Happy-Dance |
| Entry tags: | anime/manga, think of the fictional children |
Won't someone think of the fictional children?
Googling fansites earlier I found wank--old wank, but priceless wank nonetheless.
Negima! is the latest manga series by Ken Akamatsu of Love Hina fame, and it's . . . not for everyone. The speculation begins back in November, before the series had been released over here.
Someone innocently asks whether anyone's heard of it and what they think of it.
Response is lukewarm to positive until Snoopy jumps in with "I say it's evil. It's like his old gangbang card captor sakura dojins revisited." Okay, fair enough, not everyone is going to like a vaguely romantic-comedy series starring a 9-year-old boy. The thread dies for a few days until someone asks again whether anyone knows anything about the series, and Snoopy immediately chimes in with "I'm curious as to whether or not you've been previleged enough to see his doujins. You know. The child porn ones."
Discussion of loli-con ensues, including people asking what it is and others trying to explain to them that it's not ACTUALLY child pornography. Snoopy disagrees, uh, kinda?
Oh come on. Loli-con is different from child porn in the same way that hentai is different from adult porn. The only two things that are different is that it's 'art' and that it's legal. And that's pretty much it.
And people always bring up the past because the past matters. When I heard he got married, I freaked out 'What if he has a KID...!?' If Negima hadn't been based on the love affairs of a 10 year old boy, then no, I never would have brought up his CCS hentai doujins. But being that Negima is about a preteen sex shop, yeah, I bring it up. And yes, I'm exagerating to prove a point.
So the ONLY difference is that no laws are being broken and no children are being hurt. That's not nearly enough, dammit! Also, Negima doesn't actually contain ANY sex or even canon romance involving the main character, but we'll say it does to prove a point!
Then the thread dies. For awhile.
Months later someone ELSE asks if anyone's heard of Negima, and Snoopy pops back in immediately to educate the unwashed masses:
I'm going to say this now. And I won't go into detail since I've done it in every thread ever made regarding any of Akamatsu's mangas . . . Love Hina was crap. Negima's pedofile bait crap . . . Ever since he joined the ranks of people drawing Card Captor Sakura gangbang doujins I've wished death upon him and failure to anything he's ever done. I also hope to god he's sterile.
The thread explodes into wank from there on all sides. The definition of a gangbang, random "you're American, aren't you?" comments are thrown around, Snoopy accuses anyone who likes Ken Akamatsu of being, you know, THE USUAL (college dropout pimply fanboy geek child molester). Elitism involving the GameFAQs board comes up for no apparent reason.
People try to actually talk about the series, but Snoopy continues to interrupt with "everything Akamatsu does is just bait for pedophiles" and when people ask why the fuck he's still around, he reveals that he hasn't read enough of the manga to know what it's like and was wondering why people like it. When people answer him he responds feebly with "BUT I DON'T LIKE IT SO IT SUCKS!" and then runs away for months and months. People proceed to actually wank long-windedly about the series itself rather than the exploitation of, uh, pen and paper.
BONUS: Yesterday, after several months with no mention of Snoopy at all, someone comes in and posts THIS gem which makes it all worth it:
I was reading the first pages 1-5 and I couldn't help but be disturbed by "Snoopy"s words. About 5-70 percent why Japan even has hentai, and mangas like Ken Akamatsu's is because of the high suicide and stress rate Japanese citizens recieve. As the 2nd smartest country in the world, and being one of the words largest technological suppliers and creators, I don't see why we cant save a couple human lives by letting them vent off their rage on fighting video games, and read stimulating manga just so they don't DIE.
Watch this space, folks.
