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When you’re a 14 year-old anime fan, and you hear that an Anime movie has won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, followed by an insane amount of hype, you can’t help but feel a little excited. You watch the trailer, and think: “Wow, this must be amazing! I can’t wait to see it!” A few years later, you finally get to watch it. It… doesn’t hold up. …This was supposed to be an awesome movie, right? Then why do you feel like you’ve been cheated? You rent it, and watch it again – twice. Maybe you just didn’t “get it” the first time around. …But no. You don’t get anything from the experience but an empty void. There was something there, but it was so vague and lost within itself it just evaporated before you could grasp it. The story is thin, most characters are either pointless or plot devices, and, to top it off, the ending (before the credits, I mean) is a downer.
It is with my deepest sorrow, thus, that I state: I hate Spirited Away with a passion.
Okay, granted, part of my hatred for this movie might come from all the hype thrown at it. I just don’t think it lives up to it, outside of its artistic value, but people seem intent on simply not finding any flaws in it, just endlessly praising it to the ends of the Earth. It probably doesn’t help that I found out it was up against Disney’s Lilo And Stitch and Treasure Planet for the Oscar. Pixar wasn’t in the competition that year, so it was the one chance Disney had at the Best Animated Feature award. One chance, two movies, both good, and both movies lost. To this.
Man, it had no Gokus, no fireballs, no katanas, no nothin’! It was the worst anime I ever saw. Courtesy of the TvTropes.com forums.
It seems the LeetStreet Boys’ claim to being internationally recognized has some weight to it. It takes a very special kind of person to be so awkward that a Japanese TV network would come to do an interview just so they could make fun of him too.
YOUR WRONG LOL
No other words could’ve set a better tone for this video.
Manga University is apparently one of the many companies responsible for flooding your bookstores with How to Draw Manga DESU! and Learn Anime Japaneseu! books. Apparently they decided to try making an anime web series based around learning Japanese.
The episode is pretty terrible, but you have to give them credit for openly acknowledging their main customer base is full of ignorant kids that obnoxiously fetishize a foreign culture.
Anime Forum Roleplaying Posts
by Glenn on November 20th, 2011 at 9:21 pm, under Image, Text
Pretty much every anime forum has some kind of subforum dedicated to nothing but roleplaying. In these hugboxes, fat smug nerds can let their inner pre-op catboy Goku roam free and pretend to be something other than simply another suburban keyboard warrior. Let’s take a look at the epic tales these master storytellers are writing. (continue reading…)
VenusAngelic: Everything Terrible Rolled Together
by Glenn on October 30th, 2011 at 4:14 pm, under Image, Text, Video
Most of you have probably seen the previous video of VenusAngelic, where she basically becomes the worst thing in the world for two minutes and eight seconds. Unfortunately, the rabbit hole on this girl goes far deeper.
She's fucking 18 years old
Apparently she maintains her own website, complete with its own Facebook fanclub filled with sperglords that fantasize her as their anime dream girl come to life. According to her site bio, she has no Asian ancestry, but apparently grew up “Japanese” because:
Q: When did you get interested in Japan and why?
A: I raised with it – my mom cooked mostly japanese. It seemed usual for me, being interested on Japan. We also looked to Japanese movies on TV and slept on futon.
There are a few explanations for something like this. In going from most likely to least likely:
1.) She’s bullshitting to try and give herself some minor pass to act like a spergin weeaboo
2.) Her mom is also a spergin weeaboo
3.) Her mom had some exposure to Japanese culture and tried to integrate it into her own daily life
Her website is where she primarily places up all her blurry cosplay pictures and even has a shitty memory card game consisting of pictures of her. Considering how many down votes her videos get, I’m pretty sure she gets a ton of shit talkers posting comments and sending her emails. This has probably caused her to try to reinforce her retarded image of herself by insisting everyone be nice and only send her nice questions/comments.
IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT ITS MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE.
Her videos seem to only consist of two different categories: Bad make up tutorials about how to look more kawaii Japaneseu desu ^_________________^ and these vlog type videos where she basically repeats as many anime catchphrases and gimmicks as she can in her hideous “anime girl’ voice.
Her actual blog isn’t too different either.
This was too much for my chibi stomach! Chewing was diffcult too, because there was a lot to chew! You know, my mouth already hurted! TT_TT But its ok now. ITS OK. At least the burger was really good. To be honest: The burger was better than any McDonalds burger!! And the fries, they were excellent too! Because burger and fries HAVE TO BE TOGETHER!! But, to my disapointment the waitress had to cheat us on 20 cents. OMG. She didnt gave us back the 20cents cash. Donde va a ser mi dineroooooo! We got back our 20cents. Thats important. Thats what counts. Thats the key to success! haha.
Now, I was trying to figure out what exactly about her videos and general persona enraged me so much. At first, I thought that it was because she was literally doing some kind of Asian blackface. She’s putting on some kind of ignorant and perverted idea of how Asian people look and putting on a show as a sperging Japanese person. You know those babies you see named after anime characters by their weeaboo moms? This is what happens when those kids grow up. This is the perfect example of how an 18 year old Naruto Goku Smith would share their anime heritage with the world.
I realized in the end that I hated this shit because it bubbled up everything wrong with the anime fandom as a whole to the surface. She was fetishizing a culture, turning it from another unique group of people and culture into some kind of warped identity and fashion statement. She was one of many that had no first hand experience with Japanese culture and only consumed tons of shitty pop culture from it, thinking that acting like a retarded anime girl is how Japanese people are supposed to act. She is the alpha and omega of weeaboos.
KingdomHeartsFrantic: Return of the Sperg
by Glenn on October 2nd, 2011 at 8:47 pm, under Image, Text, Video
I thought we’d take a look back and see what KingdomHeartsFrantic has been doing lately. After the last article about him, he came out saying that he only played a character on his youtube channel, claiming he only spent hundreds of dollars on anime paraphernalia for his show, and his multiple journals and forum accounts were done in character. Luckily, we are not retarded and know that he’s the frumpy ass weeaboo we’ve seen him to be. What has he been sperging about lately though? Well, let’s take a look.
His most recent journal entry deals with his original youtube account (UltimateUKFFFan) being deleted. He has since created a new account (linked above) and promises that, “Things are going to be different now. Things are going to be bigger, things are going to be better. As Legacy’s old theme used to say “It’s a new day, it’s a new generation. It’s a new day. No we never look back, no we’re never lookin’ back.” Think that kind of applies to what’s happened here. So for all future videos please check out: KHFMcAwesome. Keep in mind this channel is still under construction at the moment, so things look a little basic right now. But soon things will be back to the way they used to be… but better!”
Keep in mind that Jack (not John, as originally thought) is now 20 years old. For those of you over 20 years old, what were you doing at that age? If you’re under 20, what do you plan to be doing? Was/is it making this?
I'm gonna hang this on my fridge.
The Final Solution uguu~
They already make comics for pedophiles, so hey, why not? Read it here.
Anime Online Network
by Glenn on September 16th, 2011 at 10:29 pm, under Image, Text
Hey Anime Online Network, what’s up with you assholes!?
Everyone knows Moon Cleaver is the best name
Don't steal the names for my swords from Anime Swords Online!
I insist all my coworkers at Applebee's call me Ronin
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The Anime Reality
I'm definitely addicted, I won't deny it. Anime is my escape from life and depression, without it IDK what I'd do.
