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Answerman - Nobody Loves The Weeaboo

I don't know why Japanese people even bother with English sometimes. It's obvious from their less than half-assed attempts at translating that they didn't pay one whit of attention in school. I blame their teachers for not being native English speakers though (and since a few years ago, they've stopped the native English program too, so they have half-baked educators trying to teach a language they don't actually know and have only an inkling about).

Touma wrote:

What usage are you talking about? That little comic that you posted does not give me any context to show what those characters think that "weeaboo" means.

I agree with Touma. Why does everyone keep linking that stupid, and rather crudely drawn, comic whenever the origin of "weeaboo" is brought up? It tells me nothing.

Top Gun wrote:

I'm still firmly of the opinion that much of the responsibility of Monster's lack of success lies on Viz themselves.

I have the same opinion. I'm not sure what happened to Viz over time, but it didn't take long for me to realize buying products from the company's collection would end up incomplete.

I take some responsibility for Monster. It's a great show, but I didn't buy it because it was licensed by Viz.

I usually don't advocate a licensor close up shop, but Viz needs to. It's unfair for the employees and fans to license a product then use a "test the waters" method on sales while trickling out product.

It's impossible to say Monster would have been a success if it were released at once, but it's difficult to ignore its sales were affected by this method of previous titles.

I've got a question for everyone. What's a weeaboo? I have no idea what that is.

Ummm,Jajanken. I'm not trolling,just asking a question. Nothing more,nothing less than that.

Snomaster1 wrote:

I've got a question for everyone. What's a weeaboo? I have no idea what that is.

? Read the second half of the article first sentence. Or are you trolling?

I did read the article,mdo7. I just didn't know what the term meant.

Thank you,Touma,for at least answering my question. I appreciate that. As for you,EricJ2,I'm not trying to get on your nerves. I just asked a question of everyone,mostly because I had no idea what a weeabo was. Could it be that I was merely asking a question because I had no idea what a word was and I wasn't doing it to get under your skin?

[...]Monster is doing well (of course), but not because of anyone overseas: Australian and New Zealand fans are kicking this one to the front of the field.

I think those 18+ stickers Viz puts on anything with even the slightest hint of mature content might have played a part in Monster tanking, as Viz has yet to understand that 18+ does not equal mature content, it equals hentai.

Teens who were interested couldn't buy because of the 18+ sticker (including myself). I'm sure a fair amount of people were turned off by the 18+ and expected it to be hentai.