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Man calls girlfriend a pig for not looking like his anime crush

• So we imagine the woman, who posted her story on website Kazoku Channel, was already feeling a bit of pressure when she found out her boyfriend was smitten with the orange-tressed anime pirate. She couldn’t have felt any better when her boyfriend told her that, in his mind, Nami’s body was what he thought the standard for a woman’s figure should be. “I told him there aren’t any real women with those proportions!” she recalls.
  
  The boyfriend refused to give up on his fantasy, though, and one day showed his girlfriend a collection of pictures he’d found of foreign women who were indeed built like his anime crush. “He said I was a pig, that I didn’t try hard enough, and that I had the body of a lazy person. I may not look like a model, but at 160 centimeters tall and 53 kilograms (5 feet 3 inches and 117 pounds), I’m not fat, either.”
  
  Needless to say, this didn’t sit well with the woman. “It’s a dirty way to do it, but I decided that he might come around if I made him feel the same way.” Adopting similar tactics, she armed herself with issues of three manga series: Fist of the North Star, Jungle King Tar-chan, and Otokojuku.
  
  “Every time he’d look at Nami and say, ‘This is how a girl’s gotta be,’ I’d look at [Fist of the North Star antagonist] Raoh and say the same thing right back.”
  
  The girlfriend hoped that through voicing such excessively high physical expectations, her boyfriend would come to understand how she herself didn’t like being put in that position. Fighting fire with fire tends to just give you a bigger fire, though, and one day he snapped. “Shut up!” she remembers him yelling. “Men and women are different, and you’re the one we’re talking about now!”
  
  While laughter seems like a pretty appropriate response to this hissy fit, the situation’s comedic potential only lasted until the boyfriend decided to punctuate his remarks by hitting her. Thankfully, he lacked the brute strength of the musclebound manga characters the woman had made a point of overtly ogling and she wasn’t seriously injured, though she now found herself wondering just why she should continue dating her boyfriend.

Like that.

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Rec.arts.anime.creative

I've known a few who'd later on become published authors of their own stories (with nods to anime/manga refs of course).

Ali07 wrote:

I think that there are a couple of things that do contribute. Like you already mentioned, the hours of work you hear when it comes to Japanese workplaces does seem like a lot. I've heard about bosses being happy when they see their employees sleeping, because that means that they'll be working more hours of the day after having a nap.

That...sounds cruel in a way depending on how you look at it, or it could just be a way for bosses to punish their employees for sleeping on the job.

By the way I finally found the video that talks about it. More like videos.

As to whether I would get confuse by the story I would have to see for myself when I watch it. I'm not going to look into discussion of this show in the hopes that one day I would enjoy the story entirely, so I don't want to risk getting spoil. Speaking of which I fully decided that I would still get the anime.

That's just what I've heard. Apparently, it's seen as a sign of dedication.

Huh, the guy sounds like he is from New Zealand. Never heard of this site before...

...but that was some interesting watching. His thoughts on romance in anime are pretty much the same as mine.

He's is so right when it comes to zombies. I don't care where they came from, I just want to see how the characters survive. Thing is, I do feel like the analogy falls a part a bit as most zombie movies reach a conclusion, where (to me) it seems like most romance/harem anime don't reach a conclusion when the overarching plot is the romance.

But, I guess that we aren't meant to see his analogy that way. It isn't meant to be viewed in a way where you take the endings into account. We're meant to view it from the point of there being something lacking in the overall story that the audience doesn't mind ignoring.

I won't get started on fan service...

Oh, of course. I was merely talking about the confusion because I did get a bit lost while watching it. I would look at the discussion of the episode if I felt confused, only because some would explain parts well enough (without spoiling) where it helped me grasp something better than if I were to try and work through things on my own.

Some of the mythology might've been lost to me if I hadn't done so.

And, I hope you enjoy it. I did, for the most part, but I think that the fact they left one book out of the adaption will always irk me.