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dandelion_rose
Joined: 12 May 2012
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Location: Kuala Lumpur
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 Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:57 pm
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| enurtsol wrote: |
| agila61 wrote: | |
Given that there is very little significance one way or the other, sympathy for people who have lot work seems a more adult reaction than celebration on the part of people obsessing over old and molding grievances. |
Happens every year during the annual anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. People could decide to celebrate the end of an empire, albeit a military empire hated by Asians, or mourn that lives were lost in the process. Y'know the debates in Asian countries. |
Whoah, way to bring up an Asian Godwin's Law.
*points to my location* Location was affected by the Japanese Occupation. Does not find your comment suitable comparison to the closing of a dubbing company.
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arromdee
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:13 pm
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I don't agree that superhero comics have become mainstream.
It is arguable that superhero movies have become mainstream, but superhero comics? Not one bit. The fact that the studios now have influence on superhero comics in order to make movies doesn't mean that the comics themselves are mainstream.
And about 4kids, if you don't like the Hiroshima comparison, consider the death of Mary Whitehouse, who was a driving force for censorship in the United Kingdom. It was completely legitimate to say "she may have been a nice person and beloved by her family, but her activities hurt the media and I'm not going to be sad that she can't keep on censoring."
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lostrune
Joined: 09 Jun 2012
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:26 pm
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| arromdee wrote: | | I don't agree that superhero comics have become mainstream.
It is arguable that superhero movies have become mainstream, but superhero comics? Not one bit. The fact that the studios now have influence on superhero comics in order to make movies doesn't mean that the comics themselves are mainstream. |
Remember when comic Spider-Man went back to the black suit just in time to cash in on the Spider-Man 3 movie where he gets the black suit?  Comics are desperate to try to catch the movie audience, but they pretty much never do. While it's socially acceptable to go see the new Spider-Man movie with your friends to kill an afternoon, sitting shut up in your room reading tons of back-issues is still geeky. The bad kind of geek, not the mainstream version of geek. 
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Anymouse
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:52 pm
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The fact we have to make that distinction shows how much the lines are blurred. Heck, look at AKB48's popularity as well.
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AmpersandsUnited
Joined: 22 Mar 2012
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:45 pm
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| agila61 wrote: | | The guy who seemed to be imagining that the whole room would erupt in cheers because the people who respond on internet forums about 4Kids are normally the same minority harboring the same moldy old grievances? |
You think people who disike 4kids are the minority? Really dude?
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Chagen46
Joined: 27 Jun 2010
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:04 pm
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| AmpersandsUnited wrote: |
| agila61 wrote: | | The guy who seemed to be imagining that the whole room would erupt in cheers because the people who respond on internet forums about 4Kids are normally the same minority harboring the same moldy old grievances? |
You think people who disike 4kids are the minority? Really dude? |
He's not saying that.
He's more saying that no one cares about 4Kids anymore. Goddamn man, that stuff has gone and left. No use crying over spilt milk.
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Charred Knight
Joined: 29 Sep 2008
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:08 pm
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| AmpersandsUnited wrote: |
| agila61 wrote: | | The guy who seemed to be imagining that the whole room would erupt in cheers because the people who respond on internet forums about 4Kids are normally the same minority harboring the same moldy old grievances? |
You think people who disike 4kids are the minority? Really dude? |
Do people hate 4Kids? Yeah. Were people going to erupt in cheers, while Zac leads everyone in singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"? uh no, the people who do that sort of thing are in the minority.
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TitanXL
Joined: 08 Jun 2010
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:30 pm
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| Chagen46 wrote: | | He's more saying that no one cares about 4Kids anymore. Goddamn man, that stuff has gone and left. No use crying over spilt milk. |
Well, not anyone besides Yu-Gi-Oh fans anyway. That's a bit of a byproduct of how Zexal is (or 'was', I guess) the only current anime they have anymore. Otherwise, sure, all their previous shows are over and gone. It's really just Zexal they have/had left for people to complain about.
(Though there was some DBZ Kai bashing a year or so ago like Blue Mr. Popo or whatever else they did)
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infiltration.cru
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:18 am
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| lostrune wrote: | While it's socially acceptable to go see the new Spider-Man movie with your friends to kill an afternoon, sitting shut up in your room reading tons of back-issues is still geeky. The bad kind of geek, not the mainstream version of geek. |
but it's the morally superior kind of geek. and in the end, we know we will win.
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