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ANNCast - Don't hate the Cosplayer, hate the game

And I prefer cute, cuddly animals over loud, exploring kindergartners any day...

Goodfellas was phenomenal. Makes me proud to be Italian. Time to listen to this podcast.

You ever see Chi's Sweet Home? It's cute and annoying simultaneously. No different than the antics of Hanamaru only Chi's a cat and Anzu's a human.

Actually, I would disagree with you on this. Chi doesn't have that extra "nod" to the adults watching that Hanamaru does. Chi is just pure, unadulterated, all-ages cute, and I watched the entire first season with my friends' kids and we loved it. Hanamaru I'm passing on because to me it focuses too much on the "Anzu loves Tsuchi!" discomfort-type humor (aimed at adults) and not just on the (admittedly) very cute kids. It's not something I'd watch with the friends' kids, unlike Chi.

But yeah, when I explain a series like Hanamaru or K-ON to someone, I usually say it's like watching a video of kittens on youtube. If you're into kittens being cute then this is basically the same thing. But I guess you'd disagree with that Zac xD

Pandadice wrote:

But yeah, when I explain a series like Hanamaru or K-ON to someone, I usually say it's like watching a video of kittens on youtube. If you're into kittens being cute then this is basically the same thing. But I guess you'd disagree with that Zac xD

This is starting to get a little frustrating - I said pretty much exactly this on the show, that the appeal of those series must be the same for them as watching animal videos on youtube for me. Are y'all purposefully misinterpreting what I said or do you fly into self-defense mode so quickly that you aren't listening in the first place?

Charred Knight wrote:

I have seen a few at Toonzone, though I will say that if someone only likes one part of a genre than I would hardly call them anime fans. I wouldn't call someone who only watches Blockbuster movies to be a fan of movies. For example while I am a huge fan of mecha series, I am also a fan of shonen series, and more adult action series such as Cowboy Beebop, and Outlaw Star, and even some shojo, and several of the more ecchi series especially Ken Akamatsu's work.

But that doesn't mean you HAVE to watch and like all genres in order to be a fan. Are you saying if you have a dislike for certain aspect that a genre uses often you have to A. deal with it and watch it and force yourself to like it so you can be classifies as a "fan", or B. realize you won't like it and don't watch it and have your "fan" classification stripped?

Good show, I was thinking that I should skip listen this week (which would be only the second time I've done so) because I have very little interest in cosplay. But Charlene got to some points that made this very interesting. I also like listen to fans like myself who can enjoy shows and parts of anime that are often mocked, and Charlene came across as that kind of fan. I also love hearing from people that like Rin as much as me. And its my hope that if successful it will lead to licenses of similar themed shows like Canaan and Garden of Sinners.

Zac wrote:

Pandadice wrote: But yeah, when I explain a series like Hanamaru or K-ON to someone, I usually say it's like watching a video of kittens on youtube. If you're into kittens being cute then this is basically the same thing. But I guess you'd disagree with that Zac xD This is starting to get a little frustrating - I said pretty much exactly this on the show, that the appeal of those series must be the same for them as watching animal videos on youtube for me. Are y'all purposefully misinterpreting what I said or do you fly into self-defense mode so quickly that you aren't listening in the first place?

wait, I think you're misunderstanding me.. I just meant that line in the sense that you personally don't view little kids as you do cute kittens.

it gets better when they throw in the tsundere imouto with the bro-complex xD

Splitter wrote:

Ahaha... once again, Zac (and Bamboo?), you demonstrate you only see anime as a genre and not a medium. You think we have to either like Anime A or Anime B and can't like both. C'mon, guys, leave the animation age ghetto already.

When did we say people can't like both? None of the anime fans I know who became a fan in the late 90s are in to the super cutsey stuff. It's an observation.

You and I have argued a lot and I get the sense you don't really listen for context or nuance, just the bits that reinforce whatever you already thought of me.

Splitter wrote:

Goodfellas was phenomenal. Makes me proud to be Italian. Time to listen to this podcast.

Holy sh** did I read that correctly. Yes Goodfellas has always been my favorite gangster movie. But I don't think that movie displays the positive and good points of the Italian-American culture. Next You're going to praise the D-bags of The Jersey Shore as being fine upstanding representatives of the Italian-American community .