Forum - View topicHey, Answerman! [2006-01-13]
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Maceart
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Rori's kick ass, Stellvia was a good anime, I, My, Me Strawberry Eggs was as much rori as Stellvia. Of course, the king of all rori anime is Ichigo Mashimaro.
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shirokiryuu
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but.. but how about all those japanese teenagers in those Japanese street clothing books? Majority of them have piercings, (and many on other places like noses)... or maybe these are just delinquents? I kinda doubt it... |
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Shii
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Anime companies show up at Comiket, too. |
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Sam-I-Am
Posts: 121 Location: Midwest US |
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I've got the LOTR 37 disc super-extended collectors set, and somewhere early on Jackson mentions that the shot of a hobbit at the birthday party, sitting back with his feet up, correcting Bilbo's 'Proudfoots' to "ProudFEET!" is the only deliberate homage to Bakshi in the entire trilogy. Jackson was aware of the Bakshi version, but other than that one shot, chose to draw his inspirations elsewhere. |
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The Xenos
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Well that was an interesting column.
Let's see, on cons, does anyone know where Anime Boston stands? Lord knows we've done much better since moving out of the hotel it first was in. I was actually there today for a smaller SF / Fantasy con. Yet somehow I STILL ran into three, count them, THREE damn crappy Inuyasha cosplayers. Mighta been four. There weren't too many cosplayers / anime costumers there, but there were three damn Inuyashas. I did see a State Alchemist and I think Anthy and Utena though. Anyway, as for Otakon and Baltimore, I kinda don't like the city. Or maybe I should say I don't like it after like 7pm as jsut aobut everydamn thing is closed. Plus, no offense to them, but the homless population seems awfully high, though it might be that section of the town. The town seems dead at night, at least that area, where in comparison I'm used to Anime Boston being in a typical college town with stuff staying open and lively much later. As for Starship Troopers Roughnecks, I was going to add that they were Canadian as they were done by Mainframe, but I checked and that assumption was wrong. It was done by a US production compnay. They also did the excellent "Men in Black: The Series" and "Extreme Ghostbusters". They currently are doing The Boondocks. Then there's the rori. I like saying it that way so I can follow it up with "So rori and sadly arone." One of my roomates has also gotten into singing that version of the Team America song. We do that until we yell at each other or ourselves to stop. Anyway, yeah, it is kinda creepy. At the same time, I will fight tooth and nail for loli overtones in series and even lolicon hentai. Now this isn't just because, I admit, sometimes I like it if done tastefully. I also don't belive any fantasy and fictional book or image should be banned. It's not like child porn where it is criminal as actual children were used in a sexual act and recorded. That is disgusting. No, this is fiction. This is one issue I've very liberal on, that fiction should never be banned or forced to censor (save for public showings). I almost bought an old copy of a faovrite book Fahrenheit 451 today, but my friend who found it go it. That book and others has instilled in me that no book, particularly of fiction, should be banned. Ok, I may be a bit ranty on this issue, but the damn Bush administration has me scared. Though they already have basically banned lolicon hentai in Canada. Plus we have Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton and way too many people complaining about video games corrupting children and people and calling for censorship. I can only imagine what happens when these people discover what's in many manga. Between stuff like Berserk (which does have underage sex as well as the gore) and shonen-ai manga and yaoi hentai the fangirls gobble up, I can only imagine the bombshell it will be when the decency thought police find out about them. I think you can blame Brian Wood for some of this paranoia. I read his Channel Zero books, the first of which was done before Bush was in office, which is about how the conservative right took control of the government and started passing opressive laws on decency. -Xenos |
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kopiikat
Posts: 29 Location: a realm of subtitles and bad dubbing |
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Actually, they kind of are. Not that they're doing anything morally wrong, but it's just that practically no one dresses that way. This was proven in a class I had this semester with half Japanese and half American students. When an American professor showed pictures from Fruits, the Japanese students were completely confused. The American image of Japanese street fashion is skewed towards what a few select people might wear to Harajuku for fun, but what they probably wouldn't wear anywhere else. A few years ago, more fashion (namely, the gyaru/gal fashion trend) included bright colors and eye-catching details, such as large earrings, but lately, this is rare. Right now I am sitting in a college computer room in Kyoto, (college students don't have to wearing uniforms, remember,) and a lot of the girls aren't wearing earrings. More attention seems to be paid to cute necklaces, shoes, and hairstyles. A few girls dress with hip-hop influences, and those girls like to wear hoop earrings and hats, etc. This isn't to say that no one wears earrings, but that they aren't usually a very important detail in an outfit. Popular hairstyles tend to cover the ears anyway. As for the animation, yeah, it's probably just a matter of it being annoying to animate. |
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Joe Mello
 Posts: 2264 Location: Online Terminal |
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I guess all in all, Japanese fashion is varied like American fashion.
Intentional or not, that was a funny line. Okay, here is my opinion on gothloli and moe-tan and the whole works (Yes, I'm probably going to make a blanket statement). I am a very conservative person. I don't drink, smoke, dress weirdly, or do anything that could violently kill me. Actually if it weren't for anime, I'd probably be as dull as a rock, but I digress. Most of my friends dress on the conservative side as well, but that's not why they're my friends; it's because of their demeanor and personality (which could be redundant). If they wanna look all emo and dark and look as if they want to cut themselves, that's fine. They might get an eyebrow raise and a concerned look on my face, but I know their true personality and shake things off. However, if someone were to get all up in gothloli or moe et. al and have the personality to match, then I'd be truly uncomfortable. Like I said, I'm conservative, and while I may like people who aren't like me than I, there is a limit to how far they can deviate. The same things apparently goes for me with anime. Sure, I can dig a sugar-spouting huggable cutie as much as the next guy, but when they have a personality that's particularly off-putting or is designed to please the Lowest Common Denominator, then there's a problem. That's why I prefer Miu over Ren, Suseiseki (the one that doesn't crossplay) over Shinku, the UFO Valkyrie catgirls over Chii and why Paranoia Agent disturbed the hell out of me. |
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Mohawk52
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Zac, I know you didn't want to do a contest this week, but have you not decided who won last weeks Azumanga screen shot yet then? Wasn't there any decent entries then? I know I was stumped to come up with anything decent, so stayed out. But I was curious what others might have come up with.
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erinfinnegan
ANN Columnist
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It's not just Zac that thinks so - the Otakon staff has been debating a location change, not because they don't like Baltimore, but more or less because they've overgrown the convention center. No one really wants an attendance cap - they want the con to continue to grow. However, most of the permanent staff actually live in Baltimore, and other nearby suitable locations (affordable convention centers + affordable parking) are hard to come by. NYC and DC are pricey, and Boston is what, 8 hours north of Baltimore? The permanent con staff would have to do a lot of driving to attend meetings throughout the year. Anyway, it's an ongoing thing. Otakon 2007 might be very different. |
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jmays
ANN Associate Editor
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Looks like they're finally going to get that new hotel near the convention center. If all goes well, it could be ready for Otakon '08. Of course they said the same thing three years ago.
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linlinchan
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Exactly. I lived in total about 2 years total in Japan (in various cities across the country, but primarily Kyoto and Nara area) and honestly, though I was in the country during the height of the *Fruits* and *Gothloli* "trend," though I visited the shopping areas of Kyoto on an almost daily business, 99% of all young people were dressed very plainly, in dark and muted tones. |
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.Sy
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AX is the largest con of its type in the world? Gee, I never knew that. '__' I always assumed Japan would have a bigger con, or maybe China, with that huge population of theirs.
Y'know, pandas are probably having their homes destroyed by bootleggers...er...forget that part. |
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OneHotAlchemist
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For whoever asked...
Anime Boston 2005 had a total attendance estimated at 7,500 people. That would make it the 4th largest Con in the US when it was being held in 2005. |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10424 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Japan doesn't have anime cons like we do, they have no need for them. Every single thing you go to a con for, Japan already has without the con. They do have festivals (ie: TIFF), trade fairs (ie: TAFF) and most importantly, doujinshi conventions. The doujinshi conventions, particularly Comiket, can be huge. Comiket attracts over 300,000 attendees, ten times as many as Anime Expo. -t |
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CptNerd
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Kind of off-topic, but I don't know how else to do this.
Zac, I'm the guy who won the Robotech caption contest, and I haven't gotten the box set yet. I replied to your email back before Christmas where you wanted my address, but I didn't hear back from you. I sent you mail this morning, but I don't know if you got it. Can you check to see if your spam filter is trapping my email, or if you got the email, can you reply? I have no other way of knowing if you're receiving my email. I'm beginning to wonder if the "Answerman" prize is like the old Marvel "No-prizes"... 
Andrew Diseker |
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