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Hey, Answerman! - So Long, Suckers!

You know, I remembered hearing about this title back when our lolicon wars were raging, but I never really looked it up; your synopsis there doesn't mention how old the Rin character is, so I had to look it up.

She's in 3rd grade. And apparently this manga is pretty popular with the loli crowd so I have to assume it's unsubtle about what the point of the whole thing is.

Barf.

While I can't possibly endorse this release - the whole concept makes my flesh crawl - so far, not even the hardcore gay porn you find in manga aisles has managed to cause any kind of a stir. This is - I think, anyway - the first lolicon title that's explicit enough to be released here with shrinkwrap, so the potential for danger is probably higher than it is with Yaoi manga, but for right now I'm not sure I'd be panicked about this release.

Is it gross and wrong? Yes. Do I wish Seven Seas would just leave this particular Pandora's Box alone and maybe consider not releasing comic book kiddie porn? Of course. But they will anyway. Maybe we'll get lucky and nobody will buy it and they'll stop barking up the pedo tree, but for now, we just have to hold on and hope that this is silently put into only a few markets, disappears, and is then never heard about again.

The whole "Brain"/"Brian" thing reminds me of that episode of Pinky and the Brain wherin Brain competes on a game show and the host refers to him as "Brian".

Narf.

penguintruth wrote:

The whole "Brain"/"Brian" thing reminds me of that episode of Pinky and the Brain wherin Brain competes on a game show and the host refers to him as "Brian". Narf.

Or Family Guy when Peter and Brian are in a dog show and the announcer refers to Brian as Brain.


Also, I'm happy that the suggestion that Brian pick up on Answerman had such a positive result. Sure it'll be a little strange at first, but new perspectives will be interesting.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said that today's fans do sometimes have problems but that the things you mentioned were hardly unreasonable. You'll notice this stuff which you're bringing up now (which I'll agree clearly is unreasonable) differs greatly from your original complaints. Sure, there are definitely people out there who want the industry to collapse. They're idiots. There have always been idiots though. Even back in the "good old days". So please, despite your anger, take off the rose colored glasses, have a scotch, and chill out. It seems to work for Zac.

To his credit, Zac took the high road and moved our discussion to PM's. I stopped reading his Answerman column regularly because I felt it was too focused on bashing those who were too young and foolish enough to know better.

For the shift toward libertarianism, I'd blame/credit fandom moving onto the internet; it's a lot easier to be exposed to minority viewpoints via the internet, so the people who would be sympathetic to libertarians' arguments are more likely to be exposed to them.

Conservative, though, I don't know. I suppose you could say that anime still portrays a "conservative" mindset in some ways, e.g. the whole Yamato Nadeshiko archetype.