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INTEREST: Megan Fox Would Love a Live-Action Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing

enurtsol wrote:

This has been known many years ago from an old Seventeen Magazine interview:

But then for her to state in this recent interview that she isn't sure how popular Sailor Moon was just contradicts all that.

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Y'know who's also a fan of Sailor Moon?

isn't that Kirsten Dunst? At lease she voiced an anime, and did an AMV in Akiba.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uaHSB0pP7M

Nobody has to "prove" they're a "real" fan of anything. That's childish and exclusionary.

InuKag1 wrote:

I think its cool she's into anime, I would have never guessed

This. Plus, how many Hollywood personalities out there who are able to name any anime outside Ghibli stuffs?

1. I don't think her Pacific Rim comment was meant to say, "Pacific Rim follows the story of Gundam Wing, and obviously is thematically similar to Gundam Wing." I think she just meant to say that Pacific Rim is a recent movie that did the giant robot thing-- which to a lot of EW readers who might not know what Gundam anything is, that might help them understand that comment.

Had she not mentioned Pacific Rim, I guarantee you someone would've said, "UM WELL they did do giant robots with Pacific Rim soooooo."

2. There's nothing wrong with liking mainstream anime, especially if that's what you're exposed to. And this applies not only to Megan Fox, but just people in general. This "So-and-so isn't a real fan of [this genre] because they only like [these shows]" has been going on since the birth of fandom. It's so old.

Quite frankly, calling it "name-dropping" for someone to say, "I like these shows, I would love to see a movie" is silly. Lot of so-called "real" anime fans like Gundam Wing and Sailor Moon. This goes back to the elitism that runs rampant in so many fandoms. "This person is such a CASUAL. It's okay for us to like Sailor Moon and be excited about a remake, but only within the narrow confines of what we've deemed is acceptable to be excited about Sailor Moon; everyone else is a poser."

Nobody has to "prove" they're a "real" fan of anything. That's childish and exclusionary.

1. I don't think her Pacific Rim comment was meant to say, "Pacific Rim follows the story of Gundam Wing, and obviously is thematically similar to Gundam Wing." I think she just meant to say that Pacific Rim is a recent movie that did the giant robot thing-- which to a lot of EW readers who might not know what Gundam anything is, that might help them understand that comment

Nobody has to "prove" they're a "real" fan of anything. That's childish and exclusionary.

Do you guys put the fedora's on before or after making your forum posts?

What is with you Evatologist a-holes who can't accept that Gundam is one of the influences for Pacific Rim? ANN even wrote a story with a [url=/interest/2013-08-11/pacific-rim-director-visits-odaiba-life-size-gundam-in-video]link[/url] where GDT himself says as such. You're just bitter because your emo porn mass-merchandise show has become a joke, and no one cares about it any more.

Just cause it was influenced by it doesn't mean it's anything like it, though Most western media influenced by Japanese media don't really capture the essence of what they're borrowing from. At the end of the day these works are written by Americans and oozing with American sensibilities and aesthetics.

Keep her talking. Every time she opens her mouth she shows the world how dumb she is.

Gundam Wing is nothing like Pacific Rim. And Wing is over, why do you think Sunrise keeps returning to Universal Century Gundam.