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Tenchi
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I have a good one: a picture of girl-type Ranma Saotome in a bikini hiding the Ultramar logo on top of a gas pump in the 1999 music video for the song "L'homme 7:up" by the Quebec band Les Respectables. A mini-poster for Final Fantasy VIII is on the other gas pump. |
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SquadmemberRitsu
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In Mirai Nikki senseless violence and people getting murdered is commonplace and easily brushed over. Sometimes they even attempt to make it look cool. But then it gets to the gangrape scenes and suddenly they focus on it in explicit detail and portray it as something really horrible. I'm not saying that gangrape is 'good' in any way but murder isn't really much better if at all. And in a show where many of the characters you're supposed to sympathise with have murdered countless innocent people for little to no reason it's kind of weird.
That reminds me of a much more recent occurrence. Atelier Totori got a PG rating back when it came out for the PS3 but the Vita port got an R18+ for 'References to sexual violence'. Although on the topic of Lagrange Australia gave Season 1 an M rating and Season 2 a PG rating. Which is much more appropriate than what Viz did in the US. |
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vanfanel
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Anyone else seen the "Nerawareta Gakuen" movie? It demonstrates clearly that J.J. Abrams is still but a padawan learner when it comes to lens flares. |
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Eisenmann V
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Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt is pretty much loaded with references to Western media. |
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vanfanel
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Also from Gainax: FLCL has a couple shots with South Park art. Another example of anime-stuff-in-an-unexpected-place: I was walking down the street in a small, rural-ish town in Japan around 2004, when something caught my eye: an AKIRA movie t-shirt. This was incredibly out-of-place, because almost no one in Japan goes out in anime t-shirts except small children. On top of that, AKIRA was old, old news in Japan by that point. Then my eyes went up to the face of the man wearing it. A foreigner. Yup 
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CatSword
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Yeah, now that the OFLC's got that R18+ for games they seem to want to slap it on everything. For example: Fable, which was rated M just nine years before, got an R18+ on its rerelease for "Sexual activity related to incentives and awards". The award for sexual activity in the game? A baby. Seriously, that's all you get for having sex. 
By that logic, The Sims should be R18+. (Wait, no. Don't give them any ideas!) |
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SquadmemberRitsu
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IIRC the first Fable game was rated MA15+. Still dumb though. Albeit not as dumb as slapping an R18+ on the same game that can be easily been purchased by 8 year olds on another console.
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bigcathead
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In reference to ratings, I used to work support for Netflix (who didn't limit on anime ratings at all). Somewhere out there is some pissed off 9 year old from when I went through his queue with his mom "Yeah Elfen Lied, probably not appropriate for your kid".
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eyeresist
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Does anyone know what this column's title refers to?
Re James Franco's body pillow in 30 Rock, I assume it was an original design for the show, but being "crappy looking" doesn't make it inauthentic. I remember watching a documentary about Japanese sex dolls, and one guy's doll (which he took to the park for photo sessions and claimed to be in love with) was awful, like a bad imitation of a bad 80s chibi idol, in yellowish ageing rubber. Anyway, the body pillow didn't look nearly as awful as that. Possibly James Franco (TV version) was just incurably old-school in his tastes. 
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mierin
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Talking about seeing anime pop up in unexpected places...
I once watched a ladies gymnastics competition a few years ago where one of the gymnasts used anime BGM for their floor exercise routine. If I'm not mistaken it was Tsubasa Chronicle's Break the Sword of Justice. I was really into Kajiura Yuki at that time, and I was a big fan of the Tsubasa manga (though not so much the anime), but I instantly recognized the song being played 
Was not expecting to hear that tune in a sports competition. And the gymnast wasn't from Japan, I think she was European. Last edited by mierin on Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:54 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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EyeOfPain
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He let his waifu go out in public in just her underwear? Kumiko should have at least worn a trench coat or something decent! |
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YeNguyen
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In Pitchforky music circles, I'd say that one of the most famous outside-of-anime-culture anime references is the cover of punk rock band Big Black's masterpiece, Songs About F**king (the original title isn't censored). You can see that album cover here on Wikipedia (SFW).
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yuna49
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When you posted this I realized that very item was sitting on the shelf in my living room! Also on the subject of ratings, I'm especially puzzled by the "M" rating given Dennou Coil in Siren's release. This is a show about ten-year-old kids that was produced by NHK for its Educational service and aired in family-viewing timeslots. Whatever "violence" there is takes place in a virtual reality world, and none of it is gory or excessive. What the heck is "M" about Coil? It would be sad if this rating deterred parents from buying a beautiful show about children and technology. |
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Polycell
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omiya
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Hehe... some of Yuki Kajiura's music was also used in the Beijing Olympic games. I'd still recommend seeing Yuki Kajiura live - YK Live vol. #10 "Kaji Fest" was a great 5 hour / 53 song long show: http://canta-per-me.net/live-events/2013-yk10-kaji-fest |
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