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Hey, Answerman! [2007-07-06]

Zac, you liked Veronica Mars? I really don't see why people liked it. I lways thought it was an inferior Nancy Drew copy anyway. I watched a few episodes and decided I've seen better and it wasn't for me.

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If anyone I knew said they liked guro, it'd be a red flag, look out, future serial killer here

Yep, just like everyone that goes out to watch horror movies (and then rants and raves about how awesome it was when *insert character*'s blood spurted for several feet) turns into a mass murder.

Ugh.

Xyex wrote:

Yep, just like everyone that goes out to watch horror movies (and then rants and raves about how awesome it was when *insert character*'s blood spurted for several feet) turns into a mass murder.

Er, the guys I see online going on and on about "the kills" in movies like Hostel and were upset that there was no brutal murder/rape in The Hills Have Eyes 2 are nearly as creepy as someone who's really in to guro.

Theres a big big difference between extreme violence and guro. Though its kinda concerning, most people find violence cool. Idunno if thats a good thing but Its fairly common. Whats not common is the combination of violence and sex. I wouldnt say anyone who is into guro is a "future serial killer". For starters, Future Rapist would be more approprite. But more importantly, just because you like guro, it doesnt mean you will turn into a killer/rapist. However I have no problem making the blanket statement: If you get off to guro there is definitely something wrong with you and you probably should get some therapy.

Others produce ero guro as a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfiguration, violence, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces.

However, if it's going beyond that, you're in trouble. If, once the credits roll on the final episode of Lucky Star, you find yourself sitting alone in a dark room, beads of sweat rolling down your pallid visage as your teeth clatter on the unforgivingly cold barrel of a 9mm handgun while you panic inside, wondering if a world with no new Lucky Star episodes is a world you want to live in, your trigger finger twitching ever closer to its final destination, whispering to you the sweet promise of sending a glorious bullet through your synapses and splattering your consciousness all over the Haruhi Suzumiya wallscroll behind you... yeah, you should probably see a doctor about that.

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Theres a big big difference between extreme violence and guro. Though its kinda concerning, most people find violence cool. Idunno if thats a good thing but Its fairly common. Whats not common is the combination of violence and sex. I wouldnt say anyone who is into guro is a "future serial killer". For starters, Future Rapist would be more approprite. But more importantly, just because you like guro, it doesnt mean you will turn into a killer/rapist. However I have no problem making the blanket statement: If you get off to guro there is definitely something wrong with you and you probably should get some therapy.

But not all guro is violent. Or even extreme. Sure, you've got beheadings and crap, but you've also got pieces that the average person would call beautiful and peaceful, if not for the slit wrists or ligature marks on the neck. And not all Guro involves rape, pain, or death either. It's a much bigger, much broader genre than people seem to realize.

Also, regarding an earlier comment, you can never have enough Logan.

Xyex wrote:

Quote: Theres a big big difference between extreme violence and guro. Though its kinda concerning, most people find violence cool. Idunno if thats a good thing but Its fairly common. Whats not common is the combination of violence and sex. I wouldnt say anyone who is into guro is a "future serial killer". For starters, Future Rapist would be more approprite. But more importantly, just because you like guro, it doesnt mean you will turn into a killer/rapist. However I have no problem making the blanket statement: If you get off to guro there is definitely something wrong with you and you probably should get some therapy. But not all guro is violent. Or even extreme. Sure, you've got beheadings and crap, but you've also got pieces that the average person would call beautiful and peaceful, if not for the slit wrists or ligature marks on the neck. And not all Guro involves rape, pain, or death either. It's a much bigger, much broader genre than people seem to realize.

Well, I'll admid I've never read any guro. To be truthful I hadent even heard of it until today. You probably know more about it than me. But by its definition it would seem that unless it contains that kinda stuff it isnt guro. Are you saying that this definition is innacurate?

I agree with Fiction Alchemist. I remember watching Trigun and Cowboy Bebop (before they were on adult swim) when I was still pretty new to anime. I started to feel as though the last DVD of any given series was deliberately arranged to break my heart into little pieces. I've seen a lot more anime since then, of course, but it does seem that something tragic will happen in the last four episodes of a series that I really like.

So would and example of ero guro be the manga Remote?