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Hey, Answerman! [2008-05-09]

What's that other anime next to PPGZ?

And dormcat beat me to the PPGZ pic. That series single-handedly put to rest the "Japanese do everything better" mentality.

I predict one of the answer to next week answerfans will be Naruto.

This week's Answerfan replies proved to be as laughable as I predicted last week. And I can only imagine the sad iconoclastic attitudes those submitting for next week's will have. I hope Zac is bracing himself for a slew of rants against Evangelion, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Haruhi, Gurren Lagann, and perhaps even Cowboy Bebop. After all, if something is extremely popular, it must be overrated garbage, am I right?

I expect at least one Tang joke, the use of the term "emo" (the most intellectually devoid charge assigned to any person or work within the past decade), a declaration of how the manga version of whatever title was better, and some suggestion that "if the fans of [X] weren't so annoying, I'd like it more".

That being said, I would likely nominate one of the barrage of popular moe trashfests, like Clannad or Kanon. Or Rumbling Hearts, which is a 2D melodrama based on a porn game. It's as though nobody even cares about plot or originality any longer.

On the subject of 4Kids, I can understand the anger over how drastically they cut and edit certain programs, but let's face it - One Piece was basically the same show even in its horrible treatment. It's just generic shonen fare for children, which is how it was treated. As for Pokemon, they did rather a good job adapting it for Western audiences, despite a few stumbles here and there. In fact, there are people now rallying to get the old voice actors back, now that 4Kids no longer handles the dub. Ideally, yes, a company should edit anything, but in order to meet the acceptable standards for the target demographic, changes were made. Thus the missing scenes of Kojiro/James' fake breasts and the Game Warden's itchy trigger finger (oddly the only time I've ever seen guns in a show with monsters that can demolish entire cities by turning a corner).

Because using big words makes you better than them.

Submit your own if you feel they're "laughable". Otherwise, respect other people's opinions.

Heck, respect their opinions to begin with.

First, it helps to quote merely the portion of the post with which you wish to comment/respond to. It takes up less space on the page that way.

And second, opinions are fine, but when they're expressed the same way constantly, it gets a little stale. It comes off as not being geniune, as if those opinions were borrowed because they sounded interesting, witty, or controversial.

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First, it helps to quote merely the portion of the post with which you wish to comment/respond to. It takes up less space on the page that way. And second, opinions are fine, but when they're expressed the same way constantly, it gets a little stale. It comes off as not being geniune, as if those opinions were borrowed because they sounded interesting, witty, or controversial.

First, I'm new to the forums and don't really use any. That's my bad.

Second, you don't know when opinions are genuine or not. So what if a lot of people share the same ones? Would you rather have them make up an obscure one to be an alternative JUST to sound different from everyone else? Whether you deem an opinion "genuine" or not, it's still an opinion and people are entitled to have it, even if it doesn't meet your standards.

If your way of expressing your opinion looks exactly the same as everyone else's, you shouldn't bother burdening everyone by sharing it, as if they hadn't ever absorbed that opinion before. If you don't have anything new to say, don't say anything. Otherwise you're just echoing everyone else.

Opinions shouldn't appear to be manafactured.

i think most people agree that they are only really thought highly of in the younger age group (as it was designed to be.)

I predict about 16 million more 'Evangelion' answers.