Forum - View topicNEWS: GW Bush Campaign Ad Includes... Anime?
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Otakuworldwide
Posts: 3 Location: California |
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you know what would have been funnier then an anime charactor for bush's ad? if he used the yakuza picture from the simpson anyone remembers that? anyways it would have been better if they showed that instead of wolfugi (wolfwood and yugi's love child)
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Zoe
 Posts: 898 Location: Austin |
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Anyway, let's look at the turnouts for anime conventions over the past year. From going over ANN, after looking around the Con reports section, it seems that possibly half a million anime fans go to cons. (estimate here, btw) How many of those can vote? Ehhh, let's say half. [/quote]
Hardly. Only two conventions have gone over 10,000 people. Those (and pretty much all, for that matter) see many multi-con attendees as well as minors and foreigners. Anime fandom isn't as big as you think. |
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brokenx
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if you watch fahrenheit 9/11, you will see that after being informed the trade centers were under attack, george bush silently read a childrens book to himself without doing a thing, until finally exitting the classroom 7 full minutes later.
(p.s., go ahead and ban me) |
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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"Lookit that guy! He's just standing there! He's gonna do something! And you KNOW its gonna be good!" Heh. Anyway, it wasn't really my intention to turn things into a political slapfest - I just saw somebody post something blatantly false and dangit, that sort of thing just doesn't sit right with me. |
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v1cious
 Posts: 6203 Location: Houston, TX |
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hahahahahahahaha this is just [expletive] sad. it really is.
it's even more funny cause Wolfwood is a priest. |
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Spooky Electric
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lol.
That's somewhat racist, no? But then again, they made WW's eyes so big, he can't be Asian. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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If you don't want people to discuss politics, Cookie, then refrain from posting your political viewpoint as some sort of 'last word' and then telling people to not discuss it. You summation here is incredibly flawed and mostly incorrect, and I'd love to go down point by point as to why you are wrong, but as you've so eloquently said, no more political discussion. If you want to stop the politics, say so, but don't end with your own views. That is simply not fair whatsoever. |
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JETBLACK87
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I took a screen capture of the video. I am hosting it on Geocities...which isn't all that great. If a lot of people look at it I could run out of bandwidth. So if somebody had the ability to and would wanted to, could that person host it on a better site?
Here it is: http://www.geocities.com/jetblack_87/wolfwood_yakuza.txt |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Bah, his eyes are so big, he can't even be human, much less a part of a race of humans... 
Time for somebody with a wolfwood avatar to finally step in, you think? 
And with the way the rest of the image was done, it really does look more like a piece of fanart than a simple cut and paste here. |
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Satsuki
 Posts: 14 Location: On the boundary between this world and the next. |
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I'm not going to get into a debate of "the evils of Bush and Kerry" thing, but just comment on the ad:
If Bush was trying to reel in some supporters in the anime community, he really did it the wrong way. Not only using an anime character to represent a yakuza (when the chara isn't even one) and then fussing with it to make it look "evil" is really really stupid. I know that Bush didn't have a direct hand in this ad, but he DID approve of it. Not like we expect Bush to know anything about anime anyway. But I can say this: Bush will get next to no love from the anime community after this. |
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jfrog
 Posts: 925 Location: Seattle |
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Why? No matter what your political beliefs are, I think we can all agree that deciding who you'll vote for because of the use of an anime character in a campaign ad is damn stupid.
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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Somehow I don't think anyone in the political scene cares what the anime community has to say. We're still very much a niche group...and though anime fandom is growing in the States, it's still too small to really mean much in the political race. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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I really don't think Bush had the anime community in mind at all. To say that "Bush is trying to reel in some supporters in the anime community" is off base. Honestly, I think the ad campaign just wanted to show a picture of some Japanese guy without using a real photo to point fingers at. People recognize anime as Japanese, and that's probably why they used it. I don't think ANYONE had the anime community in mind. Plus, saying that Bush won't get love from fandom is silly, too. I certainly have enough respect for anime fans that they wouldn't let their political decisions be swayed by something so stupid as a photoshopped cartoon. If anime fans are going to base their vote off an ad, then that's a sad day for fandom. |
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molloaggie
 Posts: 578 Location: Texas |
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I doubt that the Bush campaign knew that they had authorized a knock-off of an anime character(s) in their ad. They should know it's politically annoying to do that....causes all sorts of weird troubles. Kerry has already had to withdrawl one ad of his. He put an old picture of his military buddies from the war in the ad. The "old buddies" sued because he was using their images and almost none of them support him now.
That shot of the "yakuza", the off-color traditional Japanese sun, and Kerry's bust floating there is just awful!! |
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Abisian
Posts: 1 Location: My head |
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I agree that the ad is lame (please don't send me viruses in my email or something for this opinion
 ) but I still, and always will, think that Kerry shouldn't be in office. (I'm republican  Well, if I could vote I would be)
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