Forum - View topicAnime News Nina! - 2008-12-03
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Sticks
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 ... LOL... too funny. Well at least we know where Kevin stands.... hehe...
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konkonsn
 Posts: 172 Location: Illinois |
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Besides the fact that Nina has shown nearly no interest in him, that their personalities seem somewhat incompatible for dating, and that Kevin's romantic interest in Nina seems restricted to the surface level... ...I'd have to protest it. Unless Kevin cleaned himself up or showed some other, likable characteristics. It's just nowadays you see this sort of pairing all the time...in Hollywood films and online comics. Total loser manages to score a girl outside of his "class" with few redeeming traits that would make it an acceptable arrangement (think Dani DeVito/Woody Allen movies, Applegeeks, and such reality shows as The Beauty and The Geek). I'd be all for these non-classist pairings if they didn't breed with sexism to produce the monster that is "male entitlement" (and hanging out with a lot of geek guys, I see this pa-len-ty). Basically, you see these pairings in media, you think, "Hey, I have a chance with uber hot girl #4." She turns you down because of class issues, but you don't understand it because movies say there is no classism anymore. Instead of getting mad at classism, you get mad at the girl. Sexism ensues. Here's a nice article on the subject: http://sarahmseltzer.com/geeks.htm |
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TheBigN
 Posts: 62 Location: Somewhere in DC |
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Yay double standards in action! \o\
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Sirenlove
 Posts: 79 Location: Corona,NY |
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to you maybe but most straight guys love that crap it defies logic but it's a what they like |
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Panda Man
 Posts: 257 Location: North Carolina |
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Haha. Pervert.
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Berserkfury819
 Posts: 229 Location: Detroit Mi. Spider-Man is dead. R.I.P. |
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I can't imagine how entertaining it must be to actually talk to you in person.
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Richard J.
 Posts: 3367 Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis. |
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I'm not much for PDAs in general but there's nothing inherently distasteful about kissing for any group of people. Homosexual or heterosexual, it's still just a kiss. As long as it's not not reaching exhibitionist crazy intense levels, why care? I do like the way Kevin's brain went in those last few panels and Paola's "yeah, I know how to manipulate you" expression. You know she brought up the fangirl kissing to get him on-board with the crossplay. Robin: Props for showing that the cast of Nina watches both dubbed and subbed anime. Let them inspire us all to enjoy the camaraderie of shared fandom instead of useless arguments over the ONE TRUE WAY to watch anime. (And please show us more of this Kimidori Story. Seeing the UMD DX bits were awesome in the past.) |
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Zin5ki
 Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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Humbug to this.
Were I to cosplay, I'd dress up as someone genderless or an inanimate object, ergo avoiding such delicate issues. |
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Dark Elf Warrior
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Wow, Kevin is weird. Did you see the look on Paola's face in the last panel?
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Panda Man
Posts: 257 Location: North Carolina |
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Kevin is thinking what most guys would think.
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NamaeX
Posts: 65 Location: The Internet |
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Nah, I think he wants the opportunity to kiss Nina. |
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bglassbrook
 Posts: 1243 Location: Gaithersburg, MD |
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... with the subs on over the dub? To everyone loving how Paola manipulated him, keep in mind, she seems quite enamoured with the idea too ... and not just in the opening Kevin's mind way. |
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Some Guy
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Well I have a 5 page English paper that says that Gender is inseparable from sex and therefor it would still be two girls kissing. If you really went and examined the issue though you would find that there is actually a rather large divide over whether or not the terms "gender" and "sex" are interchangeable or different things. Your comments are a good example of how ambiguous things can actually be though. |
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ShugoYotsuba
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I have to agree on everything you have said some of us actually want to have babies, just when this site couldn't get any weirder and just when I thought there were enough jerks on this site, and as my last and final post on this forum: "I'm in DESPAIR, being outnumbered by gays and horny straight men, has put me in DESPAIR!!!"- Nozomu Itoshiki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) And always watch subs over a dub, and even when watching it subbed I will still have subtitles!! FAREWELL, to you all!! |
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reanimator
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I was looking at one of those cosplay magazines from Kinokunia bookstore and I've noticed male cosplayers on one of the covers. Interesting enough, these male models of the magazine fits the pretty boy look popular with fangirls. They are lean (skinny is probably the better choice of word); they fashion certain kind of Japanese metrosexual hairstyle. Their face is free of facial blemishes (Photoshop, perhaps?) and narrow jaw line make them look like ideal male face that Japanese fan girls adore.
I don't mind women dressed as pretty boy character. After all, aren't those pretty boy characters just feminization of otherwise masculine characters? For a long time, I've been making rants about lack of research and detail behind costumes of Anime/manga/game. Unless these costume makers go 100% professional, it's not going to happen. So, I'm going to make another rant. Where are the masculine characters now? Where is Kenshiro? Where is Guts? Who is doing Jotaro? Where are the metal armored knights and samurai warriors? |
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