2004-10-13, 00:10 | Link #22 | |
/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
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2004-10-13, 09:39 | Link #23 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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I don't mind if you try to move ahead, it makes no difference, since I have my subscription to Afternoon. |
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2004-10-13, 11:07 | Link #24 |
worshipping the pantyhose
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines
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oh my bad, was thinking of CPM too much. Thanks though, I dont want to feel guilty reading ahead of you guys. And really, when I watch the anime, I want to get as much of it's manga parts by reading the manga first
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2004-10-13, 12:17 | Link #25 | |
Gomen asobase desuwa!
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2004-10-13, 14:37 | Link #27 | |
worshipping the pantyhose
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Intarweb...I don't dl stuff of intarweb, I don't roam the net, and I basically, have no time in my life to do anything other than what's in my PDA schedule. If you did mean something else, sry. Anyways, got around to watching ep 01, and heh, just, uh, nice ep is all I can say. And, lol was funny seeing Haruka from KGNE. |
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2004-10-13, 16:47 | Link #29 | |
worshipping the pantyhose
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2004-10-13, 20:01 | Link #31 | |
tsubasa o sagashite
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2004-10-14, 10:22 | Link #33 | |
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The "visit" to the room at the end of the episode gave me a good laugh. I've seen some JP posts already where they mention that the doujin shop they go to for next week's episode looks just like it does in the preview. I forget the name but apparently it is quite famous. kj1980, Perhaps you can give more details about this "mecca" for doujin fans? Since Genshinken deals with university anime clubs in JP I'm going to post something related that you might find interesting, kj1980. There are anime clubs at many universities here in the United States of America. In fact the base of anime fans that exists in the USA today is due to these clubs (some of which date back to the early 1980s and were instrumental in spreading anime...especially otaku anime here). This mostly occurred through fansubs on VHS/S-VHS or unsubtitled VHS/S-VHS recorded off TV which was copied and traded amongst clubs. If you are interested in this history I could elaborate more. The USA anime clubs are quite a bit different I would imagine from a JP club...some of the USA clubs just get together and watch/talk about anime without any doujin/game/manga related activities. Manga is definitely growing in popularity here. It's growth rate is definitely larger than anime at this point (which makes sense as it is "newer" than anime for fans here as far as commercial products go). I would say the biggest difference between JP and USA University anime clubs would be in the member. JP and USA otaku are quite different as I'm sure you've gathered from posting on here. I have a little experience in this area as I've associated with a few Japanese otaku and a few "half JP/Americans" (lived 1/2 of life in JP as a kid; lived 1/2 of life in USA as teenager/young adult). I looked up your username on the forums and saw some very good posts where you explained the realities of anime in JP to the readers here. Thanks for your efforts to educate the USA fans. Back on track to the episode: http://yurichan.nerv.org/log200410.html#1104 The comments...yet he still gave it 4 smiley faces. Perhaps we can see this sums up the duality of otaku? I enjoyed Genshinken and yet if I analyze why I liked it I may come to.... Wait. I think I'll stop here. ^_^ Last edited by outlawed; 2004-10-14 at 10:40. |
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2004-10-17, 04:57 | Link #35 | |
tsubasa o sagashite
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2004-10-17, 05:50 | Link #36 |
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Genshiken anime eh, that sounds great, can't wait to watch it =D
I really enjoyed reading the managa(well, the chapters that were scanlated at least, hopefully Del Ray will do a nice job now that it's licenced =) ) and was somewhat shocked at how people in Japan act towards Otakus, but then I got to thinking....its not that diffrent over here...I mean, most of my family members(cousins,aunts,uncles) know that I'm a hardcore videogamer, and most of them think it's bad, and some even ask "When will you grow up?" =___= What I mean is, most people don't think that young adults or adults can or should enjoy watching/reading/playing anime/manga/videogames. I remember last year, when a cousin of mine found out that I watch anime....the look on his face...it was like I just told him that I killed or raped someone <.< *sigh* |
2004-10-18, 18:11 | Link #37 |
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Ep 2
Genshiken Op this time. Guilty Gear XX Reload footage was in the OP. (Below Genshiken they had "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture".
An interesting discussion took place between some of the Genshiken members and Saki. No sign of the cosplayer girl yet (kj1980 mentioned her in another thread talking about this show). |
2004-10-19, 05:06 | Link #38 | |
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Watching the people in this show reminds me of what some anime clubs I was in were like in the 80's, before we had access to subtitled material or the internet. And back then, most older people had nothing but contempt for any "cartoons" and people that wasted too much time with them. Animation had lost a lot of respect in the US during the 70's through the mid 80's (even after that started to change, you still had the problem that most people thought Japanese animation was either really violent or sexual, or kiddy stuff, and I think that stigma still exists, if to some lesser degree, today with many people). So our little anime clubs existed with little support and desperately seeking any original Japanese videotapes we could get our grubby hands on, daisy-chaining our VCRs to copy what we could when the opportunity came. We were a small group of mostly non-conformists that lamented our society could not appreciate our hobby and with big dreams of it someday gaining recognition and popularity in our own country, doing whatever steps we could to help it along that path. Our clubs would get together and discuss the meanings of each anime we watched, more out of neccessity, as there were no fan or pro subs back then. It was an interesting time. I even formed a high school anime club myself in 1987, with official school recognition (took some petitioning work!) and an entry in the yearbook, lol. For club day we'd show clips of anime films and shows we'd set to various music as a kind of primitive anime music video, heh. Some of the people in the clubs back then helped create some of the first anime magazines, manga publishers, and anime conventions in the US, and a few are still in the industry today. (edit- I missed Outlawed's post--looks like it covers a lot of what I just said, ah well ^_^; --also the "mecca" in question is Toranoana, which looks just like I remember it, pretty much, when I went 5 years ago!) |
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2004-10-19, 05:57 | Link #39 | |
/Ultimate Magic Attack!!!
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2004-10-19, 07:08 | Link #40 |
Vampie Walrus. Big fangs
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I've got the LE of the DVDs on pre-order but December seems so far away. I'll normally don't import DVDs because of their insane price compared to local releases but the Kujibiki intro sold me. I love both but just for different reasons.
Oh, and in relation to Kujibiki, Ritsuko for prez!! I laughed my butt off when it was going over that doujinshi because I got an IM message right as the page was turned and it caused the video to freeze up and multiply and I madly tried to click and get them closed so my g/f didn't enter the room and think I was purposely filling my screen with nude anime girls. Well, I laugh about it now. I was fearing for my life then. |
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