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What I have learned from watching Anime
(Aside from how to speak Japanese like a cartoon character)
Fans are fans the world over
Be grateful for insulated walls, privacy, affordable meat and comfy beds.
Arbitrary literary-genre distinctions are meaningless.
Modern North-American popular attitudes toward gender and sexual orientation are parochial and obsolete.
Men are NOT all attracted to the same thing in women!
There's no accounting for taste.
People will take any excuse to party.
Generation X is alive and well and learning Japanese.
Japanese fem-bots dress better than today's teenagers.
It just doesn't pay to be a faceless minion.
For women: It's fine to wear skimpy clothing as long as you can kick butt.
For men: It's fine to look like a girl as long as you can kick butt.
Copyright laws do not always serve the best interests of the creators, writers or production companies. (And the smart ones know it, use it, and are making a lot of money!)
Gai-jin just wanna have fun!
Some of the best artists alive today are painting cels in Japan.
The minimum number of VCR's one needs is three ... two to make a copy of something while watching something else on the third.
Bells and whistles on your A/V equipment matter when you're showing 14th gen copies to a few dozen of your closest friends.
There is a use for extended warranties.
There are an infinite number of alternate universes, each with its own version of Tenchi Muyo.
Sooner or later, everyone ends up stranded on a desert island.
"Domo","baka","yosh!", and "omae wa mo shinderu" are useful expressions.
Despite decades of unceasing effort, some things still just don't translate!
Some songs are better if you don't know the words.
A dialogue-free scene with identical background music can actually be funnier in the sub than the dub. It is not logical, but it is often so.
Everyone needs a hobby. Many need a life.
The quality of animation does not necessarily improve the quality of the plot.
I really need a giant robot.
Women love violence.
They also love men with nice hair and cute bottoms.
Men love cute cuddly little moppets.
Cuteness is a force to be reckoned with.
The line between Kowai and Kawaii is razor thin.
There are just as many shows in Japan trying to sell merchandise as there are in America.
It's scary, but the same marketing that is aimed at eight-to-fourteen year old girls also seems to work well for middle-aged businessmen.
People will love you for who you are ... as long as you're secretly a super-hero.
The single greatest indicator of a man's fighting prowess is the bushiness of his eyebrows.
If you can't have bushy eyebrows, razor-thin ones are the next best thing.
It is possible to have warm cuddly feelings toward huge mechanical killing-machines.
There is no such thing as power without cost.
People will love you for who you are ... as long as you're a super-hero or control a giant robot.
The problem with being unkillable is that you'll likely end up having opportunity to use that power ... often.
There is nothing impractical about having high-heels on your power-armor.
I really do need a giant robot.
There are really good and thoroughly bad people on each side in all wars.
Wars suck!
Wars suck, but fight well and come back alive, because you can't drink good tea when you're dead.
Listen to your best friend.
"We will burn the forest and re-take the land" is one of the worst ideas of all time.
Determined efforts are better than a miracle.
Don't take everything so damned seriously.
Don't take anything so damned seriously.
No matter how ridiculous it looks, it can fly.
Don't swim in strange pools, and don't ever eat unidentified sushi.
Nothing is sillier than human relationships.
Nothing is more truly horrifying than the limits of human behavior.
Things only get weirder the longer they go on.
Always tell the truth!
Lack of communication leads to 90% of all problems. (the other causes being 5% magic & 5% giant robots)
 Linka Tribal · Fri Nov 30, 2007 @ 02:10am · 0 Comments |
