It only matters as much as any fictional story matters.

Hamyuts Meseta is a fictional non-virgin.

Her non-virginity matters insofar as it advances the story of "The Book of Bantorra."

Quality writing is more important than virgin/nonvirgin status.

Kannagi, I am sad to say, ran out of good ideas. The story started out okay, but it had been getting weaker and weaker. Let it die and let new stories start.

We tend to love innocent characters, and Nagi has that innocent air to her, of someone that has never been in a relationship so revealing that she's been married before is ''heartbreaking'' to us.

But I highly doubt that the manga has been discontinued because of that, there are always ways to work around it, like revealing that its a misunderstanding or something. Lets just wait and see what happens.

I also would like to add that my mentality is of a Japanese otaku and not a western one.

Well, how about put it this way: Nagi's ex-boyfriend was Jin as well. That should at least calm down those mindless freaks a lil bit. Her ex-bfriend(Jin) died in the wars century ago and she pregnant and died as well. She felt the pain of death and decided to protect the living with her love so she resided in a sacred tree and help those unfortunates who pray to her. She kept doing this until her vessel(sacred tree) was chopped down. By that time Jin has already reincarnate as a human so they have met again due to fate. Satisfied?

I'm a fan of both the manga you mention, and I agree to an extent - Puck & co. seem necessary in Berserk as otherwise the story can become highly oppressive, but GUNNM is taking things rather far...

The issue seems to be that mass popularity is required to keep the mangaka fed, and to employ their assistants.

Have you seen the way GUNNM and Berserk have been going, lately? Both started out as exceedingly-violent, very well-illustrated and well-written manga. Both have ended up dumbing-down their plots to cater to a wider audience, with the former currently caught up in an interminable fighting tournament and the latter adding cutesy characters like Schierke just to rake in the "bigger crowd". A damn shame, in my book.

Why can't they just let Manga authors tell the story they intended to create from the get-go? Why does everything need to stay within the boundaries of its genre? All these misguided fans are doing is stifling creativity and encouraging the same fetishized crap to be cranked out year after year, and I don't much care for that. I say let the woman ink whatever the heck she wants. It's her series. It doesn't belong to me or you and certainly not to the Otaku.

If you were really aware of facts, you'd know that DVD sales are driven PRIMARILY by hard-core fans. 2CH's population essentially IS the hardcore fanbase.

It may only be 100 or so posters that you see in a thread, but bare in mind many of those VIPers' opinions and thoughts are generally very pursuasive, remember that as the most vocal part of the fanbase, their opinion is much more easily observed by the publishers and producers

As was illustrated in the States by the anonymous vs scientology hooha, the "virgin-nerds" and 'moronic otakus' are larger in influence and numbers than you think. Even more so in J-land and 2ch.

"We are anonymous, we do not forgive, we do not forget"

I'm with 2ch on this one; way to fuck up, otaku.

If Kannagi really ends up being cancelled, I'm hoping "fans" will learn their lesson and realize their faggotry ruins shit for everyone.

The orange names do just indicate an url - the only difference when logged in is essentially that you do not have to enter your details into the comment form (though browsers usually do this automatically).

I'd have to agree that almost all anonymous comments so far (this news being the main exception?) have been of surprisingly high quality, it's just that trolls that don't even notice that they're trolls, like TheFluff a few dozen comments above, would have to account for their ignorance that way. But yeah, viewed with 2 days distance, it's not really that bad yet.