Top Tokyo anime station TV Tokyo is under fire for daring to break off its back-to-back earthquake coverage after a mere 33 hours, “inappropriately” broadcasting starting to broadcast anime whilst other Tokyo channels were still lovingly showing endless scenes of ruined reactors, wrecked cities and huddled refugees.
TV Tokyo ran 33 hours of continuous quake coverage from 2:54PM on the 11th of March to 11:55PM on the 12th, at which point it finally relented and broadcast the scheduled episode of Tegami Bachi.
The station subsequently fell victim to a barrage of criticism for “inappropriate programming,” with some 600 complaints received.
TV companies are apparently alone in Japanese corporate culture in being largely impervious to minority complaints and utterly unself-effacing when responding to them, and TV Tokyo’s CEO is no exception:
“We did receive 90 messages of support for broadcasting it, but most were critical. I’d like to bear their valued opinions in mind.”
Just why every station in the Tokyo region was expected to offer days of continuous quake coverage is not exactly clear; nor is it clear what purpose half a dozen channels endlessly regurgitating the same information actually serves.
Anime fans for their part are already feeling put upon thanks to the tendency of stations to splash maps all over the screen every time there is a 1m tsunami anticipated on beaches 2000km away.
2ch is highly sceptical of the excessive wave of “self-restraint” cancellations, as well as the increasingly transparent efforts to hijack the disaster hysteria for political ends and backdoor censorship:
“What are they whining about? It’s practically an anime station.”
“Just what did they expect?”
“So now TV Tokyo is going to have to exercise ‘self-restraint’? What about Madoka…”
“If you don’t like it, change the channel!”
“On the contrary, they should be grateful. The other stations all run quake coverage, but they have anime to take solace in – I think that is good.”
“If you want to complain, do it to the government or Tepco… the ones who blame anime are nuts.”
“Just shut up and watch NHK!”
“People who don’t even watch that channel shouldn’t be lodging complaints about it!”
“The self-restraint obsessed crowd are seriously irritating.”
“It’s better than the creepy variety news shows on the other channels.”
“TV Tokyo should exercise self-restraint – from showing quake coverage.”
“What the hell is the problem supposed to be anyway? We don’t need more than one channel running quake news all the time…”
“Do the self-restraint maniacs actually derive pleasure from watching quake reports or something?”
“TV Tokyo is in the right. Endless quake images are only going to traumatise children.”
“I thought Japan was finished when I tuned in to TV Tokyo to see earthquake reporting, but I saw a ray of hope when the anime returned!”
“The people who make these complaints are mentally ill… what is the point of having every single channel run the same reports and not forgiving anything else, it’s crazy.”
“NHK runs nothing but earthquake coverage, the others run quake coverage/variety programmes, and TV Tokyo runs anime. Take your pick.”
“The quake was in Tohoku and the Tokyo channels don’t even broadcast there, so who cares if they broadcast anime in Tokyo?”
“Did they complain properly to ATX and Animax as well?”
“I was surprised TV Tokyo even broadcast quake news.”
“The people complaining are the ones who need to show some self-restraint…”
I find Anons Pathetic… Just because they don’t have an identity they run their mouths spouting shit. Their the lowest type of internet trash and probably trash in real life too~
Well if people want to see disaster reports, I pretty sure they’d watch the news. They probably feel how I did back in September ’01 when every single station was the news. I didn’t want to see that shit Dx
Many of Japanese love anime.
However, it is also true that many of Japanese dislike anime.
There is no indifferent person for the anime.
The country where a lot of prejudices to Otaku exist is Japan.
Many of people who dislike anime are the elderly persons and they love Shintaro Ishihara.
fuck yeah tegami bachi
“If you don’t like it, change the channel!”
yes, i mean there are already tons of news channel broadcasting this. why not just tune there if you want the news. its not like it’s going anywhere.
What good is a continued coverage filled with TEPCO lies and misinformation?
Seriously. Those fuckers make Japan look like a country of idiots. More so than usual.
those complaints came from sadists that went “wtf? where’s my depressed people show?!!!” apparently, they were shocked as they see some people rejoicing when anime awas aired and that angered them while saying “dammit! i won’t get my daily fix if this goes on”
And people wonder why Japan has such a high suicide rate…
Being there to report the initial tragedy is fine.
Keeping up with developments as they happen is also fine.
Every TV station in the country providing 24/7 coverage of the death and destruction of a natural disaster for days on end is fucking depressing. People need a break from all that misery, be it anime, game shows, soap operas or even just some lame ass infomercials.
You can only watch so much misery before it starts eating at you.
So turn off the TV? Do something else?
Just as our votes don’t count, so does your post. Now stfu and start fapping!
The only circumstance that justifies spamming all channels with news is when there’s a real emergency, meaning an event that requires prompt action from the viewers, other that that, it’s completely pointless.
2ch lately seems to be a beacon of hope for a better Japan. What does Ishihara expect people to do all day? People need a break from chaos. We went through this shit with 9/11 where people were afraid to make ANY sort of jokes on TV… but we eventually got over it. What’s the point of living if you have no dreams to fight for?!
It’s just TV bro. Get a life. Turn it off.
While I agree that the Earthquake and Tsunamie are devistating and the lose of life tragic. I donot see why there has to be 24/7 coverage on every tv channel in Tokyo or even Japan for the entire length of the crisis!
There is such a thing as OVER Covering or OVER EXPOSER. The only thing that is going to do is cause people to tune OUT.
Fuck tatemae. Fuck doing the “right” thing even if it’s what no one wants – but is what is expected.
“This is why we can’t have nice things.” A culture of robots oppressing robots. Sucks for the station operators, but the way to reverse this? Generate MORE complaints that they’re not showing anime. Surely the mobs of otaku who’ll snap up a dozen copies of their favorite OP single can muster a few phone calls – say, 2000? There you go.
If you’re listening, 2ch, the only way to fix this is to complain even more loudly that they’re not showing anything but disaster coverage. The sooner you do, the sooner Japan can start to heal and stop picking at this open wound in everyone’s hearts…
first hanami now anime whats next schoolgirs whearing their uniforms?
wat? this moralfaggotery bullshit is inappropriate.
don’t make me come over there japan
Where’s the voice of reason when you need it? Why the hell do you need every god damn channel to broadcast disasters non-stop? Some kind of masochist people we have here.
Uh, seriously? Why rebroadcasting the past in TV Tokyo? Is that even that “inappropriate” to broadcast?
How would YOU feel if YOU were the victim of that Earthquake / Reactor blowing. And you were sitting there for weeks without aide, hoping, wishing, praying, whatever, for someone to help. And to know that there are people out there who don’t give a fuck and want to watch cartoons instead. It’s easy to pick your ass and say “I don’t want to see all these hurt people, it’s depressing” THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Go out there and volunteer to help! Stop trying to escape the fact that the world is in chaos. This is why Humanity is failing as a race. We don’t help each other and just want to help ourselves. The truth is though, by helping others, it comes back to you. There is more to this world that is hurtling through space than our 5 senses can detect.
Do you think authorities will allow anybody who is willing to help get access to disaster areas?
I believe they call in the kind of people they need.
People with suitable knowledge and skills. Specially when working at areas with radiation risk.
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And to the rest of you. I love anime as much as the next human. But there is a limit, it’s called moderation. You have all been watching anime back to back for the last 10 years. And now a huge disaster hits and for a few weeks out of those 10 years they are constantly alerting people of whats up. And thats a problem to you? Because now you are getting depressed at how you can’t watch your paper and ink characters live their planned lives? Now you have to see the real world and how fucked up it is instead? Thats depressing? Really? You people need to re-evaluate your life and whats important.
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Anyone who actually looks at the situation for what it is rather than believing the news hype knows that it’s not going to be the next chernobyl.
It’s bad- horrible, even. That’s true. Nobody is disputing that. But the average joe living on the other side of the country or far enough away to not be affected much if at all doesn’t need to see it on every channel 24/7.
If people want to watch the news, there are stations that do that. If people want to watch anime or other shows, there should be stations that can do that too. Forcing everyone to have no exposure to anything but the disaster constantly is just cruel and sick.
Even if everyone “got off their ass” there’s nothing most people there could do that isn’t being done already by someone more skilled and better trained. Your average schmuck can’t go fix a nuclear reactor.
Yeah, buddy, have you actually ever BEEN inside a natural disaster? It doesn’t like it. Well, lemme tell you something… -I- lived through one of the largest hurricanes to hit this country EVER! And guess what? We magically got our power back the next day, but of course, the cable was out, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of the VHF stations (Except for PBS) would only show disaster coverage. Do you have any IDEA how boring and irritating that gets after 24 hours of it? THANK GOD for UHF! I’ve never been more thankful to watch endless reruns of MASH and Murphy Brown! It might not’ve been the regularly scheduled Must See TV, but it was a needed break from the endless news coverage. Is it so bad that those that have power and their health to enjoy at least a small break from the craziness? In anycase, not EVERY CHANNEL needs to run the same information. Having at least a couple stations dedicated to entertainment programming would go a long way over there, right now.
There is more to life than TV. You want to get over a tragedy? TV isn’t the answer.
Give ’em a break. I live on the Gulf Coast and when a hurricane hits we get the same thing, radio and TV stations turn over to emergency broadcasts and it’s 24/7 for days, and in the case of Katrina, weeks. This earthquake is multiple times worse than any hurricane I’ve been witness too, so the coverage should be that extreme. When you’ve got loved ones dead and your country’s in tatters, you count on the news to inform and comfort you. Sometimes it’s inappropriate to break up that news because everyone’s not on the same page. Some may want to watch some anime for a change, but your average person wants to be able to count on the news.
Really? You guys voted this comment down? What’s bad about it? Oh yeah, it tells the truth.
I don’t see the problem with airing anime during such a terrible time for Japan. People don’t need to be constantly reminded of the horror they faced. In fact, the time has never been better for a distraction or three! Let them smile.
Why don’t they need to be constantly reminded? This shits real. Anime isn’t
Because even if they are reminded, nothing actually changes? So it doesn’t matter?
Speak for yourself, there are plenty of people who see it and go out and do something. Just because you don’t like it and your main hobby is TV, doesn’t mean thats the case for everyone else.
do they even need 24 hour of showing the same quake disaster news and scene?
recycling the very same news over and over again?
they are an idiot, just like Ishihara..
yes, we do feel sympathy toward them, and lots of people already help them through donation..
still, they should remember, life goes on.. don’t just stuck onto the past..
Grieving and sad feeling phase should be over by now, and now is the time to return to regular normal day routine..
only if something NEW like latest developement of nuclear reactor crisis, radiation leakage, some kind of disease occur related to the quake/tsunami/nuclear,etc.. then that’s the time TV station obligate to the show the news and postpone the anime broadcast..
so, stop broadcasting the same news everyday, and return to daily schedule, and when something new happening, please show it on the tv..
You are an idiot. It’s just cartoons bro. Whats happening on TV is real. And keep in mind not everyone is glued to the TV. Some people are JUST turning it on now to see news coverage or to recap themselves on whats up. Grow up and re-evaluate your life you angsty fat ass 😉
You’re the fucking idiot. There are numerous channels already playing earthquake coverage 24/7. While I’m sure that you incessantly drool about self-restraint and how everyone should be informed, there is already an existing service for that. It’s what we call news channels. TV Tokyo isn’t a fucking news channel.
Well, there IS still several other channels all broadcasting the exact same stuff whenever they decide to turn on their TV.
Ok Japan we get it, stop showing us what Nuclear power plant looks like the female body part which I will not say…
To tell you the truth even I am tired of seeing and hearing news about japan’s earthquake/tsunami, the shit is seriously depressing
IT SHOULD BE DEPRESSING. Imagine if you WERE those people. QQ more you detached from reality useless feeder. Real life is going to eat your face.
Real life isn’t that hard at all pshhhhh. What you don’t think we have a “real life”? I’m god damn sacrificing a lot in university to get a job , man. I know what it’s like , however even if its like that , I still get good grades while having my passion for anime. So shut the fuck up with “real life” crap. We all need an escape , I know you do too. It doesn’t have to be anime you know.
Exactly my point, everyone here talks as if Anime/TV is the only way to “escape”. Which is completely bullshit.
Are you going to reverse the disaster? No? Then what fucking good does it do to know every bit of minutae about it 100,000x over? If it were a human and not a TV station fixating like this, they’d be put into psychiatric care.
The problem is… from what i heard… during those times some if not majority of the stations went on with regular tv schedules and minimized the news and updates about the reactors. That happened before Japan admitted that the reactors were in a really really bad state.
From how I’m seeing it, the government was trying to tell people not to worry and are feeding them with lies so that they wouldn’t panic.
Aside from degree of news blackout, some sites were also restricted so that panic couldn’t spread either…
But then again, this was a time during the disaster, things and people’s head become shit due to stress so whatever happened then, it’s definitely predictable.
Well its midnight so I’m suprised 600 people phoned them at night
How dare they give entertainment to the people who might be a little bit tired of the whole disaster thing by now.
There are other forms of entertainment besides the TV you dumb fuck.
In spite of that TV IS still for entertainment,you little piece of shit!.
Apparently it’s your only form of entertainment you dumb fuck ^_^
lolol get a life it’s just cartoons
Time to start broadcasting uncensored porn. It will be an excellent form of escapism while encouraging re-population.
You can’t even get uncensored manga in Japan. What makes you think they will broadcast uncensored porn?
Ye when 9/11 happened I couldn’t find a damn thing on either. Sure wish TV Tokyo was there when I needed it.
so the ‘Japanese spirit’, where Japanese get back to everyday chores and work despite a catastrophe (After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, trains where going again the very next day) … this very impressive and much praised spirit doesn’t extend to television studios, huh?
oh well.. good to know.
TV Tokyo already have a notorious reputation for its insistence on catering to “otaku needs” rather than pandering to the needs of “public interest”.
When North Korea test-bombed its suspected first nuke years ago, all the stations were pre-empting their programmes for a special news conference by the government, all save one – TV Tokyo.
Whenever a new Prime Minister takes the post (which is now becoming an annual event), again TV Tokyo stands alone in its refusal to kowtow to the new PM’s press conference.
So notorious was TV Tokyo’s reputation that it was even lampooned in an episode Keroro Gunso.
In that episode, Keroro Gunso was watching anime at TV when Fuyuki came and asked, “Did you see the news?”
Keroro replied, “What news?”
Fuyuki: “It’s on every channel!”
Keroro: “That’s strange, mine’s still showing anime.”
Fuyuki proceeds to flick through the channels, all of them were showing the news Fuyuki was mentioning about, except the channel Keroro was watching.
Fuyuki (realizing): “Oh! You were watching TV T*kyo, that’s why!”
Well, if all the other channels have it covered, I guess there is no need for TV Tokyo to show the same thing.
Hit the nail on the head there. Personally, there are DOZENS of other SOLELY NEWS stations that can do the airing of real time news. TV Tokyo does not need to do that.
well, that’s a good thing.. at least to me
Misery loves company.
Thank goodness I live in the United States… the entire state of California could fall in the ocean and we would still have plenty of channels showing cartoons, sports, and how to remodel homes on a budget. God Bless America’s Indifference!
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You talk like thats a good thing. Being distracted when real life shit is going on is terrible.
Nah, the indifference is what makes us strong.
There isn’t indifference. There is a sense of “Well, there is nothing I can do about this bad crap in this other part of the country other than donate money, so why disrupt MY life and TV with endless rehashing of the ‘tragedy’?”
Inappropriate? Just wait til COPPELION airs.
“We need EVERY CHANNEL TO SHOW THE SAME THING. WHAT’S THAT? THAT’S POINTLESS? CAN’T HEAR YOU! LALALALALALALALALA!”
How could these people run an entire country when they all lack common sense. Tis a great mystery how Japan and other countries with crazy govts lasted all these years without common sense.
The people complaining about TV Tokyo are like the idiots glued to CNN, Fox and The Weather Channel. Watching the same footage and listening to same talking heads over and over and over…
Give the people of Japan a chance to relax and take their minds off the tragedy so they can focus on rebuilding.
The only people who should be forced to watch 24/7 tsunami coverage should be the president of TEPCO and the clown politicians.
I just think TV Tokyo learned it’s lesson from endless eight, and cut short the coverage of endless quake.
Someone upload 30min of earthquake broadcast to looptube, and give link to those 600 morons. It’s do the trick, and we can watch some anime in peace.
“Watch some anime in ignorance you mean!” Heyooo!
I side with TV Tokyo.
I mean, let’s take… the July bombings in the UK a few years back.
If I had to endure 33 hours or more of that (this was when I still watched TV) on _all_ (mainly five) TV channels, I think I would have killed myself.
Watching porn for 24/7 will kill you, watching chaos in your country for 24/7 will cause you to loose sanity, loose want to live, become depressed zombie. However anime releases our every day stress and makes you forget about all the crap thats going on in either your life or the world.
In my view the Government had something behind there sleeves wanting to turn Japanese nation into depressed zombies causing them to do as the Government commands not a bad plan if you think.
Japan truly lost its value with the current Government, damm where are the Samurai’s when you need them… I can see Ishihara’s bagging for his worthless life running from samurai’s or getting his head cut one way ore another he would be begging to live rather then die…
Ishihara’s = old fuck
Grow up. You do know there are other ways to relieve stress. LIKE EXERCISE! Not that you would know that you fat depressed fuck. Stop escaping reality and accept your world is fucked because of PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
And Samurai’s would kill Ishihara because he is now showing cartoons? Really? Pretty sure a samurai would kill you before Ishihara you useless human
I think these idiots were listening to and got influenced by this one French Dumbass..
Here’s a solution to all those restraint obssessed M-people:
Wear a hairshirt, remove all hair from body and scourge yourself three times a day.
That is all.
“NHK runs nothing but earthquake coverage, the others run quake coverage/variety programmes, and TV Tokyo runs anime. Take your pick.”
“TV Tokyo is in the right. Endless quake images are only going to traumatise children.”
Newfound respect for TV Tokyo, for trying to preserve our smiles in light of Japan’s disaster.
This is why the News channel was made
idk why they want to depress their people
BECAUSE THIS SHIT IS REAL. You don’t just run from reality when it gets hard
No, one of the main functions of media like television is to provide escapist entertainment (see, there’s even a word for it).
Yes, it’s tough if you lost someone, but put that in context. In Japan, 3,500 people die every day – sounds a lot, but just do the math from the population stats and the published death rate. This tragedy is just a small, temporary spike in the figures. Time to move on.
And while I’m on my soapbox, let’s hear it for the safety of nuclear power. Total number of deaths from Fukushima radiation since the tsunami: 0. Total deaths just in the coal mining industry since then (so not including deaths caused by poor air quality from burning the stuff): 30.
Imagine your whole family dead. Every time you try to take your mind off this, something else painfully points out that your family died. When you go to watch anime, you can’t because all of the TV stations are broadcasting news about how your family died. You can’t even go online to watch anime because every website in existence has a news story about your family’s tragic demise. Not to mention the newspapers, magazines, and radio, which are obsessed with the fact that your family is dead.
All of this happens for weeks on end. But you can’t just run from this, because THIS SHIT IS REAL.
So fretting for months is the answer? Thinking about those who died is more important than those who survived? How about moving on because we know it is REAL and we can’t do anything about it. It is better to move forward with our normal lives because we can’t just stay down. We have to go back up because nothing will happen if we just stay down and be sad about the events that happened.
This is one of the reasons why people commit suicide or become insane. They don’t know how to move on.
Life is not about thinking about what happened but doing after that event.
It is REAL but the most important thing is what to do about it.
well, I understand both sides. :/
It’s like oligopoly, other TV stations can’t bear to watch TV Tokyo showing a regular program while they’re doing public service. It’s all about the ratings.
Yes god forbid people have some escapism from the horror.
Is Madoka counted as escapism? If so, we need escapism from the escapism…
That sort of escapism wouldn’t have been suspended until April if it was counted as one.
Never thought I’d say this but…I’m starting to miss Kyuubee.
The Japanese I know are going crazy having nothing but tsunami coverage 24/7, especially since it is all repeats on a 30min loop. On Twitter people are being told to turn off their TVs for a while for the sake of their mental health.
The best response from 2ch has to be “Just shut up and watch NHK!”
All I saw on NHK was scenes of devastation looped, charts, diagrams, models of reactors, opinions from experts, more charts, more diagrams, and even more PSA CMs, all within the L-shaped screens and a death toll notification like it was some high score on a game. OTL
They can TURN OFF THEIR TV’s INSTEAD OF WATCHING CARTOONS! HURP DURP
They should just make a separate channel named “Natural Disaster Channel” and broadcast all the natural disasters they want there…
i don’t understand what they’re thinking, how could you watch every channels with one tv anyway. also, what’s the difference between news in one tv station with others, practically they’re the same right.
i think the problem is different, it’s not thet they want tv tokyo to show disaster, but they want every japanese to be concerned about disaster , therefore watch it on every channel, as a kind of hypocrite solidarity i guess , such as “i can’t see anything else than the disaster on TV, so it’s really a serious thing, i suffer too ” etc etc …
it’s pretty much like complaining that some people in some regions didn’t do one minute of silence in the middle of the day …
we have that its called The Weather Channel surprised they dont have that in Japan
I know that channel. I love Disaster Time and Volcano show, and at night they show shows like Earthquake Chicken and Tsunami Guy.
nothing beats “When Buildings Collapse”
The best part is when the buildings fall down!
“Wanna catch the tide?”
Thus was born the concept of the News Channel.
A 24/7 news station whose only purpose is to tell you that you should feel depressed, angered, astonished, or offended….?
Nah, that’ll never catch on.
to Dia, It wouldn’t make you feel good about your situation, it would make you feel evil and unclean for being the lucky ones.
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Wouldn’t that just make you feel good about your situation?
Libyan State TV is doing a good job at the mo. Fox is close but we’ll need better citations for that.
While i understand coverage of a disaster is important you really need to draw a line on how long you broadcast it, i’m not trying to be nasty or unkind but i think returning to normality is something that tends to help a lot after something like this.
Granted the closest thing i’ve been affected by was the july train bombings a few years back but still, you need to get back to a normal life after these sorts of incidents, thats not to say you don’t mourn the passing of loved ones ofcourse but would they really want you watching constant reminders of the incident all the time?
Does the AC commercial count as anime?
Suddenly I’m confused about who’s here to blame for such inappropriate broadcasts. I was expecting a more direct response from 2ch.
“If you don’t like it, change the channel!”
600 people cant be arsed to do this.
Did you watch 9/11 live? Changing the channel only changed the announcer’s voice; it was everywhere. Now imagine if 9/11 lasted 3+ weeks and everything else was canceled out of “restraint…”
Well people need some way to escape reality once in a while. Take it away and they will go insane.
Speak for yourself
TV is fucked. Don’t watch it ever.
It’s nearly impossible to live a life without the need to escape from it. Otherwise your living a mundane life, or about to claw your throat out due to boredom.
Quite true. Life is boring as heck for most people when it comes down to it, that is why so many people suicide.
They already are, they are being told to turn the TV off for their mental health.
Ahahaha… Personally I’d rather watch anime than boring broadcasts about things I already know. XP
I second that. Besides, there’s no point in learning about the tiny details of such a catastrophe. It ends up being morbid to just watch the same over and over again and how thousands of people struggle to live and cry for the deaths of their beloved ones. Srsly, something to take our minds out of that IS NECESSARY. I wonder who the fuck complained.
I know who complained. The Japanese who don’t give a fuck about anime and want to know about the state of their country over some bullshit. I understand the need to escape through television but in a crisis there are more important things. Imagine that shit happening over here and then in the middle of it the TV stations start playing Two and a Half Men. We would be pissed and rightly so. Two and a Half Men sucks!
And you are in Sankaku why?
I think the people who sign in to sankaku just to vote our comments down are pathetic. Faggothitsthevotedownbuttonsayswhat? The more faded this comment is the prouder I’ll be.
Dude… So you’re saying you’d rather wallow in sorrow and continue watching you know is already around and happening than try feeling a little better? Something that catastrophic of that scale would take time to recover so why would you continue watching something when you know that there won’t be any change soon? That’s what happened in my country when a storm blew in and floods were severe. 24/7 coverage of the destruction that was plain obvious. Restoration doesn’t happen instantly. So instead of depressing myself, I made my comfort food and watched a DVD knowing it’s gonna take a while. With a full Pantry and generator I have no worries for the 2 weeks.
Well said. There is a time to escape reality, and THATS NOT NOW. The people who feel the need to sit there and watch anime to avoid being depressed need to get a life.
FUCK ANIME, People are dying. Yes I know they die all over the world. But guess what? IT CAN BE PREVENTED. It won’t be by you sitting on your ass watching cartoons as the world passes you by. One day you will be 70 years old and useless, then watch all the cartoons you want. If you aren’t too busy pining away for the life you wasted in front of the TV.
I am almost 63, can i watch “cartoons” now? I prefer to call what i watch “anime”.
Anime is just the Japanese name for Cartoons. 63 years old and you don’t even know that? Way to fuel the stereotype of a moron watching cartoons.
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2. Press and hold F11
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4. Profit!!!
Some people love quake coverages more than anime, gotta hand it to them
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I think TV Tokyo were just fooling around, just not expecting such shit to happen
How about 2chan stop complaining about it on their boards and go do something? Useless whiny otaku.
Agreed. USELESS – WHINY – OTAKU who are going to all die in front of a TV.
How about you stop complaining on here about 2ch and go do something else.
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STFU
I mirror dat response! >:C
Go do sumdin else!