L’s death ruined L. He was cool when he was a uniquely enigmatic figure. When he became one of a series, it was a little WTF and a lot FUCK THIS. His replacements weren’t half the character L was.

Every time you think that American jingoistic nationalism is as crazy as it could get, look at Korea (North AND South).

1. Pretend you can’t even read a map: try looking excessively clumsy and useless

The vast majority of people, male and female, cannot read a goddamned map.

These assholes are every bit as crazy and incoherent as the Teabaggers in the US.

Protesting China is a legit thing to do, but you can be certain that almost everyone doing it in Japan will be doing so for the wrong reasons.

On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being BIGGER AND BETTER THAN REAL (and vanishingly rare), 1 being DEAR GOD YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST CUT THEM OFF THE STUMPS WOULD LOOK BETTER, these are around a 7 or so (PRETTY OBVIOUS FAKES BUT NOT BAD AND I’D SUCK ON EM)

The Forever Alone list of best anime of the century.

If everyone in the world completely ignored any suffering beyond what they could see and directly influence, but actually tried to alleviate that which actually is in their presence, there would be no suffering.

They don’t, though. Hantavirus is American. West Nile, Ebola, and HIV are African. The only things that regularly come out of China are new influenza strains, due to some of their agricultural practices facilitating the transmission of diseases between birds and pigs, from which they can reach humans more easily. But that same thing happens [...]

Some are definite rips.

Some are definitely not.

Some only are if they’re coming close together multiple times from the same artist and the same source.

Galaxy Express had no successors. Great anime aren’t necessarily revolutionary.

Nausicaa had some lasting visual impact, and the legacy of the creation of Studio Ghibli, but other than that didn’t have a lot of direct impact. Macross is part of the revolution started by Gundam. Ideon is descended from both Gundam and Yamato, and was part of a wave of similar shows as pervasive as [...]

Name 5 anime obviously inspired or influenced by Hokuto no Ken, with NO debt to its predecessors.

I can think of two, and a few debatable ones.

Had a couple of imitators, but nothing popular, or even really good. Just too hard to do well, I guess.

Didn’t revolutionize shit.

While Gainax has done quite a bit of ORIGINAL anime, they have not had many that were imitated.

Pokemon DID inspire hordes of imitators. It more or less created the anime genre of shows with kids battling it out via proxies (even if the games ripped off Shin Megami Tensei). It doesn’t matter how GOOD the show was. It matters whether the mix of anime after it was different than before it. By [...]

It was Azumanga Daioh that started this shit. It was far from the worst, but AFAIK, it was the first plotless “let’s stare at cute teenage girls in nonsexual contexts while we all masturbate furiously” show.

Our music is simple, totally fake.
It’s done by machines, ’cause they don’t make mistakes.

Only goth GURO lolis, which is why Franken Fran is so awesome.

I grew up in Alaska, so you can imagine the effect such dresses had on me the first time I went someplace where girls wore dresses.

7. GOD HATE THAT SO MUCH. I had a girlfriend who did that when we first met. I asked her to stop. She did. She was a lot more pleasant after that. 9. There is a “crazy” switch in the female brain that usually gets switched off around age 25. Sometimes earlier, sometimes never, but [...]