Coincidentally, my middle school class had 8 girls and 8 boys. We at best had two couples at a time, though, and i can’t imagine having everyone conveniently coupled like that. I can’t exclude it could happen in asia, however. They do seem like they enter their permanent heat season at an early age, especially [...]

It looks like Marilyn Monroe cosplay to me.

Associating a deep religious metaphor to a seasonal creative business… brilliant.

“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.” J.S.Mill

An anime’s genre is defined even before said anime airs. The post just reports an ongoing critique of anime rehashing the same old genres and, even more notably, the same “features”, like a harsh female and apparently useless male (who will probably kick ass in an anticlimactic manner later on in the show). Those things [...]

If you have enough nerve to self-commiserate in a public comment and enough money to actually afford an otaku childhood, you’re just a spoiled brat. (and he wasn’t bragging)

I wonder who the retards are. Those who have noticed that 4 “quality” shows this SEASON are all based on the same overdone template, or those who fail to realize the difference between “year” and “season”, and use static (other than generic and subjective) data to argue a tendency and call everyone else a retard.

Now, let’s see if it was actually worth it.

I support the ban vehemently. Forcing the industry to abandon the easy profits of porn and ecchi anime and thus eventually focus on serious themes and deep topics will either heal the anime industry or condemn it. It depends on how many capable authors are left in japan. It’s a last resort, but at this [...]

Anon 01:28 meant that Montezuma, who was on his team, made a peace treaty with an enemy they were about to destroy completely. I also agree with the point he makes, just like many other players: the AI in civ5 is so laughably stupid the whole diplomacy becomes a farce. The only reasonable gameplay experience [...]

A SF Otaku wife, are you kidding? I’d kill for that.

in FFXIV quite few mobs already do that. There are monkeys that run to you as though they aggroed then just stop and stare at you and goats that just follow and rub their horns on you without attacking. You gotta be careful of AoEs though…

Patlabor’s charm is its excessive realism. The series is, rather than an entertainment work, a classic documentary on the possible integration of mecha in japanese society. It’s definitely boring if you expect to be entertained, but highly engrossing if you look at it as speculation of a very realistic future, as it anticipates many of [...]

@美しい音 Regardless of your fantasies about world politics, you are essentially right, however: -Democracy dies when you decide it does and stop fighting for your rights. -Political games and ass-lickery have existed since the dawn of mankind and will exist until mankind does. Also, democratic principles aren’t something the government can decide about. They can [...]

You don’t mess with the engine room while your ship is high at sea. China knows this and is trying to give the whole ship the pace it prefers and dictate conditions… However no western nation will ever dream to bow its head like china expects them to do, no matter what consequences it may [...]

To order democratic nations to not support democracy! China’s shamelessness knows no bounds!
Attending such ceremony is not only a “tradition”, but in this case an open declaration of our belief in democracy itself!

Don’t underestimate developing countries.

Rather than calling both vocaloid songs and modern pop art i’d say neither are, compared to the technical and expressive difficulty of singing a song without electronic “aid”… Regardless of how i feel, though, both pop and vocaloid music are art as expression of our time’s culture and its values. Those frenchmen are criticizing something [...]

Most are too dumb to notice? Since i haven’t seen any revolution in a democratic country recently, does it mean every single person living in a democratic country is dumb? It is also true that “it is part of democracy to give few experts the right to keep some information confidental from the population, when [...]

I don’t see how a democratic nation’s politicians can keep a video hidden from the populace and admit to be doing it so casually…