This guy’s an idiot. Also, I’m friggin’ sick of K-on stories already. I can’t wait for it to end so I can stop seeing it clogging up blogs with its crazy fans.

It’s amazing how close some of the ridiculous helmet designs you see in Koei games like Kessen and Samurai Warriors were to the real thing. I’m surprised Kanetsugu Naoe’s famous “love” helmet wasn’t shown, that one’s awesome.

I thought American TV was bad, until I moved to Japan. I’ve never had my TV on so little, and this is after finally having an HD after wanting one in the states for years. They’re sincerely amazed at how many channels I got on DirecTV. Sometimes you don’t realize how good you had it [...]

Well, I suppose I already knew SC readers were terrible people, but to see this guy obviously sucking the life out of his family and blame the damned family shows some really skewed standards there. They might need to take him to one of those NEET training programs. I was a NEET once, but after [...]

I was a NEET for a few years, but I have a full time job now. It’s weird how a lot of my more obsessive tendencies went away immediately as soon as I was busy and had friends to go out with. It may change my view on how good this whole subculture is, which [...]

Why is it always Osaka? Well, I think here in Gifu the guys are definitely trashier, but Osaka seems to have all the crazy and perverse types. Then again, the outfits women wear here must put those borderline guys over the edge, I’m seeing more miniskirts here than I did in Miami, but women are [...]

The first thing I saw on tv when I got to Japan was footage of the tornado. It looked dinky in the video to the eyes of any American used to looking at our King sized tornadoes, especially the recent ones. Ours, however, tend to hit farms in BFE rather than crowded city centers, and [...]

Yeah, the language is a bit childish but it’s true, this is just childish. Of course, all nationalism can look like this to outsiders (I think the way we Americans, especially southerners, talk about our own country borders on pornographic and it’s really scary to people who aren’t from here). I personally think it’d be [...]

On the contrary, if you read stuff about (at least Bakemonogatari) they’re often about how Nadeko is so much more awesome than the other girls for…existing, I guess? She seems like a random moeblob in the middle of bunch of three dimensional characters.

I’m surprised Kuroneko, Nadeko, or especially anyone from K-On aren’t dominating the top spots here. I’m really surprised about Homura, I don’t really hear about her crazy fans, but I hear all the time about Kuroneko (and to some extent Kirino’s) fans doing crazy stuff, let alone the fans of Azusa.

We all do something stupid or another. Hell, you’re on a site right now that at least “tolerates” if not outright encourages lolicon behavior–that sounds much stupider than some girls who like to dress in unusual ways. Being able to tolerate things you may not agree with shows a lot more maturity than hating people [...]

While no one was harmed (except the wife, of course, but that’s an issue between her and her husband) I can’t say I disagree with the decision here. Even if there were no kids there it’s a bit inappropriate to fuck in the workplace, especially a school. I doubt most office managers would laugh it [...]

I dunno, 31,000 is a pretty huge sample size. I don’t blame the women though, financial instability is a leading, if not THE leading, cause of marital issues. It gets a lot easier to enjoy the simpler things in life when you’re not struggling to pay the mortgage.

If there’s any justification for how eager people are to sue, it’s this. We can’t really call ourselves the land of opportunity if we don’t give people the opportunity to switch between two completely legal careers if they have the ability and aptitude for it because of some puritanical moral objection. I hope she sues [...]

Like this never happens in other countries. Go ahead and try to shoot a cop who you think is abusing his power, see where that gets you. Japan’s not exactly ideal either, but at least it doesn’t have things like the rash of under 10 year olds that have been killed by gang warfare just [...]

I’ve heard even some gay folks argue about whether it’s a choice. I doubt it, myself, it’s not like I made a choice to be heterosexual. Regardless, we people with sense need to argue vehemently against homophobes of all stripes no matter what reasoning they may use. And this is some of the weakest I’ve [...]

You’re…actually totally right. Speed Racer was great at being an anime adaptation of a kid’s anime, but I think people were too busy expecting The Matrix with more cars.

Right, it’s basically massive hypocrisy to tell the foreigners “we can’t sympathize with foreigners, therefore make them all like us even when it makes no sense storywise.” The rest of the complaints are totally valid, and often apply to Japanese live action movies too. I’m not sure if it’s possible to make consistently good anime [...]

I’d say it’s because: 1. She’s annoying as hell with her fetish obsession (just like a lot of yaoi fangirls/yuri fanboys/-con fans, they’d be a lot more attractive if they would shut the hell up from time to time about pairings when anyone talks about any series) and 2. There’s already Subaru, Kanade, Usami, and [...]

If people actually looked at Ron Paul’s platform outside of “legalize pot”, they’d see he’s exactly the kind of insane old coot out of touch with reality that Ishihara is. Only instead of “trying to provoke a war with China” it’s “trying to reverse 100+ years of progress and return the US to the Gilded [...]