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(1) Naruto has never reach in the past 4 years since I did ranking for manga weekly in a forum a million in 3 weeks with the exception being the last volume 72 which took 2 weeks it takes usually 2 months plus or minus a few exception it took 71 3

(2) months gaiden weekly sales are better than 71 70 69 antis are so stupid where do these people make up stuff from over 800000 is naruto usual sales in 3 weeks better than most manga with the exception being op and snk nobody else opens that big

Because no one actually knows shit about the Japanese manga market that pretends they do. Confirmation bias means they just throw out numbers and then act like there is some basis.

To say nothing of folks like @truebond, and @gweatherwax who both have trotted out entirely baseless numbers for the cost of the Last and then claimed it was a flop based on these baseless numbers. 

The issue is, as I’ve said before, folks WANT the Last and the ending to flop, because that gives them validation. Without it, they’re stuck with one less support for their crumbling building built on sand. Like I said, they’re just scrambling to put up supports, and get so angry when you yank one away.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it!

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People forget that the other couples must have got married around the time naruto and hinata did since all of their kids are aprox the same age so if you bash only them for marrying 'immediately' then it doesn't make much sense.

It was also after a war, which if anyone knows how population booms go, should be obvious.

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Hey Rem, I wanted your opinion on this, but do you see Hinata getting criticized/bashed for her introverted qualities? I know in America and the west extroverted qualities are much more valued and desired, especially in women, but it seems unfair to say Hinata needs to be less shy, more outgoing, or essentially more extroverted, when introversion is and has never been any more of a flawed personality than extroverted. Thanks for reading, and love your blog as always. :)

Of course I see it, by many parties for many very silly reasons, often based in a combination of faulty ideals of what a person ‘should’ be (or sometimes more directly ideas of what a woman should be) as well as very faulty understandings of how personality works. Namely, a running theme of thinking introversion is a flaw, OR that it changes. Simpy put: it doesn’t, not really. It is a historical and cultural conceit, with a frankly logical basis, as do many cultural norms. However, the irony is that many folks who bash Hinata for it simultaneously sexualize her for it.

In short folks who bash Hinata usually bash Hinata fans and NaruHina fans in particular, often implying there is some sort of sexual or sexist desire or attraction to shyness or, as it is sometimes wrongly stated about her, her being ‘moe.’ I’ve dealt with why Hinata ISN’T moe before, but there is this implication that introverted or shy means submissive, and further that not only is submissiveness itself bad, but also that Hinata IS submissive AND that somehow folks who like Hinata are sexualizing her FOR being submissive.

Which, of course, is wrong on all counts.

Further, there is some irony that these folks both bash Hinata for being introverted or shy, and do so by implying she exemplifies some sort of ‘old fashioned’ or ‘sexist’ thinking about the way women should be. Except this doesn’t work given it is never stated women should be any given way, really, in that manner, in the series. Further, its essentially a faulty conceit of the west, and no less sexist to declare women MUST act one way, and they are lesser and should be bashed if they do not tow the line. 

Flatly, the reason so many folks connect with Hinata is precisely because people understand her, and you’re flatly right it is both unfair and, more than that, both silly and actually morally WRONG, I’d say, to imply she is lesser, or ANYONE is lesser because they are introverted or shy.

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Is the vibe thing still going?

Sure, if you’ve got one.

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Is the joker your favorite villain in batman I heard he has a lot of origin that why he popular I'm not American I'm curious about him since he is the only villain I know I think it due to Hollywood

I’m only tacitly into comics; I rarely buy them, on the order of I’ll go years without it, I’ll look at them when I go to a bookstore but that’s about it. On the other hand, I often read ABOUT comics, oddly, but I’ve always been more of a Marvel guy than DC. Spider-Man was my favorite as a kid, and Venom as well. I’m not actually fond of the new stuff they’ve done with Venom. Or rather, I’m ok with it CONCEPTUALLY, the whole ‘Agent Venom, Flash in Space, etc’ stuff is interesting but I dislike how they’ve rewritten the backstory of symbiotes precisely BECAUSE new fans are more familiar with this Venom and thus don’t understand the old villain/anti-hero one.

I’m also pissed they just nonchalantly off-panel killed Hybrid and Toxin because I loved those guys and wish they’d gotten way more attention. But I digress, I’m getting off topic.

I was always a Marvel guy. Something about DC sort of doesn’t click as much with me, never has. I like Batman, in a memetic way, and the movies in a cinema way, but not much more. I feel, entirely as a functional outsider, that Marvel often comes off more, well... still ‘superheroic’ in a way, while DC is more ‘gritty.’ A comparison I once heard, echoed also in the differences between films, is that take Iron Man 3. In it, Tony Stark is told he can save maybe three people (or something along that, I can’t remember) who are falling from the sky. There are twelve. What does he do? He tries to save all twelve, and succeeds. 

In a DC film, I feel like the hero would try to save twelve, and end up saving none as a result. This may not be ACCURATE mind you, but its certainly the PERCEPTION I get from the two major franchises. Now, onto the Joker.

Joker is popular for being, in many ways, different than many other villains, he’s got a lot of backstory and has a lot of attention paid to him over the years. Some really good writing and some really great acting. Heath Ledger’s was truly fantastic, and may or may not have contributed to his death. Lost an amazing actor, and a great person there. Regardless, it is his being the quintessential foil to Batman, who is himself popular, that I think makes him so, well... popular. 

Personally, mine is Mr. Freeze though.

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Do you think immigration is a problem that needs to be stopped?

This is the vaguest and most baity sounding way to word this. I will, though, answer:

No, immigration is not a problem that needs to be stopped. We actually need to streamline and improve our immigration system. Evaluating the failure of Sen. Kennedy’s legacy, though, is also necessary component, as is enforcement of the fact that if you immigrated illegally than we also have laws we must enforce. Further, unrestricted immigration is detrimental to the nation as a whole. We need immigration REFORM and, yes, we need to enforce laws. 

And, frankly, going FORWARD? I think we should amend things to shift from citizenship to all born within the borders of the nation to being based on the citizenship of your parents. IE: If you’re born to a citizen, you are one. The issue currently is, frankly, an exploitation of a system that no longer is necessary as it was created for very different time. This would be a change going forward, though, rather than somehow revoking citizenship, a highly unreasonable, and downright immoral in many cases, act.

However, I would support declaring English to be the national language, among other things, because simply put, there is a necessary amount of cultural continuity that should be maintained for the prosperity of a country. This does not mean suppressing other languages or the like, but it does mean that it, and other cultural aspects, need to be maintained, because assimilation IS part of immigration, and necessary to avoid internal turmoil, as history has shown. It is precisely because I know history that I think we need methods to assimilate immigrants into the greater whole of the country.

But, immigration itself? No. I’d be mighty hypocritical if I said that, given from my fathers side I descend from both Italian and Irish immigrants in a relatively recent scale. 

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you're like that one pokemon that appears last minute in a huge grass area trainers have to go though and just when they think they've passed you appear like, "SURPRISE BITCH YOU THINK I WOULDN'T SEE THIS BUT GET READY FOR SOME REM-ACTION TIME" and people just go "ah shit I have no time for this guy's bullshit"

The only flaw I see in this is calling it bullshit. :P

Folks used to use my name when they talked about me, now they treat me like I’m the Dark Lord because I show up when my name is mentioned. Far as I’m concerned, short of them straight up admitting I’m right, having an intellectual opponent simply avoid your attention when you know full well you were not insulting or other justifications for somehow doing so is a fairly amusing and good feeling, in its own way.

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hadn't narusasu prevails blocked you 2 months ago?

She has blocked and unblocked me several times for several reasons. Meh.