The Anime Snob

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AmiAmi [Character & Hobby Shop] | Capsule Q Fraulein - Capsule Omikuji: Urusei Yatsura Arc BOX(Preorder)

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I really hope the Capsule Q Fraulein line takes off because their other produced figures are really cute, and I’d love to see more characters in their style.

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Anime has came a long way

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SUNFRAGMENT kurehaさん (2015/01/25 夢物語撮影会 - 2話)

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Here's some Sailor Mars cosplay to get you through the day. - Snob

#Sailor Mars #cosplay #cute #aw #reblog

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“Those who identify as ‘otaku’ [i.e. anime and manga fandom] sicken me deeply. Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash.” — Hayao Miyazaki

The great Miyazaki is somewhat famous for his sweeping dismissals, but I believe there’s political substance behind his curt condemnations of mainstream culture.

Miyazaki abhors a certain strain of Japanese nationalism which has seen something of a resurgence in recent years and crept into the chaotic free-for-all of anime and manga storytelling. He’s been a vocal critic of prime minister Shinzō Abe’s politics, including the denial of Japanese war crimes and sex slavery, the ceremonial honouring of Japanese war criminals, and the proposal to amend the Constitution to re-introduce the possibility of war.

As it stands, the Constitution of Japan includes the remarkable Article 9 which outlaws war — a measure which was forcefully imposed by the US after dropping two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Needless to say, there’s something twisted about achieving a ban on war by means of an atomic holocaust; but Miyazaki, a child of World War II and its horrors, supports the ban.

Miyazaki is equally critical of the US. When “Spirited Away” won an Oscar in 2003, he refused to travel to Hollywood to accept the award, later explaining “I didn’t want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq”.

So I don’t think Miyazaki is simply being an eccentric moody artist when he says things like “Anime was a mistake, it’s nothing but trash”. I think he has specific opinions and critiques of craft and storytelling, message and values, politics and culture, as conveyed by art.

that’s actually why i despise it when western anime fans reblog the quote “anime was a mistake”. not only is it just irritating, but they have no idea what it actually entails in their western frame of view. anime is largely bad. yeah. a lot of it provides for largely a older male audience and includes a lot of fetishism and blatant imperialist content. how many times have any of you seen scenes in anime where the background changes to something similar to sun rays to show motivation? how many of you know that it’s a direct reference to the rising sun flag. the flag in which the “asian holocaust” was created under. how many times have you actually seen the flag outright in anime? how many of you still praise ouran highschool host club when they literally portrayed feminists as nazis, which is bad enough but considering japan’s past? how many of you watch attack on titan, which is pure imperialist propaganda? how many of you, yeah our followers as well, watch hetalia? the whole premise of the show being nazi and imperialist apologism and when the creator literally said before that he thinks that the rest of asia wants to/should be under imperial japanese rule again. how many of you watch anime that has a shallow chinese or korean character(s) or a sexy korean/chinese girl in a bastardized, revealing rendition of their traditional dress? yeah. most of anime is shit. it’s total trash for what a huge portion of the industry has stood for, producing widespread scenes of rape, pedophilia, fetishism. it continues to promote either borderline to outright nationalistic attitudes, and still dehumanizes chinese and korean characters. " but does it matter?" you ask. it matters when there are still marches in japan happening this decade that celebrate hitler’s birthday. that there are still marches this decade that promote the drowning of chinese and koreans in the bays and killing us. what happened to japan as a nation during the meiji reformation and after the war with the occupation was inhumane. there’s not excuse for it. but imperialism is still alive and well in japan. and huge portions of the anime industry is built off it. this is why i hate white western fans reblog this quote out of context. this is why i hate all of you saying “i hate anime teehee” as you marathon snk and no game no life on kissanime. because you don’t. you’re joking. there are real reasons to hate the industry. and you’re turning it into a joke. you call yourselves “weebs” to “reclaim” the term, purposefuly ignoring how so many **young** asian people have been harmed by the term. japanese people being sexually assaulted by white self proclaimed weebs with yellow fever in their own country. little fucking kids stalked online and in real life by self proclaimed weebs with loli/shotacon fetishes. then you log onto tumblr and say that it’s “not really pedophilia” over fanart like it’s not part of one big system. somewhere out there, a young asian girl may be crying after being forced to webcam at the age of 9. and if you did mean it, then what? if you did mean you hated it, then what? you hate it for every reason but a right one. you’re not addressing a problem by reblogging that quote as a joke. you’re part of it.

#hayao miyazaki #japanese anime #anime #criticism #japan #imperialism

Whoa, calm down Beps. We can easily say this about our own culture and stuffs too.

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Green bricks are positive experiences with alcohol while the red bricks are negative experiences with alcohol

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Various Animes + #ExplainAnAnimePlotBadly trending on twitter 2/?

#explain an anime plot badly

Stages of being an anime fan

Discovery: Huh, what a cute little Japanese show. Looks interesting, maybe I'll take a look lol

Stage 1 weeaboo: GUYS ANIME AND JAPAN ARE SO KAWAII DESU~~~~!!!1 >//w//< Nya I wanna live in Japan it's the best country in the world!! 日本はすごいですね～～！！ｗｗ

Realization: Oh no someone murder my past self I like anime but that was awful

Avoidance: Wow, anime is so overrated. Stop acting like Japan is the best country in the world and glorifying them, you weeaboo trash.

Reemergence: I suddenly remembered the entirety of World is Mine oh no

Stage 2 weeaboo: somEONE STOP ME BEFORE I REWATCH DEATH NOTE AND NARUTO

Acceptance: I'm weeaboo trash ww

#anime #lol #weeaboo

This is so stupid. Kill la Kill, Death Note, AOT, and Madoka are all Japanese kid’s cartoons. Death Note was specifically aimed at younger audiences, this was mentioned in the interviews with the creators in the manga. They said they did this because that way nothing was morally obvious in the series.

Japan doesn’t have the same standards as we do for children’s TV. If you can’t tell that something like Sailor Moon is a kid’s show for Japanese children you need a reality check, weeaboo. Learn the difference between shoujo, shonen, josei, and seinen.

On that note, how can anyone NOT tell Peulla Magi Madoka Magica is a kid’s show?

Important reminder to any anime fan. A lot of anime is for children.

This is funny because Madoka and Kill La Kill are both seinen. Also, my 22 year old roomate couldn’t even handle five minutes of Corpse Party.

Ooops yeah you’re right. But Death Note is accurate because I specifically read that, as is AOT [Boku No Pico I know isn’t for kids] and my point still stands. Anime can be for adults, it can also be for kids. The people making the list can’t always tell the difference, that much is clear, and they seem to think a majority or most anime is aimed at adults. As seen AOT is considered shonen despite it’s graphic violence, so appearances and standards for American programming isn’t the same as Japanese programming.

Just for the record I have seen AOT and DN, but not Madoka or Kill La Kill. (^.^);

(Hipster here this time, just for clarification)

Madoka is seinen from what I’ve heard and the marketing seems to support that, but it could be easily marketed to a younger audience in my opinion. Nothing that it does is really that deep or heavy compared to other series marketed at a younger demographic. I think it might exist more as an anti-thesis to PreCure, offering something a bit different to male fans (considering that a lot of guys do love majokko—and not just for panty shots or what have you as Madoka has proven). Sometimes the line is blurred even there though, where series that are typically considered seinen or josei have been marketed to kids. It’s a bit similar to how shonen will sometimes be marketed to girls and shoujo will sometimes be marketed to boys.

I think it’s just easier to get in defensive mode with stuff like this because EVERYONE and their mother like to claim that any given series is for an older audience. For instance, that BS about Sailor Moon being 14+ just because the Pioneer DVDs suggested that on the back, despite countless evidence that it was not intended for that age group specifically.

Yeah, its especially understandable with what we consider to be “intended for children” in western cultures is meant as something completely different than what it means in japan. Also something doesn’t have to be “dark and edgy” to be intended for adults… as stuff like K-On and Lucky Star are both Seinen. Also Fist of the North Star and the first six parts of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure were released in Shonen Jump, despite the content being something that would never be shown to children here. Cultural differences are a fun thing. Also glad that we could all clarify this better (I also had a slight laugh since TheAnimeHipster used to be my URL years ago).

Haha seriously? That's funny. I suggest to Hipster that when we started this blog that should be his moniker. I didn't know anyone else did it. xD - Snob

This is so stupid. Kill la Kill, Death Note, AOT, and Madoka are all Japanese kid’s cartoons. Death Note was specifically aimed at younger audiences, this was mentioned in the interviews with the creators in the manga. They said they did this because that way nothing was morally obvious in the series.

Japan doesn’t have the same standards as we do for children’s TV. If you can’t tell that something like Sailor Moon is a kid’s show for Japanese children you need a reality check, weeaboo. Learn the difference between shoujo, shonen, josei, and seinen.

On that note, how can anyone NOT tell Peulla Magi Madoka Magica is a kid’s show?

Important reminder to any anime fan. A lot of anime is for children.

This is funny because Madoka and Kill La Kill are both seinen. Also, my 22 year old roomate couldn’t even handle five minutes of Corpse Party.

Ooops yeah you’re right. But Death Note is accurate because I specifically read that, as is AOT [Boku No Pico I know isn’t for kids] and my point still stands. Anime can be for adults, it can also be for kids. The people making the list can’t always tell the difference, that much is clear, and they seem to think a majority or most anime is aimed at adults. As seen AOT is considered shonen despite it’s graphic violence, so appearances and standards for American programming isn’t the same as Japanese programming.

Just for the record I have seen AOT and DN, but not Madoka or Kill La Kill. (^.^);

(Hipster here this time, just for clarification)

Madoka is seinen from what I've heard and the marketing seems to support that, but it could be easily marketed to a younger audience in my opinion. Nothing that it does is really that deep or heavy compared to other series marketed at a younger demographic. I think it might exist more as an anti-thesis to PreCure, offering something a bit different to male fans (considering that a lot of guys do love majokko--and not just for panty shots or what have you as Madoka has proven). Sometimes the line is blurred even there though, where series that are typically considered seinen or josei have been marketed to kids. It's a bit similar to how shonen will sometimes be marketed to girls and shoujo will sometimes be marketed to boys.

I think it's just easier to get in defensive mode with stuff like this because EVERYONE and their mother like to claim that any given series is for an older audience. For instance, that BS about Sailor Moon being 14+ just because the Pioneer DVDs suggested that on the back, despite countless evidence that it was not intended for that age group specifically.

#the anime hipster

This is so stupid. Kill la Kill, Death Note, AOT, and Madoka are all Japanese kid’s cartoons. Death Note was specifically aimed at younger audiences, this was mentioned in the interviews with the creators in the manga. They said they did this because that way nothing was morally obvious in the series.

Japan doesn’t have the same standards as we do for children’s TV. If you can’t tell that something like Sailor Moon is a kid’s show for Japanese children you need a reality check, weeaboo. Learn the difference between shoujo, shonen, josei, and seinen.

On that note, how can anyone NOT tell Peulla Magi Madoka Magica is a kid’s show?

Important reminder to any anime fan. A lot of anime is for children.

This is funny because Madoka and Kill La Kill are both seinen. Also, my 22 year old roomate couldn’t even handle five minutes of Corpse Party.

Ooops yeah you’re right. But Death Note is accurate because I specifically read that, as is AOT [Boku No Pico I know isn’t for kids] and my point still stands. Anime can be for adults, it can also be for kids. The people making the list can’t always tell the difference, that much is clear, and they seem to think a majority or most anime is aimed at adults. As seen AOT is considered shonen despite it’s graphic violence, so appearances and standards for American programming isn’t the same as Japanese programming.

Just for the record I have seen AOT and DN, but not Madoka or Kill La Kill. (^.^);

#anime #manga #shojo #shonen #josei #seinen #kill la kill

This is so stupid. Kill la Kill, Death Note, AOT, and Madoka are all Japanese kid’s cartoons. Death Note was specifically aimed at younger audiences, this was mentioned in the interviews with the creators in the manga. They said they did this because that way nothing was morally obvious in the series.

Japan doesn’t have the same standards as we do for children’s TV. If you can’t tell that something like Sailor Moon is a kid’s show for Japanese children you need a reality check, weeaboo. Learn the difference between shoujo, shonen, josei, and seinen.

On that note, how can anyone NOT tell Peulla Magi Madoka Magica is a kid’s show?