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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt57331.html

Got Bored Made A Random Thread LOL.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All the other anime fans I've met are either obese, hyperactive fangirls or goths. Then again, I haven't actually been around that many anime fans, because there aren't many where I live.

I'll admit that I love yaoi. Even worse, most of my ships are crossovers and I'm a huge fan of mpreg (whether yaoi-induced or otherwise). I also tend to imagine and draw myself interacting with my favorite characters.

BUT. I don't go around shoving it in other peoples' faces, either on the Internet or in public. Most of my fangirlish nonsense is carried out within my sketchbooks and in my own head, and at the very most, around my mom or my brother.

And that's what sets me apart from a great number of other fans: the common sense to not go around acting like a 5 year old. I just wish that other fans took their hobby seriously and had some self-respect.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, some yaoi fangirls I know are cool, but aren't available Sad
I sometimes give them ideas for stories Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a part-time Yaoi/Yuri fan and over-six-year-old pokemon fan (although only first gen stuff, ranger and crystal. >>) And cosplayer. XD

I don't see why there's anything wrong with it unless you're shoving it in someone's face. Gravitation and Loveless are two of the best anime/manga out there (although, dear god, the megamixes for Gravitation scare me).
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Utena is probably the best yuri out there. I've written bisexual yuri relationships into my stories before.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yuri is wonderful. There's just something really sweet about two girls being in love... *dreamy sigh*

Great, now I'm going to be on a yuri-drawing kick for the rest of the day!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Horrah, Yuri support! ^____^

Utena? What's that? I like the girls out of Loveless best of all, they're adorable.

And good luck with that drawing kick, IdahoRose!
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Purplefluffychainsaw wrote:
good luck with that drawing kick, IdahoRose!


Thank you. Maybe, if you all want, I can show you some of my work when I'm done.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Utena is a really old one, but it has a few psychological themes going through, one is the issue of the main character's masculinity and the fact that she is meant to marry the damsel in distress after rescuing her.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for this informative thread. I will certainly watch it because I want to know what the hubbub is about.

I asked my friends mom what the deal was with stargate and she loaned me all of them up to the first year without the Mc Guyver guy in it. Turned my brain to slush for a while.

Next i'll have to find a anime fan willing to loan. Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i am an anime fan

i do not like hentai i think it is disturbing and wrong.
I am not a fan of yaoi or yuri. I don't fantisise about characters being involved in yaoi or yuri type scenes
i am not a hikkamori(someone who is shut in their room 24/7) (i do go out and i have a job and stuff)
i am not a naturtard that takes things too far.

thats my little rave about misconceptions of anime fans.
anyway does anyone know a narutard? someone that is ultra obsessive about naruto? someone that thinks they can pass an exam by not doing it? some one who eats nothing but ramen 24-7? someone who says believe it! a lot.?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

narutard, haven't heard that one. But I like it! Very Happy
certainly fits them, I hate everything about Naruto. Its the Dragonball Z of the new generation.
I liked the original Dragonball though.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A list of stereotypes of anime fans (some of which contradict others, some of which are gender specific, and some of which apply more to stereotypes of anime fans in "western" countries rather than Japan, or vice versa)

-Socially isolated
-Obsessive
-Overweight
-Porn addicts
-Immature
-Incapable of making themselves liked
-Creepy in a "reason-your-parents-told-you-not-to-talk to strangers" kind of way (Usually a stereotype specific to male anime fans)
-Hyper (Usually more specific to female anime fans)
-Girly (As with "Hyper")
-Unsuccessful with preferred gender
-Conformist (Since it seems to be a growing trend among secondary school students in the United States)
-Try too hard to be cool and fail miserably


And for some reason my mother, who used to teach middle school English classes half-full of female anime fans, seems to be under the misapprehension that anime is specifically a "guy thing"
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

windscar15 wrote:
narutard, haven't heard that one. But I like it! Very Happy
certainly fits them, I hate everything about Naruto. Its the Dragonball Z of the new generation.
I liked the original Dragonball though.


narutard is a term that i have heard used quite a bit, anyway i have heard someone describe naruto as dragonball z with ninjas.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm an anime fan.
(watched it obsessively when I was 15 but then stopped for 3 years (I'm now 1Cool

I do not have anything against hentai. First I think that drawn girls are always more beutiful than real girls. The same is with boys actually. For me it's less disturbing than real porn. I don't watch neither of those to much (maybe watched like 5 henais in my whole life) (and one porno with friends "for kicks))

I really don't like hentais which have incest in them. I really don't even understand the psychology behind their popularity. Some people qoute Freud on "displaying love for each other", but if Freud said that it has to be one of his theories I don't agree with.


I like a certain type of anime. I like boogiepop phantom, paprika, FLCL, excel saga etc. And that's because they're at least original. I'm bored from watching the same story over and over again. I want something new, something with symbolisim. Something similar to mulholand drive.
(My favorite non anime movie)


I do not brag about liking anime, in fact most of my aquaintances don't know I'm into it.

Since I live in a place where anime is not popular one misconception might be that anime fans always have to be obsessed with it, and another that if you like one anime you have to also like naruto, dragon ball and the rest.
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