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Random Internet Person said:
Funny, I’ve heard that K-On is basically what happens if you make The Beatles in the style of
Japanese schoolgirls, minus the drugs and infighting.
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It's very much like that.

There was a forum back in the day I used to lurk on that had members insist K-on was yuri, and read into every little detail with yuri goggles.
They'd get into fights with the folks who just wanted K-on to be cute thing.
Ah, those where fun times.🤦‍♀️
 
A.P. Hill said:
That gaijin crying about not being able to vote when you just know he would try and vote for everything that makes Western countries repressive shitholes is exactly what the system is designed to prevent. (Sadly, it likely won't matter in the long run because from what I've read Japanese teens and young adults are exposed to so much regressivism thanks to the Internet that their beliefs are falling in line with genderfucked Western zoomers and sooner or later insufferable faggots like this will be allowed to vote anyways...)
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Well, not to go too current day on this thread, this did recently happen almost a week and a half ago


Keep in mind that this is also from the same country where they are telling their young people to also keep drinking more alcohol to stay alive.
 
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Jonah Hill poster said:
Well, not to go too current day on this thread, this did recently happen almost a week and a half ago


Keep in mind that this is also from the same country where they are telling their young people to also keep drinking more alcohol to stay alive.
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I like to think they're somewhat seeing the effects & results of what legalizing it did in America, & then banning it.
 
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A.P. Hill said:
That gaijin crying about not being able to vote when you just know he would try and vote for everything that makes Western countries repressive shitholes is exactly what the system is designed to prevent. (Sadly, it likely won't matter in the long run because from what I've read Japanese teens and young adults are exposed to so much regressivism thanks to the Internet that their beliefs are falling in line with genderfucked Western zoomers and sooner or later insufferable faggots like this will be allowed to vote anyways...)
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Call me optimistic, but the day they allow this is the day they allow them on actual Japanese art sites other than Pixiv or something similar of that nature. If Japanese netizens allow them in such spaces then, then we're fucked.

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TheClappening said:
If your position on free speech is "I'm pro-free speech, BUT..." you're not pro-free speech.
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I love how he's seething underneath the fact that the lot of us and the rest of the internet think that he and his close circle jerk of cronies are pretty much hated, well, anywhere at all, really. Couple in the fact we all think he's a fraud, a burnt out oldfag weeaboo poser, a manbaby angry that anime isn't "cool anymore like in my day", openly celebrated the death of one of his co-workers (Zac Bertschy) and unveiled the fact that he was such a fucking asshole that even no one at ANN liked him or even gave him health insurance, and an enabler of gatekeeping faggotry, and that we and everyone online who dares to speak ill of him do so because it's well, fucking true, he gets to be a dickless King Louis the XIII and have every detractor decapitated from a guillotine made from laserdiscs.

Hey Canucknigger: Fuck you, fuck your shitty country, and fuck your coward leaf ass and every carpetbagging defector faggot you tend to sleep with because you and him are fucking faggots. Let's see how well you dance to Kodansha's tune before they decide to cut your strings and toss you into a trashfire when you can't anymore.

PS: You shouldn't have said "I hate seeing Kiwifarms online, and I hate the that [Cloudflare] protects them". Along with you, your underlings, and your userbase falsely accusing us of doing shit to you that well, isn't worth our fucking time (other than *gasp!* practicing our free speech to cite and vent our disgust and vitriol against such shitty excuses of human beings like you), we now have reason to believe you're possibly, maybe, just reasonably with cause that you're also in cahoots behind a lot of the shit that's been plaguing KiwiFarms this past summer. I also wouldn't say that we're all entirely behind "the abuse of staff". Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

You fuckfaces sure tout justice and being the "good guys", but you sure don't fucking practice it. Like with Dylan Keilman. How's that fucker doing? Is he in jail yet for being a boy fucker and child molester, and a girlbeater? I hope you have a great answer for this.

When you and Justin Sevakis and the lot of you join whatever non existence Zac Bertschy is in, let us know how it's like. I know we sure won't fucking hear it.
 
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Mothra1988 said:
It's a kind of yuri and was very popular among Japanese lesbian fans, but it's traditional Class S yuri, so to an American I'd call it yuri lite or maybe even Schrodinger's yuri as in it's not blatant and more emotional where you just read the subtext between characters.

Japanese creators seem to like this kind of romance. You can see it in a lot of hetero couples too in standard anime where there's a lot dancing around between the male and female lead but it ultimately doesn't turn into physical romance and just remains hints and subtext. But yeah this was still shojo consumed by Japanese lebians. The unrelated big sis/little sis thing has always been popular with the yuri fandom since like forever.
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It sounds interesting and the art looks nice. It seems very chaste, pure, etc. Reminds me of Dear Brother without the PTSD.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
Mostly that was Mio and Ritsu, along with Yui and Azusa.


Sounds like ANN TBH.
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Funny you say that. The forum was Mania, and the guy who was the most obsessed with doing that moved over to ANN where yes, he constantly got into fights with the regular posters and Zac himself.

Scarlett Johansson said:
It sounds interesting and the art looks nice. It seems very chaste, pure, etc. Reminds me of Dear Brother without the PTSD.
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Im derailing a bit here, But yeah, I totally recommend watching Maria watches over us. It is indeed a kinder Dear Brother, and just as good.
 
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A while back Caitlin poked the hornet's nest:
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"i'm more important than you, nah nahnah nah nah"

As to who, Catlin Moore? Actual artists and authors who make art? Actual animators who bring your "beloved" (aylmao you don't like anime at all I'm not even going to dignify this) anime to life? Actual fans who do like anime and aren't burnt out hipster nostalgia waxers angry they aren't yelling like a slavemaster and/or trust fund baby to get whatever they want like the spoiled dipshits they are?

Don't even fucking say "well at least I'm allowed within 500 feet of playgrounds unlike you". You fuckheads were close friends with Dylan Kielman, who got you all the groomed little boy ass from predating anime conventions for your private newsroom parties and Zac's probably took more secrets than we know with him to his grave.

And you host anime convention panels? I fucking doubt you do now. ANN's got so much shit against it, an anime convention panel hosted by them might as well be named "Anime News Network Fanclub Meeting MEMBERS ONLY". I doubt you fucks can go around an anime convention these days without getting spit or harassed at for being a bunch of unlikable fucktards in real life at a REAL anime convention.

I hope your little escapade on Twitter brings more trolls to harass you, honestly. Musk's in charge and no one other than your scummy little crackerass weeaboos are going to help you there. Get bent and go become like Zac.

Not to turn the topic so suddenly however:

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"JAPAN IDOLIZES EUROPEAN VALUES REEEEEE"

If I was Kosuke Fujishima, I'd fucking sue you for hosting my artwork and for underhandedly calling the Tales series shit. And if we're going by your logic, Japan sure as shit doesn't have to listen to you, ANN.
 
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I Love Beef said:
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"JAPAN IDOLIZES EUROPEAN VALUES REEEEEE"

If I was Kosuke Fujishima, I'd fucking sue you for hosting my artwork and for underhandedly calling the Tales series shit. And if we're going by your logic, Japan sure as shit doesn't have to listen to you, ANN.
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The west idolizes eastern values just as much, for fuck sake cowboy movies were based on samurai movies, some cowboy movies were even 1 to 1 remakes, it's always about appreciating culture until that culture is white
 
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electrician's apprentice said:
The west idolizes eastern values just as much, for fuck sake cowboy movies were based on samurai movies, some cowboy movies were even 1 to 1 remakes, it's always about appreciating culture until that culture is white
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I also love seeing that they blame Japan entirely for the Meiji Restoration and Imperial Japan, despite the fact that it was the Portrugese who let Tokugawa Ieyasu know what bad news they could bring after hearing about what the Spaniards did to Atahualpa in Peru, that it was America who demanded Japan open trade with gunboat diplomacy and fired upon Uraga Bay, marking the night when the Black Ships attacked making it their day which would live in infamy, and that despite the Unequal Treaties, Japan had no other choice but to be just as imperialistic and jingoistic as its so called "praised white man nations", because they saw what the fuck would happen if they didn't.

Did I forget to mention that American Colonialism was something championed by the Democrats back in the day before they played "switch the sides" in the 1970s?

All of this shit reeks of projective actual closet racist horse shit with faux white guilt, something that smarmy know it all 90s era bitter "progressive" nerds high off of anticipating William Gibson's half baked vision of Japan Rules The World cyberpunk had. Back in the 90s, the same nerds also played in with discriminating against Asian Americans for being "model minorities" while wanting to fuck their women. Not surprised it lived on with these assholes.
 
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I Love Beef said:
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"JAPAN IDOLIZES EUROPEAN VALUES REEEEEE"

If I was Kosuke Fujishima, I'd fucking sue you for hosting my artwork and for underhandedly calling the Tales series shit. And if we're going by your logic, Japan sure as shit doesn't have to listen to you, ANN.
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I genuinely don't know what this article is even suppose to be saying. Maybe Im just dumb. Maybe they're dumb. That's a lot of words to say "Japan likes to base some works in western settings" written by someone who likes to hear their own voice.
 
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The Token Ethnic said:
The ghost of Zac Bertschy haunts the ANN forums. https://archive.ph/ZN8Yk https://archive.ph/r4IBA https://archive.ph/K9lSq
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lmao the posts have already been deleted. For the record Blanchimont was skating on thin ice with Lynzee and Psycho/Redbeard back when Mushoku Tensei was airing for defending Rudeus, I believe they actually were threatened with being put on moderation then.
 
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