Comments on: Anti-Americanism in Anime http://hontouni.com/souomou/2006/09/29/antiusanime you really think so? Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:09:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gecko http://hontouni.com/souomou/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-24039 Gecko Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:25:32 +0000 http://www.yayapapayaz.com/handofgory/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-24039 Parris island isn't fictional!!! I CAN GO THERE AND GET MAGICAL MARI-TAN POWERS! No, seriously, I could. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parris_Island Parris island isn’t fictional!!! I CAN GO THERE AND GET MAGICAL MARI-TAN POWERS! No, seriously, I could.
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]]> By: anime|otaku » Blog Archive » Why I write http://hontouni.com/souomou/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-16482 anime|otaku » Blog Archive » Why I write Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:06:16 +0000 http://www.yayapapayaz.com/handofgory/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-16482 [...] That was an isolated post for some time – I didn’t write about anime for at least three months after that. I just kept on reading different anime blogs within that span of time. I decided, however, after getting bored with reading just episode summaries and anime reviews (save for the occasional good read on jpmeyer’s) to start my own. I didn’t intend to write editorials all the time; in fact, I blogged Ergo Proxy until I got so disgusted with the show that I dropped it – at ep19. Yet even now, I still couldn’t write highly referent material like those immersed in the anime world – the fact that I live in a third-world country as part of the lower middle class really narrows the scope of my anime experiences. What I could try doing (I thought), however, was to take anime seriously and anime blogging seriously as well. I saw that it wasn’t done by most anime bloggers (from a personal perspective): they either blogged about popular memes that were worthless in the long run or highly ephemeral episode summaries (in use, at least): once you’ve watched it – poof! – there goes its use. I didn’t see many blogs, however, that took writing about anime seriously (or, from their posts, anime even). I won’t say that I always write seriously about anime, because there’s the occasional post trying to be jocular, but I will say that I try to write in proper English and that I try to write about matters I think will be relevant in the long run (others, of course and as always, disagree). Going back, at that time I started anime|otaku over at WordPress. It wasn’t successful initially, but I’m pretty proud that at its peak it averaged about 900-1000 views a day and belonged to the upper tier of the top 100 WordPress blogs. I was disgusted about myself, however, from my incessant fanboying of Honey and Clover (which, sadly, I still do), so I decided to turn over a new leaf and move here to Animeblogger. [...] [...] That was an isolated post for some time – I didn’t write about anime for at least three months after that. I just kept on reading different anime blogs within that span of time. I decided, however, after getting bored with reading just episode summaries and anime reviews (save for the occasional good read on jpmeyer’s) to start my own. I didn’t intend to write editorials all the time; in fact, I blogged Ergo Proxy until I got so disgusted with the show that I dropped it – at ep19. Yet even now, I still couldn’t write highly referent material like those immersed in the anime world – the fact that I live in a third-world country as part of the lower middle class really narrows the scope of my anime experiences. What I could try doing (I thought), however, was to take anime seriously and anime blogging seriously as well. I saw that it wasn’t done by most anime bloggers (from a personal perspective): they either blogged about popular memes that were worthless in the long run or highly ephemeral episode summaries (in use, at least): once you’ve watched it – poof! – there goes its use. I didn’t see many blogs, however, that took writing about anime seriously (or, from their posts, anime even). I won’t say that I always write seriously about anime, because there’s the occasional post trying to be jocular, but I will say that I try to write in proper English and that I try to write about matters I think will be relevant in the long run (others, of course and as always, disagree). Going back, at that time I started anime|otaku over at WordPress. It wasn’t successful initially, but I’m pretty proud that at its peak it averaged about 900-1000 views a day and belonged to the upper tier of the top 100 WordPress blogs. I was disgusted about myself, however, from my incessant fanboying of Honey and Clover (which, sadly, I still do), so I decided to turn over a new leaf and move here to Animeblogger. [...]

]]> By: Spenz http://hontouni.com/souomou/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-16346 Spenz Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:19:36 +0000 http://www.yayapapayaz.com/handofgory/2006/09/29/antiusanime#comment-16346 I agree with Azar. Though Iraq seems like quite a mess, conversations with people who are actually there paint a very different picture. Never trust the media. There is no news like bad news. If any organization is more guilty of using selective memory to further their own gains, its the media. Learning the sad truth from soldiers who were with these news crews is disgusting. They will report on a battle that never happened; casualties that sounded horrendous but in reality amounted to scrapes and bruises; report insurgents as Iraq 'civilians'. Compare the Iraq of today with the Iraq of yesterday. Today, there is daily violence directed at the US military and the occasional citizen. Yesterday, Citizens would 'disappear' for using a cellphone. Mass graves; torture rooms; chemical genocide on their own people. Tens of thousands died for what? For a dictators paranoia. You might think the same about Bush, but if you go back in time the war was supported by BOTH parties along with two of the greatest speakers, Russia and Britain; hardly a one man decision. Iraq might not seem better than it was before, but unlike before the citizens have a choice whether to change or not. Its yet to be seen if they take this chance and run with it, but it was given to them and foreign lives are being lost every day to enable this choice. The Politics of the world today are far more complex than any one organization likes to make it out to be. In the age of worldwide media, political parties that dont care about the good of the country, and political correctness so outrageous you can offend almost anyone without even knowing it, you must keep an open mind to the situation. Just going with who is loudest wont work anymore. I agree with Azar. Though Iraq seems like quite a mess, conversations with people who are actually there paint a very different picture.

Never trust the media. There is no news like bad news. If any organization is more guilty of using selective memory to further their own gains, its the media. Learning the sad truth from soldiers who were with these news crews is disgusting. They will report on a battle that never happened; casualties that sounded horrendous but in reality amounted to scrapes and bruises; report insurgents as Iraq ‘civilians’.

Compare the Iraq of today with the Iraq of yesterday. Today, there is daily violence directed at the US military and the occasional citizen. Yesterday, Citizens would ‘disappear’ for using a cellphone. Mass graves; torture rooms; chemical genocide on their own people. Tens of thousands died for what? For a dictators paranoia. You might think the same about Bush, but if you go back in time the war was supported by BOTH parties along with two of the greatest speakers, Russia and Britain; hardly a one man decision. Iraq might not seem better than it was before, but unlike before the citizens have a choice whether to change or not. Its yet to be seen if they take this chance and run with it, but it was given to them and foreign lives are being lost every day to enable this choice.

The Politics of the world today are far more complex than any one organization likes to make it out to be. In the age of worldwide media, political parties that dont care about the good of the country, and political correctness so outrageous you can offend almost anyone without even knowing it, you must keep an open mind to the situation. Just going with who is loudest wont work anymore.

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