admin | June 24, 2011
So, this just came up in Neil Gaiman’s facebook. Apparently an American got arrested in Canada for having creepy manga. Gaiman, a favorite author of mine, cites an old blog post of his in defense of the American…this one’s tough, and I suspect a lot of research will be needed to form a defendable position, [...]
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Tags: manga, Neil Gaiman, rape
Ron | January 12, 2010
Another X-Men? Huh? That’s for kids! Well, this one’s written by Whedon, who is typically a pretty sharp writer. That whole mutant cure arc that X-men 3 drove into the ground? They originally stole it from Whedon. Anyway, I’ve read the original comic version, but you can find a very faithful video version of it [...]
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Ron | January 5, 2010
[I take no responsibility if you google anything in this post.] So I was reading a post on reddit about a kid who made a lot of money, when I came across a term that I had gladly forgotten long ago in one of the comments…I haven’t chatted up with any Japanese nationalists lately denying [...]
Category: Anime/Manga, Art!, Politics, World |
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Tags: comfort women, ero guro, guro, Japan, Korea, nanking, unit 731, war, World War, World War II
Ron | March 30, 2009
Oh man. This is hilarious. I was mildly entertained at first, but after a while I was just bursting out laughing. Pretty good writing and editing, some witty observation about anime in general (some reasons why I kinda got bored of anime). It probably won’t be as funny if you’ve never seen the original, though. [...]
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Tags: abridged, Berserk, funny