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Your likes and hates as an anime fan.
Likes:
Rave Master
Sieg Hart
Soma Cruz
Sieg Wahrheit
Castlevania
Good game reviews
Lovely girls
Fanservice girls
Good graphics
Nice effects
High-quality animation
Well-drawn manga
Good storyline
Dislikes:
People who hate Rave Master (go to hell, Rant Masters!!)
People who rant about it
People who reviews games relentlessly without playing it yet (damn you people who do these cheap stuff!!! You discourage gamers!!!)
Manga/Game/Anime with Mary Sueism and Gary Stueism
Poor Storyline
Poor Artwork
Animes not worth watching
Games not worth playing
Mangas not worth reading
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Likes
Shoujo
Tamahome
Meroko
Full Moon Wo Sagashite
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
GIFs
Anime forums
anime music
good storys
character development
shounen/shoujo ai
hates
Yuuki
shounen that is repeditive
Taka**GRR
pervvy fanboys
annoying fangirls
illiterate anime fans
People who don't join my anime forums
n00bs
Inuyasha
Inuyasha
INUYASHA!
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Likes:
Juuni Kokki
Crayon Shinchan
Atashinchi
Escaflowne the Movie
Shoujo Kakemei Utena
Zonbiya Reiko
Ah! My Goddess
Angel Sanctuary
used Japanese bookstores
Copic markers
good artwork
nice coloring
interesting and intricate storylines w/ sub-stories
good anime soundtracks (because some really suck)
non-static characters
thoughtful character dialogue some of the time
Dislikes
Yaoi and Shounen Ai
people who lust over banging fictional characters
people who learn Japanese because they like anime
people who randomly insert what limited Japanese vocab. they have, trying to impress others.
people who cosplay even though they look nothing like the character
people who talk abut anime all the time
people who like anime, just because it’s anime
RPing in public chat rooms
InuYasha
Dragon Ball
Yugioh
Anne of Green Gables
People who claim to be anime experts and watch cartoon network adult swim only
Adult Swim's anime
dubbed anime
bad subtitling
cliche anime
too much recycled dramatic music in anime
static characters (for example, just look at the InuYasha main characters)
weak and pathetic cute female characters that only serve as fan service
unnecessary angst
Original Plots
-Somewhat depressing with muted background colors involving complex thought (Texhonolyze, Serial Experiments: Lain)
-Totally spastic and bizarre (Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemy)
-If not an original storyline, at least some morbid, gory twists with a few nicely drawn weapons (Hellsing)
Music
-Weird, funky beats
-Choppy techno
-Suspensful, dark, and captivating...stuff
-Melodic, adding to the anime
Dislikes:
Bad C/G
-Zaion...Ai.... Enough said.
Distracting music
Westernized anime
Several others....
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Just for discussion...whats wrong with shounen ai...don't tell me we have a hater on these forums. That ain't cool man..
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Gender: Male Location: Stellar Memories in Rave Master
Likes:
Sexy-red-heads-that-mister-topic-starter-imitates (by the honourable game company, Capcom!)
Fighting games
Good character design
Good storyline
Good soundtrack
Yaoi with a sexy red head ^_^
Dislikes:
Dramatic anime
Stupid stories
Boring anime
People who hate yaoi (because yaoi is a beautiful word ^_^, right?)
People who hate yuri (because yuri is a pretty word and it's between pretty girls)
Dancing bananas in the street like this ---> Eww!
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Last edited by Sieg Hart on Dec 27th, 2004 at 04:02 PM
I could do without companies that think releasing 27-volume manga at a rate of a volume every three months is somehow a good idea.
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Heh, sorry about that. As far as I know it, shounen ai is yaoi minus the legal ages. I'm not into underage boys having sex. Now, if you're just talking about romance between two guys, I don't care. I'm just not interested in stories that focus mainly on shounen ai, or shoujo ai, or yaoi, or yuri, or just plain ai (it doesn't make it any better if it heterosexual either). For eample, I wouldn't be interested in Gravitation, but I don't mind X or Tokyo Babylon... And Sailor Moon's Haurka and Michiru don't bother me either, because the story just doesn't focus on their drama.
YAOI is an acronym for "YAmanashi" (no climax), Ochinashi (no punchline), Iminashi (no meaning). It's not a pretty word. YAOI was made for middle-aged women who were seeking some sort of escapism. Since female roles in Japan confine women, YAOI romances helped them fantasize being outside their female role. >_> That's why some of the guys look like women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri on Yuri... No one really knows where the name came from originally. I actually do love Utena, but I don't know if that actually counts.
Also, while I'm one the subject of shounen ai, yaoi and so on...
...the term sh¨_nen-ai is not used as often in Japan; the wasei-eigo construction Boys Love (boizu rabu) but usually rendered as English, occasionally spelled Boy's Love or Boys' Love, or abbreviated BL) has largely displaced it, due to associations of the original term with pederasty or pedophilia (which were not borrowed into English usage). (This is doubly ironic, since the similar English term boylove has the exact meaning Boys Love was coined to avoid.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shounen-ai
You know, I was a high school student for 1/2 a year in Japan. I joined the manga club, because all kids are supposed to join clubs and I didn't want to work much (I wish I would've taken Kyuudo now...). Some of the members were yaoi fans, but they were closet fans, because it's not considered healthy for teen girls to be into such a thing. It creeps out the boy classmates too (poor boys). Some people are into slash, while others (like me) aren't.
Shounen ai is yaoi minus the explicit sex, at least in common American internet usage.
__________________ "Men curse the Communist Party, but eventually it may release them. If hell were endless, then God would be worse than our Secret Police."--Pastor Valentin
so that explains why hALF the guys in Yaoi look like women. sheesh, if I ever saw such a wimpy looking dude....it would not be pretty, lets leave it at that.
Like I had posted,...the term shounen-ai is not used as often in Japan; the wasei-eigo construction Boys Love (boizu rabu) but usually rendered as English, occasionally spelled Boy's Love or Boys' Love, or abbreviated BL) has largely displaced it, due to associations of the original term with pederasty or pedophilia (which were not borrowed into English usage). (This is doubly ironic, since the similar English term boylove has the exact meaning Boys Love was coined to avoid.)
What you said is like saying that you're an otaku but claiming that you mean it in a good way. Even though when otaku is used to mean other than your home, it's derogatory.
Shounen ai isn't as hard core... You're right about that. But how many manga are going to show 12-year-old boy couples having sex with each-other? And how many YAOI doujinshi do have uneraged sex scenes in them? Hmm? Common American Internet usage? What you mean to say is that as far as you know, yaoi isn't inappropriate... If you want to talk about American Internet usage and boys love, you should be calling it "slash" instead... Which is the English word for the fandom.
Now, just look at this site and try to say that YAOI doesn't also encompass sexually explicit boy and boy and sometimes in bad cases underage boy on man action. http://www.boysonboysonfilm.com/news/ Don't try to argue with me just because I don't like YAOI. I have friends who are into slash and even though I don't like it, I don't tell them not to read or watch it. I don't like porn either, but I'm not going to try to say that people shouldn't watch it.
I'm arguing with you because you're wrong. It's not quite the same thing. And you can stop trying to pretend that Wikipedia is some sort of end-all source because anybody can write anything in Wikepedia, and it will stay there unless someone cares enough to change it.
But since we're quoting other people's definitions and pretending it proves something, the definitions I'm using are from the Anime News Network.
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Dec 19th, 2004 03:42 PM
Eww!
