To everyone else replying to this, she is responding to the idea that someone read less than a quarter of the article, then responded to the whole thing. All of you have good points, including the original reply. Good points that Ms. D’Anastasio also made in the article if you read passed paragraph three.

So I imagine it’s already been alluded to in other comments, but you definitely did stop reading too early. The second point you outlined (“If you are trying to argue that even serious shows have fan service and that’s a problem then that’s what I was expecting to read about and is a more legitimate argument. “) is…

That depends on your dialogue choices. I have yet to pick any of the asshole ones, so me and Hau talk to each other like sisters. Who control biological weapons of unfathomable power, of course.

Hau is not a traditional rival, but he still fits the description in the Japanese mold. Japanese anime and games have had “rivals” in them for a long time, and it’s not always, or even usually, an antagonistic relationship. Rather they seem to regard rivalry as a relationship where two people push each other to…

That was literally my first thought. “Sounds suspiciously like FF14's update schedule”. We wouldn’t be getting a little nervous now, would we Blizzard?

So I saw this story a few days ago from a news source I consider at least somewhat more reliable than Yahoo.

Starred because of your wonderful post. As a liberal who appreciates the need for conservatives to help keep our ideas close enough to earth to succeed, I could not have written that out better.

I did love me some oshawott. I would be more concerned about this, except that me and half my friends are huge Pokemon nerds and i’ll have all three starters within half an hour of starting the game anyway.

Fun fact, he was also 100% against the federal government having anything to do with controlling or printing money. He’s probably been rolling in his grave since they added him to the bill.

The two, being a blogger and being a reporter, are not mutually exclusive, and they haven’t been for a few years. Kotaku has always been one of the more newsy of the Gawker media umbrella, certainly a lot more than the flagship site.

My roommate came up with a nice looking solution using baseball bat cases from Michaels. You just take out the parts that would hold the bat, and it fits all sizes of figures released to date. Looks quite nice, too.

I second this. The elderly should get to have whatever alcoholic beverages they want. If anyone’s earned it, it’s them.

We men do have a tendency to approach almost everything like a class full of snickering kindergartners. As a person of the male persuasion who happens to like other people of the male persuasion, it’s more or less impossible to talk about the boy parts either, much less the facts of lady life. I think maybe most men…

I remember reading somewhere about the various felids that the spines are less like fish hook barbs and more like ribbed for her pleasure bumps. Not sure how true that is.

I like how when it got to FFXIV they used a battle theme that is A) not used for that particular fight and B) very hard to find in the current incarnation of the game.

I really don’t understand the controversy around this song. I like the song, I like the video, I like the imagery. Really shouldn’t that be that? If you don’t like the above, it obviously wasn’t for you. Move on and find a song you like, it’s not like there aren’t new ones all the time.

Not just transgender people, how could this potentially affect someone who needs assistance, if the available caretakers are the opposite gender? Isn’t this also going to inflict undue hardship upon them?

I got a hold of the novel translated into English over four volumes. Much space was devoted to annotations that helpfully kept track of the characters and their relationships as they changed throughout.

It’s worth considering that leprosy as an all consuming disease that everyone needs to watch out for is hammered home repeatedly in both the old and new parts of the Bible. It may be that it’s more obvious to us in the West than it is to many Japanese because we are keyed from our core mythology what this disease…

I was once told that if you really want to understand the Eastern mindset, the story of the Three Kingdoms is an absolute essential to know. It is such a huge part of the cultural underpinnings of China, Japan, Korea, and even their neighbors.