RIP Joan Rivers.

I've always wondered why students (or young people in general) were so prominent in manga and anime. Even when the protagonists are adults they tend to be man-children, I'm looking at you Great Teacher Onizuka and Welcome to the NHK (2 of my favorite anime and live-action series.) At first I thought it was just…

Surely you jest. Tons of anime classics came from the 90s:

I just hate the term 'anime tropes' because it really depends on how each show pulls it off. A show can be the most cliche thing in existence but can be still enjoyable on how well they handle the storytelling and characters.

Overtime you learn to ignore it.

Most of everything sucks.. Most movies suck, most music songs suck, most games suck, ect. Very rare when most of everything is amazing.. You have amazing animes, decent animes, average animes, bad animes, and terrible anime shows. Just like everything else. You do not have to like it all in order to be an otaku. lol

This sounds pretty normal to me. Lots of anime is terrible.

It isn't just anime. Japanese fiction in general tends to focus on high school, more times than not specifically the second year of high school. This is because, thanks to how Japanese society works, that year is their last year of true careless freedom. Their third year of high school is spent preparing for college…

It's about a team of high school students (of course), who are also super agents based in Tokyo and on the hunt for terrorists. The interesting/weird part comes in the stresses placed on these young agents; if they fail, they will be killed. As will their families, who have all had bombs installed in their heads.…

I'm sure it's not a porn website, but a revenge porn site specifically. Well-known sites like Pornhub have an easy removal process. It goes against their business model to have people complaining & suing them. Sketchier websites like 4chan & sites dedicated to porn from anonymous/questionable sources don't operate…

He has a point. And I'm sure he would agree with me when I say that I've never met a white man that wasn't racist, therefore all white men are racist. Right?

I just hope women out there learn a very simple lesson from all of this. If you don't want the naked photos that you took in the privacy of your own home posted on the internet then, well, the internet can't ever have existed in the first place. So someone is going to have to take it upon themselves to travel back in…

What angers me is that these statements are logically going to come from people who can't empathize with victims & have zero chances of ever becoming victims themselves. Why did I read this article after the one on military assaults?

I know i'm beating the dead horse when I say that turning a famous woman's body into a commodity is vile and horrible, but I am still never-endingly stunned that when there's an opportunity to help or view her in a human light they can't and resort to seeing the entire matter as a property/copyright dispute.

I don't think you have a grasp on what comment moderation is. It's the removal of comments that involve personal attacks, threats, etc. Or graphic images. It has nothing to do with claims of "censorship", as you can see in both threads by looking at the variety of comments and opinions that are still there.

Just a reminder that any comments involving threats and other personal attacks will be removed.

OK, but this post is about the internet hate machine, which is very large. This post is not saying that everyone calling for transparency in journalism is also sending death threats to women, but it sure is condemning the latter group. (And I'll go ahead and say it: if anyone reading this has sent death threats, feel…

You want us to be Dan Hsu? Or you want us to be transparent (as we have been) and ensure we try to avoid, and in the worst case disclose all possible conflicts of interest as Stephen promised we would do when he addressed this all last week? I don't know what else you're asking for from Kotaku.

I wish a letter was enough to stop it. But it's probably too late for our generation. Maybe if empathy training became a requirement in schools starting in kindergarten and going all the way through high school we might see an end to bullies. But that's just one aspect. We also have fanboys who think that because they…

My Facebook feed would suggest that lack of anonymity isn't the only solution.