The Adventurers passing through are probably the only trade they'll see in years.

So, do people just live inside of them, Hoth style?

I always thought that was a weird part in a lot of Final Fantasy games…. what does a normal person do when there are living mushrooms that spew poison that does 5555 damage and penguins with insta kill knives?

It's probably not fair to paint all of Japan with the responsibility for Otaku weirdness, certainly… I know American comics have their own sexual issues too. Which is it's own interesting question. Is there anything you see a lot in American movies or TV that makes throw your hands up and say "Come on America"? Is…

Have you seen that picture of him feeding his human wife a spoon of ice cream? You could see him thinking 'Is the human venomous? I should be careful around the fangs"

I think Trump has the highest unfavorability rating ever for a candidate. But I think that's just because Cruz isn't as loud.

It just seems hard to take any one that anti-masturbation seriously. You don't have to talk about it, and, good lord, please don't, but when you pretend that you don't do it, and that it's wrong, everyone just looks at you and thinks "mmmhmmm. Riiiight."

While I doubt that this particular movie would focus on the Buddhist connections, it's not like we don't have Buddhism here in America too… and their discussion of the soul is certainly not so different that I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Maybe? I was thinking of the over sexualization of 14/15 year olds, and all the cheesecake/ecchi stuff that infiltrates so many main stream titles. Just once I'd love to watch some anime with a love story where the main character didn't 'accidentally' sexually harass someone.

I would be happy with that option too, of course. The Japanese woman that did Pacific Rim even has a very similar look to the picture above.

Definitely… that's what I'd be most comfortable with too. Honestly, I'd love for ideas from anime to inspire more American stuff, just so that we could see the cool ideas without all the Japanese weirdness.

I get that, but I also don't think its true that you can't adapt good ideas from other cultures either. Solaris is a formative bit of Polish/Soviet sci-fi, but the themes and ideas work perfectly well elsewhere. We shouldn't wall ourselves of from the experiences of other cultures, though we shouldn't white wash…

I think it just depends… it sounds like this is set in Japan, and her character is supposed to be Japanese. Which is uuugh. But I don't know for sure.

Eh. No. Look at some Japanese cosplayers sometime, they really don't look that different from the characters they're dressed as, if you discount the huge anime eyes.

Anime is stylized though…. Japanese people think they look Japanese, not white.

Ah, I'd heard it reported as "Major Matsuko something something I forget her Japanese name."

I would only accept that if one of them kept repeating 'Kristen Shall is a tank' over and over again.

They did have a robot spider tank in the original movie, but that was about as much as we got.

My reaction to this is just… why keep her Japanese? Why treat this like Edge of Tomorrow and take the ideas and setting to America? It's not like we don't have a rich tradition of cyborg cops over here.

But his name was somehow important enough to override yours? Yeesh.