Wait, he ripped up the porno magazine and drove it to the dump? Is he also trying to ban fire or something?

I live in Japan, and one thing that ruins it for me is when girls say that they like "foreign guys" and then can't really elaborate on why or even what country.

Where the hell are the Metropolitan Police?

Metal detecting will pay off...eventually.

It is pretty awkward to have a family member owe you a lot of money and know that they would pay it back if they could, but...

The Devil Wears Prada may have been about women, but was the movie really doing a service to women? As a man, it's hard for me to say, really, but it felt like the movie was portraying a highly caricatured view of what can be called, "the world of the modern woman."

I think that the tax write-off for having children is the other side of the legal obligation to take care of one's own children. I see it as part of the Social Contract, in which society demands of parents that they care for their children and, in return, society gives those parents a tax break.

A Department of Education crackdown? That sounds awesome! I can't wait to see the Bruckheimer treatment.

This really sounds like the kind of thing that a psychopath would write. And I mean that in a serious and literal sense. I mean, this guy seems like he would fit the clinical definition of psychopathy to the letter.

I'm guessing it will be vaguely similar to 20th Century Boy...

Emperor Meiji did no such thing. That policy was enacted in his name by the oligarchs who were actually running the country at the time. The Emperor, as he had been throughout the last thousand years of Japanese history, was little more than a figurehead.

You could make the same claim about fan fiction. You could also look up the word "canon" (with one "n").

No, the one that came first is canon. Anime is usually based on manga so the manga is usually canonical, but in this case it was the anime that came first.

I haven't been in many Korean girls' rooms, so I've got to ask: is that typical? That looks like an enlarged version of a Barbie play set.

Meh, the manga isn't canonical.

Otaku aren't into young girls, man. At least not, you know, young girls who exist in a three-dimensional sense...

I think it's really some of the other stuff he's saying that earns him the misogynist label.

Here's a footnote. At the company where I work, people receive a small per diem when they go on business trips (usually about 30 to 40 dollars per day, depending on distance traveled and whether they have to spend the night) and many men have separate bank accounts that are solely for keeping the per diem money from…

Oh my god, Pi reference! I love that movie!

I'm doing the exact same thing as you, even though my company reimburses me for commuting expenses. I just want the extra time and extra sleep.