Pretty sure there’s some kind of cross-promotion going on. Here’s an Inkling drawn by the Squid Girl artist.

Not sure if this is relevant, but my girlfriend was a teaching assistant at a university in Hong Kong for a year, and she noticed this:

Haha, reading Mobius in France as a kid introduced me to comic book nudity. I should probably try reading them again, instead of just flipping to the boobs.

I love how that song completely encapsulates Tony Hawk for everyone.

Hmm. I think I’ll read the manga and then watch the Rebuilds whenever I have free time to. See if I see the show any differently. The Freudian theme is undeniably there, though.

Again, don’t get me wrong: I loved Evangelion and EoE. I hate the message (in my interpretation). I also hate the pedestal people put the series on.

I loved the original series’ hopeful ending. I interpreted the end of EoE a little differently: he left everyone but him and Asuka as orange goo. So the overall message of the show was a big downer to me.

Just like how not every gamer and geek is a basement-dwelling troglodyte, not all Japanese otaku are anxiety-prone hikikomori perverts.

I don’t disagree.

To be honest, Eva is a pretty hazy memory, but this is the way I’ve always interpreted the main message of the show. I don’t think it’s great, I don’t think it’s bad, it’s definitely worthy of plenty of discussion (case in point: this conversation). I might revisit it and finally watch those theatrical films, and read…

I’ve got too many damn consoles and not enough space. I’ll definitely get a Wii U at some point though. The Wii will become a glorified Gamecube.

I swear it also spins the disc for no reason. Once I ejected a disc after leaving it in overnight, on yellow, and it came out really hot. That’s when I started shutting it down to red.

Ah, never knew that model came out. I was looking at my 360 S.

Ha, cool. Thanks!

He’s not a jerk for critiquing anime: he’s a jerk for hating on his own fanbase.

It really is a kind of non-sexual fetishism that’s kinda racist.

The sad part about Black American culture is that everyone outside the US is always way more accepting of the products of said culture than of its people. Like how K-Pop owes so damn much to R&B and Hip Hop, yet I can’t help but remember that story of a black woman trying to go shopping in a South Korean mini-mart,…

Is that an Xbox? Might be something else, like a DVD/Bluray player.

Yeah, shutting it down by holding down the power button until the light turns red shuts everything off properly. Regular shutdown keeps it on and warm for some stupid reason, especially if there’s a disc in the slot.

I never saw anime as the intentional “exporting” of culture, but that the idealized Japanese lives of popular anime characters were inherently appealing to people of other cultures. This led to the symbols and idiosyncrasies of everyday Japanese life to become commonly known anywhere anime has become popular.