Comments on: The Internet Is Filled With Idiots http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:07:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: tomoyo http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38718 tomoyo Fri, 09 May 2008 06:50:55 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38718 Yeah, it's getting out of hand... I guess it had to happen at some point. I assume there's subtle references to the original "host" manga here and there, but I haven't gone back and looked yet. Actually I picked up vol. 1 of it since I posted here, and it's not bad, though Ryofuko doesn't show up until later volumes (at this point it's just the "Papiko" character's franchise and some shoujo thing I forget the name to). Gomanga.com's got the first chapter of the manga previewed here: http://gomanga.com/webmanga/index.php?series=iotaku&page=1 It isn't NHK or Genshiken (at least not at this point...it has been running for a while now), but it's got some good lines here and there, and some good jokes at the expense of the "three dimensionals"... Yeah, it’s getting out of hand… I guess it had to happen at some point. I assume there’s subtle references to the original “host” manga here and there, but I haven’t gone back and looked yet. Actually I picked up vol. 1 of it since I posted here, and it’s not bad, though Ryofuko doesn’t show up until later volumes (at this point it’s just the “Papiko” character’s franchise and some shoujo thing I forget the name to). Gomanga.com’s got the first chapter of the manga previewed here: http://gomanga.com/webmanga/index.php?series=iotaku&page=1

It isn’t NHK or Genshiken (at least not at this point…it has been running for a while now), but it’s got some good lines here and there, and some good jokes at the expense of the “three dimensionals”…

]]> By: ESPY http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38692 ESPY Fri, 09 May 2008 03:33:14 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38692 The first volume of Mech was underwhelming. The second volume, boasting many more contribs from...you know...actual Japanese people was a vast improvement. The best one though for my money is Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Anything with Takayuki Tatsumi is solid gold. The first volume of Mech was underwhelming. The second volume, boasting many more contribs from…you know…actual Japanese people was a vast improvement. The best one though for my money is Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Anything with Takayuki Tatsumi is solid gold.

]]> By: Jusuchin http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38495 Jusuchin Wed, 07 May 2008 21:00:09 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38495 Me not knowing about Mechademia until now proves I will know more about modern military innovations than stuff about anime... Me not knowing about Mechademia until now proves I will know more about modern military innovations than stuff about anime…

]]> By: Link http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38494 Link Wed, 07 May 2008 20:59:57 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38494 Here at Pretentious Anime Magazine Monthly we pride ourselves on our anime reviews that span five pages. If it's any shorter, it's not intelligent enough. And that's only our shortest review this issue. Anime is serious business, guys. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Here at Pretentious Anime Magazine Monthly we pride ourselves on our anime reviews that span five pages. If it’s any shorter, it’s not intelligent enough. And that’s only our shortest review this issue.

Anime is serious business, guys. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

]]> By: TheBigN http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38475 TheBigN Wed, 07 May 2008 16:28:18 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38475 Granted, I'm on that mailing list, actually. :P And I have the two volumes of Mechademia released already. At times, it ends up being <I>too</I> academic, and in a way heavily biased. :3 Granted, I’m on that mailing list, actually. :P

And I have the two volumes of Mechademia released already. At times, it ends up being too academic, and in a way heavily biased. :3

]]> By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38467 wildarmsheero Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:59 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38467 So wait, the show-within-a-show has been made into an anime and the actual manga hasn't? LOL I don't know much about Napier, so I can't say anything. That sounds pretty bad, though. So wait, the show-within-a-show has been made into an anime and the actual manga hasn’t? LOL

I don’t know much about Napier, so I can’t say anything. That sounds pretty bad, though.

]]> By: tomoyo http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38417 tomoyo Wed, 07 May 2008 05:42:36 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38417 Ah, Susan Napier...I hope she's amended her ways in more recent years. Her first widely published book on anime, written after a whopping *five years* of anime interest, gave Ah My Goddess and Gunsmith Cats as examples of "shoujo" while the then still-airing in the US dubbed (ick) Sailor Moon was pretty much beneath her notice as it was something her kid watched and is only mentioned briefly elsewhere as an example of children's anime along with Pokemon. Other parts of her book showed her strengths from her background in Japanese culture studies and such, but with stuff like that it was hit or miss. I've cringed ever since when she's been interviewed in media as an expert on the anime subject. >__> *** Meanwhile, while I'm here, curse you for posting a while back about Ryofuko-chan! (which somehow had escaped my radar) Now I'm stuck...has there been a subbed 3&4? And I have to also collect "I, Otaku" now I know Ryofuko-chan originated as the "show within the manga" a la Kujian with Genshiken. The anime is directed by veteran animator Yuji Moriyama no less. He sure seems to like doing weird loli anime in his later career (Koutetsu no Densetsu, Jungle De Ikou, etc...although I guess his old Pop Chaser and Project A-ko dip into that territory too some, more or less), while still keeping his reputation as a kick ass animator, especially for openings. /way, way OT spam, sorry... Ah, Susan Napier…I hope she’s amended her ways in more recent years. Her first widely published book on anime, written after a whopping *five years* of anime interest, gave Ah My Goddess and Gunsmith Cats as examples of “shoujo” while the then still-airing in the US dubbed (ick) Sailor Moon was pretty much beneath her notice as it was something her kid watched and is only mentioned briefly elsewhere as an example of children’s anime along with Pokemon. Other parts of her book showed her strengths from her background in Japanese culture studies and such, but with stuff like that it was hit or miss. I’ve cringed ever since when she’s been interviewed in media as an expert on the anime subject. >__>

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Meanwhile, while I’m here, curse you for posting a while back about Ryofuko-chan! (which somehow had escaped my radar) Now I’m stuck…has there been a subbed 3&4? And I have to also collect “I, Otaku” now I know Ryofuko-chan originated as the “show within the manga” a la Kujian with Genshiken. The anime is directed by veteran animator Yuji Moriyama no less. He sure seems to like doing weird loli anime in his later career (Koutetsu no Densetsu, Jungle De Ikou, etc…although I guess his old Pop Chaser and Project A-ko dip into that territory too some, more or less), while still keeping his reputation as a kick ass animator, especially for openings.
/way, way OT spam, sorry…

]]> By: Pinky's Brain http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38382 Pinky's Brain Tue, 06 May 2008 23:00:45 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38382 A purely explanatory essay without value judgments is not a review at all in my books, it needs critique. A purely explanatory essay without value judgments is not a review at all in my books, it needs critique.

]]> By: IKnight http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38367 IKnight Tue, 06 May 2008 21:39:59 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38367 Picking up on digitalboy, I always thought Mechademia must be profitable, or at least must make more money than your average academic journal. I mean, I salivate over Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, but there isn't a substantial market of interested amateur fans of Edmund Spenser out there. At least, not to my knowledge. Picking up on digitalboy, I always thought Mechademia must be profitable, or at least must make more money than your average academic journal. I mean, I salivate over Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, but there isn’t a substantial market of interested amateur fans of Edmund Spenser out there.

At least, not to my knowledge.

]]> By: DrmChsr0 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38363 DrmChsr0 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:10:32 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38363 needs more nuts. needs more nuts.

]]> By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38356 wildarmsheero Tue, 06 May 2008 20:03:24 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38356 Mechademia is an annual academic journal. Don't compare it to Newtype. Mechademia is an annual academic journal. Don’t compare it to Newtype.

]]> By: digitalboy http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38355 digitalboy Tue, 06 May 2008 19:57:47 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38355 Sounds good, but I'm afraid it's going to suffer the same thing that I imagine made Newtype go under - the fact that I could buy a damn manga volume for the same price. Sounds good, but I’m afraid it’s going to suffer the same thing that I imagine made Newtype go under - the fact that I could buy a damn manga volume for the same price.

]]> By: wildarmsheero http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38344 wildarmsheero Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:49 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38344 Mechademia can be purchased off <a href=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mechademia&x=0&y=0 rel="nofollow">Amazon</a> Mechademia can be purchased off Amazon

]]> By: tj han http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38341 tj han Tue, 06 May 2008 18:56:03 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38341 Sounds good, where do we get this? Sounds good, where do we get this?

]]> By: Lelangir http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38335 Lelangir Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:07 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38335 Everyone is intelligent but then, I guess according to Gramsci, there is "the organic intellectual" - the blogosphere intelligentsia. Everyone is intelligent but then, I guess according to Gramsci, there is “the organic intellectual” - the blogosphere intelligentsia.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38333 Michael Tue, 06 May 2008 18:20:42 +0000 http://blog.mistakesofyouth.com/2008/05/06/the-internet-is-filled-with-idiots/#comment-38333 Your input in that post was so ... concise. Your input in that post was so … concise.

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