Comments on: Comic Site Rant: Watashi Rashiku

By: benjamin rymet

benjamin rymet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:29 +0000

omg get a life you stupid bastardsthis anime sux you are ttly queer L2P WoW, btw my name is ben rymer

By: Uthek

Uthek — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:48:40 +0000

Rets has frikking awesome shirts. :o

By: Deranged

Deranged — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:03:39 +0000

Love how the series exploded thanks to this most awesome OP… the series itself was excellent, and I was so happy to see it become an anime. XD

By: hiero_yo

hiero_yo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:44:51 +0000

乙

By: wildarmsheero

wildarmsheero — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44:59 +0000

Well, what I’m saying is it’s probably easier to make the Otaku link with Miyazaki than it is with Kato. I mean, yeah Kato had some otaku stuff, but the connection is pretty weak.

Then again, I don’t know much about how the Japanese media works. All the information I’m getting is coming from the usual Japan Blogs.

By: assaultmecha yoneda

assaultmecha yoneda — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:39:12 +0000

I don’t get how collecting slasher movies brings you anything closer to being an otaku in the modern visual culture sense of the word. So wouldn’t the media have been wiser to attack slasher movie fans instead? And where was the bill to ban slasher movies (compared to the current initiative against 2d lolicon)?

Miyazaki had this crippled hand issue and his grandfather died after being the only person supporting him for years. I think even back then the media knew that these things were more probable to have drived him nuts than reading eromanga or watching slasher movies…

By: wildarmsheero

wildarmsheero — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:31 +0000

Well, Miyazaki had tonnes of eromanga and slasher movies. This guy only had some Touhou games and doujin music.

By: assaultmecha yoneda

assaultmecha yoneda — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:44 +0000

>>wildarmsheero

The smart publications might do so, but if the popular ones rather blame his otakishness out of sensationalism, it might still have a bad overall impact. I think even in the Miyazaki case lots of other stuff went wrong in his life, but instead of focusing on them the mass media successfully besmirched the public image of the otaku…

By: DeathToZippermouth

DeathToZippermouth — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:41:52 +0000

Busou Renkin is the best Shounen Jump series of this decade, and I do love its presence in Nico Nico Douga. So this comic was muchly appreciated. Thank you.

By: wildarmsheero

wildarmsheero — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:47:18 +0000

>>yoneda

The otaku in Kato seems pretty weak. All he had were a few comic books and said like one crazy thing. All the smart publications seem to be focusing on how his life generally sucked.

By: Avisch

Avisch — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:34:02 +0000

This comic came as a shock for me because.

-I’ve decided to try out Busou Renkin recently (I’m on episode 3)

-and I have been yelling “MAKKA NA CHIKAI!”… quite alot.

-the show is hilarious because Jun Fukuyama is most surprising as hotblooded shonen (cause he does a awesome job).

Anyway. Thanks for offering the comic both ways so we could see the effect of the comments. :)

assualtmech yoneda: I very much agree with your feelings

By: assaultmecha yoneda

assaultmecha yoneda — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:51 +0000

Hey wildarmsheero!
Good to hear some statements from you regarding that massacre but all other bloggers I follow are already worrying their heads off whether or not this will revive the the public’s distrust and otaku’s paranoia that characterized the post-Miyazaki era. I’d love to see your opinion on that side of the issue, too. I know it’s always sad when people die and especially when slaughtered so randomly, but this time there might be even more bad consequences, with Akiba as the crime scene and an otaku as the culprit. So when you go to Akiba soon, it might be worth taking the chance and talking to some of the local otaku, asking how they feel about the whole issue…

By: moonspeaker

moonspeaker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:40:04 +0000

Ah, so that’s the kanji for manga….

iie, kore wa america no 4koma desu!

I really should get a kanji dictionary or something…the Genki textbooks don’t really have a whole lot of kanji.

By: wildarmsheero

wildarmsheero — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:23:40 +0000

kore wa america no manga desu ka?wwwwwwww

By: moonspeaker

moonspeaker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:49:14 +0000

I don’t know for sure what those kanji are in the first frame (I’ll admit I absolutely suck at kanji), but is that first comment line asking if that’s how women are in America? I thought the “moee!” line was a nice humorous touch though! And were you trying to criticize yourself with the “this is awful” line?

Anyway, this was definitely spot on, flaming red mass of lyrics and all! I definitely got a good laugh from this one!

And uh, nice job on Tina’s outfit btw… I like the slight essence of Zero no Tsukaima in the black and pink frilly parts…