Field thy anime-related questions, mortals!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:29pm

Yea, For I shall answer to the best of mine ability!
Thus I sayeth unto thee... BRING IT!

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 09:30pm

How can one possibly find women drawn with pencils and pens attractive?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-25 09:31pm

Cyril wrote:How can one possibly find women drawn with pencils and pens attractive?

Not eveyone watches anime to get off on the girls you know. There plenty of that rivals anything on American TV and some of it's pure art.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:31pm

Good question. Yet they do. Perhaps it's a mental catalyst of some kind. Sometimes there is such a thing as better than life.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-25 09:39pm

Why are mecha just so damn cool?

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:41pm

HTF should I know? They're big, they're powerful, they show a unique POV (the pilot and his machie working together), they step on stuff (yesssssss

) and besides, I'd rather pilot a mecha than a tank any day.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:41pm

Why is Yoko Kanno just the best writer of Anime music?
What about Shinchiro Watanabe? Is that man a genious or what?
Megumi Hayashibarra. Is there an Anime that she's done that ISN'T great??

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-25 09:41pm

Why are the Japanese obsessed with Mecha?

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:43pm

What is is about a school uniform?

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:44pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Why is Yoko Kanno just the best writer of Anime music?
What about Shinchiro Watanabe? Is that man a genious or what?
Megumi Hayashibarra. Is there an Anime that she's done that ISN'T great??

1. Because she's a lady and thus puts more emotion into her music?
2. Who's he? Enlighten I.R.
3. Beats me. Everything she's done that I've seen rox0r. Maybe it's just that soothing dulcet voice that makes you go "ahhhhhh".

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:44pm

Stormbringer wrote:Why are the Japanese obsessed with Mecha?

Because they're weedy little runts with inferiority complexes?

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:45pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:What is is about a school uniform?

It's cute. And sexy.

No seriously, I'm not too sure, but school uniforms connote youth and since most Asian men consider being able to bang a young chick the height of virility, they go after them.

I, howver prefer skin-tight outfits...

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:47pm

Shinchiro is the creator of Cowboy Bebop!

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:49pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:Shinchiro is the creator of Cowboy Bebop!

My apologies, my lady. Due to my warped childhood I have not yet watched the Cowboy Bebop anime, though I have read the comic. So, to answer your question:

Yes, he IS a genius. He thinks of all these cool and innovative characters (Me like Faye), and then a storyline that keeps them together and enetertains the masses. Genius material.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 09:50pm

Not eveyone watches anime to get off on the girls you know. There plenty of that rivals anything on American TV and some of it's pure art.

Oh, I know. Some do, however, and that's just bizarre.

My next question:

Why do none of the Japanese people in the shows have black hair?

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:50pm

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
Kelly Antilles wrote:Shinchiro is the creator of Cowboy Bebop!
My apologies, my lady. Due to my warped childhood I have not yet watched the Cowboy Bebop anime, though I have read the comic. So, to answer your question:

Yes, he IS a genius. He thinks of all these cool and innovative characters (Me like Faye), and then a storyline that keeps them together and enetertains the masses. Genius material.

*THWAP* MUST WATCH COWBOY BEBOP NOW!!! Your life is incomplete without it!!!

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-11-25 09:51pm

What the fuck is up with that bigass tear/sweat drop that appears over the heads of characters?

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 09:51pm

I've caught exactly one episode of Cowboy Bebop, when I was at a my cousin's house, on Adult Swim.

It was, incidentally, the very, very last episode.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:52pm

Cyril wrote:
Not eveyone watches anime to get off on the girls you know. There plenty of that rivals anything on American TV and some of it's pure art.
Oh, I know. Some do, however, and that's just bizarre.

My next question:

Why do none of the Japanese people in the shows have black hair?

For flavour. And some anime characters DO have black hair. Motoko Aoyama for one. Shinobu Maehara. Maya Ibuki.

Japanese IRL don't have black hair either. Go into a street and you'll see every colour BUT black on young people's heads, I freaking swear.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:53pm

Durran Korr wrote:What the fuck is up with that bigass tear/sweat drop that appears over the heads of characters?

Supposed to represent anxiety in trying to think of some solution. I'm not too sure myself, but it's pretty hilarious.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:54pm

Cyril wrote:I've caught exactly one episode of Cowboy Bebop, when I was at a my cousin's house, on Adult Swim.

It was, incidentally, the very, very last episode.

Very bad place to start. VERY bad.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 09:54pm

Go into a street and you'll see every colour BUT black on young people's heads, I freaking swear.

Yeah, I noticed that whilst living there. Some sort of cultural thing, I guess. Perhaps they're all fed up with black hair.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-11-25 09:55pm

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:
Cyril wrote:
Not eveyone watches anime to get off on the girls you know. There plenty of that rivals anything on American TV and some of it's pure art.
Oh, I know. Some do, however, and that's just bizarre.

My next question:

Why do none of the Japanese people in the shows have black hair?
For flavour. And some anime characters DO have black hair. Motoko Aoyama for one. Shinobu Maehara. Maya Ibuki.

Japanese IRL don't have black hair either. Go into a street and you'll see every colour BUT black on young people's heads, I freaking swear.

Tenchi has black hair, as to all of the normal earth dwellers. And that chick on Inuyasha.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-11-25 09:55pm

Kelly Antilles wrote:
Cyril wrote:I've caught exactly one episode of Cowboy Bebop, when I was at a my cousin's house, on Adult Swim.

It was, incidentally, the very, very last episode.
Very bad place to start. VERY bad.

There is a reason it's called the end. One does not start at the end and work back towards the beginning.

Also, the last few episodes have all the fun stuff happens and it basically ruins the rest for you because nowhere in the rest of the story will you find anything as intetresting as the last episode.

That;s just IMO of course.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-11-25 09:56pm

Very bad place to start. VERY bad.

Pretty much, yeah.