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^I know of Kenichi Suzumura [Kamui] from FFVII [Zack] and Digimon Frontier [Kouichi], so that's kind of neat.

True dat. Truly sad. Oh my god someone saw someone's happy parts. What is the world coming to. These people need a sexual intervention.

I forgot we're in the bible belt. I still don't like violent literature, same way I don't actually overthink things. Luckily we have lots of drugs, confusing mechanized plastic things & anime anyway so we can shoulder everyone's inane ramblings. If I were one for thinking linearly nobody would be asking me about coding.

No one here is boring me but I'm here for one person only & she's not me.

The whole TRC crew is in Kobato, too.

They appear for one episode, rather. I might watch that again, next.

I will admit I do have a slight elitist streak when it comes to creators and acknowledging their works.

Example: I used to know someone who loved Trigun but yet would always refer to Yasuhiro Nightow as "the guy who draws Trigun" and refused to acknowledge Blood Blockade Battlefront. No, he just wanted more Trigun. It would be the same with Akira; he would never say Katsuhiro Otomo, just "the guy who made Akira" or look up his other works. The only one he seemed to be capable of saying was Akira Toriyama but even then he wouldn't acknowledge Dr. Slump or his post-Dragon Ball works like Cowa!, Kajika, Neko Majin, and Sand Land.

I feel like not acknowledging the creators' names is dehumanizing to them and if you supposedly like a certain creator's art so much, shouldn't you be interested in what else they have done? After reading Boku no Hero Academia, I looked up Kōhei Horikoshi's previous manga and he's become one of my new favorite mangakas.



The same person also called the children's reference to further complain. The head reference worker told him it's not a "cartoon" and it's rated TV-14 so we put it with the adult level videos instead of the juvenile level ones. The idiot replied "What? Adults don't watch cartoons!" Apparently this moron never watched The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Beavis and Butthead, Ralph Bakshi's movies, and any classic cartoons. He's also unaware of Adult Swim.

^Judging people for ignorance won't really help.

Do you mean both points?

^Both points? Um...I guess?

I think that this runs into the term "cartoon", that for many it is a term for children's entertainment, and then they kind of use it as a blanket for animation. If they think of cartoons as a children's thing, then maybe they need to realise then that not all animation is what they consider cartoons, which is why I think we use the "anime" label, along with adult cartoons. The best you can probably do is try to explain to them that not all animation is for children just as anything can be, that there is an entire market they are unaware of, and tell them to just google "cartoons for adults". I know it was kind of shocking when I was finding out that not all animation is for kids, of course at a certain point they are likely to stand their ground in ignorance rather than fear what they already know about the world is wrong, maybe why all you can do is live by example in keeping an open mind.

Also people can watch any cartoon. It is their problem and not yours.

I'm in my mid 20s and I still like to watch Hey Arnold and Rugrats. So...adults do watch cartoons.

Exactly. The guy's ignorance is mind boggling.

I really need to get my BD set up, so I can watch my favorite anime about Japanese rednecks, Non Non Biyori.

I mean, if this thread also has to turn into a discussion of rednecks, I won't resist the inevitable.

If rednecks terrorized you for your interests and called you a "ching chong lover", you'd feel defensive about them as well.

This interaction shows one way your obsessions interfere with relating to people. You have an ax to grind, and because you keep thinking about it, you bring it up in the context of all kinds of other discussions. When not on this topic, you have some interesting things to say.

Also, you don't know me. How can you assume an autistic guy could grow up in small town Texas during the 70s and 80s and not know a thing or two about being bullied? Oh, it fits your narrative. I'll say it again: Watamote.

Nyanpasu!


I was sure that there was something I could relate to with Japanese rednecks, like something I saw recently, and I think it would be Sakura Quest, which has the setting of some girls having the job to revitalise a small Japanese town, it has been quite fun. And I am pretty sure one of the characters has some form of autism, she has had a hard time by being somewhat bullied or called a problem because of her uncommon interest. It has especially a really nice scene in regards to helping this.