| Have you noticed things about anime fandom that make you so mad, you want to give it a huge bitch slap for its idioticy? Does it make you think that all anime fans are nothing more than a bunch of whiny, conceited, self-righteous twits without a clue? Well, join the club! I’m starting to think that’s what they are, along with many other people. Think I’m lying? Type in the words “crazed anime fans” in yahoo search and see how many links pop up. Stupidity has no bounds as more and more anime fans engage in behavior that’s rather…disturbing and creepy. Witness the moronic antics of delusional anime fangirls who think they rule the Internet. Witness these same lame brained losers who think they are so “cool” because they flamed some stranger online. It’s enough to make a sane person wish they could put their hand through the computer screen and the choke the hell out of these idiots. Don’t get me wrong; good and decent anime fans do exist out there. Unfortunely, they are the minority in fandom. The people I’m referring to are the nut balls and lamers who who think they are the cat’s meow because they prefer to watch subs, speak in that ridiculous half English/half Japanese jibbish, and are the so called “miko” of some male anime character. Well, here are some pet peeves about anime fans, which quite frankly, pisses me the hell off. *People who call themselves otaku (In other words, you’re calling yourself a nerd.) Not only are you embarrassing yourself but think about the Japanese who are probably laughing their butts off at your stupidity for using that term. It’s considered to be an insult in that country. Know the true meaning behind foreign words before you use them. The same rules applies to anime fans that think they are so called experts on the Japanese language. I’ve seen these so called know-it-alls use Japanese phrases that may sound cool to them but translated into English probably means “My cross eyed cat laid eggs on your head!” There are flamers who love to type out insults in Japanese, believing it intimidates their victim. Actually, it makes them appear to be some nut ball that escaped from the mental institution, which is laughable. It also makes the flamer appear incredibly stupid to any real Japanese person, and like a blithering idiot to anyone else. I mean, why waste all that time copying Japanese flames out of guestbooks, or pouring over a Japanese dictionary just to find out what the word "sucks" is in Japanese when someone reading it isn't going to have any idea what it is? Any loser can do that. Many anime fans also have this crazy idea of adding many Japanese words and phrases in fanfics, thinking it makes them better. Its really a lame attempt by the author to cover up his/her incompetent writing skills. Plus, the author wants to show off his/her "knowledge" of the Japanese language which is annoying to a serious reader such as myself. Fully understand the language itself for the RIGHT reasons. Speaking a few random Japanese words or phrases to try and appear “hip” or “cool” is rather pathetic. The Japanese would consider that to be an insult if you didn’t know what the hell you were saying, not fully understanding their language as a whole and your interest of it because of the anime. And this trend for white teenagers pretending to be Japanese, the madness needs to stop…now. *Fan girl worship (Swooning over male anime characters that could care less about you.) Why is it whenever I visit the typical fan girl websites or message boards I always see the same damn thing over and over again? The sickeningly cute drawings of male anime characters as kitties or “bishonen”, the annoying as hell half English/half Japanese geek speak, and the name “neko”, “miko”, or what ever the hell they want to call themselves applied as a self title. It never fails and I could bet my life that all fan girl hangouts are like that which is why I don’t visit them, anymore. They are so friggin’ redundant it bores me to tears just thinking about it. The only purpose of these sites is for these flaky chicks to show their unhealthy obsession for a cel drawing that doesn’t even know they exist. If they could have sex with the anime character, they would. That’s their biggest goal in life, to do the humpy dance with their main anime guy. Pretty pathetic, isn’t it? They seem like the type who talk to their anime pics and cry when they don’t answer back. [snickers] They even get jealous to the point they fight over the character like they are his friggin’ girlfriends. I mean, what the hell?! Like sheesh, they need to grow up and get a life. Maybe getting a REAL boyfriend would help but they probably couldn't get a real boyfriend even if they tried. [laughs] Gundam Wing fan girls tend to be the most idiotic when it comes to throwing jealous hissy fits over an certain anime character they have the hots for. [cough] Treize [cough] [cough] The Japanese creators of Gundam Wing are probably laughing themselves sick over their antics. If I was Yoshiyuki Tomino, I know I would be shaking my head in disbelief. Admiration is one thing, but treating anime characters like some sort of sex god is just taking it a bit too far. Note to fan girls: Just take a deep breath and keep telling yourself, “He’s not real, he’s not real…” *Flamers (Losers who harass people online for no reason.) Anybody who has spend a great deal of time on the ‘net like me has been flamed. If you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. The ‘net is full of nut balls and crackpots who have nothing else better to do than to terrorize others for their own sick amusement. Many of them visit websites so they can flame the site’s guest book just for the hell of it. Sickos, punks, cowards…losers. It all applies to them and anime fans that flame are no exception. I’ve seen people get flamed over the stupidest crap that doesn’t make any friggin’ sense. Its getting to the point that people can’t post stuff on their own websites without some doofus coming along and flaming them. And you know what the flamers have the nerve to say? They think anytime you put up an email addy or guestbook on your site, you are opening yourself up to be harassed. That’s a load of bull. That’s like saying a woman who wears a short skirt is asking to be rape and that’s just plain wrong. Have you noticed flamers love to say “You sux!” or “Your websight sux!” but never give the reasons why or if they do, it doesn’t make any damn sense? They love to criticize other people’s work because they get their jollies by acting like jackasses online, hiding behind the computer screen like the cowards they truly are. Now, to the flamers’ point of view, it would appear they have done something “cool” whenever they send a threatening email but you may want to think twice about that. For one thing, you don’t know if the person who’s receiving your little message is a crazed lunatic and if that person is anything like me, they may decide to do the following: The flamee sees new mail and decides to take a look at the message in their inbox with the rather moronic header, “U sux!” Of course, flamers don’t know how to use spell check, or how to write a proper sentence and paragraph, so the person may spend most of his time trying to figure out what the hell you’re trying to say to him. And heaven forbid, if you even misspelled the curse words. That really show how much of an uneducated jackass you are. After laughing over your crappy email, he may delete it or decide to show it to his friends and family. They take turns laughing and making fun of your poor grammar skills, calling you the usual names such as, “retard” and “dumb butt” Just to name a few. And if he’s feeling really evil, he may post up your little message on a mailing list or message board for his online friends to rip apart. And if he has a website…well, you get the picture. A simply response to your email is not going to do for him. So, you see, you may want to think twice about clicking that send button on your email program. After all, you opened yourself up to be harassed when you decided to click that person’s email addy on his website. And remember this, kiddies: What you don’t know can hurt you. *Sub vs. dub (The lamest debate ever known to man.) I would like to say this to the anime fans who love to debate about this subject over and over again on the anime related MLs or MBs: Please, shut up! This crap has been going on longer than necessary and frankly, its giving me a headache. If you like to watch subbed anime, fine, so by all means watch your subbed anime. I don’t have a problem with that. I happen to like subbed anime, myself. What I have a problem with is when these elitist so called fans go around, spewing this bullcrap about how other people should watch their anime as subbed and not dubbed. They think only losers watch dubs. Listen, I was watching anime before most people knew what anime was. I will admit, anime dubs truly did suck during those days. [flash backs to Akira] but now, dubs have come a long since then. I really don’t understand what the big fuss is about. I would have understood it back in the day but now, this stupid debate is getting rather lame and redundant as hell. It’s like beating a dead horse. Being an anime fan myself, I can’t help but notice something. If an anime show is lousy in the English version, changes are, it was lousy in the Japanese version. Language doesn’t have a damn thing to do with it. Want to prove me, wrong? Well, be my guest but I have a couple of examples in case you are interested. The good: Witness the anime Macross Plus, it kicked butt in the original Japanese and it still kicked butt in the translated English version. The bad: Witness the anime Project A-KO, it stunk like hell in the original Japanese and it still stunk like hell in the translated English version. The list goes on and on, especially with the Gundam shows, they kick butt and take names in any language. There are other factors, which determine an anime’s true worth such as plot, action, character interaction, storyline, etc. The voice actors themselves also play a role in this, too. They are the ones who give life to the characters they portray. But this bias assumption that people who watch subs are better than people who watch dubs is rather…pointless. I think most pro-subbers are into it so they can say, “I only watch subbed anime! Ain’t I cool?” It does appear that way. And please, stop this pathetic whining and whimpering about Gundam Wing being dubbed. Like damn, you should be grateful you had a chance to watch GW, PERIOD! I knew about GW for years before it hit the North America shores so I was thrilled when I heard it was coming to television. That was over two years ago, since then; GW has been taken off the air. But lo and behold, the anime fans were upset because it was edited for children. Why the hell do you think they had Midnight Run?! I mean, sheesh, give me a friggin’ break. If you hate the English version of GW that much, go to the nearest Sun Coast video store and buy the VHS Japanese version. Or if you have a DVD player like me, you can always change the options to Japanese viewing. Even better still, move to Japan and you can watch all the anime to your little heart's desire.Then again, living in Japan will not be a dream come true for the fangirls. It is, after all, a male dominated society. If you actually believe that wonderful illusion about women living in Japan from watching anime, boy are you in for a culture shock! [snickers] Just do the rest of the world a favor and shut up or ship out. *Yaoi (Love is love…yeah, right. More like sex is sex.) The subject of yaoi is bought up more times than necessary in anime fandom. The yaoi crowd usually consists of social and mental dysfunctional fangirls who have the nerve to call them themselves “open-minded”. If that isn’t a load of BS. Just whom do they think they’re fooling? They are anything but open minded, they are really the most close-minded bunch of people I’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting. I get the feeling they are into because, like sheep, fan girls will follow anything, no matter how lame or tasteless it may appear. Hell, anything dealing with sex is enough to catch their attention and that happens to be the hook. If they could write stories about Loony Tunes characters getting it on with each other, they would. It’s not enough for them to like yaoi, but they think they can force, yes FORCE people to like it as well. And if you don’t have a liking for it, they label you as “homophobic” which is absurd. You see, everyone is not going to like the same things as you do. Its called having a preference. I have family and friends who hate anime but I’m not going to force them into liking it, that’s their choice. Nor do they ridicule me for being an anime fan. People who are truly open-minded understand that other people are not going to like the same things as they do and move on. It’s the idiots that have a problem with this notion; those tend to be the ignorant ones with out a clue. Those are the ones who hate people with a mind of their own, meaning, people who have the ability to decide for themselves whether they like yaoi or not. If it’s the latter, the pro-yaoi fans go into these childish temper tantrums, not believing that person dislikes something they like. They may even resort to bully tactics, flaming and harassment, in hopes of making that person change his views. And remember these are supposed to be the “open minded” fans. Anti-yaoi fans are not any better; many tend to act rather buffoonish when it comes to confronting the pro-yaoi fans. So, before you pro-yaoi fans use the term “homophobic” or whatever, think of it like this: your actions indicate you are, well…“heterophobic”. Don’t like that term? Then may be you should think twice about slapping labels on people out of narrow minded thinking. Just because you think a certain way doesn’t mean we all have to. Like I said before, I’m not against all anime fans. It’s the self-righteous hypocritical pricks I have a problem with. They are the ones who take certain anime shows too seriously and take the joy out of watching them. And I admire people who have the guts to stand up for them selves and not follow the crowd like a bunch a weak pansies. Those are the ones who are most hated by anime fan girls, mostly out of jealousy. It would seem easier to just follow the crowd but why do that? Be your own person and do your own thing. That is more gratifying than catering to a bunch of back stabbing, good for nothing, low life twits who could care less about you. Sometimes, its best to just keep to yourself because lets face it, anime fans tend to be rather rude to each other online. Visit any number of guest books and message boards to see what I’m talking about. Most of them are very young, anyway and they think intimating people online make them feel like they have accomplished something worthwhile. In the real world, they wouldn’t dare display the same level of bravado for fear of getting their arse kicked. I have also noticed the number of fan girls who are depressed to the point they are on medication. Think I’m lying, again? Read a few Dead Journals and see for yourself, kiddo. I guess loving a male anime character so much and is enough to make a person crack up. [snickers] Fandom, as a whole, has gone to hell in a hand basket and there appears to be no hope for recovery any time soon. |
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