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ADV Confirms Cable Anime Channel
Juanvaldes writes "ADV Films has confirmed reports that they are working to create a cable television channel dedicated to Anime. Currently they are releasing very few details about the channel itself. All that has been publicized at this time is that the channel will run 24 hours a day and will break its content into four categories, Action Zone, Sci-Fi, Comedy Incorrect, and Horror/Martial Arts." Hope I can get access to this one as soon as it comes out.
I've always been a fan of foreign art forms. Perhaps one day I will travel the world to see the cave paintings of Paris and the pyramids of Egypt. I am usually very supportive of exotic foreign contemporary art, such as the excellent rap music being made in Mexico (pick up the soundtrack to Amores Peros for a good sampling). But the growing popularity of anime disturbs me.
Most of these shows, supposedly aimed at children, appear to portray unhealthy stereotypes. Men are tough and brutish (and almost always smoke), white people are always fat, and women are either airheads or dominatrices. The level of humor is usually targetted at the lowest common denominator, and is filled with slapstick and bathroom humor. Then there is the level of violence, which often surpasses what would be accepted in an American R-rated movie. And I haven't even touched on the pornographic content and rape fantasies.
Put simply, this type of material could only be produced in a nation steeped in institutional social repression. It is neither appropriate nor healthy to air most of this in the US. We are a tolerant people, but this filth should not be tolerated. If you find yourself interested in anime cartoons, then I would suggest that you leave the country for good, as you are not welcome here.
There are exceptions, of course, but I doubt there are enough decent anime cartoon shows to fill out the programming for an entire cable channel. Anyway, most "anime fans" only want the hard stuff, so I wouldn't expect to see anything worthwhile aired.
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because it's true... I mean aren't all anime shows about a magical super hyper gender chalenged robot killing machine with a heart of gold with guns the size of texas who solves mysteries by hacking into the net while thwarting the forces that are bent on destroying humanity as we know it? Oh yeah, and there's got to be a sidekick, probably a sexxy 16-year old girl with guns the size of texas ;)
Don't forget that there will only be about 4 or five actual pictures for this whole half hour show, they will just pan back and forth over the same pictures with dialog.
Great now I can see it now, countless hours of schoolgirls in skirts so socially inept fan boys (is that the term now?) can whack off 24 hours a day to soft-core porn, poorly disguised as anime. I'm sorry but the crap that has been coming out lately is just that, crap. Poorly masked soft-core animated porn. Every time I turn on to watch "Anime" all I end up getting is good stories gone bad by the useless inclusion of a 16 to 18ish female character wearing a short skirt and some kid with a bad case of Sayjin hair. Spare me, anime is suffering from the same disease that hit mainstream American television programming. Christ I heard that some high school student at my old school Tartan was caught, umm, buttering the corn, to a picture of Sailor Moon.
The only series of Anime that seemed to resist this crap was; Dragon Ball (There was Bulma and Launch but that was pretty much it, oh wait Chi Chi, EEEK!!), Dragon Ball Z (Not too many kids in a thong in that series and Bulma wasn't blowing for dollars), Guyver (Only one scene near the end with the shape shifter guy, atmos?), and Record of Lodoss War (I could be wrong, but it sure as hell wasn't Kikocommon). Don't even mention that animated crap-time drama Tenchi "I have the Jason Preisly 90210 Syndrome". I think Japan and Honk Kong (intentional) are coming unraveled at the seams and this weird froth of sexual deviancy is coming across in the anime. Every day I read headlines from the Japanese papers and there is a rash of pedophile activity, wives hooking on the side, and overall moral decay. Now they have hookers in Japan that specialize in acting out rape fantasies. Yep, no bad indicators of social decay there. I don't think the US can keep up, we're being outdone in the sexual deviancy and exploitation of children department by Japan, we have got to get legalized prostitution quickly or we'll lose our #1 spot in fucked up behavior. I love the fact that showing the rape of a poison tasters was needed in the Ninja Scroll movie and don't even make me think about some of the stuff in the "sequel" movies (I threw up during the second one...) Nope anime is long dead. It died of a fatal Pr0n infection. Lost are all the old classics of anime, now it's soft core Hentai (I think I got that right.)
The second thing that just fucking blows my mind are DATING video games. Holy shit, now that is a seriously bad sign. I find it disturbing that people feel the need to play the Sims (My mundane life of demolished towers, nuclear war, and random street violence is too boring so I think I'll play a video game so I can live out someone else's boring simulated mundane life) but this is just too creepy. Have they total lost the art of REAL social interaction? They need virtual dates? What is the problem, not enough girls to go around? I have only this to say, you reap what you sow, what is the current anime sowing in your kids? Flame Away.
P.S. Remake a high-rez computer graphic version of Dragon Ball Z with DMX doing the voice of Vegita. Call it DBZ-Hardcore.
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Keep whacking off to the blue-haired freaks and you'll end up like these losers!!!!
Stop it! You're gonna end up taping your dick between your legs if you dont get offa those goddamn pumpkin heads, you freaks! Look out! You're gonna end up like this guy and have to find a helluva psychiatrist to fix you!!!!
If you keep wanting to fuck a 2D cartoon, youre gonna even end up like this sick fuck, or this sick fuck!!!
Keep it up, and you'll end up in prison where you'll meet Bubba and he'll turn you into this sick fuck you sick fucks!!!!!!!
Stop it!!
Sincerely,
A. Lincoln