Me wrote:

> > The Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March aren't really my opinion. :(
>
> No, those are actual events. The OPINION was 'Japan deserved it.'

No it's your opinion that it's my opinion.

> I don't have the puking-soup problem. Are you sure you're not
> confusing anime with, say, bulemia?

I guess they are easy to confuse, what with the excessive amount of puke. Like when characters in
these crappy anime shows talk, it might force me into bulemia.

> > > like, say, My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
> > If it was Japanese of course, you'd love it.
>
> Not necessarily. There are things Japanese I do not immediately
> adore. It could be like the whole cherry blossom thing.

Or like the flying planes into aircraft carriers thing.

> > > I'm over 30. I'm not married. Therefore, I'm a failure?
> > A fat failure you mean? Anyway yeah, if you insist, then sure.
>
> I don't feel that I'm a fat failure. You are free to disagree. The
> 'lesson' from Big Fat Greek Wedding was that 'women over thirty who
> are not married are failures', just in case you haven't seen the
> movie.

Goodfellas is BTA. Better Than Anime. And that means ALL anime. There is your American movie
example.

Casino too, by the way.

> > they exist primarily to cook meals for men and then offer them sex and/or rapes.
> > At least that is what your precious anime seems to pass off.
>
> I am not claiming that anime is "vastly superior in every way" to
> any other form of light entertainment. You did make that claim for
> "American movies", so I picked one that I'd seen recently. I even
> picked one that was not a failure the box office. If "American
> movies" are so damn stellar, a recent popular one ought to be just
> chock-full of that vast superiority I keep hearing about, right? It
> wasn't. I found it patronizing, racist, and annoyingly predictable.

American movies are still superior. Maybe you should ask a Japanese person who lives in Japan,
they would probably agree with me.

Note I did not say popular American movies like Big Fat Fatty Wedding. Popular doesn't make it
good. But being inherently good does make it good.

> > > Or maybe I should think that being ethnic is weird and bad
> [snip]
> > That is one flabby, fat, smelling-of-foot paragraph.
>
> Nah, it was just a list of possible 'lessons' about humanity and the
> uplifting dramatic storytelling that I'm supposed to get out of the
> vastly superior American movies on the market today. If it's
> 'flabby, fat, and smelling-of-foot', then maybe you should take
> another look at American movies.

I could probably name a few HUNDRED American movies that are all infinitely superior to 99.999999%
of anime. And that's a lot of movies. It's so many damn movies that it's like there wouldn't be
a reason to watch anime afterwards.

> > I don't know, I could not clear away the giant folds of fat to read
> > what the point was.
>
> I'll try to stick to short, declarative sentences. If it worked for
> Hemingway, it can work for me.

Before or after the shotgun blast to the face? Like the one that American POWs got if they tried
to get water in Bataan.

> > That's because you watch anime, so there would be nothing that could possibly be worse to
> e-mail
> > strangers to tell them off about. :(
>
> It could also be because I live completely debt free, hold public
> office (borough council member), operate a 250k a year business,
> enjoy productive leisure activities, and generally avoid
> pestering strangers to bolster my self-esteem.

And yet anime sucks dick anyway. I hope your council does not pass a law that makes it a crime to
watch anime, punishable by horsewhippings in the public square.

> > Well at least you aren't a Chinese person in 1939, or else you would have no choice to be
> > heterosexual because your ovaries would be removed by Japanese "doctors" and served raw (or
> stewed
> > in eel blood) to the emperor.
>
> I'm impressed with that non-sequitor. It totally fails to address
> any of the points I made in the paragraph immediately preceding it.
> You don't see craftsmanship like that very often these days!

I am implying that I don't glorify cartoons from a country that recently, under protest, was
forced to stop murdering millions of innocent civilians. I know America did that a while ago, but
hey, at least we didn't eat THEIR internal organs. Plus we apologized for it without any "buts"
or "howevers."

Oh yeah and I don't glorify Japan either.