Random Anime Thread.

**Silenka** · 2011-10-28 01:49

There's this kid in my japanese class at school who is the quintessential meathead dragonball z fanboy. He can do all the voices from the abridged series (and frequently does, unfortunately) and always references it as the best anime ever made, basically. We were talking about the big 3 in class yesterday and on the topic of Naruto he said that shippuden basically stole a lot from DBZ (probably actually, shounen always rips off other shounen) and on the subject of Bleach and how shitty it's gotten "let's face it, it's no DBZ".

I was just surprised because I didn't think those kind of people existed anymore. I guess a few of them never do grow out of the Toonami brainwashing, no matter how old they get?

**Maguspk** · 2011-10-28 03:05

Japanese class. So glad I didn't end up taking this, I feel like I dodged a bullet.

**Zilong** · 2011-10-28 03:21

It's usually like that on the beginner level, once you get to intermediate-advanced level though, only a handful of people really care about anime strangely enough, at least as far as my experience with my classmates are concerned.

**Avvesione** · 2011-10-28 04:10

Yeah, there was a bunch of otaku in first year Japanese and I felt bad for the teachers. Second year was much better since they were people actually interested in the language and culture of Japan. Those are like the people majoring in the language or doing international studies or international business from what I gathered. Wish I stayed with it but didn't have the time.

But yeah, I know some people who all they do (anime related) is watch/read Bleach, Naruto, and rewatch DBZ. Whatever makes them happy, I guess.

**Silenka** · 2011-10-28 09:33

Sadly enough, I am in the advanced class right now. This guy, among a handful of others (one of them being an obnoxious furry who never studies, one being, strangely, Japanese-American but Inuyasha-obsessed) have gotten to this level but don't really perform well at all. Advanced level is even hard for me and I like to think I do Japanese pretty well comparatively, so it's pretty tooth-grinding to listen to the reject weaboos who have managed to somehow pass the previous levels and grace us with their presence in this one =/

Apparently, there is a running joke among the foreign language faculty that Japanese gets the weirdest students out of all of the many languages OSU offers...it's totally true lol.

**Elcura** · 2011-10-28 09:54

Originally Posted by Silenka

Apparently, there is a running joke among the foreign language faculty that Japanese gets the weirdest students out of all of the many languages OSU offers...it's totally true lol.

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I have trouble getting people to watch awesome stuff. My friends love reading manga but hate watching anime, so I can't show them anything cool at all. Been trying to get them to watch Panty and Stocking now for a while and they won't fucking budge.

**Kaylia** · 2011-10-28 13:36

I have the opposite problem, I can't find awesome stuff that I want to share with people who are fed up with fanservice, and overused anime cliché.

**Gulkeeva** · 2011-10-28 14:14

Originally Posted by Elcura

Doesn't surprise me at all.

I have trouble getting people to watch awesome stuff. My friends love reading manga but hate watching anime, so I can't show them anything cool at all. Been trying to get them to watch Panty and Stocking now for a while and they won't fucking budge.

Japan is the source of the weird stuff, would not surprise me to see "strange" people in a Jp class.
As for getting people inetrested in what I watch.. I watch a board range of just about anything... so I usually have something someone can be interested to watch sitting on my PC.

**Elcura** · 2011-10-28 14:15

Originally Posted by Kaylia

I have the opposite problem, I can't find awesome stuff that I want to share with people who are fed up with fanservice, and overused anime cliché.

Consider all the good anime you've seen over the last 5 years. They've seen none of it lol. But yeah, generally it's hard to recommend good anime to people who watch quite a bit. But they're still on the basics pretty much. DBZ, Cowboy, Deathnote etc

**Avvesione** · 2011-10-28 17:00

Originally Posted by Silenka

Apparently, there is a running joke among the foreign language faculty that Japanese gets the weirdest students out of all of the many languages OSU offers...it's totally true lol.

tOSU, OkSt, or OSU?

**Mrbeansman** · 2011-10-29 00:20

Anyone else feel terribly embarrassed when the hardcore weeaboos would flaunt tier weeabooness in any school project they where given a chance too?

**Silenka** · 2011-10-29 11:57

Originally Posted by Avvesione

tOSU, OkSt, or OSU?

Ohio State :>

Originally Posted by Coolbeans

Anyone else feel terribly embarrassed when the hardcore weeaboos would flaunt tier weeabooness in any school project they where given a chance too?

I was taking a grad-level class on classical Japanese lit and we had the choice to take a final or do a project for the end of the class. One of my previously mentioned weaboos did her project on the lecherous monk stereotype in lit, and used Miroku from Inuyasha as her primary example.

I headdesked so hard.

**Avvesione** · 2011-10-29 17:04

Originally Posted by Silenka

Ohio State :>

Ah, almost went there. That was my #2 choice for pharmacy school and had a nice visit/interview there. Got accepted but also got accepted at my #1, too, so ended up not going there.

And yeah, I like being in pharmacy since no one is a weeaboo here. At least not in class or around other people.

**Zilong** · 2011-10-29 19:20

Originally Posted by Silenka

Ohio State :>

I was taking a grad-level class on classical Japanese lit and we had the choice to take a final or do a project for the end of the class. One of my previously mentioned weaboos did her project on the lecherous monk stereotype in lit, and used Miroku from Inuyasha as her primary example.

I headdesked so hard.

To be fair, the whole worldly monk does exist as a prominent archetype on literature since the pre-modern era, but using miroku as primary example is fucking retarded though.

But then again, I did try to talk my japanese grad school friend to write an entire paper on the development of the harem setting within japanese literature when we were talking about shit like genji and ise monogatari.

**Kalima** · 2011-10-30 19:55

Originally Posted by Avvesione

Ah, almost went there. That was my #2 choice for pharmacy school and had a nice visit/interview there. Got accepted but also got accepted at my #1, too, so ended up not going there.

And yeah, I like being in pharmacy since no one is a weeaboo here. At least not in class or around other people.

Just curious, but what pharmacy school did you end up going to? (<- former pharmacy student)

On topic-ish: I finally saw the second Macross Frontier movie

Spoiler: show

**Zilong** · 2011-10-30 20:37

it's the exact same ending as macross zero, which pisses me the fuck off

**Elcura** · 2011-10-30 21:21

Is Ranka still annoying as fuck? If so, pass.

**Zilong** · 2011-10-30 23:34

ranka is still ranka, but really it's like the entire movie is made to fuck sheryl over

**Gokulo** · 2011-10-31 04:47

Haha yeah, I was actually feeling a little bad for her.

**Avvesione** · 2011-11-06 01:50

I downloaded some google translate subs for this season of working and hated the shit quality but some of the lines were so hilarious, i saved some screencaps. I see it everytime I open my screencap folder (which is often for my blog) so I thought I'd post my favorite one (i love the expressions on their faces too)

Spoiler: show