It looks like the History Channel had nothing whatever to do with it. Once they found out, they looked for every copy of the pictures which illicitly included their logo and C&Ded the site owner. They also have condemned the ads. I believe them.
ANN says that NTT docomo is going to be releasing a NERV phone. Talk about ultimate otakuhood. Every time you use it, it would be like holding up a sign that says "I AM A DORK".
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In a geek sense, that's actually quite nice. I'd use one. (Then again, I hate my phone.)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at May 20, 2009 11:41 AM (pWQz4)
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For all my scorn, it's actually obscure enough so that most people who saw it wouldn't even know what it represented. And people who did, well, they're otaku too.
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You'd be surprised. There's an awful lot of little things you can do to make designs that weren't intended to hold up under gravity work in real life. I remember a panel at a convention a few years back (was waiting for the next function, personally) where a cosplayer was detailing a bunch of tricks involving spirit gum to keep from popping out at awkward moments.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at May 16, 2009 08:27 PM (vGfoR)
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Well, now, see, those are the tricks we don't want widely known. Do we?
I don't hate it, I just think it doesn't make sense. There isn't anything that humans in space can do now that can't be done better, and cheaper, by a machine.
And if things go wrong and the machine is lost, we don't have to hold a funeral, and comfort a crying widow.
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Whenever I see someone say that a robot can do anything humans can do, and better, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The last probe we sent to Mars sat on its lander for days, then sat where it first rolled onto the ground for weeks. It was over a month before it took it's first soil sample, and they were afraid that it never would do so due to a tiny flaw in a single sensor. Two astronauts with cameras, shovels, and a soil test kit on their lander would have gathered more data within the first day of landing than that probe did in it's whole mission. I won't even go into the other benefits such as inspiring a large chunk of the populace, employing a lot of engineers, and making progress towards getting all of our eggs out of a single basket.
Posted by: David at May 07, 2009 11:23 AM (n/RK7)
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Good lord, did I brought it upon Steven? At least I haven't mentioned Brussaurd Fusion.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at May 07, 2009 12:22 PM (/ppBw)
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I probably should have blocked comments on this one. I'm going to close them now.
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Wait, some might say that is a bit plump? No way. She looks just fine. I'm sure there are some dissenting opinions. But in this particular case they'd be wrong.
Posted by: Arson55 at May 01, 2009 09:35 PM (CG6FW)
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Concur. If that's "plump", I'm a friggin' zeppelin.
Posted by: Wonderduck at May 02, 2009 05:38 AM (/nYBT)
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She's "plump" because she's not as anorexic as a California valley girl.
Granted, I wouldn't object if she moved, oh, two pounds of baby fat upwards a bit, she's kinda light up top. But beggars can't be choosers, and I have yet to rank up there with the beggars.
But, hey, for those of you with a few dollars to spend, your Japanese princess/catgirl/mahou shujou is waiting for you...
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That's like the SoCal folks who use "rain" to describe what normal people would call "a light mist". The outfit's designed for girls whose ribs show, and I'm glad we didn't get pictures of one like that.
And Ubu, "light on top"? For an Asian Booth Bunnyâ„¢ without obvious surgery, I'd say she's at the high end of plausible. Much more up top, and I'd suspect aftermarket parts.
Sadly, none of the sites who've posted "the pew-pew-pew girl" seem to have a name...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at May 02, 2009 08:30 AM (2XtN5)
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Odds are the person who took the original video never got her name. Booth babes generally don't give their names out.
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Boob jobs are extraordinarily
rare in Japan, indeed essentially nonexistent among the models and gravure
types. Even the porn stars pretty much never get them. They know
their audience, and it likes the real deal. Bless 'em.
This is, regrettably, true and for the good of humanity these people need to have their opinions ignored in all matters. This is not to say that they are necessarily wrong on everything, but to believe the aforementioned nonsense is an example of such fractal wrongness that their ability to perceive and process information is completely untrustworthy.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds the woman at #4. . . freakish. She reminds me of Jack Skellington. . .
Posted by: metaphysician at May 02, 2009 09:56 PM (WPSw+)
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Well there are girls who have the no fat tummy with defined abs but you have to be aware of how and why they have them. For some it is because they have a sport that they like, for others it is because they have image problems, are narcissistic to a high degree, or possibly have a metabolism that is extreme. Also I suspect that Asia may have different standards than the current US crowd. Spare me from the gym rat, running girl who is tossing her cookies twice a day. She won't have that much for a personal relationship.
Posted by: toadold at May 03, 2009 09:39 AM (EyMbD)
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This thread is off the radar by now but I was just watching a few episodes of the old Urusei Yatsura TV anime last night, and I noted that Lum has a very believable body. Sure she has an anime face (although today her eyes would be nearly 2x as big and the entire face more triangular) and the typical improbably hair, but physically, you could put a real woman in the custume and have it work just fine (hence the huge popularity of Lum cosplay back in the eighties--ahhh, those were the days). Even her boobs are quite reasonable (it's hilarious to hear them referred to. within the series, as abnormally large--she'd be lower-end in normal anime character design these days, much less for a character who is supposed to exude sex appeal. I don't know if it's the effect of effect of Lorentz type imprinting (UY was literally one of the first three anime I ever saw) but she's still, IMHO, the cutest anime character ever. And Hirano Fumi's voice was just perfect. Lum-chan banzai!
Sixten just wrote to say that his blog got hacked again, and right now it isn't really safe to visit because injected code tries to download malware. He's got backups this time, but he's going to keep H.C. Staff offline until he can figure out his vulnerability.
UPDATE: Since I'm doing a "linky" post, and the first entry says "do not go here", I'll add another you can safely go to.
So many of us in my immediate circle of anime blog-friends are men (like all of them) that it's easy to overlook the fact that there are a lot of women fans out there too. Jessi is one, and she's written a review of the first episode of Saki.
As an old man, my esthetic is different than hers as a young woman, so I find her reviews enlightening and enjoyable. I'm looking forward to her review of Queen's Blade, but despite her policy of trying to review (the first episode of) every new series, I won't be too surprised if she skips that one.
UPDATE: One difference between her and me is the word "buxom". I know what it means, but it's not a word I use. I'd say "big boobs" or "top-heavy" or "stacked" or use some much more vulgar way of expressing the concept.
James asks me what the word "weaboo" means. Problem is, it's a word I only started running into a few months ago, and I only really understand it from context to mean more or less how the Japanese use the term "otaku" (as opposed to how we use it). A weaboo is an American fan of anime who does things like using the odd Japanese word in RL, and wears kimonos at home, and really tries to live the life instead of just reading about it and watching it.
Context is this post called "Weaboo Weaponry". Which begins with the Mateba, not too surprisingly. I don't know that it's quite as common as he says in anime, but it does feature prominently in the "Ghost in the Shell" movie.
Trouble with drinking while online, it made sense in my head while typing, shall try again;
'A weeboo is the anime equivalent of a star tek fan who learns klingon and goes to conventions in full costume.'
Posted by: Andy Janes at April 24, 2009 11:21 AM (4DhfH)
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A weaboo is not anime specific. It's a Westerner who pretends to be Japanese (sort of like a furry who clips on a tail). He may as often as not be into other aspect of Japanese exotic, although usually indeed it centers around Japanese sex industry and thus J-list.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at April 24, 2009 11:40 AM (/ppBw)
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Part of the problem is that the original thread title doesn't have much to do with the content of that thread. It says "Weeaboo" and then spends a lot of time talking about guns that don't appear in any Japanese anything (if it was really a list of weeaboo weapons, surely the MG42 would be on it?)
That said, Steven's mostly right. You can be an anime fan, even a hard-core anime fan, without being a weeaboo; the latter is when you're using chopsticks to eat mashed potatoes, ending sentences in "w", and subtitling things with "just according to keikaku" with a note saying "keikaku means plan". It's the crossing of the line where your enjoyment of things Japanese is actually interfering with your ability to not be a freak.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at April 24, 2009 11:47 AM (pWQz4)
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I've bought quite a lot from J-List over the years (including items in his core business (even gave a female co-worker a Hello Kitty "massager"...)), and the primary reason I don't buy much there now is a combination of outgrowing his inventory and the increased usability of Amazon Japan.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at April 24, 2009 02:30 PM (2XtN5)
