Full Metal Panic!

[Senko]

4 and 5 are already gone.

Might be regional; seems to work fine for me.

Don't think so they're back up for me now so probably just a momentary glitch with 4 getting a "URL doesn't exist" and 5 getting a "video doesn't exist" message.

[tyrteg]

Y'now, watching Chuck's bemusement, confusion and often outrage at anime really does mirror my own to the point that it becomes fascinating to watch. Because frankly, in my experience, finding an anime that isn't some incredibly creepy shit is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Hey, I don't kink shame, those of you who have no problem watching pre-teen girls with big bouncing breasts showing off their underwear i'm not going to judge. Nor am I going to judge if you have no problem with the amount of perverts and domestic abusers who seem to live in these anime worlds.

But its not for me. That's not to say that I haven't seen good anime. They just tend to be... how to put this politely... more akin to cartoons.

Oh wow. clearspira is offended by something that doesn't fit his worldview and feels the need to inform everyone who likes it how inferior they are in his eyes. This time it happens to be a Japanese cartoon that doesn't care about American morality. How shocking. Must be Tuesday...

[TGLS]

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Soviet Union apparently still exists but Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus do as well?

[Senko]

Y'now, watching Chuck's bemusement, confusion and often outrage at anime really does mirror my own to the point that it becomes fascinating to watch. Because frankly, in my experience, finding an anime that isn't some incredibly creepy shit is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Hey, I don't kink shame, those of you who have no problem watching pre-teen girls with big bouncing breasts showing off their underwear i'm not going to judge. Nor am I going to judge if you have no problem with the amount of perverts and domestic abusers who seem to live in these anime worlds.

But its not for me. That's not to say that I haven't seen good anime. They just tend to be... how to put this politely... more akin to cartoons.

Blame the western companies that bring it over for picking that. In the eastern ones anime is more a medium than a genre. You have everything from shows aimed at young kids to psychological or violent shows for adults only (violence not sex), shows with no women at all really, shows with adults only, shows with kids only, shows that focus on drama, horror, sci fi, etc. Western companies though focus on the teen demographic/echi type ones to bring over because that's what they feel is popular.

Could be worse too a lot of the earlier ones were heavily edited removing homosexual references, nudity, references to death, dinosaurs and anything else they felt inapropriate for a child audience. Heck Nauscia's first release they didn't even get a Japanese speaker to translate just went "this is popular in Japan lets bring it over and hire someone to write a new story/dub dialogue to match what they think is happening on it." Can't even get a copy of that one these days.

I mean to be fair the bouncing big breasted school girl is also popular in eastern markets but you also have anime like Jinroh, Akira, Valley of the fireflies, Dororo, Paranoia agent, black jack, black lagoon, silver spoon, hikaru no go and that's just off the top of my head. Sure several of them are schoolkids but they're not so much the bouncy school girl you have with full metal alchemist. Even the ones that are schoolgirls like sailor moon are quite different in the original form compared to what got brought over.

[Madner Kami]

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Soviet Union apparently still exists but Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus do as well?

They technically existed in our real world, too, during the existence of Union of Soviet-Socialist Republics.

[TGLS]

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Soviet Union apparently still exists but Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus do as well?

They technically existed in our real world, too, during the existence of Union of Soviet-Socialist Republics.

Sure, but you wouldn't expect a map to separate them out, unless maybe it was a Soviet map (like some globes that color all the American states different colors).

[CmdrKing]

Given when the show was made, I'd hazard that the artists/animators used a contemporary map as a reference, then didn't entirely realize that if the USSR was still around most standard maps probably wouldn't depict them separately.

[Madner Kami]

Am I the only one who thinks it's weird that the Soviet Union apparently still exists but Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus do as well?

They technically existed in our real world, too, during the existence of Union of Soviet-Socialist Republics.

Sure, but you wouldn't expect a map to separate them out, unless maybe it was a Soviet map (like some globes that color all the American states different colors).

1976 map of the USSR from National Geographic

An image allegedly from a CIA handbook in 1990



A map from a US-book, 1974:



Just because it was popular to display a large red blob in Asia, it doesn't mean that everyone percieved or even saw it as such.

[TheGreenMan]

4 and 5 are already gone.

Might be regional; seems to work fine for me.

Don't think so they're back up for me now so probably just a momentary glitch with 4 getting a "URL doesn't exist" and 5 getting a "video doesn't exist" message.

Sadly 3 is down now. The moron brigade is out and about enforcing it's flawed view that any use of its stuff is an offense worthy of a DMCA (or the like).

[CharlesPhipps]

Boo! Seven is down.