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[PA Comic] Monday, July 16, 2012 - Mahou Hime Ganbaru

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  • FTVFTV Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    [Baleted]

    FTV on
  • FlapjaxFlapjax Tom Registered User new member
    In the right context, pedophilia can be funny. Here they are going after their own subculture.

    Also, anime people, if you can't sit back and say "hey, a big lionshare of our entertainment seems to sexualize little girls" then there's no point arguing with you.

  • pjarvipjarvi Registered User regular
    What does the title mean? Google Translate can't figure it out.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    I wonder how the tone of this thread would change, if the person approaching the table was a man in a Rainbow Dash outfit.

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    edited July 2012
    pjarvi wrote: »
    What does the title mean? Google Translate can't figure it out.

    Mahou Hime Ganbaru would be Magical Princess Gumball.

    (I think they pulled Ganbaru out of their ass though)

    Cambiata on
    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    ganbaru is engrish gumball

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    haha oh man are people in here still thinking this comic apllies to all anime watchers and not the actual subject of annoying moe cosplayer

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    Nobody is an anime watcher until they moe cosplay, -Tal.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    ganbaru is engrish gumball

    It looks enough like what you would expect gumball to look like in romanized hirigana that you can get the idea of what they were going for, but I still think they pulled it out of their ass.

    Especially since googling ganbaru brings up this.

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    ganbaru is engrish gumball

    It looks enough like what you would expect gumball to look like in romanized hirigana that you can get the idea of what they were going for, but I still think they pulled it out of their ass.

    Especially since googling ganbaru brings up this.

    Actually I can totally see that being used as an actual pun in a real anime series.

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Ha, I guess you're right. I forgot about the Japanese love affair with punning.

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Quick Gabe and Tycho, it's time for you to pitch this sucker to a Japanese studio and start making millions (of yen).

    "excuse my French
    But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
    - Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    nuts to that, why not make it ourselves? i know a guy who took a semester of anime in college and one of my internet friends mangas almost all the time!

    i'll be project lead, anyone can pm me with their japan qualifications, serious inquiries only!

    Tarranon on
    You could be anywhere
    On the black screen
  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    I am still expecting the MHG manga to be revealed as a Kickstarter stretch goal.

  • Caulk Bite 6Caulk Bite 6 One of the multitude of Dans infesting this place Registered User regular
    Tarranon wrote: »
    nuts to that, why not make it ourselves? i know a guy who took a semester of anime in college and one of my internet friends mangas almost all the time!

    i'll be project lead, anyone can pm me with their japan qualifications, serious inquiries only!

    not only did I intern in both anime and manga for over four years in highschool, I've also been to japan.

    I'm totally qualified for this.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Tarranon wrote: »
    but my point is that everyone has a sex drive, a big ol part of your brain that screams sex! sex! sex! are you having it yet?! sometimes your brain will scream at you to have sex with things that society has decided you're better off not having sex with. but the drive is the same.
    you are discounting asexuals.

    aw, you're right! i could have sworn there was some draft of my post that threw a qualifier in there, but i guess it ended up not making the cut.

    but please know that asexuals are never far from my mind. especially since i want a very special one in particular to grade my wardrobe one day.

    also: hopefully we can agree that asexuals aren't likely to have dysfunctional sexual urges?

    Tarranon on
    You could be anywhere
    On the black screen
  • The Good Doctor TranThe Good Doctor Tran Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Tarranon wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Tarranon wrote: »
    but my point is that everyone has a sex drive, a big ol part of your brain that screams sex! sex! sex! are you having it yet?! sometimes your brain will scream at you to have sex with things that society has decided you're better off not having sex with. but the drive is the same.
    you are discounting asexuals.

    aw, you're right! i could have sworn there was some draft of my post that threw a qualifier in there, but i guess it ended up not making the cut.

    but please know that asexuals are never far from my mind. especially since i want a very special one in particular to grade my wardrobe one day.

    also: hopefully we can agree that asexuals aren't likely to have dysfunctional sexual urges?

    Or they'll consider any sexual urge to be internally dysfunctional. We shouldn't forget that a lot of the diagnosis of disorders is based on the mean normality and legitimization of a given culture. People are perfectly entitled to define their own starting point and delineate disorders outward from there.

    The Good Doctor Tran on
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  • NeuroskepticNeuroskeptic Registered User regular
    What exactly is the point of this comic? How many times have Mike and Jerry raged against conservative news blogs needlessly stirring up public apprehension, trying to slander gamers with an unrealistic and over-broad insinuation that the medium has some inherent violence? Now we've come full fucking circle and I have to read Tycho insinuate that grown men would only watch an anime show if they were pedophiles.
    Why is it that whenever someone like Penny Arcade starts out by criticizing a certain thing, and then criticizes a certain other thing, people who agree with the first criticism but dislike the second one are always like "Hypocrites!" rather than "Hey, they were right the first time. Maybe they have a point."?

  • Grey PaladinGrey Paladin Registered User regular
    @Tarranon:
    Aggression and violence are pretty damn big in the human mind. Our legal system is largely built around preventing people from killing or otherwise hurting one another. Everywhere where the law is weak, violence prospers. Legitimizing violence as the proper answer to disputes (if we accept the hypothesis that the media we consume affects us as people) encourages it and escalates a whole bunch of primal emotions (such as anger, greed, or pride) into full-blown crime.

    Furthermore, if we consider the significant correlation between the availability of porn and the reduction in sexual assaults the notion that it actually promotes them becomes ridiculous.

    The reason people are against freaky porn is because its icky and weird .

    "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
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    edited July 2012
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  • Grey PaladinGrey Paladin Registered User regular
    I was just expressing my amusement at Tycho repeatedly defending video games as a valid form of entertainment because fictional violence does not makes you violent, only to shoot down another offstream interest because enjoying that kind of thing is bad and wrong. Badwrong, if you will. Another poster took offense to that statement.

    We should probably take the discussion surrounding that to D&D. Sorry.

    "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
  • the Professorthe Professor PONY ROMNEY DOES NOT CARE PONY ROMNEY WILL CUT YOUR FUNDINGRegistered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Nah, I'll just PM this. It's already derailed, it's just rude to derail it even more.

    the Professor on
  • JaybonautJaybonaut Registered User regular
    I had some fun with their Kickstarter video, turning part of it into a horror scene:

    youtube.com/watch?v=UctfmeDj8Tk

    My Youtube Gaming Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Energyone
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