Japanification - Is nothing sacred?

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Originally Posted by Dwarfburg Citizen

Wasnt South Park japanized previously?

No, it was a joke. Like, a "So ludicrous it's funny" kind of joke.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by h4x.m4g3

Meh I don't see what's wrong with that, what's wrong is the 500lb guy wearing a hello kitty shirt meant for little kids, just cause hello kitty is japanese.

This has been going on for a while now really, I don't see whats so wrong/scary about two cultures influencing eachother. I mean there was a Peterpan Anime made a long time ago, and The Grudge was based on an old Japanese legend.

I dunno if there's anything 'wrong' with it; I think a casual or fierce love of anime is just fine. What I don't like is, as mentioned, the teenie-boppers using terms like "Kawaii!" constantly trying to, fuck, I dunno, be cool in front of all their friends. I've always looked down upon it because it seems like a very juvenile thing, where you're not actually trying to learn japanese culture and langauge and intermingle because you like their style, you're just a rabid anime fangirl with a drooling obsession over 'yaoi' and 'bishies'. Anything beats a half-assed attempt to learn a culture and language just to show off.

It's like, "You just front'n," but only in Japanese.

Anyway, there's nothing 'wrong' with the two cultures intermingling. We've been doing it for a while. What's scary is companies thinking, "Shit, just add a Z on the end of something and make it all Japanified! And with it, we can rule the galaxy!" Add in your own favorite villain laugh here. I've been a lover of Beast Wars Megatron, myself.

EDIT: Oh, and more japanese influence.

Kinda.

[Fifthfiend]

Do people actually really say things like 'bishie'?

Like, in not-on-the-internet, real life?

Cause if it does, I have a new reason to murder the world.

[greed]

Yes they do fifth, my sister's boyfriend's sister is a RAVING Sephiroth fangirl complete with plush Sephiroth doll she made in home ec she calls her bishie.

"This is the end, my friends...."

[h4x.m4g3]

Originally Posted by Mirai Gen

I dunno if there's anything 'wrong' with it; I think a casual or fierce love of anime is just fine. What I don't like is, as mentioned, the teenie-boppers using terms like "Kawaii!" constantly trying to, fuck, I dunno, be cool in front of all their friends. I've always looked down upon it because it seems like a very juvenile thing, where you're not actually trying to learn japanese culture and langauge and intermingle because you like their style, you're just a rabid anime fangirl with a drooling obsession over 'yaoi' and 'bishies'. Anything beats a half-assed attempt to learn a culture and language just to show off.

It's like, "You just front'n," but only in Japanese.

Yeah that pretty much is annoying as hell. I thought you meant more along the lines of learning actual phrases/short sentances (Get away from me, back off, Whats up, You're an idiot, You have no ideal what I'm saying, What color are your panties?). I've been known to use phrases like that in other languages when I'm goofing off, after some of my international friends taught them to me.

[Aerozord]

wasn't alot of this mentioned on the witchblade anime thread?

Fact is American media is already mainstream in Japan. They have subbed movies in theaters, translated books and comics, heck some of the most popular shows in Japan are Simpsons and South Park. Most musicians also make english versions of their song, and the Japanese version have english words thrown in (meaningless and pointless ones I might add).

only difference in us copying them/them copying us thing is their's is more mainstream then ours.

[Elbodo]

Well when it comes to the cross-cultural sharing, I can see it two ways. If a thing is good because it's good then it should be shared. But I don't think a thing can be good "just because it's Japanese" or "Just because it's American" or "Just because it's any-culture-but-the-one-I-come-from." And I think the people who think a specific culture grants a cool-factor are really just trying to "be original" by borrowing from something far enough away that the people they're trying to persuade of their originality won't recognize it as borrowed.

As far as the PPG Anime: I'm not sure just where along the way I got lost, but it seems to me it's right around the time they started trying to tell a serious frelling story with the Powerpuff Girls!

My neices (7-year-old twins) love the PPG. Grew up with them. When I'm watching my nieces I often must watch (on TV) whatever keeps them comatose, and I've found that the PPG aren't too mind-numbing. This is, in part, because they aren't intended to be anything more than A.) something to entertain the little kids (say, around that Kindergarten age the characters are) and B.) Give the grownups who have to sit through the stuff their young charges watch something to chuckle about.

If this anime actually tries to develop a significant plot, or if, heaven forbid, the American version should begin trying to develop a plot, I will simply sit down in the floor and cry.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by Elbodo

If this anime actually tries to develop a significant plot, or if, heaven forbid, the American version should begin trying to develop a plot, I will simply sit down in the floor and cry.

You will cry at such a thing? Well then, I heavily encourage you to go to the Wikipedia on it and read the whole thing on the Powerpuff Girls Z.

You see, I have a sadistic thing about seeing grown men cry.

[Chipper173]

Originally Posted by fifthfiend

Do people actually really say things like 'bishie'?

Like, in not-on-the-internet, real life?

Cause if it does, I have a new reason to murder the world.

I know a few people that do that. Do me a favor and take them out first.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by Chipper173

I know a few people that do that. Do me a favor and take them out first.

Fuck, man, that simply cannot be at the top of Fifthfiend's list.

But, I digress.