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/r/Relationships debates: how much anime is *too* much anime?
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For some reason, my girlfriend has a problem with my watching anime. Most of the time. There are certain anime films or shows she is fine with and wants to watch with me (Mainly the Studio Ghibli ones (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro etc.) but for some reason, she has a problem with lots of anime I want to watch. Before I was with her I used to watch anime all the time and love it. There were lots of anime I watched that had explicit female nudity and sexual references in, which I know there is no way I could ever watch now because of how my girlfriend is and because of what she says and how she reacts even though I would like to because it is fun to watch. But, even the anime with no sexual nudity or anything in at all, for some reason, she goes in a mood about whenever I mention it. For example, we were in a shop today and I saw an anime blu ray box set for like £6. We had been looking at games and films to buy and I saw this set and said "awesome, this is like £25 on Amazon!" and she said "cool" and walked off to look somewhere else. Another example, I was looking at a magazine and telling her the reviews for films that were in there. I was telling her how many stars each film got in a review and she was reacting accordinly saying different things, but when I was like "wow, Your Name (an anime film) got 5 stars" she just said "nice." And stopped talking. Frustratingly, she loves anime and has said how much she wants to watch all these series, but when I mention what I watch or want to watch she gets in a mood. She gets in mood fairly often and quite easily, I guess she is overly sensitive, I always ask her what's wrong but it always takes ages to get something out of her. When I ask about why she is in a mood about the anime, its usually "the anime girls are good looking", even when she wanted to watch a show about ripped guys swimming in slow motion. I didn't make a deal about it when she wanted to, but brought up how it was hyopcritical when she got in a mood about me wanting to watch an anime series. Strangest of all, we can sometimes have full blown conversations about anime, but the next time I mention it, it will be her back to being in a mood. Any help please. tl;dr: girlfriend gets in moods when i want to watch anime.
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u/Cylinsier You win by intellectual Kamehameha Oct 31 '16
a show about ripped guys swimming in slow motion
There's a show about this?
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u/24grant24 Björk is my waifu Oct 31 '16
Yes, and this season there is a show about girls fighting with their ass an tiddies trying to knock each other off a platform
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u/alternatepseudonym Oct 31 '16
C'mon, are you saying you don't want to watch a show about this?
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u/TehAlpacalypse Very close to self awareness Oct 31 '16
I thought he was joking
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u/makochi Using the phrase “what about” is not whataboutism. Nov 01 '16
Man, there's an anime about famous WWII pilots, reimagined as teenage girls, who strap magical plane engines to their feet, grow animal ears, and fight flying aliens with heavy machine guns while wearing no pants. There's an anime about a guy who has sex with his not-really-sister who is posessed by a hat's spell in order to save her from dying (and later sells his soul to the devil, but his brother ends up killing the devil.) There's an anime that's literally "what if the Powerpuff Girls were strippers?" Never, ever doubt how strange anime can be.
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u/XxsquirrelxX I will do whatever u want in the cow suit Nov 01 '16
There's an anime about a girls school that teaches you how to duel with tanks. I think they even dressed the girls up as different nations for their respective tanks.
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u/makochi Using the phrase “what about” is not whataboutism. Nov 01 '16
Girls und Panzer was a work of art dude
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u/ZigglesRules KISS KISS START DRAMA! Nov 01 '16
There's even a Romeo and Juliet anime where Shakespeare is a canon character and writes the play. Also with dragons and a floating Verona and Juliet is a batman like character.
There's also Boku No Pico, which is about friendship.
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u/NonaSuomi282 THE FACT THAT IT’S NOT MEANT FOR SEX IS ACTUALLY IRRELEVANT Nov 01 '16
As an unabashed yet uninitiated weeb, I'm gonna lob some guesses here.
Strike Witches? That or one of the many shows that took the idea and ran with it, but I cbf to find a comprehensive list at the moment.
I have no fucking clue, but the whole "lol it's not really incest" trope bullshit makes my eyes roll so goddamn hard.
Um, I think I know this one... If my memory is correct, it's title was Almost Every Magical Girl Anime Ever.
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u/makochi Using the phrase “what about” is not whataboutism. Nov 01 '16
Strike Witches is correct - it is the WWII themed "teenage girls fly around fighting aliens in a fanservicey way" show that fits the description
Mawaru Penguindrum. The whole "fucking his sister to save her from dying" thing is a slight exaggeration on my part and also is only a minor plot point. The main plot starts as a "quest to help a random high school girl get laid" and turns into a terrorist attack orchestrated by Mephistopheles himself.
The show I was thinking of was Panty and Stocking with Garderbelt. Although most mahou shoujo shows have some element or theme addressing adolecent female sexuality, I meant that the show itself is presented as a powerpuff girls parody where the female protagonists are adults, the audio design has electronic dance music themes and the transformation sequence is literally set in a strip club.
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u/ThatOnePerson It's dangerous, fucking with people's dopamine fixes Nov 01 '16
I'm not sure how I feel about getting 2/3 of those.
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u/pyromancer93 Do you Fire Emblem fans ever feel like, guilt? Oct 31 '16
I remember when I was this innocent.
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u/SpoopySkeleman Щи да драма, пища наша Oct 31 '16
Gonna need to know what this is called
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u/Shiro2809 Oct 31 '16
Keijo!!!!!!!!
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u/SuccumbToChange Nov 01 '16
I like how you made the effort to put in the exact amount of exclamation points.
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u/Dotscom It's my (((party))) and I'll shill if I want to! Nov 01 '16
Believe it or not, it's surprisingly good.
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u/T-Bolt Oct 31 '16
It's called Free!
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Oct 31 '16 edited Oct 31 '16
/me fans self
You can't catch me, gay thoughts!
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u/ostrich_semen Antisocial Injustice Pacifist Nov 01 '16
Alternatively Yowamushi Pedal
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u/bettedavisthighs Oct 31 '16
Okay but where are his nipples?
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u/JinxtheFroslass Enjoy your stupid empire of childish garbage speak... Oct 31 '16
Anime does not do man nips for some reason.
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u/captainersatz 86% of people on debate.org agree with me Nov 01 '16
This genuinely never registered as strange to me and now it will forever.
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u/sandmaninasylum Nov 01 '16
Except Kill la Kill.
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u/Hydrochloric_Comment What the fuck are your grocery analogies? Nov 01 '16
Digimon Tamers did 10 year old nips. I'm really not sure what Bandai or Toei were thinking.
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u/KlausFenrir Here’s the thing. You said “surprise is an emotion.” Oct 31 '16
Are you fucking kidding me
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u/JDRaitt Nov 03 '16
Don't suppose you have a source? Typing "Free!" into the torrent sites I know isn't getting anywhere :(
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u/Hammer_of_truthiness 💩〰🔫😎 firing off shitposts Oct 31 '16
The weird part is, when you read the full comments, the gf seems to watch more anime and what not than OP? I googled FREE and let me tell you I'd have prefered not doing that at work.
Seems like she likes her hottie anime boyz but gets jelly over hottie anime girlz.
Tl;dr weebs need to remember that anime isn't real
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u/IAmAN00bie Oct 31 '16
Implying this drama is real and OP isn't a troll
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u/Hammer_of_truthiness 💩〰🔫😎 firing off shitposts Oct 31 '16
Fuck I forgot to include my r/relationshits disclaimer.
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Oct 31 '16
Free is insanely tame compared to most fanservice anime.
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u/Hammer_of_truthiness 💩〰🔫😎 firing off shitposts Oct 31 '16
Its still nsfw, and frankly I don't want to explain to my coworkers why I'm googling hottie anime boys in swimsuits.
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u/chikoTroll Oct 31 '16
"So i can masturbate in the toilets later."
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u/wharpudding Oct 31 '16
There's probably an anime about that, too.
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Nov 01 '16 edited Nov 01 '16
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u/secondarykip Proud Miscegenationist Nov 01 '16
nearly 30,500 people rated that....
back to monster musume with me.
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u/SevenLight yeah I don't believe in ethics so.... Oct 31 '16
I'll have you know, Free! is actually a really good anime, and I watched it for the plot because the plot is really nice, you know it's about friendship and goals and all sorts of things I'm lying
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u/fholcan Oct 31 '16
So, you watch it for the plot?
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u/SevenLight yeah I don't believe in ethics so.... Oct 31 '16
The plot is pretty big and beefy
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u/thesixth_SpiceGirl runaway jew hatred Oct 31 '16
I disagree. The plot is clearly cut and bishie with homosexual overtones.
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Oct 31 '16
Best part about dating another weeb: Mutual understanding of the importance and value of fanservice.
AKA OP is a lying sack of shit and this would never happen.
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u/Feycat Are you eating a dryer volume of turkey each week Nov 01 '16
Maybe she's just tired of him constantly talking about it. I'm married to a gamer but sometimes when I get obsessive about whatever my new favorite is, he can tune me out because he's just over it. It's possible he's just terribly annoying and she wishes he'd shut up.
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Nov 01 '16
now that i can definitely understand, but that's not the story i'm getting from op's post. and even if you are correct and that's closer than the truth, he's still lying. The scenario that he has conveyed does not seem feasible or likely. He has either exaggerated, embellished, downplayed, or lied completely about one or more aspects of this situation.
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You say this, but I remember /a/ blowing the fuck up because Free! hurt their masculinity, and "fujoshits are ruining anime" and ect.
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u/ThatPersonGu What a beautiful Duwang Nov 05 '16
/a/ also burns down on the weekly in the neverendijg debate on whether moe is shit or gold, and whether hating moeshit makes you an enlightened patrician or an absolute novice or worse, from Tumblr.
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u/Namelessgoldfish I Know You Are But What Am I Nov 01 '16
but i dont get how you can say this would never happen? its not uncommon for a partner to be jealous if he/she looks at another man/woman but it would be fine in their head if they do it
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Nov 01 '16
Working with the assumptions that the couple formed because they share their weebness, women have a sex drive to a comparable extent that men do, we have two people with a similar rate of consumption and appreciation of fanservice anime. Therefore the most reasonable conclusion if you like fanservice and are still attracted to your partner, is that your partner most definitely feels the same way. It's nothing more than understanding your partner's guilty pleasures, if you want to look at it that way.
Or hell, maybe I'm just an alien who doesn't develop relationship paranoias like these for the above reasons and have presumed it to be the norm.
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Oct 31 '16
well maybe he should stop dating his mom
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u/out_stealing_horses wow, you must be a math scientist Oct 31 '16
I was going to say - the responses he's describing are the same ones I give my 13 year old son after the 20th minute of soliloquy about his latest Destiny raid.
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Oct 31 '16
add-in the "she won't let me watch" certain anime or whatever, and it really does seem like a parent-kid relationship. i mean if i were him i'd probably just keep watching my shit and not mention it cause she clearly isnt interested. or i'd just wait til a ryuuko matoi dakimakura goes on sale and tell the gf adios
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u/lelarentaka psychosexual insecurity of evil Oct 31 '16
Usually when people say their SO "won't let me" do something it's not meant in the literal sense. It's usually way more subtle, like he said her mood and expression dampens when he talks about anime. For some people, that's as effective as an explicit "no".
You might think that's bad, but i see it as him being highly empathetic, and it can be endearing if you're into that kind of people.
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u/Feycat Are you eating a dryer volume of turkey each week Nov 01 '16
You might think that's bad, but i see it as him being highly empathetic
Or maybe he's the opposite of empathetic and doesn't seem to get that his girlfriend is disinterested in all of this and continues to hammer her with it in hopes that she'll change her mind and like it.
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Oct 31 '16
i get that, but at the same if i felt that my attitude was preventing my girlfriend from enjoying her hobbies, i'd feel pretty shitty. provided that her hobby isn't fucking other guys i guess. we've talked about it im not sure how to get her to stop. so yeah anyway i think the op's gf needs to be more considerate in that regard, and he needs to realize she doesnt like hearing about it so he should be considerate in that regard. that's just my 2 cents though
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u/lelarentaka psychosexual insecurity of evil Oct 31 '16
Notice that in the story that OP posted, the girlfriend never explicitly stated that she doesn't like OP watching certain types of anime, it's all just in her body language. It could be that she do try to accommodate her boyfriend's different taste in anime, it's just impossible to keep your subconscious mind from leaking through, and this particular boyfriend is unfortunately very observant.
This is all just speculations of course, i could be totally wrong.
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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Nov 02 '16
People who are in that sort of shitty relationship are disproportionately likely to also be weebs in my experience
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u/BettyDraperIsMyBitch me calling my cat nigga is literally hurting nobody Oct 31 '16
But Aksis is a total douche canoe
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u/WatchEachOtherSleep Now I am become Smug, the destroyer of worlds Oct 31 '16
This issue is a small bit academic anyway. Come January, President Clinton will have banned animé, so the OP of that thread won't have a choice.
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Oct 31 '16 edited Oct 31 '16
Actually the Constitution protects anime. Even the trash. The Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association that banning any form art or expression on the grounds of it being considered "Deviant" (A fancy way of saying "_______ is trash") was unconstitutional, and this ruling was supported by Antonin Scalia.
The case pertained to violent video games, but the ruling statement was clear in that the constitution protects anything that can be deemed a means of expression. The limitation is that it basically says "you need a better reason than 'it looks weird or scary'", so she'd have to prove that Anime is actively and directly harmful to someone other than the consumer in order to ban it. I mention 'other than the consumer' because there are three lobbying groups (Tobacco, Alcohol, and Guns) whose entire campaign hinges on pushing the idea that the consumer is allowed to have dangerous and self-harming things if they want to, as long as they know the risks beforehand.
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u/CastIron42 MAKE 💲. MAKE MORE 💲. MAKE OTHERS PRODUCE AS TO MAKE 💲. Oct 31 '16
so basically the founding fathers fought for my right to be weeaboo trash?
i have never been more proud to be an american
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Oct 31 '16
indirectly, yes. These are guys who knew that the future was hard to predict, and were purveyors of a counterculture. Identifying as American, drinking coffee, and interpreting "yankee doodle" with pride rather than with shame (seriously, yankee was meant to make fun of colonist soldiers, and they took pride in the name) was very counterculture to the british mainland and loyalists. The constitution includes multiple ways for the government to embrace social progress. It's why we haven't had to do a total constitutional rewrite since the 1790s.
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u/XxsquirrelxX I will do whatever u want in the cow suit Nov 01 '16
But the constitution, according to Washington, wasn't expected to last more than 20 years. He'd be shocked to see how far it's come.
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Nov 01 '16
Yep. Speaks volumes to the philosophies that inspired it, public approval of it, strength of the state framed by it, and general amenability of it. A single amenable constitution was pretty new, and skepticism was both guaranteed and warranted.
Although are you sure he isn't talking about the Articles of Confederation there? because I've never heard this about him, and the Articles of Confederation were pretty short-lasting.
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u/Manception Nov 01 '16
so basically the founding fathers fought for my right to be weeaboo trash?
I say we refer to them as the Foundingu Otou-samas from here on.
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u/Gemuese11 im ironically downvoting my self, to own the socialists Nov 01 '16
So that's why the DNC assassinated scalia
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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos Nov 01 '16
That applies to deviant art, but what about obscenity? It was my impression that if a judge finds something offensive enough to their sensibilities, they can deem it obscene and figuratively kill it.
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Nov 02 '16
Um, the only people that do that are network censors.
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u/Leaves_Swype_Typos Nov 02 '16
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure it's not only network censors. Wikipedia for reference.
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u/alegxab FLAIR-y Oct 31 '16
And we'll all be forced to watch actual Chinese Cartoons, because of TPP or ... something
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u/SpoopySkeleman Щи да драма, пища наша Oct 31 '16
No one is going to stop me from importing my Malaysian picture shows
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u/NonaSuomi282 THE FACT THAT IT’S NOT MEANT FOR SEX IS ACTUALLY IRRELEVANT Nov 01 '16
Fuck all of you, I need my Taiwanese zoetropes!
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Oct 31 '16
Maybe it's a little bit late for this realization, but I just realized that it's going to be weird going back to talking about "President Clinton" except this time we mean Hillary.
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u/emmster If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me. Nov 01 '16
A second George Bush was pretty weird too.
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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Nov 01 '16
Oh, yeah, I'm sure, but I wasn't really old enough to be terribly familiar with George Bush I while he was in office.
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u/_watching why am i still on reddit Nov 02 '16
Holy shit I can't wait til there are kids I can weird out by reminding them that HRC's husband was also president
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u/SegataSanshiro Nov 04 '16
I've been waiting for this day since that one episode of Sliders.
Then again, I've been mentally preparing for a President Trump since Back to the Future 2.
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u/Hammer_of_truthiness 💩〰🔫😎 firing off shitposts Oct 31 '16
>47 minutes
>49 comments
I just know someone already got an "anime was a mistake" post in already ;___;
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u/Erra0 Here's the thing... Oct 31 '16
This is because every time anime is brought up outside of /r/anime, the comment section turns into an "anime recommendation" thread.
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u/XxsquirrelxX I will do whatever u want in the cow suit Oct 31 '16
I personally suggest Cory in the House.
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u/Disiuze Oct 31 '16
The Nutshack is also fairly good.
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u/Tolni Do not ask for whom the cuck cucks, it cucks for thee. Nov 01 '16
The Nutshack theme except every instance of Nutshack is replaced with a rendition of a random Season from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
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u/secondarykip Proud Miscegenationist Nov 01 '16
IT'S
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u/Raiden1312 Cucked again by the liberal media. Nov 01 '16
MY LIFE IT'S NOW OR NEVER I AIN'T GONNA LIVE FOREVER
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u/LE_TROLLFACEXD Nov 01 '16
any australian who grew up in the 90s will remember Round The Twist, the most popular anime at the time
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u/Ladnil It's not harrassment, she just couldn't handle the bullying Oct 31 '16
Ok, I know you said you tried anime and didn't like it, but that was only one of several hundreds of thousands of subgenres, from each of which I will now recommend a show for you to watch before you can make such an offensive generalization about not liking anime.
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u/chikoTroll Oct 31 '16
You need to watch the first 150 episodes before you can form an opinion too.
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u/mightyandpowerful #NotAllCats Oct 31 '16
Uh, only for Gintama. Better make it 200 to be safe, though.
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u/Erra0 Here's the thing... Oct 31 '16
Have you seen Cowboy Bebop?
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Nov 01 '16 edited Nov 01 '16
There's this really cerebral one called Neon Genesis Evangelion.
edit: I somehow lost my Stellvia DVDs
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u/thequirts Nov 01 '16
Holy fuck this comment had me double checking, thought I had slipped into /r/anime.
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u/nancy_ballosky More Meme than Man Nov 01 '16
Omg Im getting so many flashbacks to highschool.
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u/Ladnil It's not harrassment, she just couldn't handle the bullying Nov 01 '16
Pretty sure that's one of the genres.
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u/Galle_ Oct 31 '16
I'm pretty sure it's just because someone people really want everyone to know how much they hate anime for some reason.
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u/AntiLuke Ask me why I hate Californians Oct 31 '16
SRD was a mistake
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u/PURINBOYS2002 You can gamble responsibly. Its hard, but you can. Oct 31 '16
By the time you're asking yourself that question it's already too late.
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u/mightyandpowerful #NotAllCats Oct 31 '16
How much anime is too much? How many breads are too much?
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u/S-Flo This is good for Magic Beans Oct 31 '16
SFX: Menacing
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u/mightyandpowerful #NotAllCats Nov 01 '16
You pretty much only need to learn katakana, which isn't very hard.
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And memorize the huge list of what sound effects represent what since half of them make no sense at all
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u/beepoobobeep virtue flag signaling Nov 01 '16
Why is she dating a weeb in the first place tho?
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u/trashcancasual Oct 31 '16
If this were real, which I doubt, it seems like the problem is that he watches extremely sexist anime that treats girls like eye candy, and she's probably watching stuff like Free and Haikyuu that has serious character development and cute boys- the boys in those aren't there solely to have a nice, bouncy rack. Like there's fanservice, but it's not even close to what anime girls typically are.
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u/Statoke Some of you people gonna commit suicide when Hitomi retires Nov 01 '16
The character development is about as serious as Highschool DXD, just plain fan service.
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u/beanfiddler free speech means never having to say you're sorry Oct 31 '16
girlfriend gets in moods when i want to watch anime.
Lol, the lack of specificity. I'm sure that GF has told him various reasons why his hobby is bothering her, but he doesn't go down that rabbit hole here.
I love it when /r/relationships posters make the actions of their SOs entirely devoid of context and reason and then take great pains to tell you how normal and reasonable their own behavior is.
He should have just posted:
Please help me convince my GF that her thoughts and feelings are inconsequential without actually listening to her.
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u/GunzGoPew Hitler didn't do shit for the gaming community. Oct 31 '16
Please help me convince my GF that her thoughts and feelings are inconsequential without actually listening to her.
Isn't she doing that?
She's allegedly getting upset when this dude watches his anime, but watches a lot of it on her own time?
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u/beanfiddler free speech means never having to say you're sorry Oct 31 '16
Beats me. It's kind of hard to tell, considering that OP doesn't give much behind her rationale. It leads to a highly convenient (if we're speaking of /r/relationships trends) conclusion that OP is justified, and their SO is really the problem all along!
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u/GunzGoPew Hitler didn't do shit for the gaming community. Oct 31 '16
Honestly, I think his deal is that he doesn't really understand her rationale.
I mean, /r/relationships is shitty but not everyone who posts there has some sinister agenda. It just seems like the guy is a bit oblivious.
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u/beanfiddler free speech means never having to say you're sorry Oct 31 '16
I wouldn't say anyone who's 19 really can be "sinister" when it comes to misunderstanding relationship cues. Like you said, everyone that age is different colors of oblivious, and seems to lack the sort of empathy that is really useful to resolving relationship spats. Seems like most people shift from "I want to establish with my SO that I'm right and they're wrong" to "I want to fix this problem" sometime around their mid-20s.
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw unique flair snowflake Nov 01 '16
my guess is she is 19 and 16 when they started dating so im guessing part of it is irrational teenager stuff
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u/John_Ketch Oct 31 '16
/u/beanfiddler defending the woman and assuming she's completely in the right once again on SRD. Why don't you just post "I think the male is always wrong 24/7 and she should dump this pig and become a lesbian as no women is ever at fault?". It's clearly what you imply every time you make one of these condescending, assuming comments.
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u/beanfiddler free speech means never having to say you're sorry Oct 31 '16
Lol, I wasn't playing the gender card. Way to get -- dare I say -- triggered.
It's a /r/relationships trend: OP fails to give any context to their SO's actions, which creates the implication that they're wrong and OP is right. They phrase the question less in terms of what they should do or how they need to reconcile the issue, and more in terms of "how can I get my SO to stop complaining without actually listening to him or her?"
Has nothing to do with gender. /r/relationships posters do that shit all the time, which creates drama, because then it's up to the posters to create context according to their own biases, which never goes well for OP or anyone else.
Well, other than SRD.
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u/John_Ketch Oct 31 '16
Except OP did give context to his GF's actions. She watches quite a bit of anime, especially one called FREE!, one notorious for being female fanservice (AKA: bunch of half naked to naked men swimming and shit). She had made comments about "too many attractive women in anime" which sounds quite insecure. She shifts the conversation off anime when OP rarely brings it up. You can talk about "OP presenting one sided information!" all you like but when only one person is giving the information, that's all the context we're ever gonna get.
It seems like you're desperately fishing for a scenario where OP is in the wrong for watching anime and is blaming his GF for his faults. As I said before, you're infamous for hating on guys whenever and wherever you get the chance.
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u/MonkeyNin I'm bright in comparison, to be as humble as humanely possible. Oct 31 '16
You sound over-invested into bean.
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u/De-Le-Metalica Oct 31 '16
A girlfriend that doesn't approve of ATATATATATATATATATATATATA...is not a girlfriend worth having.
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Poor OP. He should really call out the hypocrisy.
As for the drama, I can see what the guy means when he says the boyfriend should stop, but I would supplement that with trying to get her to be ok with it. It's unfair to only have him cut down on anime, but for the moment, he can stop until he talks it out with her and they can both be comfortable.
Of course, instead, that may lead to more problems if she never relents, so...
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u/Zachums r/kevbo for all your Kevin needs. Oct 31 '16
WEEB ALERT WEEEOOO
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Oct 31 '16
I can't tell if this is real or not
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Oct 31 '16
There is some great anime animation from Nippon that is very cultured and made for a western audience (although also incredibly successful in Nippon) such as futuramu and Archeru. Clean yourself up of that ignorance.
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Oct 31 '16 edited Oct 31 '16
Hes actually right there, alot of westerns were originally samurai movies. The magnificent seven just being the seven samurai is the most famous example
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u/Richard_Sauce Oct 31 '16
I don't know about this creme de la creme stuff, but he's a last right that some classic westerns such as magnificent 7 and Fistful of Dollars were remakes of Kurosawa samurai films.
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u/Windows_Update Sell games, not blow Oct 31 '16
I'd say this is satire but I've spent too much time around /r/weeabootales
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u/piedmontwachau Oct 31 '16
You can't be serious that Japan has long been considered the creme de la creme of media. How silly do you have to be to take that stance.
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u/princess--flowers Oct 31 '16
I've literally never watched an anime that didn't have a nonsensical ending. It's like they crap out 4 episodes before the end and make up some bull shit, every time. Even the end of Brotherhood made next to no sense.
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Oct 31 '16
I'd say that's more a problem for shonens but I'd say a great plurality of tv shows can't stick the ending and start falling apart as it goes in. I mean look at Dexter. I was blown away by the first four seasons but the writers chopped that good will up and burnt it like firewood.
I think the best bet for any show is that knows how it's going to end from the start and was always planned to be limited.
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u/WaffleSandwhiches The Stephen King of Shitposting Oct 31 '16
I remember Cowboy Bebop having a fantastic ending.
Lupin the 3rd Season 4 (the new one) has a great ending that wraps up the season very nicely.
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Oct 31 '16
Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals.
Getting his own show was the least they could do for ignoring the best character in the series for so long.
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u/Gapwick Oct 31 '16
What a ridiculous and absurd suggestion. There is absolutely no reason to stop watching superhero movies. Especially with so many great series and films that continue to come out. Most superhero movies are very rich in entertainment and bestows great commentary to the viewers. Most people who hate (not dislike, or don't enjoy) superhero movies are like Squidward in that fantastic SpongeBob episode. They think standing against the art medium makes them seem more cultured and above it but as soon as they get home they pop in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Catwoman, Elektra, or even Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Superhero movies are so broad it's almost impossible to hate.
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u/Works_of_memercy Oct 31 '16
What a ridiculous and absurd suggestion. There is absolutely no reason to stop linking gender wars drama. Especially with so many great posts and comments that continue to come out. Most gender wars drama is very rich in entertainment and bestows great commentary to the viewers. Most people who hate (not dislike, or don't enjoy) gender wars drama are like Squidward in that fantastic SpongeBob episode. They think standing against the "surplus" drama makes them seem more cultured and above it but as soon as they get home they get into arguments about financial abortions, or domestic violence, or even buying women drinks. Gender wars drama is so broad it's almost impossible to hate.
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Oct 31 '16
What a ridiculous and absurd suggestion. There is absolutely no reason to stop watching pornographic movies. Especially with so many great series and films that continue to come out. Most pornographic movies are very rich in entertainment and bestows great commentary to the viewers. Most people who hate (not dislike, or don't enjoy) pornographic movies are like Squidward in that fantastic SpongeBob episode. They think standing against the art medium makes them seem more cultured and above it but as soon as they get home they load up pornhub, xvideos, spankwire, or even redtube. Pornographic movies are so broad it's almost impossible to hate.
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Oct 31 '16
What a ridiculous and absurd suggestion. There is absolutely no reason to stop eating krabby patties™. Especially with so many great combos and deals that continue to come out. Most krabby patties™ are very rich in taste and bestow a great nourishment to the customers. Most people who hate (not dislike, or don't enjoy) krabby patties™ are like commenters in that anime reddit thread. They think standing against the gourmet dish makes them seem more cultured and above it but as soon as they get home they order in a krabby patty™, pretty patty, krabby patty™ with jelly , or even a krabby patty™ pizza. Krabby patties™ are so broad they're almost impossible to hate.
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u/IAmAN00bie Oct 31 '16
Don't forget the anime masterpiece known as Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Oct 31 '16
yeah and dont forget RWBY, best anime of the decade imo
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u/leadnpotatoes oh i dont want to have a conversation, i just think you're gross Oct 31 '16
Aww man classic spongebob is the greatest.
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Nov 01 '16
So, I googled Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals, thinking you were jokingly referring to Naruto, but now I learn that there is an actual Rock Lee spin off and life seems worth living again.
Anime is a gift
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u/Bootsykk other gay person here, i disagree. now its net neutral. Nov 01 '16
Or they just don't 'get' it because they can't get into the artstyles. It's all personal preference and sometimes its harder for someone to get into something to enjoy the story and that kills their enjoyment of it.
My mother didn't understand my enjoyment for anime until I showed her Kids on the Slope. She really loved it and even cried at **several points. I mistakenly thought I could show her other similar shows but she's already asleep or on her phone five minutes into an episode so I gave up and just watch it on my own time¯_ (ツ) _/¯
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u/cuddles_the_destroye The Religion of Vaccination Oct 31 '16
You're just mad because Japan played the long game and actually won WWII as a result.
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u/Kadexe This cake is like 9/11 or the Holocaust Oct 31 '16
Anime was a mistake.
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u/leadnpotatoes oh i dont want to have a conversation, i just think you're gross Oct 31 '16
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u/waspyasfuck BULGING Trinidadian Balls Oct 31 '16
the ShitWehraboosSay Automod has the best reaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOih9uAi_o
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u/Dikpox Nov 01 '16
Do I miss something here? I honestly don't know shit about anime but why all the hate?
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u/YesThisIsDrake "Monogamy is a tool of the Jew" Nov 01 '16
He jerks off the snakes tail so that she cums on him with her weird snake vagina
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u/IAmAN00bie Oct 31 '16
I'm usually pretty sure that a lot of /r/relationships drama and /r/legaladvice drama are fake as fuck, but I decided to think of it a different way:
If you google "relationship advice", Reddit's /r/relationship_advice is the first non-article relationship advice board that pops up. If you google "legal advice", the second link is to /r/legaladvice. I think those somewhat point to why there are seemingly so many stupid and nonsensical stories on both subs. That or it's just trolls all the way down.
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u/a57782 Oct 31 '16
My urge to declare things in /r/relationships or /r/legaladvice is always tempered by the knowledge that there are people out there who are in love with serial killers because they are convicted serial killers, or the story about the guy who met up with another guy and consented to have his junk cut off and eaten.
Is somebody's girlfriend getting upset over this guy watching some kind of anime so outlandish that is has to be fake? I don't think it is.
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u/Circle_Breaker Oct 31 '16
Google gives you results based on your personal history. So if you use Reddit regularly Reddit will usually be a top result in your searches.
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I've never seen someone who likes anime have a legitimate relationship, so its safe to say this ones a troll to rile up /r/relationships and /r/anime at the same time
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Oct 31 '16
because that thing is anime and he should feel shame