Lettow thread

[Syt]

I intend to make a permanent move here, yes.

What will you eat? Or is your plan to open a restaurant for Southern style home cooking?

[Ed Anger]

I intend to make a permanent move here, yes.

What will you eat? Or is your plan to open a restaurant for Southern style home cooking?

Japs would have trouble pronouncing "Cracker Barrel".

[Lettow77]

That's the problem I have been pondering. I lost a frightening amount of weight while I was here, and never really enjoyed the meals.

I guess I will have to cook for myself, and cook Southern cuisine as best as I know how, until such time as I marry a Japanese woman. Then she can take over, after I set a prohibition against uncooked meats, horse, squid, and other Japanese culinary mis-steps.

[Ed Anger]

Either there or in space, right?

[Lettow77]

 Laugh if you will. I found a gentle maiden who was regretfully reminiscing about the Boshin war, and the anniversary of a gallant member of the Shinsengumi's death. We talked about history, went to a cat cafe, and discussed the beauty of maid outfits. If such charming ladies exist, it will not be hard at all to make a happy life here.

[Camerus]

Lettow's thread makes me glad I live in the PRC.

[Ed Anger]

Lettow's thread makes me glad I live in the PRC.

Do you pine for a chinaman girl and hope to recreate the sacred south mixed with the leadership of Cao Cao with your offspring?

[Josquius]

I continue to suspect, though, that you would enjoy it a lot more if you actually were much of an anime fan. Most of the stuff I saw was from the last few seasons, so if you were out of the loop it wouldn't have much relevance..

But hey, dont be impressed if you'd like, I guess. It certainly awes me! My beautiful river city has nothing to compare.

I do like some anime (though refuse to term myself an anime fan. Being a fan of an entire broad medium is daft). Though generally not the latest popular thing. 
Akiba is supposed to be about more than that however, yet the gadgetry and gaming side of things is rather mediocre.
Even on the manga front there's not much in Akiba that you can't get in any other town in Japan. Or indeed online in this day and age- such is a key part of the reason for Akibas fall I believe, catering to a tech savvy crowd as they do.
Glad you enjoyed it though, but I'm surprised it didn't dissapoint you.

[Lettow77]

 Its interesting you say that about anime. It is indeed a broad medium- I dislike or have no interest in a majority of it. Still, you wouldn't say it was foolish to term yourself a rap fan if the principal music you liked was rap, even if you only liked some of it, surely? Would it be daft for someone to say they like cinema since that encompasses so many varied movies, and they cannot possibly like all of them?

It is a medium, but it also is an over-arching genre. It has its own tropes, internal logic, and cultural undercurrents to separate it from merely being the medium  of animation as opposed to live action.  (Over-ossified in fact; there are plenty of anime you need not see, because you have seen the same one under five different names before..) It is sufficiently distinct from any other entertainment that once you have adjusted to its self-referential subculture it provides a unique experience from other things; I certainly think it is more than just a medium, and that it makes sense to declare oneself a fan of it (or indeed, a vocal critic, as it has form and substance enough to like or hate, according to one's tastes..)

Again, though, saying one is a fan of anime does not go part-in-parcel with an all-encompassing acceptance of all the drivel that gets shoveled out.

[Camerus]

Lettow's thread makes me glad I live in the PRC.

Do you pine for a chinaman girl and hope to recreate the sacred south mixed with the leadership of Cao Cao with your offspring?

I will create the Tang dynasty in space.

[Syt]

Lettow's thread makes me glad I live in the PRC.

Do you pine for a chinaman girl and hope to recreate the sacred south mixed with the leadership of Cao Cao with your offspring?

I will create the Tang dynasty in space.

Too late.

[Josquius]

Its interesting you say that about anime. It is indeed a broad medium- I dislike or have no interest in a majority of it. Still, you wouldn't say it was foolish to term yourself a rap fan if the principal music you liked was rap, even if you only liked some of it, surely? Would it be daft for someone to say they like cinema since that encompasses so many varied movies, and they cannot possibly like all of them?

It is a medium, but it also is an over-arching genre. It has its own tropes, internal logic, and cultural undercurrents to separate it from merely being the medium  of animation as opposed to live action.  (Over-ossified in fact; there are plenty of anime you need not see, because you have seen the same one under five different names before..) It is sufficiently distinct from any other entertainment that once you have adjusted to its self-referential subculture it provides a unique experience from other things; I certainly think it is more than just a medium, and that it makes sense to declare oneself a fan of it (or indeed, a vocal critic, as it has form and substance enough to like or hate, according to one's tastes..)

Again, though, saying one is a fan of anime does not go part-in-parcel with an all-encompassing acceptance of all the drivel that gets shoveled out.

With cinema...yeah. To say you like films seems a bit mad to me too.
Though with rap I see your point. And I guess thats why I wouldn't call myself an anime fan. I like some anime but it is certainly not my main form of entertainment.

I don't think there's enough in common amongst all anime to call it a genre. There are genres within anime certainly but an all-encompassing anime genre?...there's just too much difference between say Grave of the Fireflies and your generic high school harem comedy.

[Lettow77]

 Yes- in the sense that Grave of the Fireflies is scarcely anime at all. It may be a fine film, (and it is,) but there is little reason it could not have been live action. Anime opens various possibilities, the potential of which was not realized by Grave of the Fireflies.

When I say anime is more an over-arching genre than a medium, I would tend to think Grave of the Fireflies is scarcely anime at all, but merely in the medium of animation. I recognize most people would not agree with this, and it is an excessively nuanced position, but even so.

Back from Japan! What fun! My roommate has grown out a fringe beard that accentuates the glorious summer of his youth; he looks more dashing than ever. We immediately went out for fried chicken. Southern cuisine! Life is, was, and remains wonderful.

edit: weighed myself- lost 19 pounds in around 5 weeks. Depressing stuff!

[Ed Anger]

My roommate has grown out a fringe beard that accentuates the glorious summer of his youth; he looks more dashing than ever.

NECKBEARD.

[Lettow77]

 Dangerously gallant! Southern gentlemen have long had such fine tufts of hair. He looks as though at any moment he could fall dead, another priceless offering at the alter of barren glory and indulgence of Lee's ill-advised propensity for the advance.