ap19's Comments

if you are still here, I can go into the chatzy room

I would like to add you to my friends list, if that is ok?

I know American infiltration started with end of WWII but what I am saying is this is still continuing apace in current times, right? You cannot say that just because it started over 60 years ago there is no need to feel concerned now. And you are saying as if the Korean food and music are pushed by some conspiracy and trickery. I would say that a lot of its popularity looks real. And I don't even see why Nikkyouso becomes part of the equation. And Fuji-TV? I see more a deliberate targeting by internet right-wing people to pick and dig mud to sling.

Well, if you say no country has the option of staying 鎖国, this means that what you said about people not caring about what happens to another country may not be wholly true?

You talk about consumers sponsoring anime (and by extension the animators), which I presume will happen after the number of anime studio and animators is cut down (as you said), so what does each consumer get out of the money he "invested"? The opportunity to see the anime (which other people who did not invest cannot see except by buying the BD)? And according to what you said, it would still allow business sponsoring anime and show it on TV, right? Or have I missed something?

> Perhaps if you reread my original question and take the standpoint of an original novel fan amidst this sociopolitical conflict, you may answer differently?

It depends on what the fan of the novel expects. There will be changes and omission when an adaptation is done, and it can be as trivial as changing the color of a dress or the type of car used. If you have to view the change as an indication of an insult to Japanese culture or pandering to Korea then you will find it problematic. As I said, I see it as the anime trying to present Jin as knowing some exotic cooking which he thinks may raise the spirits for those involved. I believe for a fan of the novel such view is also possible.

> Regarding the opinions of foreigners outside of Japan, especially given that most don't pay a cent for the anime they watch or read the original light novels, most Japanese people would say it's the same as Japanese people being totally uninterested in for instance the war in Iraq.

Well when I said "I would bet that not many overseas fans would think this is much of an issue" I mean I, as a foreigner, find myself agreeing with the reactions I see among other foreigner fans.

Also, your logic seems to echo the opinions I see in 2ch, that since they do not watch it legally (but most people in this site do it illegally anyway) their view about any controversy in the anime should not count. I do not see how that logic works. So if they do not watch the anime, but heard about this from a friend who watches it legally, then his view is then legitimate?

Also I do not see how analogy can be drawn with Japanese being uninterested in war in Iraq. Foreigner do not pay for watching the anime (although Japanese do not pay anything except electricity and TV charge to watch anime on TV ) and thus their view is not important. Japanese do not feel war in Iraq has direct impact and so they are not interested (although in fact they should given that there is indirect impact like on price of oil). What is the link?

> I still do find it ridiculous, for instance, that Americans get to watch all of the January 2013 animes in hd whenever they want for half eternity, with simply just the cheap price of a premium crunchyroll account and a premium funimation account while Japanese people have to pay a hundred times more, especially in rural areas.

I also find it ridiculous, but it is hard to see how it can be solved. Some want to say that Japanese fans subsidize the western fans but I don't think this way because from the beginning anime production does not take into account the overseas market, except in the case of a few very popular franchises, so it is always Japanese fans pay for the anime. However it is valid to argue that anime industry should do something to draw revenue from overseas market, and it is here things get tricky. People, most of them youngsters, do not want to pay a lot for access, and the easy availability of pirated stuff (with subtitle too) also restricts the price they can set for streaming the anime. So what to do?

But then I also agree that some of the cost in Japan is way too high, and often the customer is in a captive market position, with no choice but to pay or the high cost. Your example of high cost of access for anime access in rural areas is one of the examples. The question is who this high cost of living can be brought down.

I do not know what details you want. What I wrote on Sakurasou thread is mainly on the voices heard in anonymous online forums like 2ch, where strident nationalism sentiment and ethnic-based insults are commonplace. I am not too certain how the sentiment really goes outside the internet because I never talk about this issue offline except with a few close friends, although I do notice that there seem to be more books with nationalist tone published in recent years (or perhaps those books are placed more prominently inside the bookstores), and also we see a rise of politicians with nationalist views in the election just held.

え、これって１00パーフリーソフトなん？
もしかしてap19さんも作って投稿してたり？

投票の仕方がわからんらんヽ(´▽｀)/

添削ありがとうございました
もう1週間しかないw
これじゃぁ点数削られて削られてマイナスいってまうw
オワタ・・・

ap19さんの意見も是非聞きたいです！



MMD見ましたよ！
こんなに自由に動かせちゃうんですね
格闘とかもすごいリアル
特に「東方の　かわいい！！　shake it!」みたいな、ダンスしてる奴が自分は好きみたいです。
久々に画面見ながらニヤニヤしてしまたw
観光庁wwwもうやだこの国

考えないでも区別がつくよう感覚を身につけなくてはならないのかぁ

あの、国立の２次で英語で質問に対して理由をつけて答えなくてはいけない問題があるんですけど、図々しいとはわかってるんですが、添削をお願いしてもいいですか？

単語数でいうと１00個ぐらいあるんで、今までより相当面倒になると思いますから、全然軽く断ってもらっても大丈夫です

m(_ _)mペコリ

いえいえー私で良ければいつでも！

あれも結構長い事続いていますねぇ。。。
ネット世界にはなぜか変な傾向があるようで
中学生ぐらいの時はフラッシュとかばっかり見て。
ちょっと経ったらにこに動画などを見るようになり。。。
そこからどっぷりつかり始めるとオンラインゲームに手を出し始め。。。
そこから廃人になるという。。。
聴いていると皆同じ道を辿ってて面白いと思いましたねｗ
なので私は最近ニコニコホントたまにしか見てない感じですね。