http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine...=1&pagewanted=1

Its frightening what otaku/japanese culture is becoming into. Saddest part is he actually brought the pillow to a restaurant, and only some people gave him funny looks. That means its normal for people there to do it? Wow, I am at loss of words.

as long as u don't have sex with that said pillow in public, police won't arrest you for it ler. why worried so much. it's not here. it's over there.

welcome to the 21st century, where nothing matters anymore.

You can walk around nekkid if you want.

Mentality like this is what f***s everyone up. Just because you don't hear it happening here, does not mean it won't happen.

You haven't met our /as/ member guest18 who brings his PVC shiryuu everywhere including to steamboat.

i wouldnt say its getting worse, i would its been like that ever since,
just that the media only stumble bout now.

still i respect him for that. he's good friend for sure. with his randomness and hikki almost all the time, i still consider his case still light not as heavy as those we heard at japan now.

by having "good" reports on anime related cases and news on certain tabloids, i can say that malaysians are still far away from japanese hardcore phenomenon, where they can even get married with shiryu or whoever the anime character they want.

worrying too much on these won't bring u anywhere. as long as u know where and what u stand for, otakuism is not as bad as reported in japan nowdays. u're not dead if u become an otaku. it's just for the love of anime not for the love of making love with your fav anime character.

You are whoever you want to be.

I agree.

That's cause you're one of them. I still find reality more appealing.

something like in those ELVIS days ... where those fellas adorn elvis everyday

women would shout, cheer, cry, weep like elvis is some kind of saint or jesus christ



lastly ... elvis died on the toilet bowl with drug overdose ...... and yet ppl will still think .... Elvis is the best

even if the same case happens here in our country, it won't be much more than 5% of it. i had to admit that by now, youngsters are more interested in anime rather than having american's cartoon show. i had my own experience on this case where my 3 years old nephew (Now 5) attracted more on bleach than totally spies. always asked about current episode everytime i went to his home. and still it's not that bad where his oldest aniki also watching and reading manga since the era of pokemon and slam dunk. both not showing any signs on going to be an old oyaji hugging pillow in the future. It may not showed that as a whole, but then they're just the same as me. having family that didn't go strict on what u want to watch and read. as long as u stays as a normal human being, acted like one, behave and at the same time have a strong interest in anime related matters - it won't be as dangerous as it can be.

On the hentai metroll case. they're just making it big out of it. what makes me mad at them is the hippocratic all lies behavior portrayed by some of their "said noble" writer. They viewed it as a whole but the truth is, they only know how to make things big and create whole new lies. as if there's no bangbus case, rape and murder in the real human case, it's just that making funs of anime culture and condemned it totally would be the only way for them to boost up their sales. when those who were deceived by them buy the story, another continuation will arise later with more ridiculous case and more bizarre sexy naked looking figurines sold here and there.

it's only u who can decide what you want to be. take it evil or good. be who you are just as what flame13th said ^. why worried over things that's far from reality.

Brother in law aku pun minat tengok animu tapi xdelah extreme sampai gila camtue skali.

Anak-anak buah aku plak minat tgk Spengebeb.

its a free world, they arent causing any harm to anyone. whats the fuss? /shrug

have you even read through the 3 pages of that article you linked? its all right there.

still u like real women and didn't carry your pillow during my bbq party itu.

no you cant, you'll be charged of public unrest/disturbence

Well... Most of the new trend clothes are nekkid anyway.

well... that's true. sooner or later people will start wearing only undergarments.

about that 'not harming anyone' part. Though not actualy harming anyone, he actually create a trend or awareness which some people might get curious and follow. Sooner or later, that trend will become a normal occurence just like the old days where rape cases are low but now it is like an all time high, we now regard rape cases as normal occurence.

This post has been edited by sgwc: Jul 24 2009, 10:39 AM

"If he ever does find true three-dimensional love, Nisan said, he hopes that his wife will accept Nemutan for who she is: “She is my life’s work. I would be devastated if that was taken away from me.”

- my spouse never steals away my interest over enma ai at all -