Two reasons, the Japanese media for making exagerated claims about the avaliability of underaged sex for cash, and secondly a small percentage of schoolgirls (some as young as 12) who take advantage of this media attention by dabbling in Enjo kosai (translates as subsidized socializing) ie having sex with older men for cash ie prostitution. The wierd thing is that its not really a secret, phone booths are plastered with phone numbers and schoolgirls market themselves with voicemail (so thats what those cellphones are for!)l

Fun facts:

* Japan's Age of Consent is 13 nationwide but most prefectures make their own laws ranging from 13 to 18.

* This lolita phenomena isn't limited to anime, there was a frontpage blurb on the Wall Street Journal on Friday the 17th this month about the Lolita fashion trend in Japan with interviews with 25 year old women who sit in parks sucking on lolipops with other adult women in frills.

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Not sure if I should be disturbed or aroused :P

EDIT: I've decided on both

This post has been edited by Shenlong: Sep 21 2004, 05:37 PM

Sensei no Oijikan



The show has been licensed and shold be on DVD soon. I really hope it gets shown on Cartoon Network.



I've watched a few episodes, it looked pretty good but I was watching it with a chick who was gushing over the bishies so that kinda killed it for me. Had to take several showers to feel clean again



Its very easy to compare Gokusen to GTO but they're quite different shows. I really enjoyed the series, the feminine touch in dealing with her students.



I have, Yukie NAKAMA is a cutie

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You should consider checking out GTO live Action, its really damn good

What do yóu think of 'Serial Experiments Lain'?

What is the main difference between Computer Science and Computer Information Systems?

If you are Computer Information Systems your job has been outsourced to India.
If you are Computer Science your job is in the process of being outsorced to India.
If you are Computer Engineering, your job is safe.

That series defies description.. the animation is minimal and the artwork is pretty stark with wierd camera angles and pretty good computer effects. Its the type of show that you "experience" rather then simply watch, its very atmospheric and cerebral. I'm not a big fan of these kind of shows but if you enjoy stuff like Ghost in the Shell, this show is for you.

Personally I prefer "emotional" rather then "wierd" animes

As I understand, CIS is a mix of computer engineering and business.

This post has been edited by Shenlong: Sep 22 2004, 12:03 AM

I loved Serial Experiments Lain. It's one of the two series I own on DVD (The other being Outlaw Star, and that's just because I came across it in a mall when I was in New Jersey)

As for emotional shows: Shenlong, have you seen Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien?

I just finished watching FMA today, and it was only afterwards that I realised I missed something big. That or I totally misread something during the anime.

Who is "the master" of the homunculi? It wasn't Light Hoenheim seeing as well.... he was dealt with by Dante.

It isnt Dante - "the master" is a he, and besides which she says "the master isnt home right now" or something to that effect.

Envy brings Al to "the master's room".

So who exactly is this master? It seems like a very loose end to me.

Oh yeah, and what was with Dante and Gluttony at the end? I presume their dissapearence indicates that they somehow obliterated each other, but that doesnt really make sense seeing as Dante appears to be capable of dealing with any homoculus easily.

All in all, the end is pretty confusing. But..... I like FMA all the same.

are you ever worried at youre alienation from normal society as well as you being percieved as some sort of sexually depraved pervert?

I have, and wasn't impressed. The show is blatantly manipulating your emotions, no subtly at all. The main character could give Shinji a run for his money in the useless twat department, that coma chick is clueless, the lil sister is a selfish unthinking lil bitch and the blue-haired chick is the only vaguely normal character despite being weepy and too damn emotional. And the ending was predictable and sucked.

If I want emotional anime, I'll rewatch Now and Then, Here and There or Key the Metal Idol <_<

I have yet to see the final ep of FMA so.. I'll not answer for now. But there is probably a huge thread on various anime boards exploring every aspect of the final episode so you may want to check out

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http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=21417&page;=1
8 pages and growing, have at it

This post has been edited by FIST Shenlong: Oct 6 2004, 07:11 PM

I play the role of a no life anime geek on this board for my own amusement and to fuck with people who are gullible enbough to buy my act. Its really no different then trolling some all white conservative board as an angry black youth railing againt "the white man keeping us down" and such.

Except for being a sexual deviant, that part is true enough. I really do dig cosplay chicks :D

And here I was, thinking that sad sacks like you existed solely for my amusement.

I hope I provide half the amusements you provide me :lol:
The mere thought of a person tossing all that $$ down the drain for a nearly worthless education is enough to make me giggle like a little schoolgirl

Before or after you're fucked up the arse by a Japanese businessman?

Neither, my university tuition is about all my asshole can handle <_<

I just saw Now and then, Here and There (that is, like, Yesterday) fucking sad.

That said I *liked* KGNE for the reasons spelled out more or less: That all the characters where selfish bitches. I just guess it resonates with my view of humanity..

FMA 51 (the last episode of the animé) ends on a sort of "to be continued" note. They're making a movie so they're saving the real ending for that I guess. *blegh*

Oh yes, I forgot how much more expensive it is to study over there.

Suck it up.

And how much more a US diploma is worth :)

This post has been edited by FIST Shenlong: Oct 7 2004, 05:17 PM

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Of course thats why all the foreigners are begging to come to the US instead of aussieland to study (:

You mean like, you have to PAY to go to college?

Arilou, don't tease the developing countries.

You do not have to pay for college.

Edit: Assuming of course that you are not 100% retarded.

This post has been edited by Telum: Oct 7 2004, 09:45 PM

Beats having half your income taken away for taxes

Why are you using your old FIST Shenlong handle now, and what the hell does FIST mean?

Can you speak/understand Japanese?

If so, can you do my homework for me?

bored



It was the tag for the earth (the other swirve game that more people should play <_< alliance I was in at the time (The Fist of Odin)



I do not, though I should eventually. I am 1/4th japanese so I should get to know that part of my heritage.. but they're like the shady blacksheep of the family and noone really knows where the hell they are :ph34r:

Ah yes, that explains why my campus is full of Asians that have come here to study and brought all their money with them.

Its even more extreme here, australia is obviously their second choice. Are you seriously trying to suggest that your universities are better then the US's :lol: