All our base are belong to Japanese!

[transemacabre]

WTF. Is everyone on lj apart from me taking Japanese language classes? Go browsing through random profiles, I'll guarantee you every second ljer is posting about their Japanese midterm, or the funny thing Mandy-chan said in Japanese class, or learning to say "Make love to me, Sephiroth" in Japanese.

My boyfriend was one of those unfortunate people who thinks that because he's watched a couple of (dubbed) anime, then he "already knows" some Japanese, and wouldn't it be fun if we took a class together? I gave him a very pointed look and told him that he was welcome to take Japanese if he wanted to, but I couldn't be bribed into studying kanji twenty hours a day, trapped in a room with anime freaks. Not that all people who watch anime are freaks, mind you. Just that all anime fans who take Japanese classes are freaks. (The preceding was in jest. No offense is meant to anime freaks, you scary scary bastards).

Besides, Turkish is a WAY cooler language, anyway. Tamam?

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[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yup, you're right about the misogyny and gender stereotyping; oddly, it seems to go hand-in-hand (in the works aimed at female readers) with feminising male characters.

Also, culturally-specific anime/manga models get imposed on fandoms from entirely different traditions, and on ones involving real historical characters.