My main gripe is the lack of efficient distribution of Japanese goods, leading to an increased bootleg market much like US movies in China. Games, game sountracks, anime, anime soundtracks, manga, adult manga. Most of it is copied freely on the internet when someone could put it on store shelves, but even then, many fans rely on getting their goods for free and wouldn't pay for them if they had to. So you have a reverse economy where goods are traded based on kilobytes and not actual dollars. And the goods that are brought over are usually butchered beyond recognition, so a large number of fans stay away anyway and go straight to the source. Perhaps downloadable content with a small fee is the way to do it in the future, but that admits a certain percentage will be shared for free and you just have to deal with it. This is the plight of US comic and video game companies that want to distribute online but will have a large number of their goods pirated. Then again, there are Japanese sites like DLsite with a good number of US customers willing to buy adult games and manga, so perhaps the lure of wanking is enough to offset the cost. Until someone puts it on a CD and sells it on ebay for 2.00.
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Anonymous2007-10-11 14:19
It's what the slopes get for basically copying most of the Americas comics and such. R.O.D. is basically X-Men with tits. and Rogue is still sexier.
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Anonymous2007-10-11 14:19
Japanese media is disposable garbage, it's not even worth the electricity costs entailed in downloading, let alone real paper bucks.
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Anonymous2007-10-11 14:23
Except Mario and some game soundtracks, the Japs can go fuck themselves.
Oh, you round-eyes loves you some Japsmut and Japtoons and Japgrrlz and all the rest of WEEABOO CULTURE. Who's buying all that Japshit in America? Yes, that's right: MILLIONS OF AMERICANS!
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Anonymous2007-10-14 14:40
I'm sick of weeaboos. I think they're traitors to their own culture.
You were born round-eye with a hankering for Individualism, you are not a slit-eye who lives for collectivism.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 15:27
>>9
I agree, anyone who isn't proud of the fact they are White and Western is a fucking disgrace.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 15:34
>>10 >>9
Whites are disgusting and inferior. Asians are the superior race, learn to live with it.
Asians are good at maintaining civilization, not at advancing it. They are at least smart enough to copy us, unlike the niggers, sand niggers and Indians.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 16:00
>>14
Don't confuse north asians with south asians. North asians such as the Japanese are superior and asia would be a better place if they had won world war 2 and dominated the inferior southerners.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 16:17
>>15
Not so fast, China and Korea are mostly northern too
Not to mention southern China is where all the wealth is built
But that's not the point
ASIANS UNITE, STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER UNTIL WE'RE DOMINANT OVER THE PLANET
As for "the Asians" being collectivist, that's because a lot of their philosophy is based upon Confucianism, which stresses the person's role in society, rather than looking at the person in isolation.
Would everyone please grow up from this "race x > race y" bullshit?
Have you seen how Radiohead are currently distributing their new album? Look into that, and I think you have your answer.
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Anonymous2007-10-17 3:38
>>19
Gunpowder was invented by chance and improved through trial and error, it's invention was not an achievement and the chinese were not to only ones to improve it through trial and error.
They didn't invent printing, they used woodblocks which first arose on the other side of asia and they didn't use them any differently from everyone else in the world. They have as much claim to inventing printing as the Indians or Vikings. http://touregypt.net/featurestories/fabrics.htm