久しぶりだね。
March 7th 2007 -
I apologize for the lack of posts in the last few weeks. I’ve been creatively blocked, extremely sick and mind-blowingly busy.
But! I’m back onboard.
Now, something everyone who knows even a little bit about me knows is that I love to rant. So today, I’m going to rant. What about?
There’s a type of person I absolutely despise. I’m sure we’ve all seen them, especially in our line of work:
The weaboo.
You might not understand what this term means. Let me tell you.
Weaboo (n.) [wiɑbu]
1. A white person that wishes to be Japanese fanatically.
See: faggot
I have no respect for these people at all. We’ve all see then. You might have seen them at conventions, lurking around, telling the whole world how much of an “otaku” they are, or perhaps shouting that their life goal is to go to “TU.”
I’ve seen them. In Akihabara, those two or three white guys that don’t just look and marvel at the place, but the ones that actually piss themselves. Now those are the real weaboos.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling for all-
out genocide >_>;; but really, there’s a point where you need to stop.
Those guys that just see me walking on the street in Tokyo,
they walk up to me and they attempt to speak Japanese.
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but really. At least make an effort.
“OMG I KNOW KATAKANA I’M GOING TO JAPAN.”
It’s not like that. Really, it’s not. And most of all though, is there’s just something WRONG with weaboos. They have their own race, their own culture, their own traditions they can be proud of. You can be a fan, that’s true, but as Immortal Technique once said,
“You will never be them.
No matter how much you wanna dye your hair blonde,
or follow an anorexic standard of beauty,
or get fake eyes in,
they’ll never see you as anything more than a little monkey.”
And it’s true! Why would you ever want to be Asian when you’re perfectly fine being white? It just doesn’t make sense, and it frustrates me.And since we’re on this topic, I’ll talk to you guys about something else.
There’s something else I hate. It also has to do with weaboos. I’ve noticed that there’s people who try and put deep, philosophical meaning on just about everything in anime. One of the prime examples, in my opinion, is Neon Genesis Evangelion. People discuss it way too often. “Oh, what do you think Anno meant here when he put the moon on the top-right corner instead of the top-left?”
LOOK. IT DOESN’T MATTER.
We need to realize that perhaps, there is no deep meaning behind every single small detail. People need to understand that anime is a form of entertainment, and therefore, not always deep and meaningful. Like my good comrade Kuma said, Naruto is for KIDS.There’s no way you can justify it’s for adults, ever.
And you know. We need to reject this sort of mindframe; I believe with the elimination of the weaboo anime can spread faster. Why? These weaboos are the ones that give anime a bad name. Since the regular anime fan doesn’t go around yelling out how much he loves Rei or how much he wants to bone Asuka,
the average person sees the weaboo as the anime fan. And it looks bad for the rest of us.
By eliminating the weaboo, we can allow anime to spread across the Western World even faster.
And that’s my rant.
Cheers,
Akira
PS: And oh. I’m going to start scanlating Doraemon soon. If anyone wants to view these, they should be up within the month on this website. =]
March 7th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Heil der fuhrer Akira.
I have to agree with you. It is pretty annoying to be singled out because a few bad seeds ruin the entire apple, you know what I mean. I also get a lot of crap for taking Japanese, I love the language but everyone accuses me of taking it because I have an ungodly obsession with anime-porn.
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