Rants
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me happy that some people actually care about what I have to say.
Hentai
Vs. Self expression revised
I am not some 11 year old american kid who's only contact with japanese
animation is the chopped up dubbed DiC versions of sailor moon, nor am
I a freaky internet pervert looking for naughty tentacle pictures. I am
a 26 year old female college graduate who happens to understand the meaning
and value of self expression. This is why I see nothing wrong with "hentai".
What is Hentai? By popular definition it is "dirty anime". Any number of
things can fall under this category, such as profanity, blood, violence,
nudity of any kind, or even a kiss. Hell, an uncut sailor moon episode
happens to fall under the american definition of "hentai". American's do
not understand that anime is a major part of the everyday culture in Japan
and, there are many more "adult situation" pieces than those made for children.
Heck tons of anime that is made for children is considered "dirty" in the
united states. Try to find your self a few un-cut episodes of sailor moon
super S! You will find lesbians, strong violence, and profanity. The only
"safe" anime in the US is cut to crap or made for 4 year olds. IF you can
not deal with that than don't watch it.
When
I was a kid, we had Tom and Jerry cartoons rife with racial prejudice,
Road Runner with all kinds of violence and then there was popeye who beats
his girl friend on a daily bases. Popeye incidentally and some what amazingly
managed to escape the scissors of political correction, but that's a whole
other rant...
Now,
about people who draw or edit images into "naughty tentacle". Come on now!
Like you never drew boobs on something! In most cases these things are
just a form "self satisfaction" if you will. Example: When I am totally
pissed off at someone, rather than lashing out at the person physically
I sit down and draw evil comics about them being killed in wonderfully
wicked ways (thank you Jhonen vasquez for johnny the homicidal maniac).
Now what would you rather these hentai artists do? Go out and rape people
or just draw it? I think I would rather them draw it! We all need a release
from time to time and if you can find it in art or text then more power
to you! I completely respect many hentai artists for their abilities and
their means of "staying sane" and I thank them for standing up for self
expression!
Anther
point to this rant, I hear a lot of people saying they get tons of hentai
sites when they do a search for anime on the web. I'm sorry to say this
people, BUT I have been on line for 8 years and NEVER once did I come across
hentai when I wasn't actually looking for it and even then I came up with
50 million "anti- hentai" sites. If you are getting these sites on search
engines maybe you should switch to a different one. You could also set
your censorship controls to block out certain key words such as hentai,
porn, sex, xxx and what have you. After that your alleged problem is solved.
I'm done bitching now bugger off!
Blockbuster
Video... Oh how I hate thee!
This weekend my husband and I went to our local
blockbuster video store, usually they have everything all nice and sectioned
off, but this time, oh the evil that had befallen the store.... In place
of the anime, sci-fi, and fantasy sections was one big huge jumbled up
"action" section. After seeing this horrid mess I run like a bat out of
hell to the nearest clerk asking him "what the hell happened in here" and
he calmly explained that they got a new manager and now they no longer
have individual sections for the various genre. Now rather than being able
to go to an anime section and browse for new things, you have to know exactly
what you want before you get there, and then search through 15 isles of
unsorted crap to find it! You know, in this modern time you would think
that having nice neat sorted sections of films would be a good thing but
NOOO not to blockbuster! I was told also that they no longer carry older
movies (past 1980) unless they are high volume rentals. What the hell is
that about! All of then sudden Air Bud is more worthy of shelf space than
Casablanca? What ever happened to expanding your horizons or going to the
video store to find something different? Now it's all "legally blonde"
and "Clueless". After the whole talk with the clerk I wrote a little note
to this new manager explaining that their poorly thought out improvements
cost him a client then I handed over my blockbuster card and walked out
never to return. I haven't the slightest clue where I will be going to
rent movies from now on because the over lord blockbuster has forced all
the good mom and pop video stores out of business but it sure as hell won't
be back there!!!!
Scan
Theft? give me a break!
You see, much of the stock art (anime, dingbat fonts, photographs, and
illustrations) that I use come from all over the place. I try my best to
get permission from or give credit to these other artists where it is due,
sometimes however I screw up or I don't actually know where the piece
came from. If you see a piece on here using art that you recognize as yours
or you know the particular artist PLEASE drop me a line so that I can either
remove the piece or give the stock artist credit for their work. This includes
the anime pictures as well, which brings me to the second point of this
message...
In the last few weeks I have been noticing an out break of sites such as
"diff'rent
star" who claim to be against thievery of anime art work. No I don't
mean fan art or original manga character art I mean anime art scans. Such
as when a person buys an art book and scans in the images to place on her/his
web site. That's all well and good and can usually be combated by placing
a no right click script on a web page BUT these stupid (yes I said stupid)
little people have neglected to realize one small (large to the Lawyers
and the original artists) point and that is copy right infringement!!!!!
By scanning without proper consent from it's artist in the first place
you are breaking the law! It doesn't matter one bit if you paid for the
image! If somewhere on the book or image is a copy right notice you do
not have the right to scan it and you sure as hell do not have the right
to claim it as your own! You did not take hours to draw that, you did not
go
to animation studios and pay to get it made into anime and you did not
break your ass to promote it! It does not belong to you!! Do not go about
bitching and carrying on that someone stole a piece of your property from
a web site if you were not it's original artist! Just because you scanned
it in does not make you it's copy right holder, and if you are so worried
about someone stealing it from you in the first place do not place it in
public view! I guess it's just me, but it really pisses me off that people
make such a big deal out of it...
It's like my own art on these pages, I really couldn't care less if people
linked back to me when using my sets, I put them out for every one to use
and unless you are silly enough to link images directly from my site to
yours I will most likely never see how you use my art (except that one
background that keeps popping up everywhere, that's just spooky though).
If you like my stuff enough to link back to me that's totally fine with
me I welcome the hits! But it's not mandatory! I am not about to go visit
every single site on the internet to hunt down people who don't link back!
That's just insane!
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