# I just watched the most seriously WRONG anime ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2004, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116 "2004-05-02T05:58:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/21 "2004-05-03T01:35:57Z")
And it’s available on Netflix? I’d like to know what you mean exactly by “wrong.” I guess when I think anime my filthy mind immediately turns to anime PORN, and, well, dammit, I’m really curious. I’ve never seen any and I’m very, very drawn to the idea. I’ve like the few dirty Japanese comic books I’ve seen. So if it’s kind of hot in a filthy sense maybe I’ll rent it. (So embarrassed suddenly! Fleeeeee!) ZJ ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/22 "2004-05-03T02:21:50Z")
**Marley23:** : To extend my first statement in the OP, I’m a conoisseur of all things weird and unusual, of things that just plain and simple don’t make sense. My tastes aren’t for everybody, nor are yours or anyone else’s for that matter. **Necro Romancer** : Are you saying I’m a filthy rich recording artist, or was that just a snide way of calling me a pedophile? Because _everybody knows_ that _nobody over the age of 18_ ever wears _pajamas_. **d\_redguy** : I’m so sorry. No, seriously, I don’t know what I’d do if I lived with anybody who tried to give away any of my stuff, for any reason (except for me asking “Hey, could you find someone who wants this?”). **Skillet38** : And exactly what are you referring to? Violence? I’ve yet to see any anime that was _half_ as violent as any given episode of _Tom and Jerry_. It seems to me what a lot of people object to is _realistic_ (or at least _semi-realistic_) violence. At the very least, realistic violence shows the consequences of the act. If, on the other hand, you’re talking about sex… well, where are his parents? Jesus Christ on a bloody pogo stick, practically everything’s rated these days. And they’re rated for a good reason: all you people wailing “_Think of the children!_” can simply _look at the package_ and determine if it’s fit for Little Johnny. If, on the third hand, you’re talking about just _Plain Weird Stuff_… well, Heaven forfend he should ever see _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_. Oh, and speaking of cultural warfare: The current style of manga/anime started around the time of the American occupation of Japan. Late 40’s/early 50’s style manga was practically indistinguishable from some American comics of the same time. I refer you to _Metropolis_ and _Astro Boy_, just for example. So all of this comes courtesy of the good old USA. Have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/23 "2004-05-03T05:28:50Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > **Skillet38** : And exactly what are you referring to? Violence? I’ve yet to see any anime that was _half_ as violent as any given episode of _Tom and Jerry_. It seems to me what a lot of people object to is _realistic_ (or at least _semi-realistic_) violence. At the very least, realistic violence shows the consequences of the act. > If, on the other hand, you’re talking about sex… well, where are his parents? Jesus Christ on a bloody pogo stick, practically everything’s rated these days. And they’re rated for a good reason: all you people wailing “_Think of the children!_” can simply _look at the package_ and determine if it’s fit for Little Johnny. > If, on the third hand, you’re talking about just _Plain Weird Stuff_… well, Heaven forfend he should ever see _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_. But it’s a cartoon!!! Cartoons are for children, so any cartoon that has adult themes should be shot and then melted down for plastic!!! ---
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/24 "2004-05-03T06:06:57Z")
A little whooshed? I wasn’t seriously accusing you of anything. But if we’re going to go into the fetish post… No , I wasn’t talking about the mention of pajamas in that post; I was making the Michael Jackson connection (although that’s a young boy _thang_) with this: > [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > It’s all about innocence, really. What kind of underwear did he like you in? I’d be willing to bet he wasn’t a thong man, preferring plain cotton bra and panties (maybe with those little bows… wait, that’s me). this: > [@](#): > > After all, half the fun of innocence is spoiling it. and this: > [@](#): > > Oh my. It appears that my wee-wee has been stricken with rigor mortis. And c’mon **Tentacle Monster** (A many-tentacled monster appearing in hentai (japanese porn cartoons) that often rapes women and young girls. -urban dictionary), how could someone without good taste _not_ make the connection? ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/25 "2004-05-03T06:21:24Z")
You know, just _once_ I’d like to see an anime feature with dyke sex…_and nothing else_. I don’t understand why these Japanese companies feel the need to dress up dyke sex (on the extremely rare occasions where they do have it) with robots, hermaprhodites, tentacles, weird aliens, fetishes out the wazoo, etc., to say nothing of the _unbelievably boring, tedious plot_ that invariably gets thrown in as well. … What are you looking at? Hey, this has been eating at me for _years!_ ---
**Author:** ![d\_redguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5fc32e/32.png) [@d\_redguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/d_redguy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/26 "2004-05-03T10:17:55Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > **d\_redguy** : I’m so sorry. No, seriously, I don’t know what I’d do if I lived with anybody who tried to give away any of my stuff, for any reason (except for me asking “Hey, could you find someone who wants this?”). Well, she hasn’t **really** tried to give it away. Believe me, I know she could’ve if she was serious. There would be many takers among our circle of friends. It’s just when a friend says,“Ooooooohhhh…Evangelllllion!” She promptly replies with, “You like it?! Take it!! **PLEASE!!** ” It’s probably my fault, really. Always ranting and raving about blah blah best anime series ever blah blah Gainax is the company of the Gods blah. Stupid Eva otaku. They’re the worst. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/27 "2004-05-03T15:03:57Z")
Gainax is the company of the Gods. Everything they do takes normal normal anime genre, and just twists it enough to be totally brillant. The fact that I just watched Mahoromatic & Abenobashi straight through and haven’t slept in way too long really proves their brillance. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/28 "2004-05-03T15:33:33Z")
I love Puni Puni Poemi and Excel Saga… they’re just so… strange. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, too. And somebody left out the most important feature of PPP : Nabeshin! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/29 "2004-05-03T15:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=Tentacle Monster] However, I’d say the live-action version of _La Blue Girl_ is more wrong, just on concept. [QUOTE] I saw this at the video store a while back. When looking at the back, the first thought that came to mind was "Man, they’re just reusing the set from **Deamon Beast School**. I promptly put the book back, immediately left the store, and cried myself to sleep in shame. As it all stands, the series doesn’t sound nearly as “wrong” as, well, pretty much any tentacle rape anime. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/30 "2004-05-09T00:34:37Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > You know, just _once_ I’d like to see an anime feature with dyke sex…_and nothing else_. I don’t understand why these Japanese companies feel the need to dress up dyke sex (on the extremely rare occasions where they do have it) with robots, hermaprhodites, tentacles, weird aliens, fetishes out the wazoo, etc., to say nothing of the _unbelievably boring, tedious plot_ that invariably gets thrown in as well. > > … > > What are you looking at? Hey, this has been eating at me for _years!_ [Stainless Nights](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Stainless+Nights%22+review) ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/31 "2004-05-09T16:50:29Z")
Any here watch FLCL (furkuri)? I hate that show. All the insanity of Excel Saga, but none of the heart. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/32 "2004-05-09T22:46:13Z")
> [@](#): > > y here watch FLCL (furkuri)? I hate that show. All the insanity of Excel Saga, but none of the heart. I’ve seen promos on Adult Swim, but I go to bed after Family Guy ends, so I’ve never actually seen it. From the ads, FLCL sounds wierd. What exactly happens in the show? ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/33 "2004-05-10T03:02:58Z")
Oh. I thought this would be about Di Gi Charat. ---
**Author:** ![Tobio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@Tobio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tobio)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/34 "2004-05-10T03:50:47Z")
> [@smiling bandit](#): > > Any here watch FLCL (furkuri)? I hate that show. All the insanity of Excel Saga, but none of the heart. Really? I feel almost exactly the opposite. I like both shows (though by the end _Excel_ got to be a bit much) but felt that _FLCL_ had more likeable and three-dimensional characters. I haven’t watched _PPP_ because I was totally put off by the last episode of _Excel_. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/35 "2004-05-10T12:30:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve seen promos on Adult Swim, but I go to bed after Family Guy ends, so I’ve never actually seen it. From the ads, FLCL sounds wierd. What exactly happens in the show? Wel, the plot, once you get down to it, is mostly just standard “boy summons giant robot, does battle, saves world” stuff. But the gloss over it is absolutely wild. An aline girl with a gas-powered guitar club, the aforementioned robot pops out of the boy’s head… wierd stuff. Actually, I may have been mistaken about the source of my dislike. perhaps its was simply too intense for me to apreciate it. The thing keeps changing gears and styles and doing twisted cinematic effects… its all a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/36 "2004-05-10T13:59:39Z")
I just picked up the DVD “Best of Cowboy Bebop” , 2 CDs, $9.00 At the local Game Shop. They also peddle used Anime. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/37 "2004-05-10T14:16:23Z")
I had PPP inflicted on me a few weeks back. A 12 year old lesbian…most of the cast gets raped in the final episode. Lots of screaming and yelling. Wonderful. FTR, I didn’t really like Excel much either. I sorta like FLCL, if only for the Lupin jokes. 🙂 Gainax series are hit and miss for me, though, and I can’t really put my finger on the reason why. FLCL was okay, Abenobashi was mostly pretty good, hated Evangelion, sorta liked Mahoromatic, am enjoying the hell out of This Ugly and Beautiful World. No real rhyme or reason why some click and some don’t (okay, Evangelion didn’t click because it was turgid, whiny and pompous, not sure about the others). ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/38 "2004-05-10T16:06:13Z")
> [@Skillet38](#): > > now they’re attacking with Anime. I have a 13 year old nephew who is seeing things animated that hopefully he’s years away from seeing in real life…er, or ever… Yeah. Kids shouldn’t have to see real-life giant humanoid robots rampaging through futuristic cities, or real-life tentacled horrors raping women, until they’re at least 16. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/39 "2004-06-20T21:19:36Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > And it’s available on Netflix? > > I’d like to know what you mean exactly by “wrong.” I guess when I think anime my filthy mind immediately turns to anime PORN, and, well, dammit, I’m really curious. I’ve never seen any and I’m very, very drawn to the idea. I’ve like the few dirty Japanese comic books I’ve seen. > > So if it’s kind of hot in a filthy sense maybe I’ll rent it. > > (So embarrassed suddenly! Fleeeeee!) > > ZJ [Check out my hentai review site and see what you think.](http://www.jollyroper.com/hentai/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116/40 "2004-06-20T21:27:27Z")
ROFL Love your review site, **Evilcaptor**! 😛 Is Hentai jump still around? They had hilarious hentai reviews. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-most-seriously-wrong-anime-ever/243116.md?page=3)