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I'd probably just stick to handshakes or quick pats on the shoulder with people I don't know, since the chances of anyone being made uncomfortable by those things will be slimmer. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable by overstepping their boundaries, but going "Can I hug you?" before a hug soun...

Uh, okay. Relax. Still doesn't negate the broader point, since there's still plenty of manga scenes proving wrong Toriyama's own point. Could just be the general Japanese self-effacing, though.

This topic has reminded me of a simple fact about Toriyama: he’s not good with including sentimentality or intimacy in his work. Even ignoring the fact that he has admitted to not being good at writing romance, the closest the series has gotten to truly being sentimental with him behind the wheel w...

Eh. Some tropes are dumb, some aren't. Some of the pages there like Early Installment Weirdness and Technology Marches On are genuinely very interesting reads.

Sailor Moon had gay characters and aside from the lesbian sailor soldiers their gay characters were problematic af to be mild. Yeah, though Sailor Moon is pretty old by this point, at least as far as social issues regarding gay rights and tolerance and such is concerned. The anime started close to ...

Something that I just remembered, but Toriyama has joked around with the premise that they seem too close to be friends, stating in an interview from 2010 (or at least it was posted about on Kanz around that time) that Tenshinhan's favorite food is jiaozi and Chaozu's favorite is tenshindon.

On the topic of Chaozu's age: even if he was born the morning of the 22nd Budokai (which he wasn't :P), that would make him 30 by the series' end. And yeah, I generally think of Tenshinhan as asexual or at least very close to it. I could see 22nd Budokai being flustered if a girl came on to him aggr...

did someone seriously just compare kiddie-groping to not liking the ending of ME3. The opposite, actually. I'm pretty sure he/she meant that in the sense of "If some people are still angry about something as trivial as the ending to a videogame close to 10 years later, something as important as the...

Honestly, Mignogna has probably gained more "fame" from this scandal than he got from being a voice actor. My guess would be that after coming under this much hot water and entering the spotlight to this degree (I know there's been accusations in the past, but never an explosion that compares to thi...

I wouldn't have wanted filler arcs that are adaptations of the movies, really, for the simple fact that I think filler arcs tend to be better than the movies (the 22nd Budokai filler was incredibly solid despite being short, and I adore both the lengthy training for the 23rd Budokai as well as the t...

I don't think of Goku as being a completely static character. I think I expressed my thoughts about as well as I can in this post from 10 years ago, so I'll paste it here. I agree that he's a very consistent character, but I wouldn't say he has no character development whatsoever. During the 25th Te...

My take on Goku's feelings towards Chi-Chi are more charitable than the average. Do I think he's a lovestruck romantic? No, definitely definitely not. Do I think he holds any romantic feelings for her at all? Maybe, maybe not (though I'm leaning closer towards 'not'). Do I think he has any sexual fe...

There are a lot of different sociopathic behaviors. Being a pedophile is not the only one kind of sociopathic behavior. There are also different levels of sociopathic behaviors. He maybe is a sociopath, that is a possibility. But until now, what with we have, he is not a pedo. "Sure, he touches lit...

Just to throw something out there for people who dislike/hate the status quo in regards to sexual assault, there should be massive leaps forward in understanding of the human brain throughout the 2020s. There's multiple reasons for this, though one important one is a device from a company called Ope...

I've always strongly felt that Chaozu vs. Tao Pai Pai should have been on-screen; given the minimal amount of involvement Chaozu has in the series, I don't think any opportunity to focus on him should have been passed over.

I'll give some cursory thoughts on the issue. I would make a distinction between how the themes are explored and the themes themselves. There are plenty of themes, including death, that apply to kids and adults. There seems to be an assumption that darker subject matter isn't for children. The bigg...

Oh yeah, I'm sure Sonic Team and Sega know - pretty much the entire anime and videogame world knows by this point, this has been a highly publicized case. I'm not sure whether they plan to boot him, though.

Can't say I can side with Jamie Marchi and Monica Rial. They both wouldn't shut the fuck up. They're just making things worse. This is yet another extremely disappointing, awful viewpoint and yet again goes back to the seemingly-never-ending explanation of why assault/abuse victims don't always rep...

The world takes all kinds, so I'm not sure if any kind of character is technically unrealistic. I personally think that most people that are cruel, evil, or simply angry jerks are that way due to nurture moreso than nature, and that they could have been different people had they known different upbr...

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