So who is this feminist group that calls themselves Equality Now?  Well… It’s a group of nothing but washed up hags who wants to take away our freedom of speech.  So what does that mean?  It means they want censorship over EVERYTHING that might be discriminated towards women and girls in any way, shape, or form.  Even if it’s a news paper article about some girl who got raped last night and they caught the guy and they cut off his dick as punishment, they want that censored.  What’s worse is that they’re “armed” with what they call CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women).  Don’t know what that means? Re-read this paragraph again.

So this so call group is setting up some sort of temporary office in Japan to try to take away their free speech over there like they do to us Americans.  It’s honestly no wonder why the world is so fucked up to begin with.  With so many people who lives inside of a bubble and is too ashamed to show their body to the opposite sex.  In fact, it’s a sin to even talk about sex (according to that so called group).

So what does this all mean?  It means they’re going straight to the heart of a country that given us otakus the light of licensed anime in the US.  If it wasn’t for the pioneers of the fan subbing community back in the good old days when it’s a sin to even mention anime that anime wouldn’t be as popular as it is now.  It was because those companies saw that there is, in fact, a market out in the good old USA for anime.  Which is also another reason why we have some good eroge games and soon some really great eroge games (since Nitroplus has teamed up with JAST).  And this so called censorship group pretty much wants to put an lid on it.

This means what the pioneers and the current otakus has worked so hard for is being cocked blocked by a bunch of feminist who claims that it’s poison to the sociality?  What’s poison to sociality is the fact that we even have censorship to begin with.  I mean, come on?  Who is it really protecting?  I mean, they show some guy, his wife, and his children getting killed on CNN for crying out loud.  The censorship is a joke.  What makes it alright to show such stuff on CNN while it’s not alright to have it in my anime or manga?  I mean, come on, another prim example would be the crappy movie, The Last House on the Left, where it clearly showed an underage girl getting raped.  Why isn’t that so called Equality Now isn’t saying anything to the film makers of that movie?  Why aren’t they saying anything to CNN about showing clips of a women his her daughters getting there head cut cleanly off?  Or those tons of other media?  Is it because those who are producing those have more money?

If that’s the case, then it makes sense why they’re going after my hentai, anime, manga, and video games since they’re pretty high on the totem pole for that so called group to hit.

What do I think?  I think censoring everything and anything is a bad ideal to begin with because if we enact censorship then sense of pleasure will never end which will turn into violate people and actually ease our pleasure onto other people.  At least with other forms of media it ease our pleasure for whatever we’re in the mood for.  In a mood for killing a hooker?  Pop in that GTA IV game, drive up to a hooker, take her to a dark alley, once she’s done run her over and get your cash back and there you go, that ease my pleasure of wanting to kill some ho.  In the mood of slicing some heads off?  Pop in that game of Gears of War and start slicing and dicing, there my thirst for blood has been taken away.

Point being, censorship is bad when it’s going this far.

Articles in question that got me to write this post:
Equality Now: "We Should Censor Other Countries"
Equality Now: "Unprecedented" Criticism Over Eroge Ban
Equality Now Demands UN Hentai Ban
UN Demands Hentai Ban

So the anime starts off with the kid on the bus heading to school and remembering how his father found out that the high school he was pretty much forced to enrolled in due to failing all the entrance exams he wanted to get into. He than gotten a call from someone (a friend maybe, I don’t remember) saying that she knows some information about the school he’s going to but then was cut off when the bus entered the tunnel. Right…..

In the manga, however, he was just on the bus and the bus driver tells him that the school is scary (in the anime the bus driver told him the school was scary as well but in the manga he gotten no phone calls, interesting don’t you think?)

There’s other details I’m kinda nitpicky about, such as the bus schedule. In the anime it says that the bus doesn’t come until every month but in the manga he actually spoke with the bus driver before getting on (or, should I say, made his decision to stay). I can say more but I’m just tired right now so maybe I’ll talk more about this later.

It’s credit by Svetlana Chmakova and I have to say that I really liked this manga.

The story is about Christie’s first time going to an anime convention. She’s an amateur writer and her boyfriend is one that does the art. They went to an anime convention with 2 of there friends and Christie and her boyfriend was selling their manga in the artist alley. Christie’s boyfriend is flerting with all the girls and she didn’t like the fact and they got into a fight and she ran off. She then finds a mysterious guy who is wearing sunglasses all the time. She feels confortable around him and soon falls in love with him. One problem is, Christie lives on the east coast while Matt (the mysterious guy) lives on the west. Another problem is that Christie is still in Highschool and Matt is in college. Would there relationship work out?

I tell you, I can’t wait till the second volume comes out :)

MOVIES

Star Wars: Ep 3, Revenge of the Sith (or whatever) – Watched on: Don’t care – This, I swear, was crap, although it’s better then the first one and I haven’t bothered watching the second one so I don’t even care. The ONLY cool part (for me) was when they put the mask on Darth Vader. Why I let Trev and Joe talked me into seeing it with them (which would be the second time for them) is beyond me.

Batman Begins – Watched on: 7/2/05 – This movie was pretty cool, the first half of the movie was pretty boring because it was showing his past and all that, but after that part, when you see him starting to become batman, it was pretty cool. Although I do find it funny how the guy was driving some nice car but in the last other batman movies, you see him driving those classic cars instead of the one he was driving in the movie, so unless he sold that off or something, that makes me wonder.

Manga

Magister Negi Magi (AKA: Negima!) – I liking this read really much. Created by Ken Akamatsu (the creator of Love Hina) back in 2004. This manga series is actually an anime series now but it isn’t as great as the manga, although I’ve heard it was getting better. Negima is about this boy who is training to become a magister magi like his father, the Thousand Master, but in order for him to continue down his path, he has to complete an ordeal, and that is to become a teacher at an all girls school! That’s all I’m going to say :-P

Last Hope – This isn’t bad for a manga that isn’t created in Japan (not ALL mangas are from Japan :-p ). This was created by Michael Dignan (writer) and Kriss Sison (artist). It’s pretty much about a person who grandfather is trying to kill and so he jumps to another time to run from him. But doing so destroyed his portal device. Waiting there for a few years, he saw a kid who is really a wiz on read advance devices and such, at which he was trying to disguise himself as a normal high school student. One day, the guy pulls the wiz kid aside and took him to his house at which he told him that he knew he was hiding something and then he came out and said he was his last hope for getting his time portal device fixed. Really not bad from the new publisher Seven Seas.

Amazing Agent Luna – Another release by the new publishing company, Seven Seas. Created by DeFilippis & Weir (writers) and Shiei (artist). It’s about a teenage girl name Luna who has a secret, and that secret is she’s a spy. Her mission is to go to this one high school as a student and gather information. This is her first time she ever went to a normal school. What’s worst is that she has to keep her ID a secret. Watch her go though hard times for this is the first time she well ever feel any of this things.

Alice 19th – It’s a pretty cool manga. It’s pretty much about a girl name Alice who find herself having to know the lotus words to fight an evil that’s in everyone’s heart.

Imadoki! Nowadays – I was actually touched with this manga. It’s by the same creator of Alice 19th (Yû Watase). About a small town girl who moves to a high richly city to go to school. She finds that trying to fit in with the rich is hard but that wouldn’t stop her from making friends.

Sensual Phrase – Okay, I didn’t started reading this tell one of my friends told me that it was really good (although she only read a couple vol. (forgot how many though)), so I decided to check it out. I must admit, after reading the 8th manga, I’m really interested in it and probably keep looking for new releases (just like Negima and some others). It’s pretty much about a girl who was going to submit a lyric that she written up for some contest but a twist happen. Before she could submit it, she almost got hit by a car. The person in the car was a young man, and to make it up to her, he gave her a back stage pass, and when she departed, the man saw the lyrics and took them. The girl was in disbelieving that she lost her lyrics but when she went to the show the guy who almost ran her over WAS SINGING HER SONG! The guy who almost ran her over jumps into the crowd and picks her up and takes her on stage. After the show, he came up to her and asked her to be his lyricist. What well happen to her now? You got to read to find out :P

Tsubasa – Why should I even bother commenting on this? It’s great! Although I won’t recommend watching the anime if your reading the manga, it’s just horrible

xxxHOLiC – Another great one by CLAMP that’s not worthy of my comments… oh, and this and Tsubasa does crossover!

Bleach – This manga series has really been a good read so far, I’m reading volume 9 right now (well… not right this second). Bleach is pretty much a guy name Ichigo who can see ghosts. One day, a monster attacked him and his family. A death god name Rukia shows up and tries to take down this “monster” called Hollows. But, because of Ichigo, she gets hurt and gives Ichigo an option, become a death god and destroy the hollow or don’t. Ichigo decides to become the death god and defeats the hollow. Rukia only meant to give him half of her powers but it seems like ichigo took it all! What happens from there? You got to read/watch and find out!

Since I got a lot of mangas, I’m just going to stop there…

Anime

Bleach – Read the review for the manga. Only differences is that, from what I’ve heard, it covers loose ends from the manga.

Shuffle! – This is such a great anime! Based off of a visual novel by Navel, this series is pretty much about a guy who is surrounded by girls. Three of the girls are really popular in school, so popular that they have there own unofficial “bodyguards” that causes more trouble for the guy then its worth. Now, before you go on to saying, “oh, it’s just another series about a guy who’s surrounded by girls,” I do have to say that the story is actually more depth then that plus the leading male isn’t DUMB either (compare to the other ones I’ve seen). Oh, didn’t I mention that the king of gods and the king of demons are trying to have him marry one of there daughter? (You just gotta watch to understand what I’m trying to say ;) ).

Black Cat – This series just recently came out, and so far I’m pretty hook. I think what got me hook was the opening theme song, Daia no Hana by Yoriko. It’s pretty much about a guy who is train to kill without emotion, he’s XIII, also known as Black Cat. He meets up with a guy who tries to capture bad people for money when he went on a mission. Are these two going to meet again? You just gotta watch ;)

Anyways… Since I’m too lazy to go on, and I should be in bed now, I’ll just say this, I’m going to, from now on, right up an review for each ep of any anime I’ve seen or for a manga I’ve read. Even though there’s a lot of reviews you could read, I’ll tell you what I think of it and what bugs the hell out of me ;)

Well… good night all!