March 25, 2005
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I was playing Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life recently when I had an epiphany. Almost every Harvest Moon game has only 1 (one, ein, un, ichi) black character. AWL has Cody, the others had the fisherman guy who looked like a clown. I think the clown part must be a social statement on Natsume's part. Anway, it makes me wonder whether Japan has its own rules about affirmitive action. There aren't too many blacks (I'm sorry, african-americans) in Japan, yet they still show up in their games. It's odd. I think they chose to cast a black man as Cody for a sense of irony. He has a football player physique and most people stereotype blacks as strong individuals, so they foil him by making him an artiste. It's crazy. And I still stand by what I said earlier about the fisherman looking like a clown.
Oh, and here's Cody, by the way...
Straight gangsta, right?
Oh, and I just found this thing from Wangston Hughs and figured I'd do it as well:
Anime Poll
Romance/Supernatural: Romance
Horror/Drama: Drama
Manga/Manwha: Manga
Viz/Tokyopop: Tokyopop
Hiei/Kurama: Hiei
Dubbing/subtitling: Subtitling
ADV/Del Ray: ADV
Magic/Martial Arts: Marital Arts
Right to left/Left to right: Right to Left
Gohan child/Gohan adult: Teenage Gohan!!!!
Slam dunk/Prince of Tennis: neither
DVD/VHS: DVD
Pure Romance/Romantic Comedy: Romantic Comedy
Fighting Demons/Fighting people: Fighting People
Character quality/Music Quality: Both are important, but Character quality moreso
The Anime/The Manga: Manga
Trigun/Hellsing: neither
Box & DVD/DVD only: Box and DVD
Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai Deeper Kyo: Kenshin
Ranma ½ /Inu-Yasha: Ranma, all the way!!!
Ah! My Godess/ Oh! My Godess: Oh! My Godess
Demons/Humans: Humans
Dragonball/DragonballGT: No competition, Dragonball all the way
Dragonballz/Saiyuki: DBZ sucks, and I've never seen the other, so... Saiyuki
Bleach/Shaman King: neither
Short Anime/Long Anime: Depends
Yu-Yu-Hakusho/Hunter X Hunter: I dunno
Shonen Jump/Shojo Beat: that's a tough one, I dunno
Cardcaptor Sakura/Yu-Gi-Oh: neither
Immortal Rain/Chrono Crusade: umm... I dunno
Mars/Marmalade Boy: Mars sucks... and I've never actually seen McMillan & Wife
Wish/Suki: Wish
Peach Girl/Hot Gimmick: neither
Neon Genesis Evangelion/Escaflowne: I dunno
Pokemon/Digimon: Pokemon
Gundam Wing/Gundam SEED: whatever
Funimation/ADV Films: ADV
Bandai/Genon: Bandai
Viz/Disney: Viz
Long manga/short manga: depends
Flame of Recca/Naruto: Naruto
Episode recaps/no recaps: No recaps
Filler episodes/story episodes: Story!
OVA/Series: Series
Old School/New School: Both
Spirtied Away/Princess Monoke: Princess Mononoke!!! the other movie is good, but not as much so
Castle in the Sky/Kikis Delivery Service: Castle in the Sky
Akira/Ghost in the Shell: Akira
Boxsets/Indivual DVDs: depends
Read or Die/Ninja Scrolls: ?
Love Hina/ Ai Yori Aoshi: I dunno, they're both good, but probably Love Hina
Chobits/Tenchi Muyo: Chobits
One Piece/Naruto: Naruto
Fullmetal Alchemist/ Fullmetal Panic: neither
Trigun/Gungrave: whichever is funnier
Salior Moon/Revolutionary Girl Utena: Sailor Moon
GTO/Azumanga Daioh: Azumanga Daioh
Serial Experiments Lain/Haibane Renmei: whatever
Gravitation/Fushigi Yugi: I dunno
FLCL/Dragon Half: blah, blah, blah
Saikano/Confidental Confessions: you know... stuff!
Wolfs Rain/Cowboy Bepop: Bebop (sounds funnier)
Ping Pong Club/Lupin III: Lupin III
Millenium Actress/Perfect Blue: Thank God it's over
Comments (5)
Ok..Sailor Moon is NOT better than Utena and Chobits is crap compared to tenchi...and you need to watch more anime so you know what some of these are. Chop chop! *claps*
Cody represent!
Wait, what about the fisherman guy in Hm64?
YOU FORgOT THE OTHER BLACK GUY!!
Stephen, do you even read my posts anymore?
who wants to read all that crap anyway?
Josh, did you even watch Trigun of Gungrave or most of the stuff towards the end of list?
And Tenchi > Chobits except Tenchi in Tokyo, that sucked loads. And as Amanda said, Sailor moon sucks... as a matter of fact, ALL MAGICAL GIRL SHOWS SUCK!