Thank you Japan

What. The. Fuck

lol, I love cracked. I especially liked that part about lesbians being mythical creatures in Japan. I also love this article.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/

Dropped Da Soap wrote:What. The. Fuck

Your avatar makes me very happy.

jesus christ were they trying to make a hentai out of alice in wonderland lol

lmao Frost/

I want to read the manga bible. Looks intense.

Haha, yeah, glorious Nippon fucks everything up. Earlier on /v/, some dude posted a manga about an actual murder of some chick. She was kidnapped, brutally totrtured, and then encased in concrete and stuffed in a barrel outside Kyoto. Dude made a manga about it. I'm not beating off for weeks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

Shit is unreal.

Seems that way, for better or for worse. I though Hellsing was pretty cool.

The manga actually showed it. Easily the most fucked up thing I've seen in a while.

>>Implying /v/ doesn't fap to that anyways.

Its what I'm doing right now!*

*Warning, may not actually be a factual statement

MEGA MILK wrote:Haha, yeah, glorious Nippon fucks everything up. Earlier on /v/, some dude posted a manga about an actual murder of some chick. She was kidnapped, brutally totrtured, and then encased in concrete and stuffed in a barrel outside Kyoto. Dude made a manga about it. I'm not beating off for weeks.

I read that wikipedia article.
Fucking disgusting.

But as for the manga, are you saying that they sexualized it, or romanticized it in some way? Or was it more of a non-fiction retelling of what actually happened, turned into comic-form?

Just curious. I know about the Japanese and their strange kinks. I just wonder if they would go that far, because I don't want to believe it.

Yeah, its pretty messed up.

There are all sorts of works of art in literature and film that depict not-so-pleasant events. When they're fiction, it's not as disturbing. When they're non-fiction, they're quite shocking. I don't know. I don't see why something like that shouldn't be retold, as long as it includes the punishment of the crimes, or explores the emotional consequences of the events portrayed.

I don't know. Would it be better to not make it into a novel of sorts? Would it be better if the crime was completely ignored? There have been films made dramatizing real-life serial killers like John Wayne Gacy. Maybe those films INSPIRED a couple people here and there, but for the most part, it's more of a warning to the rest of the human race that there are fuckheads out there who are willing to commit such barbarous acts.

I don't know. Murderous sociopaths will always exist, and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. Whether they read the manga or not, they will be what they are. But for those on the cusp, such things could be used to teach a lesson.

To ignore history is irresponsible.

I don't know; I haven't seen it, or read it for myself. If it's romanticized, then yeah, it's sick as fuck, I agree. It just depends on the way it's depicted, really.

So have you read it?

Well neither am I, but I won't say that art based on true events is not legit.

In Japan, cartoons and comics (as we call them in English-speaking countries) are not always necessarily directed towards children and teens.

It does seem wrong, I will agree, that someone produced this and made money off of it...

But looking at it from a Japanese perspective, manga and anime are as legit as any novel or film.

It's no different than true-to-life retellings like Alpha Dog, In Cold Blood, or any of the various horror movies based on true events, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Psycho.