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This is a talkback about the podcast. If Zac wasn't implied you are on the wrong thread..

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This is a talkback about the podcast. If Zac wasn't implied you are on the wrong thread..

I never specified any single reviewer. My post was for all reviewers; and since Zac is a reviewer then that includes him. I never singled him out specifically though.

Swissman wrote:

Shots like these are hardly uncommon in anime and especially in a show about girls like K-ON, but you won't find them in any show which are aimed to kids for example and that for a reason.

You don't watch many Japanese kids shows, do you?

You don't watch many Japanese kids shows, do you?

You neither, don't you?

But please, enlighten me, no, all of us. Mr. know-it-all.

Fencedude5609 wrote:

You don't watch many Japanese kids shows, do you?

You don't know how to not be an asshole, do you?

Fencedude5609 wrote:

You don't watch many Japanese kids shows, do you?

You don't know how to not be an asshole, do you?

Fencedude5609 wrote:

Swissman wrote: Shots like these are hardly uncommon in anime and especially in a show about girls like K-ON, but you won't find them in any show which are aimed to kids for example and that for a reason. You don't watch many Japanese kids shows, do you?

You neither, don't you?

But please, enlighten me, no, all of us. Mr. know-it-all.

Simply continuing the argument from another thread into the talkback of this podcast doesn't make my statement any less true. This is about Zac and Chris talking. You are on the wrong thread. I wish more of ANN posters would actually listen to the podcast and talk about them rather than continue the arguments that have nothing to do with the thread.

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Simply continuing the argument from another thread into the talkback of this podcast doesn't make my statement any less true. This is about Zac and Chris talking. You are on the wrong thread. I wish more of ANN posters would actually listen to the podcast and talk about them rather than continue the arguments that have nothing to do with the thread.

This podcast was about that argument. My original post was not off-topic.

Okay, let me ask the following about the word and how it can be applied in anything. If the word moe is meant to describe this sense of feeling good or positive about what you see and it can be applied in virtually anything period, then why do few people outside of certain communities that share specific interests such as anime use that term? Why is this a term not widespread enough where anyone everywhere will casually use it as part of vocabulary to describe anything that happens to make them feel good?

Maybe there's an obvious answer to that question and I'm not realizing it, but I want just to get to the bottom of why a term with a supposedly broad definition is not applied broadly enough. I mean, Bamboo from what I understand likes sports (and if I'm wrong, she can feel free to correct me) but I don't know if I can imagine her casually using the term moe in vocal conversation to describe when she feels good about whatever sport she sees.

Swissman wrote:

You neither, don't you? But please, enlighten me, no, all of us. Mr. know-it-all.

Amazingly enough, I actually do.

K-On is no more sexualized than Precure, and waaaay less so than shows like Dragonball or Doraemon, or even Sailor Moon.

But you said it wasn't about Zac. I mean did you LISTEN to the podcast?

I didn't argue that these kids shows are less sexualized than K-ON. Please read again. What I'm saying here is that the kind of pillow shots which fragment and heighten the female appearance at the same time are nowhere as much being used in kids shows as in a show like K-ON. Being a kind of a voyeur, as a viewer, does not only apply when there is nudity to be seen or sexual situations to laugh at.

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But you said it wasn't about Zac. I mean did you LISTEN to the podcast?

I said it wasn't specifically about Zac. And I did listen to the podcast.

I didn't argue that these kids shows are less sexualized than K-ON. Please read again. What I'm saying here is that the kind of pillow shots which fragment and heighten the female appearance at the same time are nowhere as much being used in kids shows as in a show like K-ON. Being a kind of a voyeur, as a viewer, does not only apply when there is nudity to be seen or sexual situations to laugh at.