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zanarkand princess
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Rodents freak me out so.. but you know what I noticed, and I might be wrong here but if a manga or anime gets a live action version the fangirl rate for the animated (or comic) character spikes up if the actor is popular or attractive. This might be due to all the Johnny's Entertainment fan girls though. Like in The Gokusen Shin had a lot more fangirls after the live action version got popular with female fans. (I think a lot of people saw the anime first.) Why? Jun Matsumoto that's why. Soshi from Absolute Boyfriend had his niche but Night had the majority of fans (I on the other hand found the whole "I'm rejecting you for a robot" thing weird) but Hiro Mizushima seemed to convert some fangirls. I have to admit though his character was cooler in the live action while in the manga he was a bit strange. |
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DomFortress
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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Glad I'm not the only one. I always felt a bit weird on that one. Though in my defense I did always think Jasmine from Aladdin was cute. The animated tv series was kinda lame really but she was nice to watch. |
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CCSYueh
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Realistically, there is a certain type of person who can appreciate drawn characters as fantasy material on the subject of anime/manga charactrers, but I never saw the reality or point to all these fans drooling over various celebrities. Back when I was a kid, the teen mags encouraged it with articles like "Your date with Davy Jones". MOST OF THESE TEENYBOPPERS HAD A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL OF A DATE WITH DAVY JONES. Little things calling themselves "Mrs John Lennon" or dream of waking up next to Marilyn Monroe.
Is that any less fantasy than drooling over Sasuke or Tamaki? So they're real people--they aren't people most of us will ever meet. Hollywood pitches the idea "It can happen" with stories of some little nobody who catches the eye of BIG CELEB & they're living happily ever after by the end of the story. Yes, some of it is fan fics/fan art & the writer is just writing a fantasy, but there ARE people out there who are very much caught up in the concept they can ride the oceans with Jack Sparrow or go to Hogwarts. Yes, young kids do live rich fantasy lives, but at some point most of us realize these fictional characters can never be ours, though it doesn't stop a large number of fools from looking for live versions of their favorite fictional character. |
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Barachem
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I can't totally explain it either with men. But Gadget? I read about that earlier on the net, but never ever considered her myself to be attractive. However, when i watched Swat Kats in the past, i, as an avid meganekko liker, didn't entertain much thought for the meganekko Callie Briggs, but in hindsight i can't deny that i find her to be quite attrractive. So i can understand a part of it. While i am attracted to personalities of some meganekko characters in anime and find many of them visually attractive as well as certain nonmeganekko characters, i can't say i ever had crushes on them like i had with certain real girls and women with glasses. And no, those were not unattainable stars, i'm too realistic for that. |
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arachneia
Posts: 415 Location: On the wings of Bob Lennon |
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I don't want to demean your opinion in any way, but when I look at bishounen, I don't see men. They may have a penis, but they are feminine in every other aspect. Some people, myself included, find virility to require more than a phallus, and though you could argue that this is a product of social mores rather than nature, our perception of men is what it is. An effeminate man might be a man physically, but I will never, ever see him as a man that I would have sexual interest in.
Likewise, I think characterization is one of the most interesting aspects of story-telling. And, I'd like to add my own props for mentioning Tenma. |
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