Manga and Anime are thought bombs from Japan in response to the Atomic bombs that ended World War II. Those large- eyed characters are aimed at the peduncle of our culture, our Romeo-and-Juliet-aged-adolescents's sense of idealism. War has progressed from "physical" to economic and now to art. Our response should be a "danceosphere" in the sense of Teilhard de Chardin's nooisphere. Chardin thought that the next step in planetary evolution would be a nooisphere or layer of complexity analogous to the cerebral cortex in humans. If an electronic-network-based graphical language like Manga and Anime) is one step in that evolution, the next step would be a emotional-network-based gestural language. My recommendation is that people start dancing at their computers.
-- JesusHChrist, Jun 05 2005

I dunno. They're still using bombs and guns in Afghanistan, and the North Koreans are fixated with a nuclear device. I think I'd prefer it if our guys in uniform went at them with something more destructive than a solid rumba.
-- DrCurry, Jun 05 2005


"Roger that." "Tango Foxtrot do you copy?, over."
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 05 2005


You just got served [JHC]. Unfortunately you couldn't see it.
-- wagster, Jun 05 2005


And one and two and bun and two.
-- zeno, Jun 06 2005


I was gonna fishbone this because of the suggestion that a successfully exported culture which wasn't American was somehow insidiously evil, but the image of geeks the world over boogying as they type has set me giggling helplessly.
-- moomintroll, Jun 06 2005


Dance, dance evolution?
-- wagster, Jun 07 2005


"Cartoons - America's original art form. I don't include Jazz cos it sucks." -- Bart Simpson

I think The Simpsons, just by itself, is equal to Anime in terms of influence to Westerners. Thank God.
-- Adze, Jun 07 2005



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