Big in Japan

lars · Post by **lars** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:33 am

Refty midnight brue, let's go engrish!

henry5 · Post by **henry5** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:02 am

Wow, cool!!!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:07 am

Isn't that originally from Furi Kuri? The bass, I mean.

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:52 am

Yes, a.k.a. FLCL, Fooli Cooli.

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:53 am

anime...?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:02 am

Animeglo..

ealdrett · Post by **ealdrett** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:15 am

Found this on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Anime-FLCL-Sexy-Haruhara-Haruko-with-Rickenbacker-Bass_W0QQitemZ6031265637QQcategoryZ1345QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:31 am

I want it!

ealdrett · Post by **ealdrett** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:38 am

Bob,

I you want that, then your gonna want this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/FLCL-Haruhara-Haruko-Action-Figure_W0QQitemZ6028584251QQcategoryZ1345QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Comes with the scooter and the Rick. The Rick is more detailed. And it's a "buy it now" auction.

edski · Post by **edski** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:48 am

Somehow, Japanese anime has always creeped me out a bit...

aceonbass · Post by **aceonbass** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:07 am

Somehow, Japanese anime has always turned me on a bit...I want her too! I must have the hot anime chick with a Rick.

edski · Post by **edski** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:35 am

Dane, that's what's creepy. It's like a grown man developing a crush on "Kim Possible"

I've though about writing a short story along those lines...

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:36 am

I could care less about the chick... but she has a little tiny Rick!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:36 pm

Actually, you'd be surprised at how common it is for people to be . . . um . . . infatuated with anime characters and such. I'm not speaking from personal experience, but rather for knowing several of these people and hearing about their friends and such . . .

There's a reason, though, that it happens a lot more than people "developing a crush on Kim Possible" as you said, Ed. Basically, anime is based on a very different aesthetic than American cartoons are; it's much more about visual beauty and captivating the audience with the art, whether you're talking about something brilliant like "Akira" or "Spirited Away", or something aimed at kids like "Digimon" or "Dragonball Z". American cartoons tend to be more about looking stereotypically "cartoony", and, as such, are much more free to be unabashedly silly and pointless, or to be very unsubtle parodies (as the Flintstones, and later the Jetsons, were of '50s family sitcoms).

Where anime focuses mainly on the visual and plot aspects of animation, American cartoons focus much more on endless humor/ridiculousness and parody.

rikk · Post by **rikk** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:29 pm

Let's not bid these dolls through the roof here. They are NOT real Rics you know.