Comments | neocloud9: Holy cow, guys!

neocloud9

Holy cow, guys!

Oct 02, 2009 15:21

My university's newspaper - the KSU Sentinel - ran an article on AWA this week.

I love reading what "normal" people think of us anime nerds. It's loads of fun. XD

It's also interesting to see how words like fandom are defined in layman's terms ( Read more... )

rl, anime industry, fandom: axis powers hetalia, convention season, fandom: kuroshitsuji

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mizure October 2 2009, 19:50:51 UTC

"...and an enormous Shoop Da Whoop who was, in fact, charging his lasers."

I FUCKING LOL'D.

neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:09:38 UTC

AS DID I.

I hadn't even noticed that until I scanned the article. XD

madnesshp October 2 2009, 20:14:55 UTC

"For those who partake in anime 'fandom'... the three-day convention is the highlight of their year."

Uwaaa. Somehow... I feel a touch offended by that. xDD I am a huge fan of anime, yes, and I would definitely say I'm part of fandom. But I'm not going to say that attending cons makes my year. (In fact, I don't even attend cons.) I've got more momentous occasions to enjoy (i.e. graduating college). I dunno, it just sounded a little condescending, though I know the writer didn't mean it to be~

And if I have a complaint about the images! It would be that they aren't labeled. People reading the paper would automatically assume that those costumes are anime-related, when actually they're more game-related. (Though the relation is somewhat close.) But, this is just me being nitpicky about the format of the paper itself.

/is shot

BUT YAY FOR HETALIA AND KUROSHITSUJI MENTION. That makes me pretty happy to hear!

neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:20:50 UTC

...Conventions are totally the highlight of my year. XD

I don't know what most of those cosplays are even from!

madnesshp October 2 2009, 20:26:36 UTC

...oh, well that's okay! xDDD

Looks like the first image is Cloud from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and the last one is Link from Zelda, but... no clue who the people in the middle are!!! Newspaper fail!!! >:O

neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:30:16 UTC

Well, knowing what kind of tripe our paper usually prints... I shat bricks in amazement. XD

meltedpeep October 2 2009, 20:34:36 UTC

Misspelled 'Gundam'. Minus two points, Matt Nix.

...I've never even watched one of the Gundam series and I still feel like a dirty nerd for noticing that, ha.

neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:39:26 UTC

IDK, I kinda like the sound of Gund-HAM. Our ham shall rule the stars!

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neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:39:59 UTC

TO WHAT?

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neocloud9 October 2 2009, 20:43:30 UTC

...Oh. *face/palm*

tiam_atardecer October 2 2009, 22:06:49 UTC

Hetalia and Kuroshitsuji, that's so cool!!!!! Now I'm curious about those tetris outfits, though XDD.

neocloud9 October 2 2009, 22:32:33 UTC

I never got to see those! Bet they were great...