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Touhou is NOT an anime!
shinyjam:
Have to agree with that. Maybe feed them false information to screw them around will make them smarter. ;D
Drake:
Guy 1: What is Touhou? I've heard of it, but I'm too lazy to actually search for what it is.
Guy 2: It's an anime.
Guy 1: Oh.
months later
Guy 3: what is touhou lol
Guy 1: (Tee hee I'll feed him the wrong information and confuse everyone)
Guy 1: IT'S A DIFFICULT VERTICAL SHOOT 'EM UP GAME IN THE BULLET HELL GENRE
Guy 3: k cool
Guy 1: Well I showed that guy
Tonepoet:
--- Quote from: Pastpoet ---In response to Mark2000, just to clarify, the reason I mentioned Youtube's lax society is that the bar for comment standards is much lower than your typical forum post. Why shouldn't a youtube user ask a lazy question when the front page time is transient and other equally brusque comments are being made? If the same person takes as just as much or more effort to ask the question repeatedly when they don't get a response, that's quite different but such isn't always be the case. Besides even on a forum they don't usually expect you to go off site before asking the question, as is being suggested here. In short, I meant to bring into consideration the context of your social setting, not that the social setting changes the difficulty of research. How difficult the research is, at least for the most part, another point entirely.
To Amaterasu, I'm not so sure search tags are that basic of an internet function, there's so much more to the worldwide web than just b-Logs and the few audio-visual sites that use them. I normally don't encounter them much elsewhere myself. As far as titles go, I feel they're mostly irrelevant to the general problem at hand. The average person probably views them merely as an identifying label, as opposed to a pile of search terms they can punch into google. They might not even realize this simplicity is a possibility, until it's pointed out to them. Also, there's no set naming convention that makes titles necessarily useful either; Overdrive certainly isn't. For both tags and titles, we have to assume a certain amount of vocabulary from a person in order to pick anything out anyway. Tsukihime Touhou Acruid Sakuya Remilia Flandre Yuri Loli Doujin Manga won't mean anything to an Anime initiate, to make an illustratively over the top example. It becomes a game of Where's Touhou, so to speak.
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I actually wrote this some time ago. However, I decided it'd be a bit overbearing to post because I'd said I'd bow out and that it would take away from the informative video which was just translated when I finally finished writing this. I'm not worried about it as much anymore for some reason though and mother always did tell me it's rude not to respond to people when being directly talked to. Besides, it's better late than never, I guess. XP
Tengukami:
--- Quote from: Tonepoet on July 21, 2009, 06:27:32 AM ---To Amaterasu, I'm not so sure search tags are that basic of an internet function etc.
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They are, but what I meant was Googling terms you're not familiar with is a pretty basic and widespread internet ability. I seriosly don't think you'd dispute this. If a person can't expend the energy to do that much, they'll be met with either a) Answer Men or, more likely, b) scorn and annoyance. Way it goes.
Yoslime:
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--- Quote ---Need English-Japanese translations? Sounds like my cue.
So I gave it a shot to translate the entire clip mentioned above.
It's highly possible to contain weird English. Feel free to post corrections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGegCta6F1o
I feel... so... exhausted now...
I'm off to bed, good night folks...
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orz
Bookmarked for posterity.
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--- Quote ---Seconded.
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--- Quote ---We humbly bow to you and thank you for this favor
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--- Quote ---Put it up as my Channel Video.
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Thank you for your acceptance, folks.
I feel like my effort has been rewarded.
Let me provide my opinion on the topic, I think it's no wonder the newcomers incorrectly understand Touhou as an anime. The reason has been already stated by Marisa on the clip that I've put the sub; you cannot deny the fact that it's the secondary derivatives that ignited the boom.
(As for me, I cannot thank enough to Reisen, for she told me this epic creations. It's not Overdrive, but its derivative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFOB77jLaE.
It was a few days later that I've found Dracil's IN Extra run on YouTube (cannot thank him enough as well), and on that day I've mail-ordered EoSD, PCB and IN).
The sub I've put is one of my constructive 'answer' on this topic.