Recent content by Ikajo

Talking to strangers in the lobby? Yeah, if I did that, people would think I'm weird. More weird than usual that is. Because, well, we are extremely reserved in Sweden... Talking to strangers...yeah, that wont happen.

I tried to find these analysis without success. You think you could link to them or quote them?

Let's us look at it this way. There are two versions of the movie "The Girl with a dragon tattoo". One is Swedish and one is American. Both of the movies were filmed in Sweden. But anyone who sees them would agree that there are some very blatant differences between these two movies. This...

I don't think it's possible to achieve that kind of understanding of a culture without actually being born into it. There will always be things that you wont understand by merely studying a culture. Somethings are ingrained in a society, those living in that society wont even reflect on those...

I agree with you 100%. It jarred me when they put down fighting as one defining component in anime! In some anime that's prominent yes, but not in all of them. There are even shounen series without fighting. One of last seasons best animes was a slow paced anime about a calligraphy artist who...

Sex isn't bad. Sexy isn't bad. Sexualization is. People really need to start seeing this distinctions. That shirt wasn't sexy and it didn't depict sexiness. One might say however that the images on the shirt were an example of sexualization of women. I don't think the guy is a sexist or even...

I don't have the energy to argue about this, the winter darkness is sapping me, so I will just condense it down. I, very literately, didn't understand what you were trying to say. Probably because my English skills isn't perfect, some subtleties do go me by at times. And maybe you weren't...

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. It feels like you are not contradicting me while trying to do so. ...I do say "some American cartoons", if I'm not wrong that is a a way of saying "not all". I also do say "usually" which, as far as I know, that there exist exemptions. I...

But we do separate classic music in to further categories. Usually based on the time period when the pieces were created. We also separate symphonies from concertos, operas, ballets, sonatas, nocturnes and so on. We separate pieces written for piano and pieces written for the violin. It all...

It was actually the Dragonball manga that got me into the manga in the first place. It quite literately changed my life. If not for Dragonball I wouldn't have become interested in martial arts, studied Japanese or travel to Japan. My drawing style changed and my interest increased. Even today...

I don't like porn. Not at all. There is absolutely no way to know if the working conditions are even near human. People can talk themselves hoarse talking about consent, as long as real people are involved, you can never know. And before anyone say anything stupid about food and clothes. You...

Ever seen Hetalia? A little treat ;P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWoUrDp78dk and http://www.animehail.com/watch/hetalia-world-series-episode-17/ It's quite awesome. And the episodes are super short! Yeah...in my early days I watched some dub. Now I cringe every time I see a dub. It's...

You should try watching Dragonball in both English and Japanese. The changes they made to the characters and the story is ridiculous. They've changed dialogue and added dialogue where non was. It's ridiculous! I'm mean, you should really watch the same episode in both languages. It's just...bad...

I must actually say I think that English-speakers who prefer dub is kind of lazy. My native language is Swedish. Yet I watch anime in Japanese while reading the English subtitles. Every movie coming out of the US and UK are subbed so I've gotten used to reading subtitles. This is the norm in my...

This is a very interesting topic, especially when facing the fact that people are lashing out against people who criticize games based on whatever or not they identify as a gamer. If they are going to identify as a gamer they have to have spent the last 20 years playing every "big" game...