This week I will be reviewing Icarus Publishing’s new book Mazo Chichi. IS IT GOOD? IS IT CRAP? Yes to both! FOR NO REASON!

Fuck these things are boring. Just listen to the podcast for the love of all that is holy.

 Of Cabbages and Big Vaginas [61:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (13)

Well, we’d known for a while he was likely to do it. Drives me insane to think that now someone else has to suffer his misfortune just for us to get a chance to right something that’s so clearly wrong.

IA man pleads guilty to having obscene drawings

Fuck sake, this country is on the wrong track. A sad loli will be the header image for it is a sad day for her.

Oh and since you’re here. Please help support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. They need it now more than ever.

I’ve found these sort of caustic headlines get people to actually read the content that follows them. Pretty clever, eh? It’s not really a Machination of Erotism, but it relates.

Anyway, a little background on what I’m about to go into here. In the manga Kannagi, it is suggest Nagi, the main chick, has fucked before. This sent a rash of ridiculous blog and 2ch posts rippling throughout the internet and since my thumb is ever on the pulse of inane bullshit, I’m posting about a reply post about a bunch of reply posts they I can only assume took place sometime around the end of World War II. For those of you who didn’t follow along, I’m saying that I couldn’t give a shit less about whether Nagi has fucked for three reasons. The first, she’s a drawing. The second, I’m sane. The third, she’s not a very good character to begin with.

But Nagi isn’t the center of the issue that I am about to discuss. The titular moron made a post about how things got to be where they are and Western expectations and blah blah blah. I sort of tuned out, honestly. Basically, the arguments presented in Moritheil’s post (I don’t actually think the poor kid’s a moron. YEAH!) stem from the baseline idea that men consider virginity the ideal. I think that’s sort of a shallow understanding of the psychological processes that lead to the situation where lots of people are upset that Nagi might not be a virgin.

Indeed, for a lot of men, the ideal would appear to be a virgin. But it doesn’t just stop there. Men don’t want the sex to be bad and awkward. They want a woman who knows how to please them but is still untouched. And that’s where we get to the root of the idea.

Men are very territorial creatures. Many men are given to at least mildly jealous thoughts even over girls they felt like they saw first. If they laid eyes on a girl and another guy walks up, lots of guys will just out right jealous. It passes quickly, but it’s part of just about every guy on earth. The ones thinking they’re exceptions to the rule right now, you’re wrong.

That’s where this Nagi idea enters the picture. The mangaka crossed a line in the minds of many of the sad idiots reading his book. To them, Nagi was hitherto presented as unattached and somewhat “pure.” This led the men reading to create situations in their own minds where Nagi could be attained and they would take her on this magical journey through sexy land. And when you’ve built something like that in your mind, you will of course feel betrayed when the truth comes rushing at you. Hell, it might not even be the truth.

Of course, in Moritheil’s mind, this degenerates into a feminist argument about keeping women down and so on and so forth. And while admittedly there’s a double standard at work here (the men, contrary to the comic linked in Moritheil’s post, don’t need to be untouched while the girl does), that’s not really where the issue stems from and it’s not the way to go about fixing it. Hell, I’d wonder if it could ever even be fixed. It’s extremely natural for a man to basically lay mental claim to anything he’s spotted. Is it right? Absolutely not. I’d never begin to argue that. But it’s something we can scarcely control. And the weaker-willed among us carry such ideas of ownership out into areas of entitlement. Some part of them know that other people are thinking that they deserve her, but we just tell ourselves they’re wrong.

Is it pitiful? Absolutely. Do women do it? Yep. Are they anywhere near as bad about it? Not USUALLY, but it certainly happens. That singer guy and his girlfriend led to a 2ch fujoshi shitstorm. But yeah. Now I’ve gone and answered a long phone call and I forgot what I was going on about. That’s fine though. The seven hundred words or so I’ve put down should get the gist across. And so I am going to stop this post now even though I think I stopped short on some of the points I intended to make.

Well, it’s a bit early yet, but I am planning to do a dasaku Network Meetup at Anime Expo 2009. If you’re planning to be there, drop a line at some point and something something something? I’ll probably just do something like a Saturday thing, we’ll get lunch, it’ll be a good time, maybe. Haha. I’ll likely do another post closer to the time to nail down specifics, and I might get in touch with a few blogger friends and see if we can’t compile a giant thing. I just wanted to shoot a post out because I know you crazy fuckers like to schedule your itineraries all early and so on, so maybe just keep in mind that you might do our little blogger meetup thing.

Hopefully some of my SoCal-based hostees will show up as well. Like I said, I’ll nail down specifics later. Just wanted to do an initial post now.

Hey, ladies. It’s that time again. Onii-chan Theatre is coming hard for your ass. AWWW YEAH. Life is good. I’ll trust you’re all having a wonderful Saturday morning. Let’s just hop right into it though, this week it’s episode one of Yakin Byoutou or Night Shift Nurses as the white kids know it. I never really have anything to say in these fucking things. Just watch it and laugh or I will cut you.

  Onii-chan Theatre: You Should See What They Do To The Candy Stripers (79.0 MiB, 1,834 hits)

So, it’s that time again, I guess, for another episode of Onii-chan Radio. I cover a lot of fun topics this time, ranging from the blossoming feelings of a pubescent female to the intricacies of girls who can grow dicks spontaneously. All-in-all, I’d say it was a pretty good episode. Felt good anyway. I totally came halfway through. It’s hard to keep the energy after a blowout like that, but I tried to keep it up. I think you can appreciate it.

 I Might Be Boss [44:09m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (10)

Today we will be taking a little trip down freaky Horse guy lane and watching the seminal (Semen. Get it?) Words Worth. My encoder decided to be a fuck but there you go. It’s a good episode of a sort of mediocre hentai and it’s full of delicious exposition and not-so-full of hot fuck action. But don’t you worry. These talky shows, they have their place. Anyway, I’m no good at this wind-up posts. Just watch the fucking thing.

  Onii-chan Theatre: A Horse is a Horse (94.2 MiB, 2,095 hits)