It wasn't just junkies. Greedy assholes of all stripes abused that, particularly gamers that I saw.

Samurai Champloo is far and away the easiest to recommend of the character designer's works.

First 12 episodes just came out on Netflix this last week. I'm just watching it there since the fansubs for the first few episodes weren't up to par. Would recommend.

The type of religion doing the dictating isn't what makes them so conservative.

Hold up. There's definitely an appreciable difference that comes from the type of religion doing the dictating. The worst Christians might ban lewd dancing and midriffs or even shoulders (heya Mormons!), but it's the worst Judaic and Islamic theocracies that would ban showing women's faces or different genders sitting next to each other.

In practical terms, Muslims are on the whole more repressed than Christians, even if they're all grossly repressive.

What happens later with Mirika doesn't change what happened in the first episode, and that's an entirely other thing I'm not looking to discuss because I had to drop the show after three episodes for a number of reasons.

Nagisa telling him how obsessed she was with a guy she's never even talked to before, doesn't mean his urge to date her was anything but an uninformed urge. All he knew was that she was cute and diligent and wanted him, that's it. Again, I have to refer what I said earlier: It only works out because the author wrote that it works out, not unlike a series where a rape or grooming victim "genuinely" falls in love with her abuser (heyo Mushoku Tensei). It's essentially plot armor, if that makes it easier to see why I don't think saying "He genuinely fell for Nagisa" or 'He turned down another girl later' or 'They have a healthy relationship going forward' is enough to say he's an exceptionally good partner in light of how he already acted.

He jeopardized his relationship and his partner's emotional well-being over an urge for a random cute girl that was really into him, and by virtue of plot armor it just so happens that random cute girl turns out to be his second soulmate or whatever big whoop.

still doesn't change that the "after the fact" doesn't make sense

I see how I caused confusion here. I wrote "after the fact", because Saki entered into a relationship with him under what is shown to be an unmistakable understanding that they would be exclusive. To hear Saki tell it, that must've been the understanding all the years he'd pushed for it. Their relationship becoming non-exclusive is something that he tried to change after they'd well-established the relationship as exclusive.

Yup, all that, the bizarre personalities, the lack of tension, and when it tries to be profound I think it fails miserably. The monkey episode was about idolatry (fandom, watching superficially for entertainment, playing for fame and fortune) ruining what sports are really about. The way it's communicated, "What died was baseball!" and Ace being a prick extraordinaire, is just such a ham fisted message about what's right and wrong that it felt juvenile.

Similarly, the episode about the outcasts seemed like it was going to do something, but all it did was point out the outcasts. Their problems weren't solved, their causes weren't addressed, it was just a vacuous episode that in retrospect only seemed to exist to create one small magical device (the curtain shroud) and nothing else, which is extra weird because there's like a hundred other little magical devices popping up in the show as needed without any other reason needed for their existence.

Bless you for not having your mind in the gutter yet like the rest of us.

I don't think you remember the first episode as well as I do, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and going back through it as I reply.

He rejected her as soon as she asked and it wasn't just because she was cute girl hitting on him. She did everything she could to show how much she loved him.

They'd literally never met before as far as he knew, and he literally said it was because she was attractive (and, we can assume, because she cooked well). The point was, he didn't spend even a few days getting to know her or anything, he was just instantly infatuated (as we all are when a cute girl hits on us, or even if you've ever had a stripper whisper in your ear) and takes off running with it. He jeopardized his relationship, and Saki's mental well-being, because he got horny.

I also genuinely don't know what you mean by "let your side of you relationship open after the fact" when he never made any promises or agreed to date both of them until he got Saki's permission.

I mean that he wasn't begging her to be in an open relationship, he was begging her to only let him date another girl. There wasn't anything about letting her date another guy (a compromise that would've been welcome, and made this show less of a standard romcom harem with a little window dressing). Thus, only an open relationship on his side.

If you think that he's just doing this because he would date any cute girl who asks, you're either not watching the show or purposely misconstructing it because you dislike the shows premise, in which case why watch it at all.

Go back and watch it. It's literally a case of "This girl's really into me, and she's really cute and dedicated. I want to date her! I'll ask my girlfriend if she'll let me!", and after Saki says no, he begs and begs, and then Minase even says she's cool with it which puts her in more of a corner (if she doesn't say yes, she'd inevitably be saddled with worries that he could leave for Minase and more girls). And she keeps saying no, and he begs more, saying he really really wants to.

No, I won't lie and say that he hadn't made any mistakes or what he did isn't hurtful to basically any girl in that situation, but it's not douchey.

This is the only important part of this comment: What do you consider to be douchey behavior, if it doesn't include pressuring your girlfriend into a situation she tells you over and over she doesn't want, all for (by his own admission!) entirely selfish reasons?

69 is the name of a sex position, so anything using 69 is always taken as a sex joke.

It was to explain that he's not even a normal, average human by that world's basic biological standards. He's basically disabled, and only now realizing it. Probably could've been done a little better though, briefer maybe, sure.

It's pretty douchey to spend months (years?) telling a girl how much you love her, how she's the one for you, and then flip a switch the moment another cute girl hits on you, to the point that you're begging your girlfriend to let your side of the relationship be open after the fact.

It works out in the story because it's written to work out, but doing that to your partner is really gross and most people would find it extremely hurtful to hear that they're not enough for their partner. Him being honest about his urge to be with any cute girl that likes him doesn't make him not a douche.

She probably thought she was just sitting back down, tired from the partying, or going for more drinks or something. Gotta keep in front of the camera for the likes.

Where would mankind be without undertakers? Still atop Hell in a Cell instead of 16 feet down through an announcer's table, that's where.

She got Ben Shapiro to announce that he can't get his wife wet (she's a doctor btw, just a reminder), so that makes her alright in my book.

Try not to read Nene's comments in Nene's voice. You can't.

(1) I don't know what argument you're trying to make, but if it's not enough to pass as "peak comedy", then you should be taking that up with those comments that overrate it as the funniest thing ever instead of mine.

(2) If you've got a problem with Roger Ebert's broad separation of comedic writing, actually explain why, don't just call it pretentious and resort to thought-terminating cliches about how comedy is subjective, especially when the enjoyment of comedy being subjective wasn't even something explicitly not being challenged by me or him.

I don't know what's wrong with people like yourself, that you take such great offense to anyone trying to talk about comedy in more depth than whether they found it funny or not. God forbid anyone think about the difference between the jokes of Mitch Hedberg, John Mulaney, Dane Cook, and Jerry Seinfeld.

But then you can't go viral on TikTok!

You say that like not recognizing someone is a reason to say "You don't belong here", but that's the point, it's not a thing people say to others just for being strangers without racist or at least classist undertones.

If you want to argue that you honestly think he'd have been just as aggressive said the exact same thing to a white guy he didn't know in his neighborhood, fine, but you have to recognize it would make him an outlier to the long established trend of angry whites telling minorities they don't belong in their neighborhood.

People aggressively think being loud and stupid is peak comedy. I really want to blame YouTube and streamers for making youngsters think overreactions are all it takes to make a joke, but this review of 1979's The Jerk starring Steve Martin mirrors the issue we have here and now. Some stand up comics also have milked the idea that being loud and energetic can make up for not being clever (not to be confused with comics who are both loud and clever like Lewis Black).

Anyway, folks need to learn that saying "It's intentionally really freaking stupid!" does exactly nothing to explain why they think it's hilarious, let alone funnier than Dragon Maid or Black Company.

Edit: Lol, a Kanojo mo Kanojo fan (likely the one below me) actually reported me for harassment because I said I didn't know why they get so offended by people talking about comedy more in-depth than whether or not they found it funny. Keep it up, you're representing your demographic so well.

To whatever mod approved it, I don't blame you for not reading it thoroughly and in context, I know how overworked you are babysitting users like them here, but you did me wrong.

I repeat with emphasis

Aggressively telling someone they're "in the wrong neighborhood" is a pretty loud dog whistle in this context. If you don't believe me, so be it

Oh? I didn't even give it a glance because of the title. I'll have to check it out.

Anyone who's seen the the man can tell Meatloaf fried his brain decades ago with drugs and gravy. Small amounts of brain damage cause these kinds of issues in older people, making them more susceptible to fear, paranoia, everything that conservatives aim to elevate.

Be a fan of him the same way I am/was a fan of the Ultimate Warrior. Right wing radio (by his wife's admission), knocks to the head, and a ton of drugs gradually turned him into a different person, but he was alright in his prime.

Makes me think of that episode of The Boondocks, which I'm only learning just now was based on a real news story. Link

her distress is genuine

I'm not actually convinced it is. Call me cynical, when I watched this I couldn't help but think she was playing it up for attention. Her tone just sounded too much like everyone I've heard bullshitting for a sob story (like that woman who faked getting palsy from the vaccine), and finding out that she's whackadoo conservative only heightens my suspicion that she was victimhood seeking.

Ok then why the fuck is everyone here calling him a racist

Aggressively telling someone they're "in the wrong neighborhood" is a pretty loud dog whistle in this context. If you don't believe me, so be it, but do yourself a favor and never say that to someone unless it's actually for their own safety (e.g. you live in a gang-infested neighborhood and a little girl is walking through alone), because it will always be heard as "People like you aren't welcome here".