vipershark did you like gurren-lagann

[Rökkan]

i made a great post last night but stupid tSR kept on going offline when I was going to post it so I'll try to remember and rewrite it the best I can

I know they mean "animation" and "comic book" in japanese, but they were still used so that it can sound superior to other comic books. It's like you love french comic books so much that you start referring to them as "bande dessinée" just so that you need to make everyone else call them differently because of some pretentious feeling that you have that french comic books are entirely different than american comic books.


another example: indie games. You ask a person "What is Cave Story?" they'll reply with "It's an indie game about...", "indie" itself isn't a term to indicate superiority or anything, but it's slowly starting to become one thanks to some pretentious assholes in the indenpendent gaming development scene.