blue_rebel

Not too true anymore, plenty of people over 20 and 30 watch anime. Even my dad watches Miyazaki's films, and he thinks GTO is a riot.

Okay, this is only half-true. Not everyone prefers dramas to cartoons, and if anime can be downloaded, why the fuss?

Bah. I don't know anyone who could possibly be that busy. And (see above) anime is downloadable. You can watch it anytime.

Anime 24/7, feasible. But football 24/7? Nahhhh.

What games are you talking about??? Taboo? Come to think of it, I'd put off watching an episode of Ouran to play a round of Taboo... but gee, I don't think many other people are as obsessed as me with Taboo.

Just tell me who doesn't pay money to watch the telly?

So what's the fuss? Downloading is cheap, period. We have Streamyx, and we get a super-fast connection for a dirt-cheap flat rate... in short, everyone has the means to download anime, so I wouldn't exactly call it inaccessible (because that's what it sounds like you're implying)... so if Malaysians can download anime, then we can "enjoy it to the max".

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Aya-kun

blue_rebel

Errrrr... I wouldn't put Final Fantasy in the "anime" category. But it's not wrong to say that most Final Fantasy fans are anime fans. And hey, you don't have to have watched more than 50 different titles just to be labeled a fan. Aya's right to an extent - if everyone's heard of something and acknowledges it (and knows a little about it) then that something can be considered popular. I mean, George Bush is a popular guy, but I don't think you'll find too many people in Malaysia who'll fawn over him.

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alex1_phang3

Oh ya! I just remembered the news once that a newspaper reffered ALL ANIME as hentai (I just found out the truth about this word on wiki.)! If there are people from Malaysia like blue_rebel , and read the mag. called GEMPAK, you will probably know what I mean. (Note: the mag. also got the cut out of the so mentioned newspaper) One thing blue_rebel's wrong about is the streamyx stuff.. well I have to admit that streamyx IS indeed cheap (RM 88 a month ) but the connection can be affected by geographical (where you live, like me the connection speed is terrible here) and weather factors (In Sabah we refer connections that are sensitive to factor above as 'moody connections', mine is called the 'weather forecaster', coz the router/modem's light flashes like a disco light when ever there is a rain coming in about 10~30mins. , amazing huh?) And its sad to say its true that our local TV shows us kid stuff e.g: Doraemon, Crayon Sin Chan and more . . . Dispite the fact that anime can be downloaded (which I discovered after I joined AO), some people here (in Sabah) think of it as piracy, and for some who don't mind, face the problem of finding the anime download (like me).

Aya-kun

blue_rebel

Which newspaper labeled all anime as hentai, and was the reporter for it or against it? I don't read Gempak because I don't find it worth reading. Also, the Streamyx rate has been halved, so people can pay RM44 for the same service. With RM88 and above you get a much faster connection rate. My friend's from Sarawak and she says she doesn't have any connection problems aside from the occasional choppiness. If you have Astro, you should also know that anime used to be aired on AXN, and they were most certainly not Crayon Shin-chan or Doraemon.

alex, if you wanted to know WHERE to find downloadable anime, you could've just asked. They're all over the place, in torrents. Go to a.scarywater.net or mininova : the ultimate bittorrent source! and have fun searching. You can also find them on other anime forums that sub anime like Animesuki and AK.

Aya, it's understandable that people regard DB and BSSM as childish. DB is pretty much your average kid's cartoon, anyway, and with one little Goku running around... well, yeah. I only watched DB for a year so I don't know much about it. Doraemon is "childish" because of the fairytale elements in it. In the same way we say Enid Blyton's books are for kids, we say Doraemon is also for kids. Some adults do find joy in reading Doraemon comics, but the fact that the comic is based on a bunch of elementary school kids and a cat-robot makes it more appealing to younger children (who I am sure Fujio was targeting from the very beginning). And as for Sailor Moon... ummmmm, if I were a 30-year old watching BSSM for the first time, I think I might be put off by all the high-pitched voices. Really - in real life Japanese girls don't have such high-pitched voices (well, maybe a few do)... going home after work to a bunch of high-school kids who transform into Sailors (grimace), yell weird chants like "Moon Gorgeous Meditation" (another grimace) and have to be saved by a guy in a top-hat, cape and rose (yet another grimace) isn't exactly a grown-up's idea of fun. It might be amusing for a while, sure... but once you're over a certain age shows like Sailor Moon just stop appealing to you.

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alex1_phang3

Why ask what is the newspaper's name? ask where it's from would be easier, andf its from west coast. Also the name of the newspaper wasn't mentioned for obvious reasons but I can tell you that it's a English newspaper. The report is mainly about people that are selling hentai VCD and DVD at malls (forgot where is it), and the report say those people will give one DVD free if you buy 5 VCDs... haiz... And the newspaper just make their report based on this info. When I said local TV I meant TV 1,2,3 NTV7, and TV8 , sorry for not specifying earlier. Doraemon and Crayon sin Chan does shows on NTV 7 do they?

blue_rebel

I don't see what's wrong with telling me what the newspaper's name is, unless of course, the newspaper doesn't exist. +__+ As far as I know, over here, even among the pirated VCDs, hentai anime is pretty rare. Either the people over here just don't stock them, or they get snapped up pretty fast. I don't know.

I don't know much about the telly business, but it seems that local cables anywhere generally show local stuff, and if you want stuff from elsewhere you're going to have to "import" channels - which is what Astro does. Most people these days have Astro, and the management of TV1, TV2, TV3 and NTV7 just don't feel the need to air anime. Also note that Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan are in Malay... (and note that I haven't watched any of these channels in a million years so I may be wrong) if TV2 or NTV7 is going to air other anime, they're going to have to dub them in Malay (which is a huge chore) or provide Malay subtitles (which is just as huge a chore).

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alex1_phang3

Sry, I remembered wrong, the newspaper is in Malay. The name of the (I think) mall is Plaza Low Yat. And to be sure I checked the mag. GEMPAK again, the name of the newspaper isn't mentioned. If you're gonna check the info on this, its GEMPAK issue 150, the one with the Naruto(sitting on the frog) cover. ( Note: I don't have scanner.)

blue_rebel

Ahhhh, Low Yat. If that's the case then I wouldn't know, because I only visit Low Yat once in a blue moon to get good prices for gadgets and stuff. I don't buy pirated VCDs/DVDs. (Haha, and I'm actually Malaysian???) But since I d/load stuff off the net and NOT delete them after 24 hours, I suppose I can be called a "pirate" as well. Yeah, if any newspaper were to actually rate ALL anime R or 18SX, it would most likely be a Malay one - not to sound racist or anything, but I can't imagine any other newspaper coming up with such an inference.

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alex1_phang3

Here's a crazy though, do you think that maybe some not so open minded people who are still mad at the Japanese for killingtheir relatives and family and stuff educate their child to not get near anything that's Japanese? Well, what I think is all the killing is has nothing to do with anime right? Although my relative was one of their victims (not a good memory).