There are very little things that we do not know about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, thanks to the internet, but one the characters that we’ve haven’t heard too much about is Jason Momoa’s Aquaman.
Momoa was at Fan Expo in Toronto over the weekend and he was asked about how he would portray Aquaman on screen.
“I can’t see me busting out a bunch of jokes. I mean, I don’t think it’ll be like that. I don’t think Aquaman’s going to be raping and pillaging any villages,” said Mamoa.
“You know, it’s cute and funny, I mean people make fun of him and there’s a bunch of jokes about him, but I’m like ‘Well, just wait. Let’s just wait a little bit, and then we can make jokes,’” said Mamoa.
Watch the complete interview below.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice is directed by Scott Snyder, and stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diane Lane, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Michael Shannon, and Laurence Fishburne.
The film is set to open worldwide on March 25, 2016
For those of you who may not know, actor Mads Mikkelsen has been cast in a yet to be revealed role in Star Wars: Rouge One. I want you to take a look at how Mr. Mikkelsen signed his autograph on this Star Wars poster (Image courtesy of our friends at RebelForce Radio). He put the name Galen underneath his name. Do any of you super fans remember who Galen is? Could it be Galen Marek who just happens to be Darth Vader’s human apprentice?
Danny Boyle confirms his next project: a Trainspotting sequel that would include the original cast from 1996.
The director’s last movie, Steve Jobs, premiered this past weekend at Telluride Film Festival, during which Boyle told Deadline about the Trainspotting sequel that John Hodge has written. Hodge also penned the 1996 feature, which he was nominated to an Academy Award and won a BAFTA for in 1997. It was based on Irvine Welsh’s homonym novel and Trainspotting 2, the title Boyle referred to, is inspired by the author’s Porno, a follow-up to his original story.
“All the four main actors want to come back and do it. Now it is only a matter of getting all their schedules together which is complicated by two of them doing American TV series”.
Those two actors cited as working on American tv shows are Jonny Lee Miller (Sherlock Holmes in Elementary) and Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time).
In 2007 Boyle stated that he wanted to wait at least until the actors were in their 40s to make the sequel. “I could make it now, but the problem is they all look the same. I want them to look ravaged by the passing of time,” he said. By then, Ewan McGregor wasn’t so keen on the idea of a sequel after reading the book and not finding it interesting enough. But years later he was asked about it once more, to what he responded: “I’m totally up for it. I’d be so chuffed to be back on set with everybody and I think it would be an extraordinary experience”.
The fourth lead that would be back for the Trainspotting sequel is Ewen Bremner, who we saw in Snatch (2000).
After 20 years since Trainspotting was released and became a hit, can the sequel rise up to the level? The jury is still out for us in Monkeys Fighting Robots, but is this good news to you?
Whether you’re an anime fan who considers themselves the most hardcore Otaku or your only anime experience, comes from growing up on Toonami and Dragon Ball Z, it doesn’t matter. If you aren’t watching Gangsta. already, then you need to start now.
Generally, some of the biggest turn offs for those who can’t get into anime or even fans of the genre, come from what they view as too linear story lines, focusing on one dimensional characters and filled with overtly long exposes on powers and plot, as well as blatant fan service and pandering. These issues for some, deter them away from getting into anime or annoy longtime fans, in the same way comic clichés annoy longtime comic readers. Luckily, none of the above complaints that give anime the stigma it does as an entertainment genre, are even remotely applicable in Gangsta. and it’s what makes it one of the reasons, it’s the best new series of 2015.
Only 9 episodes released so far and 37 manga chapters deep, Gangsta. focuses on two “Handymen,” Nic and Worick, who engage in essentially a variety of mercenary like jobs, that are either too dirty or too politically involved, for the other inhabitants of the city of Ergastulum, to engage in. These Handymen are the only neutral force in Ergastulum, controlled by three ruling mafia families and one mercenary guild. This city is rife with tension between normal people and the “Twilights”, who are physically enhanced superhumans, originally created as military weapons but, are no longer needed in the current world. It is from this conflict between humans and Twilights, that runs as the main overarching plot point of the series.
Simply put, this is a series you need to be watching.
Most of what makes Gangsta. so original or even enjoyable for that matter, is that it doesn’t feel like an anime, outside of the animation element and some slightly over the top comedic scenes. The two main protagonists are not teens, but men in their 30s who are extremely flawed in their character. Nic is bordering mentally unstable and consistently overdosing on medications, to help him defeat stronger opponents. While Worick, is a gigolo who suffered severe child abuse at the hands of his father, leaving him physically scarred. This “physical scarring”, leads to one of the biggest plot pieces of Gangsta., between himself and Nic, who aren’t exactly as friendly with one another as the early episodes would led you to believe. Then there is Alex, the main female character who is a former prostitute, recovering from mind altering drugs used by her former pimp to essentially control her, with her own dark past which is slowly being revealed in the series.
The biggest things that people hate about anime, just aren’t an issue or even evident. The characters have depth and some real baggage to them. They don’t win because of friendship or some magical new transformation, but rather from pure luck or just grinding their way to a passable victory. The plot lines themselves have multiple layers and conflicts, as well as a history behind them that reflect more grounded storytelling, in how characters are motivated. Then there is the violence, which is gritty to the core but, nothing completely over the top, even if some of the abilities are exaggerated. Gangsta. is an interesting story, with phenomenal characters that hold more than one dimension, in what makes them tick and act. Everything about Gangsta. pushes it outside of the typical anime and really, just boils down to being a great story. Simply put, this is a series you need to be watching.
Y: The Last Man was a critically praised comic series from acclaimed writer Brian K. Vaughn. It was a series set in a post-apocalyptic/dystopia sci-fi series set in a world where all mammals with a Y chromosome suddenly die, except for one young man, Yorrick Brown and his pet monkey who travel across the world. It was a series that won the Eisner Award in 2008 for Best Continuing Series. The series was known for post-apocalyptic images, the impact of an event on society, social commentary about politics and society and its dark comedy.
But an adaptation of Y: The Last Man has been languishing in development hell for years and the film rights for the series have reverted back to Brian K. Vaughn. Disturbia‘s D. J. Caruso and Portal: No Escape‘s Dan Trachtenberg have been linked to direct an adaptation.
Last week we at Monkeys Fighting Robots looked at how an adaptation of Y: The Last Man could be made, whether it should be on film or TV. This week we will look at ten directors who could and should adapt the comics to the screen.
J.A. Bayona
Hailing from Spain Juan Antonio Bayona, better known as J. A. Bayona is one of the top directors to emerge from the Iberian Peninsula in recent times. His debut movie was the excellent Spanish horror movie The Orphanage, a chilling ghost story oozing with atmosphere as a mother searches for her lost son who disappears when visiting the haunted orphanage she growth up in. His follow up film was the disaster drama The Impossible, an incredible feat because of the amazing performances by Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts and for Bayona’s skill at recreating the scale of the 2004 Tsunami, showing both the destruction the wave caused and the crisis in Thailand afterwards.
Bayona is a rising star, his next film is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed children’s novel A Monster Calls, set to be released in the fall of 2016 and he has been attached to direct a sequel for World War Z. Imagine what he could do with Y: The Last Man.
J.C. Chandor
Known for making Margin Call, All is Lost and A Most Violent Year J.C. Chandor is another emerging director. His rise has been miraculous in four years, making three critically acclaimed dramas; the lowest raised on Rotten Tomatoes, Margin Call still has a 88% rating.
Chandor has shown himself to be an ambitious writer/director in his short career; Margin Call is considered one of the best movies about the 2008 Financial Crisis, making it accessible to all audiences, not just people with economics degrees. All is Lost was a one man show for Robert Redford, surviving at sea and A Most Violent Year was a crime and family drama set to the backdrop of the most violent year in New York City’s history.
His experience with All is Lost and A Most Violent would put him in good stead for a Y: The Last Man adaptation, combining Yorrick, Agent 355 and Alison Mann’s travels across America and the World without being spotted and the showing the collapse of society through their eyes. Chandor does deserve a chance to work with a bigger canvass.
Alfonso Cuarón Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón is one of those directors who film fans want to direct any major project going. He is a filmmaker who has shown his ability tackling family movies to dark adult ones, comedy to dark and has handled many different genres. Cuarón has shown himself to be a technical master, making Gravity that had some of the most breathtaking CGI put to screen and with cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki they have produced some amazing long-takes and steady cam shots.
One of Cuarón’s best movies is his loose adaptation of Children of Men, a sci-fi dystopia set in a world where no babies have been born for 18 years and Britain becomes authoritarian state to keep order. A Y: The Last Man movie could easily follow in the footsteps of Children of Men, looking at a society where people face their extinction and could look at the event that forces the change in society. But it is a double edged sword because would Cuarón want to revisit similar material with a similar plot. Still, we can dream.
Ava DuVernay
Since the success of Selma last year Ava DuVernay has become a director-to-watch and has the potential be one of the biggest female directors and African-American directors in Hollywood. She was linked to direct Black Panther for Marvel but left the project because of creative differences.
DuVernay’s work on Selma was a great realization of the work of Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement. With David Oyelowo, actor and director were able to bring out the personal struggles and dilemma that Dr. King and the showing the wider context of the Civil Right Movements, from the various political organizations and individuals involved and looking at American society as a whole in the 1960s, using Selma as a catalyst. This experience would make DuVernay an excellent fit for a Y: The Last Man movie, being able to show Yorrick’s personal dilemma, the social realignment of society and looking at social and political issues that is affecting women in America and around the world.
Ari Folman Israeli director Ari Folman is best known to international his animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, winning the Palme d’Or and Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards and César Awards, as well as being nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. Folman is a unique director because of his use of animation to retell his experience as a soldier in the 1982 Lebanon War. His follow up was a unique sci-fi offering, a live-action animated hybrid The Congress set in a world where actors sell their appearance for virtual reality films, showing the effects of this on one actress, Robin Wright.
Folman is a talented man and he has shown there is a market for mature animated movies and his previous work has shown he could tackle the themes of Y: The Last Man. Also the main antagonist is an Israeli army officer, so Folman Israeli background can fresh her out.
Alex Garland Alex Garland is a talented writer, writing novels like The Beach and The Coma and he has become one of Britain’s best known screenwriters. He has gained a lot of praise for his directional debut Ex Machina, a taut sci-fi thriller with a small cast looking at the future of artificial intelligence, its potential impact on society and the philosophical issues regarding the breakthrough. He is a director to watch.
All of Garland’s work as a screenwriter has been in the sci-fi genre, including 28 Days Later and Sunshine and he has success adapting Dredd and Never Let Me Go. If he could recreate his work on post-apocalyptic setting of London in 28 Days Later and the dystopia societies of Dredd and Never Let Me Go it serve as a great template for what he could do for Y: The Last Man, showing devastation to major cities and the effects of the lost of men on society.
Drew Goddard
Drew Goddard is best as a writer, working on shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias and Lost (a show that Bryan K. Vaughn also worked on). He also wrote Cloverfield and made a real name for himself with his directional debut The Cabin in the Woods, a movie praised for how it subverted cliches of the horror genre. He has been approached by Sony to direct a Sinister Six for Sony and has acted as the show runner for Daredevil on Netflix. Goddard’s work on sci-fi with a comedic edge would be a great match for a Y: The Last Man adaptation on movie or TV. Goddard is a director and writer whose stature is growing: his next movie is the eagerly awaited adaptation of The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott.
Andrew Niccol
New Zealander writer/director Andrew Niccol is known mostly in sci-fi, making S1m0ne, In Time and most importantly Gattaca. Gattaca would serve as a fantastic example for any Y: The Last Man adaptation to follow. Gattaca is a movie set in eugenics-based society where people are split into two classes, the genetically pure and the impure underclass whose only lot in live to menial jobs. Gattaca was a fantastic movie for its realisation of a world based on genetic discrimination, a scary prospect for our future and style of using a retro-futurism iconography.
Many of Niccol’s movies have a social commentary; In Time being about the divide between rich and poor, with the main character being found out he was poor because the rich don’t need to run. Lord of War was about the weapons trade, particularly how it effects developing nations and Niccol’s most recent movie, Good Kill, looked the morality of drone warfare. Niccol could easily transfer this approach to a Y: The Last Man adaptation, a series that was filled with social commentary about gender issues and general issues effecting the United States.
Matthew Vaughn
Three-Fifths of Matthew Vaughn’s filmography have been adaptations of comic books (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and Kingsman: The Secret Service) and his other two movies are adaptations of novels. Vaughn has become a cult director who has made cult movies, satirizing Bond films and superhero movies while also paying homage to them.
Matthew Vaughn’s movies has become known for their bright colors and dark humor, juxtapose with brutal moments of violence and sincere moments of emotions and character development. This approach would be perfect for a Y: The Last Man adaptation. His comic book movies do actually look like a comic book come to life and he has been able to make difficult projects succeed, such as rebooting the X-Men series, adapting tough material like Mark Millar’s troublesome Kick-Ass and the fantasy film Stardust with its multiple plotlines.
Matthew Vaughn is a man who loves a challenge, he turned down the opportunity to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past, choosing to direct ‘Kingsman’ instead: great for us because we got two great action movies. We would love to see what Matthew Vaughn could do with other comic book adaptations.
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon is a fanboys favorite, known for work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and of course The Avengers. Whedon is a huge comic book fan having worked on projects for Marvel and DC and helped write the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book sequel. He is also a self-confessed fan of Y: The Last Man and has Brian K. Vaughn wrote issues of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic.
A Y: The Last Man project, whether it is on film or television, would be a perfect property for Whedon. Whedon’s projects tend to have strong female characters, so a project set in a world of women would be fantastic for him and his trademark witty dialogue would be right at home with Vaughn’s style of humor and satire.
Whedon has developed a lot of cache in Hollywood since The Avengers‘ billion dollar haul but the filming of Avengers: Age of Ultronwas a more troubled shoot because his obligations to tie in treads for future Marvel movies. Whedon would want to find a project that would give him more creative freedom.
You know I really thought that Jun Maeda had learned his lesson when he made Clannad: After Story. But Seeing that Clannad was a huge success among fans I now see that what he learned isn’t that it was bad, but that people eat that shit up so much that he might as well just do it again. I hated this episode of Charlotte, like legitimately hated it. But I don’t think that it necessarily was a bad episode either. It’s the concept and where they’re taking the story is something I absolutely hate. So before you just write me off let me get into why this episode may have ruined Charlotte for me.
Episode Summary
Shunsuke recollects how he went back in time over and over until he arrived at the spot he is now. He then lets Yu steal his power of time leap and goes back into the past and saves Ayumi.
Episode Thoughts
For me everything that goes down hill in this episode starts in the very beginning. Where we recollect the many times that Shunsuke goes back in time and just re-lives things over and over again until we get the reality where the show is set in. Now theres nothing wrong with this idea in concept. In fact my favorite anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica has basically something like the first half of this episode. But the reason it works in Madoka and the reason it falls on its face here is because one major reason. No one cares about Shunsuke and his friends! Now when I say that I’m talking about us as viewers. And sure you might be interested in them but I don’t think anyone is emotionally invested to make these flashbacks even matter from a character perspective. It doesn’t matter what happens to these kids because they showed up for five seconds last episode and we don’t know anything about them. And the flashback doesn’t help flesh out their character because it’s constantly jumping around trying to get the plot points it needs from these flashbacks.
Madoka on the other hand handles the time travel flashback almost perfectly. First of all its a main character who was instigating time travel. So were following someone we’ve known about throughout the show and have seen there actions but now get to link them to motivation. This creates a through line for all the things that have led up to this point. And since the character has been around from the start it means something as a viewer because we have had time to connect with that character. This connection also applies with the characters seen in the flashback sequence in Madoka. It’s not just a random slew of kids we barely know and kids we don’t know, it’s all the characters that you have seen through the show and that have made an impact thus far. The only people that we can say that about in Charlotte is Yu and Ayumi which have a minute screen time in this ten minute flash back. Sure Shunsuke loves his siblings so much that he would go blind for them but I think that emotion doesn’t have the impact it should have because I don’t care about him. The only importance he has is that he’s important to Yu and Ayumi and that’s it. And maybe Nao a little too. In the end the flashback just felt like exposition. And with over ten minutes of exposition with characters we don’t care about is boring.
So with half of the show being boring for me I at least thought that the stuff with Yu going back in time to save his sister would be good. But yet again this is something that seems good in concept but actually fails in execution. And this is something you can actually trace back to the artist Jun Maeda. Like in his earlier work Clannad: After Story, Jun pulls off the same trick here of having your cake and eating it too. For the sake of not having this article go on forever I’ll leave out the events in Clannad. Just know that concept that I’m going to describe happens in Clannad as well.
The fact that Yu saves Ayumi runs everything! It ruins the character arc that Yu went through. It ruins the way he had accepted to live his life after Ayumi’s death. It ruined the connection he had made with Nao. All of these things are ruined by the simple fact that he’s able to save Ayumi’s life.
Okay so I guess I need to explain myself further for you to understand what I mean here. So I’ll start with Yu’s character arc first. The whole point of Yu going through what happened after Ayumi’s death was to teach him about dealing with pain and lost, and coming to terms with being unable to change the past while at the same time being able to move forward with what he’s learned. But since he saves Ayumi and successfully changes the past, the weight of his lesson is lost. He doesn’t have to deal with that pain and acceptance anymore because Ayumi is alive. But of course he still remembers his past and has learned to appreciate his sister more and keeps his lessons from the previous timeline. That’s bullshit! You can’t have it both ways Charlotte! You can’t have a character learn something from tragedy and then reverse the tragedy once he’s learned his lesson. That’s not how life works and it takes the whole relate-ability aspect out of the equation and stops me from relating to the character and just turns it into wish-fulfillment. It cheapens the message if what you’re saying is “learn from the past and be able to move on” but at the same time a character in your story is able to change the past and get his desired outcome.
And some of the problems I just stated can also be substituted into how his relationship with Nao is somewhat ruined and cheapened. However the story does bring this up, So I’ll give it props there at least. But still pointing out a flaw doesn’t make the flaw okay. Now all the development Nao and Yu had up until the time-leap is pointless because Nao doesn’t remember any of it. And with Nao being the way she is I think it will be hard for another sequence of event to move their relationship forward like Ayumi’s death did. Fortunately this is the part that I think isn’t un-fixable and can be taken in a different direction. But it still feels like there was parts that were wasted because of the time traveling. But that’s an inherit problem with time travel stories in the first place. But that is usually remedied by having characters who are easily able to connect even though things are reset. I just don’t think that Nao is that kind of character.
Time travel is a concept that needs to be treated very carefully in order to be worked into a story. And since they are using a time travel as a twist, that becomes even more so. It seems that they are using the time travel aspect to explain the plot continuity and make it interesting but are ignoring how this will affect the character aspects that they have been building thus far.
Now I know this seems like a huge hate article, and while it probably is, I think I should give fair credit where its due. And there was one plot point that was cleared up very nice and satisfying. Now makes sense why Nao didn’t invite those kids from the earlier episodes to join their school. Since she knew what Yu’s power was and had him use it on every kid they met, they effectively removed the power from them and they wouldn’t be pursued by the scientist. And now looking back on the baseball episode the scene at the end where Nao tells Yu to use his power on the pitcher makes so much sense. She couldn’t just leave him alone with his power so she had Yu take him over for what seemed like no reason at the time.
However I don’t think plot continuity trumps character in this case. Especially if everything up to this point has focused so heavily on the characters. This episode really will dictate how I look at this show as a whole and I think that’s really unfortunate. There are still three episodes left and I’m just hoping that the problems I stated will be addressed in some way. But until that happens, this episode was a complete miss for me.
Friday afternoon Warner Bros. released six images Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This is photos were from the Empire magazine spread from late July. The photos released are high resolution as to the scans we had earlier.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice is directed by Scott Snyder, and stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diane Lane, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Michael Shannon, and Laurence Fishburne.
The film is set to open worldwide on March 25, 2016
After months of fan speculation, the CW has given us our first real look at Arrow Season 4. With “the Arrow” thought dead, what will rise in his place? Are we about to see Oliver finally transition into his “Green Arrow” identity? As Oliver and Fecility enjoy a life of domesticity, Damien Darhk, leader of the H.I.V.E, emerges to take control of the newly-christened “Star City” forcing our reluctant hero to return. Matt Ryan, of the cancelled NBC show Constantine, returns to play the character here, but how does he play into the overall story arc? We’ll have to wait until October to find out.
In honor of “Force Friday”, new images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens were released to the public. As you can see, these images are focused on each of the main characters in the highly anticipated film. Check it out!
I’m sure if any of you have perused in an Anime forum or Facebook group you have heard the term “Waifu.” And for the uninitiated, a Waifu is a term used by the otaku/weeaboo fandom to refer to a female anime character in an endearing way. But it seems that even though it’s a term so commonly used, there is still much confusion and debate over what the term actually means. So I think its worth trying to get a concrete view on what the term means. I’m also interested in the origin of the word itself and how it’s meaning and relation to the Anime fandom has changed since its inception. And by the end of this maybe you’ll have a little more knowledge on the term and even may want to adopt a waifu for yourself.
Everything seems to stem from 4chan
Unlike the derogatory term “Weeaboo”, Waifu was actually something that was actually a legit term, founded in the 2002 anime Azumanga Daioh. The context of the scene was one of the male teachers referring to a picture he had dropped in his wallet and referred to her as “my wife”. Though that was the translation, people took the japanese pronunciation and exaggerated it into “mai waifu”. The term scuttled around 4chan’s /a/ (anime & manga board) being used by both anime fans and trolls. The trolls would use it as flame bait to mock the obsessive nature of anime fans and the animated females that they so idolized. However when it was used in a mocking manner it was most often tongue in cheek. But of course there were people who stole the term for themselves and branded it as only a term to ridicule anime fans who admired certain female anime characters in a more than platonic manner. And while there is some evidence to support this stigmata for the term, it is more often than not used in a more light and playful manner.
And fast forward to today, where it has grown to mean anything from “the best girl from an anime” to a girl in certain anime you would want to be in a relationship with. And since all these different meanings and what to do with a waifu was unclear for a long time, 4chan made a waifu cheat sheet for the newly initiated which can be seen here.
How do people see the term today
So after i’ve found out that basically the term waifu can mean a plethora of things I thought that I would just ask people what they thought. And seeing that I am a member of quite a diverse amount of Facebook groups that are anime related I thought that I would inquire to both new fans and veterans on what they think the term waifu means to them.
From these results, I can gather that while there is a little resentment towards the word, most people accept it as a less than harmless term. Some people even embrace it and have waifu’s and husbando’s of their own. But alas there were many people who liked these posts and yet didn’t comment their thoughts and I found that very interesting. Maybe there are people out there who embrace the term, but don’t like having that known to the public. Or maybe they just didn’t have time to write out a response, and instead hit the like button for support. Either way the opinion of waifu is still diverse but the majority seem to see it as either harmless or tongue in cheek.
taking it to an unhealthy extreme
Now while most people can go about their daily live while having waifu’s, there are some who take it to an unhealthy extreme. Where they blur the line between reality and fiction. They start to treat waifu’s like real people and stop looking for intimate relationships with real people. While this is somewhat understandable to see the luxuries of having a fantasy girlfriend/boyfriend, it certainly is not healthy to think of someone who is not real as real. It’s an unfortunate case of delusion that requires mental help. Cases from people making dinners, holding birthdays, and even going out on dates with their waifus have all been documented. While on these outings they will usually have a physical representation of their waifu in the form of a pillow, plushie, or even an application on a phone.
My views on Waifu
I’m okay with the term for the most part. I do not like when people use it in a derogatory term to hurt someones feelings, but there will always be people like that. But for the people who enjoy a character from an anime so much that they like to buy merchandise or set a picture for their phone wallpaper, that’s perfectly fine by me. You know what, I’d even say masturbating to a certain character is okay too. To me its the same as liking something and wanting to discover every aspect of it. But in this case it’s a specific character in a show, and if they influence your life in a positive way, its a win-win. And if you were wondering if I have a waifu I’ll set your mind at ease right now… I do in fact, its Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier. And not only is she my waifu but one of my most favorite anime characters of all time.
Waifu and you
So in the end, maybe there is no concrete definition of waifu. Maybe its whatever people need it to be, kinda like batman or something. So while I think that there are commonly used definitions that you can equate to the word, I also think thats its important to know what definition someone is using when they are using the term waifu. And if your comfortable with one of those definitions and having a waifu doesn’t sound all that bad, go out and get one. After all there are tons of Anime to chose from, with new shows coming out every season, so its safe to say there are a lot to choose from. And don’t be afraid to ditch your waifu for a new model that seems more enticing as time goes on. After all, life is short and there’s no point in keeping faithful to a fictional character. Like my friend Weston says, “Waifu’s are a dime a dozen nowadays”. But if you don’t think that having a waifu is your thing, that’s perfectly okay as well. After all whether or not we have a waifu or not doesn’t change the fact that we all like anime. And at the end of the day we can find fellowship in that.
