{"id":3298,"date":"2009-07-25T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2009-07-25T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:28:00","slug":"the-limits-of-counterculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/the-limits-of-counterculture\/","title":{"rendered":"The limits of counterculture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Countercounterculture is not cool. \u00a0Nor is it… cool.<\/p>\n

Though I may have made fun of the Endless Eight arc in a post this week, I am in no way attempting and failing to be a cool counterculture freak. \u00a0Just because one series suddenly fails doesn’t mean that it’s cool to support it in an obviously stupid attempt to be unique. \u00a0Though I may go against the usual views on many anime, it’s not like I’m specifically trying<\/strong> to.<\/p>\n

I honestly think that Bakemonogatari and GTO suck. \u00a0There’s no point in telling others that I think GTO sucks ten years after it aired and five years after people stopped caring if somebody went against the popular belief that GTO is a masterpiece.<\/p>\n

But when you get people who spout things like:<\/p>\n

im sitting here laughing at all who can’t handle it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

this rage is really funny<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…that’s going way past the line that separates “okay” from “what the hell are you thinking?”<\/p>\n

I mean, disliking GTO is something that I can justify. \u00a0I could probably type up a 2000-word post on why I don’t like GTO. \u00a0Liking GTO is mainstream. \u00a0I dislike it, thus I’m not mainstream.<\/p>\n

Laughing at Harurage is just stupid. \u00a0I mean, if you could justify an opinion that E8 is good, that’d be a different matter (take a look at ghostlightning!). \u00a0But when you’ve got people reacting to the reaction, that’s in no way justifiable. \u00a0There’s not even an opinion on the actual subject of debate – the arc itself – anymore! \u00a0It just turns into a “WHO CAN BE THE COOLEST COUNTERCULTURE GUY” contest where nobody was old enough to have watched Haruhi when it was airing (though I shouldn’t really be talking here. \u00a0I watched Haruhi in 2007).<\/p>\n

LOL THIS RAGE IS FUNNY BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE $500 IN HARUHI MERCHANDISE AT HOME AND JUST WATCHED THE FIRST SEASON YESTERDAY LOLS!!1one<\/p>\n

This rage may be stupid (take all the people rating this clearly-not-such-a-bad-anime a 1\/10 on MAL, AnimeSuki, etc.), but these people who try to jump off the bandwagon when it’s going at 100 mph are sucidial idiots who need to lern2haruhi, or at least lern2notbeidiots.<\/p>\n

And just to state my position on Haruhi so as not to be compared with wannabe unique people: Haruhi S2 has been an enormous letdown (THAT INCLUDES TANABATA, MIND YOU), but it’s a lot better than many people are making it seem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, this is what flips my switch<\/a>. \u00a0I often get people accusing me of trying<\/em> to be counterculture (i.e. K-ON! overbashing or Bakemonogatari hating when I actually like the two series – which I don’t), and the idea has been stuck in my brain.<\/p>\n

Bah. \u00a0I’m angry.<\/p>\n

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My inner Maurice has come out.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zM4X-Rc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}