What planet are the io9 people even *from*?

Because it evidently does not have the internet. Or Japan.

Regarding the news that Supernatural is going to get turned into an anime (note: I don't know if this news is real and I'm not sure I care), someone over there explains the appeal the series might have in Japan thusly:

Though Supernatural is in many ways an all-American magicked bromance of the midwest, it makes a perfect fit for anime audiences. The brooding boys who treasure family above all else, fighting demons who want to break into our dimension from another world - it's a classic horror anime. Adding in those exotic American touches like "God" and "hamburgers" will only make it more fun for Japanese audiences.

1) LADY DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT BL IS

1a) I mean. How can you even post about this without bringing that up? It makes no sense. And the anime's apparently by Madhouse, the studio that did frigging Death Note. These are people who knew good and well what licensed L and Light figurines were going to end up doing when teenaged girls got hold of them.

2) Hamburgers?!

Get on a goddamn plane and go to Japan right now. HOW MANY HAMBURGER PLACES DO YOU SEE RIGHT OUTSIDE THE TRAIN STATION. (Answer: One, and it's McDonalds. But there's either a Mosburger or a Freshness Burger a couple blocks away.)

I forbid you ever to discuss Japanese culture in public again.

Edited a couple hours later because I felt that the narrative which I presented did not entirely cohere.

Two things.

Thing 1:

Because I'm trying to get serious about finishing a couple of my projects (one coding, one writing), I've installed StayFocusd, set it for an hour of non-research internet a day, and put DW and LJ in the lock-list. The only exception I made was the DW update page, because I've decided to count finishing all the book/manga/video game posts I've got sitting on my desktop as a productive act. So, I'll probably be slow responding to comments.

(...I'm always slow. I'll probably be slower responding to comments.)

Thing 2:

I'm half-way through Naked in Death, the first book in the JD Robb series that's basically like paranormal romances, except instead of having a sketchily-planned fantasy setting, it's got a sketchily-planned sci-fi one. And I have a problem with it.

My problem is not any of the obvious ones - that the policewoman heroine totally shouldn't be fooling around with the murder suspect; that even though the book's set a hundred years in the future, in a world apparently devastated by environmental disaster and unexplained wars, Americans are still worried about exactly the same political issues we are now; that, even when a book in the paranormal romance genre is set in a world in which guns are outlawed, violent crime is far down, and prostitution is legal and "safer than being a schoolteacher," it is still all about prostitutes getting murdered -

Okay, maybe I do have problems with that stuff. But I have read five Nalini Singh books voluntarily, so I can probably deal with those particular problems.

What's really bugging me is that the heroine's name is Eve Dallas, and my brain keeps reading that as Steve Dallas.