What planet are the io9 people even *from*?

[snarp]

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.

Comments

[branchandroot]

*weakly* God and hamburgers, huh?

...is it very bad of me that I now want to give this woman Angel Sanctuary to read?

[snarp]

I'm giving her Saint Young Men.

[branchandroot]

*falls out of her chair laughing* Oh, perfect!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

And all the Inuyasha episodes where Kagome and her buddies are eating WacDonalds hamburgers. And the From Eroica With Love chapters where Dorian and Klaus are hanging out in a Catholic church discussing atheism...oh, and the bit where Dorian's robbing the Vatican, for good measure. And the bits with the persecution of Kirishitans in Samurai Champloo, and pretty much all of Trinity Blood and Vassalord and One-Pound Gospel and and and *flails*