Otaku4u

[baavgai]

An image caught my eye. It was kawaii in the extreme, a little hamtaro built from various Japanese foodstuffs. Not being satisfied with one image, I followed the post and viewed the rest of the images. I found them progressively more disturbing in their obsessive nature. The end poses the question, Do you like / Dislike Otakus??

I really hope this is satire, but it may not be.

As a side note, I thought I needed an anime icon for this kind of silliness. This caused me to search what's available online for "anime icon". If the otaku post left me a little twitchy, this killed brain cells. The few ones I liked were helpfully macroed with messages I didn't want.

How much Naruto can one person take? The show's still going in Japan and 220 episodes have aired. The handful I've seen are pretty inane, though no more so than stuff like Dragonball. I guess this is anime formula drek, like US sitcoms.

I settled on some kodama, little forest spirts as they are depicted in Princess Mononoke. I like them, they seem creepy and benevolent at the same time.

Comments

[violet-amy.livejournal.com]

I like your icon. Pardon me for saying this, but it would be really cool if it was animated to do the head wind-up thing. I have a shirt with them on it. :)

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

I thought the little head twitch would be cool, too. I just poached this one from the web, so you take what you can find. I did a quick search on "kodama", lots of stuff, but no little animated gifs.

I do have the DVD... hmm.

[h3salthea.livejournal.com]

I know where you can get a better one...

I'll see if I can find it for you...

*grins*

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Found one...Not the best quality because I did a quick size reduction, but...

I can send the source file if you want to do a proper job of it.

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... it's not looping. Odd.

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Set it to loop.

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The motion looks a little odd; too regular. I think h3salthea got the motion, but I'll still have to fiddle with timing and get rid of the smilie.

Damn, now I want to watch Mononoke Hime.

[h3salthea.livejournal.com]

See if you like this better, let me know if/when you snag it.

Can't find the original maker, so I left the credit as 'unknown'..

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I like the head twitch. I don't know if I like the smiles and waves; kind of looses some of it's charm, I think.

I don't have time at work to get trapped with graphics, so I'll have to play at home. Thanks, it looks great.

[beckishadow.livejournal.com]

Cool, that one's much better!