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Post by PancakeChef on Jan 4, 2009 2:44:17 GMT -5
Why excatly is this stuff called mecha musume and ~tans to begin with? I like anime and japanese culture but only certain styles of anime and this is a little too much even for me  so I would be interested to know how the hell this got started and the history on it etc. |
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Icarus94
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Post by Icarus94 on Jan 4, 2009 4:16:39 GMT -5
not even quagmire would hit those girls
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Post by jamradar on Jan 4, 2009 6:09:57 GMT -5
Why excatly is this stuff called mecha musume and ~tans to begin with? I like anime and japanese culture but only certain styles of anime and this is a little too much even for me so I would be interested to know how the hell this got started and the history on it etc. mecha (mechanical) musume (japanese word related to girl) the ~tan and mecha musume are pretty closely related. Mecha musume usually applies to the military hardware and was termed by Humikane Shimada, the guy responsible for a lot of the "professional" and commercial art. The ~tan culture was made pretty famous by the Computer/Operating system humanizations such as XP-tan and Me-tan I think it all started on 2chan or 2ch (original japanese chan boards) They were called "OS-tan", they were the operating system girls. From there, I guess it took off and became a culture. below is a sample of the main OS-tans. There is A LOT more. There's a Linux-tan, Firefox-tan, etc etc.  |
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Post by recklessfire on Jan 9, 2009 0:48:37 GMT -5
My favorite so far, is the Su-47, and about Strike Witches and Sky Girls, I watched one episode of each and it was just too much fanservice for me. I know, I'm talking nonsense.
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so I would be interested to know how the hell this got started and the history on it etc.
