The "Are You Too Violent for Anime" Drinking Challenge
In this age of desensitized violence, it's always important to re-evaluate your relationship to the world. To that end, take Akadot's
little alcoholic litmus test for violent proclivities.
Simply take a healthy sip of ale for each of the follow statements that pertain to you:
1. You've practiced anime fighting moves in front of a full-length mirror.
2. Your wardrobe consists primarily of shorts, tube socks and T-shirts embossed with grotesque images of carnage.
3. You wake up to watch the Toonami block.
4. You cover up your rejection from the military with, "It's all done with computers now anyway."
5. You spend inordinate amounts of time refuting the physics of live action fight scenes.
6. You hate it when blood is represented as a bright red fluid when in actuality it's a darker red bordering on a deep crimson.
7. You've practiced anime fighting moves naked in front of a full-length mirror.
8. You've considered adopting just so you can form a clan of fighting warriors to ravage the countryside.
9. You feel that women are nice to touch but they don't belong on a field of battle.
10. You prefer girl Ranma to Akane.
11. You prefer guy Ranma to Akane ... because of his fighting skill.
12. You've video taped yourself practicing anime fighting moves naked in front of a full length
mirror so you can go back to critique how your technique can be improved.
13. The mention of Yoshiaki Kawajiri has a Pavlovian effect on you.
14. You give Katana lessons in convention registration lines.
15. You watch "Fist of the North Star" to calm yourself.
16. You feel that life and death are merely two sides of the same coin.
17. You've shown other people the videotapes of you practicing fighting
moves naked in front of a full-length mirror so that they can improve their own technique.
Scale:
A. If you've hardly taken a sip, congratulations, you have evaded the pitfalls that the entertainment industry complex has set before you.
B. If you're a little buzzed, maybe you really have been watching too much anime.
C. If you're piss drunk, you have been watching too much anime.
D. If you're currently convulsing with alcohol poisoning, you aren't desensitized to violence at all, you are an honest to god sadistic wacko and living proof that the conservative right is uncharacteristically correct and anime does breed anti-social sods.
Kampai!
