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[bd648]

This is what happens when people who dont play video games write about video games.

[BluPhoenix]

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[rtil]

[Sheepy]

Me and a few friends were talking in a stream and we suggested typing our names plus "the pony" in DA search and this is what I got:

[BluPhoenix]

Don't know weather to put this in good or bad because I laughed hysterically.

if you're trying to find the right spot for that grammar, you've found the place

[Kött]

Speaking of Mascots


http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/10/10/official-photo-book-dedicated-to-moe-baseball-mascot




Baseball - A sport for manly men

[rtil]

cute

not really thread of bad material imo

[Kött]

As always: Yes, but:

I gotta admit that the design of that thing is kyoot as fuck, but the fact that the popularity of this particular team and the sales of their merchandise go up as drastically as the article describes it is just do awfully typical for Japan. I mean they are already selling bad overpriced limited versions of Windows by simply including a moe girl mascot figurine and Vocaloid is probably a hundred times more popular for its mascots than for its actual software, which is not necessarily bad but which can actually be considered a brilliant marketing strategy. Still, the fact that just this single strategy of moe marketing pushes nearly everything way beyond its limit kinda fascinates me in a different way, which is imagining these masses of Otaku who actually make it a success.
Furthermore, I actually thought this was an American mascot doe to the name of the team at first, which is why I feel a bit disillusioned... it's kinda obvious that this kind of mascot would be popular in Japan, but I would actually be interested in seeing the same kind of approach and its outcome in the states, where the obsessive demand for manly symbols would presumably clash with this particular concept...

[rtil]

i don't see how it's any different than, say, american companies slapping spongebob on everything for kids to make their parents buy them - every culture is equally guilty of humanizing and sympathizing with things that get a face put on them. it's just a natural human reaction, and there's nothing wrong with that.

and i'm not sure what you mean in your last sentence - american sports teams already have cartoon mascots. you can buy figurines, bobbleheads, t-shirts and god knows what else of them and everything having to do with the teams at official "team stores" that exclusively sell local team merchandise. a large portion of americans care more about sports than anything else.

[Sheepy]

who wants me to post buffalo belle hentai

[Kött]

and i'm not sure what you mean in your last sentence - american sports teams already have cartoon mascots. you can buy figurines, bobbleheads, t-shirts and god knows what else of them and everything having to do with the teams at official "team stores" that exclusively sell local team merchandise. a large portion of americans care more about sports than anything else.

it's simply not on the same level... just try to find one single american mascot that fits the criteria of moe. It's gonna be tough.
Female mascots are generally underrepresented in male-dominated sports and among those few that exist you will probably not find anything similar to this particular case.
Sure you have a lot of cartoon-themed mascots, but their design deviates a lot from this style. Western mascots aren't supposed to be cute but rather to have this kind of comedic sidekick effect. In this case, however, the strategy for its appeal is baed on completely different criterea that appeal to people who like... well, fuck... we got cheerleaders in America, right? Still... that's more of a sexy kind of thing that a man can legitimately call cute without risking his reputation of manliness. It would just seem kinda risky to go for a moe appearence (completely opposing the traditional ideals of a sport such as baseball) instead of a neutral comedic or tough appearence.

who wants me to post buffalo belle hentai

DON'T DEFILE HER YOU DEVIL!

[rtil]

i thought you were just talking about mascots and their relevancy in general. but you can't just extrapolate something from one society , plop it in the other, and expect the same results. you don't find moe anime mascots in american sports teams for obvious reasons.

[BluPhoenix]

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[Kött]

i thought you were just talking about mascots and their relevancy in general. but you can't just extrapolate something from one society , plop it in the other, and expect the same results. you don't find moe anime mascots in American sports teams for obvious reasons.

Well, yea... and that was my point. I wouldn't even call the reasons obvious and in fact I'd really love to see the outcome of such an experimental attempt in the US. To be honest, it's not even that much of an anime styled mascot. In fact it rather seems like a mix of a typically American anthropomorphic animal and the features of that which is commonly popular as moe in Japan. I don't even think that this mascot would be identified as anime-themed by most Americans and the only thing that would probably make it a no go according to your point of view is the stigma that comes with that particular style.
That's why it would just be damn interesting to see the outcome of the use of a similar mascot for an American team. I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be fanbases of Otaku only dedicated to the mascot but that it would rather end in a shitstorm of confusion due to the unconventional and untraditional...

Ultimetely, the second 'bad' in this case is that fact that something perfectly normal that even enhances the fanbase of a team in one particular society (albeit in a rather odd way) seems rather questionable in our own and I'd just love to see the way the typical american baseball fan would react to a character like this if it was introduced as the new mascot of his team.

[rtil]

my idea of the reaction would be a few days of media attention and people arguing on the internet, and then everyone forgets about it and stops caring come the next news cycle

i think the mascot would do better in some areas and worse in others, though. for example, here in seattle we have a more progressive and diverse culture, including a large asian population. it would probably go over well actually. but in, say, texas or some place in the southeast, it might be a different story.

[Kooh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJpsaNI8Q7U#ws

[rtil]

rip

[lasse]

this was part of the required reading in a course on english literature at my university

i fucking hate my university

[rtil]

poor you!

not sexual

can we get a fact-checker on this one

[valiums]

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