His vocal “stylings,” much to the chagrin of drama teachers everywhere, he’s sure, have also been featured in Romeo X Juliet, Speed Grapher, Trinity Blood, Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Black Cat, Nabari no Ou, Ghost Hunt, School Rumble, The Tower of Druaga, Aquarion, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles, Shuffle, Shigurui, Glass Fleet, Mushishi, Soul Eater, along with feature-length films such as Vexille, Summer Wars, Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker, and Empire of Corpses, among many others.
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Frog, the titular loveable savage of Heroic Age, Ryosuke Takahashi in Initial D, Lawrence Kraft in Spice and Wolf, Zarbon in Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Scar in Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Other characters the man still can’t believe he’s had the crazy good fortune to play include Doumeki in XXXHolic, Jiro Mochizuki in Black Blood Brothers, Isaac Dian in Baccano!, both God Eneru and Dalton in One Piece, Komui Lee in D-Gray Man, Dororo in Sgt. They were allowed to just be, and that’s something that’s stuck with me for a while. That’s not to say they didn’t go through hardships, but their struggles had little to do with being “the gay one” and had everything to do with “you’re a soldier of love and justice and the world is ending.” Well, honestly? That wasn’t all that surprising, either, but what did stick with me was the fact that Sailor Moon, and other anime, had portrayals of queer characters who weren’t just side characters, who weren’t constantly bullied for being gay, who were seen as assets to the team, and whose story didn’t end in tragedy. Missing out on the violence or Goku going to hell and not the Home For Infinite Losers wasn’t all that surprising, but the stuff that got removed out of Sailor Moon and how queer it was? While there, one of the employees took my hand (figuratively) and opened my eyes to everything that was being edited out of the stories I’d watch weekday afternoons. Ebola-chan: a jokey cartoon “mascot” for Ebola that, in the hands of some particularly unprincipled 4chan users, became a hoax directed at vulnerable West Africans.When I was a teenager in the nineties, I frequented the local Suncoast quite often, using my paychecks to build my anime VHS collection until the entire Dragon Ball Z cast had their faces lined up on the side of the box.Needless to say, that’s one of many 4chan news hoaxes. Apple Wave: an alleged “feature” of the iPhone 6, hyped by 4chan users on Twitter, wherein people can charge their phones by microwaving them.Bikini bridge: an invented beauty/fitness trend that encouraged women to lose enough weight to create a gap between the bones of their hip and pelvis the trend, though fake, eventually caught on in online eating-disorder communities.
The cyberbullying of Jessi Slaughter: one of the earliest high-profile incidents of cyberbullying, in which 4chan members sent death threats and calls to an 11-year-old girl who would later make multiple suicide attempts.Gamergate has since wrecked the lives of several female gamers and commentators and spawned a larger discussion about the way that industry treats women. Gamergate: an ongoing movement to expose “corruption” in video game journalism, which was (purportedly!) drummed up by 4chan users.Celebgate: the leak of dozens of stolen celebrity nude photos, which - while no longer available on 4chan - still exist as downloadable torrents across the Web.