Comments on: Otaku Diaries Part 3: Sticks, stones, AND words can hurt you!

By: Wig Party: Genshiken II, Chapter 60 « OGIUE MANIAX

Wig Party: Genshiken II, Chapter 60 « OGIUE MANIAX — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:57:12 +0000

[...] Hato. While she can’t relate to Hato in terms of choice of attire, as an otaku it’s very likely that she knows the pain of being ridiculed or tormented by one’s peers all too well. Yajima [...]

By: viga

viga — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:23:45 +0000

For those who did bully and was bullied, maybe they wanted to know how it felt. Imagine being so powerless and having a chance to feel powerful.

People like to control things. Not all people, but a lot. The bystanders and instigators get a show.

Power, entertainment, insecurity. All reasons for bullies.

Too bad not everyone can have a revenge of the nerds moment.

By: digitalboy

digitalboy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:26:11 +0000

I was one of the participants here, and if I didn’t say much, it may have been because I take bullying to be so common and well-known that I think everyone pretty much gets the idea of how you were bullied. And school really is the place where mos tof my bullying happened, except some neighborhood events early in life.

But since you said you were interested, I have something for ya! Check out this post I once did on my history of being bullied and what I think of it as a plot device! http://fuzakenna.com/2009/02/05/on-bullying-in-anime/

By: The Otaku Diaries and the Somewhat Forbidden Topic « OGIUE MANIAX

The Otaku Diaries and the Somewhat Forbidden Topic « OGIUE MANIAX — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:24:06 +0000

[...] in philosophy, trends | Tags: bullying, cyber-bullying, otaku diaries This past Monday saw the Reverse Thieves post their latest statistics from their Otaku Diaries project. The topic: Bullying. The original question basically asked [...]

By: TP

TP — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:38:27 +0000

I've been through such times, and it was (on hindsight) not as bad as I thought it would be at that time. If my short-term memory serves right, I think the oft-hyped manga, Onani Master Kurosawa, illustrates elements of bullying very well. Consider the protagonist's stoic approach towards the middle of the end of the story, when the bullying roles are reversed. I think it's what most people will have to live with eventually. I recall a CSI (Las Vegas) episode, of which a particular person goes on a rampage and kills all the "jocks" and popular girls in the school. One line made by Grissom perfected the notion of bullying in school: "You know, Miss Barrett as difficult as high school can be for kids, eventually, it's over…" -CSI Season 2, Episode 4: "Bully For You" BTW, (since statute of limitations means I can relive my tales during my secondary school days) I do experience my fair share of bullying and being bullied (I fall for the "Both" category). In short, I do get visits to the school counsellor for countless number of times, listening to her pedantic discourse of Freudian notions of "analism" and "Oedipus Complex."

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:09:32 +0000

I was interested in the “see that girl? SHE LIKES YOU!” case (#0019), since–as you may have noticed ^_^–many manga and anime actually revolve around such a relationship, where one person is bullied by the other, both mentally and physically. The essential difference is that it turns out (and the audience understands early on) that the other person actually DOES like the protagonist. Is tsundere popular in part because of a wish that bullying, since it happened anyway, somehow could lead to a happy instead of a sad end? As #0094′s post implies, bullying is at least a form of social interaction, a relationship, and is different from being excluded or not noticed, which carries its own set of problems.