"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Any DBZ fans here?

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Ah anime been watching it since Sailormoon came out.

DBZ was ok but I liked Dragonball better.

Paper Man means that DBZ was the pioneer for fighting shonen anime, which is roughly anime made for boys. Stuff like Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Hunter X Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho.

Or maybe he means it's the pioneer for anime in America. In the past we've had Voltron and Thundercats then basically nothing for ten years. Then we got Sailormoon, Dragonball and Dragonball Z all coming out at around the same time. After that the floodgates were opened and now it's a steady rush.

As for Naruto, I fell bad for the people that only watch it in English. They are now getting into the filler arc. Man that time sucked I stopped watching for a few months than resumed with shippuden and now everything is ok again.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Maxtro said:
...DBZ was ok but I liked Dragonball better.....
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Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
 
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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
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Marked and ready to go!!!

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Why? For the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra?

Kidding. Second entry in Google is about a live action Dragonball movie. Live action anime kind of scares me. It could end up being almost decent or completely god awful.
 
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“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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Why? For the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra?

Kidding. Second entry in Google is about a live action Dragonball movie. Live action anime kind of scares me. It could end up being almost decent or completely god awful.
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Evangelion is probably going to turn into a movie too. Now that's scary.
 
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Evangalion was pretty DEEP as far as when they would just drift off in their own heads.

Anyways Pook and Piccolo fused would make: Pookolo =P

just had to say that
 
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Cowboy Bebop.

Enough said. :whistle:
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I loved that show, one of the few animes that I actually watched on TV without downloading on the internet.

Samurai Champloo, which was basically made by the same team that did Bebop, is also a great series.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Mark April 3, 2009 (tentatively) on your calendar.
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Erm, why? New Series coming out or something?
 
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Yeah, but the date has been pushed back to 2009.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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Maxtro said:
Or maybe he means it's the pioneer for anime in America. In the past we've had Voltron and Thundercats then basically nothing for ten years. Then we got Sailormoon, Dragonball and Dragonball Z all coming out at around the same time. After that the floodgates were opened and now it's a steady rush.
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Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America. Thundercats was not anime and Voltron was bowlderdized and sanitized for American kids. Robotech and Star Blazers were the first American anime releases to present a dramatic story for kids without dumbing down or sanitizing the violence. These two shows ushered in an organized fandom for anime that didn't exist before.

Sailor Moon and DBZ were the spearhead of the Third Wave of anime fandom (first being Robotech and StarBlazers, second being Akira) and represent the commercialization and mainstreaming of anime.
 
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Yotsuya-san said:
Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America...
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Space Cruiser Yamato and the Super Dimension Fortress-1!!! :rockon:
Which was better weapon, the Wave Motion gun or the Reflex Cannon? It would have been nice to see the two battleships go against each other.
 
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Yotsuya-san said:
Actually, Robotech and Star Blazers were THE pioneer for anime in America. Thundercats was not anime and Voltron was bowlderdized and sanitized for American kids. Robotech and Star Blazers were the first American anime releases to present a dramatic story for kids without dumbing down or sanitizing the violence. These two shows ushered in an organized fandom for anime that didn't exist before.

Sailor Moon and DBZ were the spearhead of the Third Wave of anime fandom (first being Robotech and StarBlazers, second being Akira) and represent the commercialization and mainstreaming of anime.
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I forgot about Robotech. Yeah that was a pioneer. I never heard of Star Blazers. What about Speed Racer? My dad used to watch that when he was a kid.

Akira was one movie and it I don't think it was aired on TV so I don't know how big it's impact was. Any more data about the 2nd wave?

As for "bowlderdized" anime, that has happened to a great many of shows. Heck even Sailormoon which is technically a girls show got censored. The final season, Sailor Stars was never aired because some executives thought it was too "adult orientated" be be shown on day time TV.

What funny is that I think it's great that more and more anime is being shown on American TV and that it's getting more exposure. But the thing is, for the past 5 years or so 99.9% of the anime I watch is fansubbed, that I downloaded.

Speaking of fansubbed and Macross in the previous post, anybody check out "Macross Frontier"? So far only one episode is out and the next one isn't due out till April.
 
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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