Hige vs. Otaku

This entry is brought to by the letters A, B and C. A certain Collective of Anime Bloggers who, this time, consist of  CCYoshi,  J. Valdez,  Karura, Martin, Mike, Owen, Roxas and Xerox

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Initially, with this follow-up, I wanted to address everyone’s articles and share my thoughts on each. But, like most the readers, I’m totally overwhelmed by the wealth of opinion produced. Each article deals with a multitude of facets relating to the topic — so much so that to respond to each one properly would require massive collection of independent posts. So I intend to cop-out a bit and talk in general terms with my own post being the central concern. To make up for my shameless laziness, however, I’m going to reread every article involved and post a comment on their respective sites. That’ll quell the guilt a little, I hope. :3

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Originally this began as a shared topic between myself, Bateszi, Hidoshi, Impz, Martin, Owen and TheBigN. Following our collective synchronised posting, DrmChsr0, DS, lolikitsune, Michael and Yumeka also shared their thoughts.

We, the Original Seven, were given the above statement to formulate an argument for/against/nebulous middle ground. This is what I wrangled from my brainmeats . . .

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