‘War Sucks!’

I was idle, and I thought idly about war and anime. ‘Anime says that war sucks,’ is what I thought first. This seems to be the standard opinion. If it’s deployed, it’s frequently followed by mention of pacifism and the atomic bomb.

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This coin is an ugly reproduction of the world’s hawtest sculpture

My English private education was very educational (see above), and one thing it taught me was that when you put a group of teenagers together under pressure, they turn to various things for support. Some take to food, or to drink, or to mind-altering substances, or to some previous habit or hobby (such as foreign animation) in a newly obsessive way. One thing that everyone will turn to is, to a greater or lesser extent, other people. In certain cases (and there will almost always be some) that means sex.