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Giving Your Pets Life Through Anime/Manga Characters - Yorozuya Fish
As most people will tell you, pets are awesome to have. They teach you how to be responsible and also provide some great stress relief. This may sound funny to most of you, but have you ever named your pet or associated it with notable anime/manga characters?
Case in point: here’s an example involving pets that I own. I have three red/orange blood parrot cichlids of different sizes as pets. Normally, I did not care about them until earlier this year when I started to feed them. I’ve grown to like them over time. I actually thought of those three fish as the Yorozuya from Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama. Whenever I’m about to give them food, all three of them rush up in great speed to the top of the tank like poor, hungry folk fighting over a hotpot (which greatly reminds of Gin, Kagura, and Shinpachi).
The Big Fish
I call this one Gin because he reminds me of his “Boss of the Kids” look in Volume 16/Episode 88 of Gintama. The big dude is always going around picking on the other two fish. He gobbles rocks and shoots them when he’s bored. The “leader” is also the one who takes up all the food. A funny thing is he actually will lightly jump out of the water if you try to stick anything near him.
This fish also has great fighting spirit. My mother tried to move rocks in the fish tank around with a stick once and the big fish actually attacked the stick with determination. Gin-san also bit her hand in another incident. He’s an aquatic Shiroyasha.
The Medium-Size Fish
Kagura-chan! While Kagura is a girl’s name, she acts pretty tomboyish to the point that you can consider her a guy at times. This one likes to follow Gin-san around just for the hell of it. He gobbles rocks and shoots them as well. He picks on the smallest fish alongside Gin-san. Gin-san picks on Kagura-chan sometimes.
Of course, this Kagura could be Kaguura Jusant, her Monkey Hunter avatar.
The Semi-Medium Fish
Poor Shinpachi. All he does is go into a corner somewhere and stays there. The two other fish ALMOST ALWAYS pick on him. Shinpachi also struggles to get food from the other two sometimes. A funny note is that he seems to pay attention to food and nothing else.
Sometimes, I wonder if Shinpachi is actually a healthy fish since he seems to be somewhat lackadaisical. Does he drift off by himself to listen to Otsu-chan in his head?
Anthropomorphism, with regards to naming pets, is pretty popular and I think more people seem to be experiencing this feeling. You have to wonder if there are certain anime/manga characters that have moved fans to the point that they want to bring them to life through animals and feed their inner desire to nurture. Though you can also say the same for other fictional characters. I would love to hear any stories you guys have about pets that own whose names reflect certain character personalities.
Finally, here’s a photo that reflects the nature of Shinpachi’s treatment throughout Gintama, which greatly describes how wacky my case of anthropomorphism is.
Poor Shin-chan.
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An Ode to Kagura (Gintama)
“Sorry I don’t have any BANG-POW-BOOM. You don’t have to say anything. I know. I’m the only one who can handle you jerks. I’ve GOT to be the heroine, uh-huh.”
With Lunar New Year upon us, I wanted to take a look at a notable Chinese-ish anime/manga character. This character is none other than Kagura, from Hideaki Sorachi’s Gintama. She is probably one of the more unique heroines in all of shonen manga. Her personality is absolutely hilarious, but what makes her stand out is the fact that she is arguably the strongest character, physically, in the whole series (even stronger than the main character, Gintoki Sakata, and a majority of the male characters) and that she’s a lead female that is pretty blunt & headstrong.
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(Warning: This photo could be Kintama-inducing to some :P)
Please note that this photo is a response to this “wonderful piece of writing” by the folks at the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department. The second part is here. Also, EXTREME SARCASM WARNING. Here we go…
“OH HI THERE, GAIZ! LOOK, I’M PEDOBEAR AND I’M READING A COMIC THAT CONTAINS A 14-YEAR OLD GIRL. I LIKE HER VERY MUCH <33333 I DON’T LIKE REAL LITTLE GIRLS THOUGH. FICTIONAL ONES ARE THE BEST. I’M SUPPORTING CARTOON PEDOPHILIA. I LOVE IT WHEN ADULT GIRLS DRESS UP AS LOLIS. ARREST ME!!!!!”
A friend sent me a link to the news about Pedobear being the official mascot for pedophiles. What pedophile would knowingly worship a cartoon bear? Do they even want a mascot? Also, Chris Hansen even knows what it is and he’s not taking it seriously! I even watched a news video on it and the reporter had this look on his face that said “Are you freaking kidding me?”
I do have a problem with the person who posed as Pedobear and gave out candy to kids at San Diego Comic-Con. Why would you actually mess with kids!? Good god, are you that stupid!? Sigh. I know you’re not really a registered sex offender. But, Pedobear is supposed to be a JOKE and you tried to turn that joke into some kinda crazy WARPED REALITY. There are people out there who are still morons who don’t research the Internet.
So, SLO police officers, if you’re so interested in catching cartoon pedophiles, why don’t you arrest Peter Griffin, of Family Guy, for trying to “comfort” Connie DiMico in that one episode (“Stew-Roids”) where he clearly wanted to do stuff to her? Peter said it best, “What are you looking at? It’s a CARTOON!”
To my readers outside of America, what a wonderful country America can be sometimes, eh?
Stay tuned because I will have an entry on the phenomenon that is Pedobear and the psychology surrounding it.
