You can actually hold a koala at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, but I doubt you live in Australia so it might be too hard to visit. They don’t really claw you, just don’t be rough with a koala or you might get ownzored by Australian native wildlife.

BTW Dropbears are not real and are a fictional construct designed to scare gullible tourists while the locals have a good laugh at them trying to put Vegemite on their nose.

As for me, I’m not pursuing love, it’s pursuing me like Mad Max in his Interceptor

(how many Australian references can I cram into one comment?)

@Baka-Raptor: Your theory totally explains why I’m so turned off by the idea of sex before romance (looking at Junjou Romantica of all things) – BRING ME THE CHOCOLATES!!!

@itsubun: We’re all human because we have kinks!

The disparity between how male and female characters in anime are portrayed in displaying their sexuality (assuming they “had any in the first place”) is just so wide sometimes, I’m surprised it took Kamen no Maid Guy of all things to call forth the fact to me when it obviously had no intention of doing so (It’s Kamen no freakin Maid Guy!)

And I think School Days sortof/kindof did what you wanted, though it was just an excuse to set up the Nice Boat end. Utena had to be swept off her feet by a false representation of her Prince Charming before succumbing to teh sex. NANA seemed to have a better representation of female sexuality, though Hachi’s side of the story seems to utilize Baka-Raptor’s theory of why cuteness exists -_-”

@Jacob Martin: Well if your story ever gets published, maybe we’ll see your Mitsuko Atom on screen one day ;P

If anime is to be believed, the less you tell yourself you want to pursue love, the more likely it will happen.

And I want to hug a koala now! (though their claws are rather scary, but I don’t think they use them for self defence, do they?)

@IKnight: Maybe I should start promoting lulz shows as intellectual fodder from now on XD I’ll have to start with deconstructing Animal Yokocho…

@biankita: Physical attraction doesn’t always cover undergarments perhaps XD I suppose Ri-Da is a case of a ‘pure’ love that manifests itself as something that isn’t so ‘pure’?

as for ri-da… his love is pure. remember that episode when naeka’s panties were flying all over the place and he declared that he’s only interested on her boobs and didn’t budge? but at least now, he sees her as the carrier. i will so laugh my ass out if there will be any more developments on this… but it’s supposed to be only natural right? everything starts with physical attraction…

Un-Australian? Hugging is what makes this country great, just look at the Koala, one of our most popular native animals and icons. You KNOW you’d want to hug THAT!

And Jacob, you are the most un-Australian Australian I’ve ever encountered. In the UK, we imagine that all male Australians are oversexed tappers rather than huggers. It must be the way you consistently crush our cricket team.

As for me, I’m happy if a girl even answers my calls, and chances are, they don’t. Which makes me wish there was a girl out there somewhere who would express her sexuality effectively to me, because instead of “I’d tap that” I usually subscribe to the “I’d Hug That” more warm and fuzzy kind of relationship philosophy.

As an Asperger’s guy I’m generally viewed as “retarded” and generally not capable of interesting the ladies, but I just don’t know what I can do to express that I need some lovin’ without seeming creepy.

There’s a flip side to the coin, I’ve been exploited by women on several occasions.

I laughed my ass off when I was reading your paraphrasing of Ri-Da’s chivalrous pursuit of Naeka’s boobs. I like how the girl is so easily swayed when the dumb-as-fuck guy actually starts putting forth real efforts [into getting some jiggle AXxXion] because surely, SURELY, that must mean it’s TRULUV. But then again, I guess that’s still a step up from the Stone Age logic of Man Wants, Man Beats Into Submission and Drags Back to Cave. I have not watched a single episode of Kamen no Maid Guy, but from what I’ve read in your entry, it sounds like epic lulz. What I got out of it is that the girl is into the CHASE. She likes the idea of being singularly pursued like a hot piece of meat [literally]. Because that differentiates her from all the other girls, meaning that she is the juiciest MuthaMutha of them all. His declaration of future ownership feeds into her ego, marks her as his own, and she’s like, “WOWZA! Lucky me! IZ SO SPESHIUL!”

Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with a guy wanting a nice pair of tits or whatever kind of lumps have you. Because that kind of carnal attraction is built into us as sexual beings. In the same way, I have certain “kinks” in my preferences toward men [read: I'd tap that ass]. The difference is that women’s sexual desires have been culturally sublimated and in effect producing stereotypes that are perpetuated and reinforced through the media of the asexual female only existing to please others with no original desires of her own. Most people don’t even think to consider women’s sexuality in a way that isn’t condemning or derogatory. Which is why there’s that disparity between male sexuality being purely carnal and female sexuality being only limited to the emotional. All of which is bullcrap.

I would LOVE to watch an anime where the female lead isn’t a typecast lesbian [fucking stereotypes], but can still effectively express her sexuality. And she would say something along the lines of, “Hey, you’re a shithead of a guy and you don’t come anywhere near the ideal of Prince Charming. And that’s okay because I don’t have those kinds of expectations for you. But you do have something that I want, and I know I have something that you want. So let’s just skip the chivalrous bullshit and HIT IT.”

Thousands of years ago, some women craved romance and some didn’t. The women who sought to establish romantic connections before having sex were more likely to keep their partners with them throughout pregnancy. When these pregnant women were incapable of hunting/running from wild predators, their partners fought off the predators and got them food (which explains why women are turned on by receiving chocolate). The women who didn’t establish romantic relationships were all alone and helpless throughout pregnancy and either starved or got eaten. Only the romance-loving women survived, passing the romance-loving genes onto future generations.

Kamen no Maid Guy needs to be subbed faster.