Today I just had to make fun of InuYasha fans, specifically. But to be fair, I had to throw in a reference to DragonBall Z as well. Why single these series out? Experience shows me that most people who are fans of these "animations" have severe mental problems. I use the word "animation" lightly because there is nothing animated about any of these programs. InuYasha is basically a bunch of still images with mouths animated onto them, with intermittent speed lines thrown in to create the illusion of actual movement. But what truly makes these shows special are the diehard fans.

One day my brother and I were standing in line at the Sam Goody, waiting for the non-english speaking cashier to ring up another teenybopper's Britney album, and my eye caught sight of the bargain bin, filled with InuYasha memorabilia; posters, figures, and even a bunch of the DVDs. This prompted a discussion between my brother and myself about the overall quality of the series. You see, during my brief employment at DC Comics in their CMX Manga department, I had to do tons of research on not only series, but of authors and their related works. Rumiko Takahashi is probably one of the most famous and wealthy comic artists in Japan. Unfortunately, every character in her works seem to oscillate between "angsty love-smitten depression" and "angry". There is no middle ground EVER. So keeping in mind the overall poor quality of the show from not only an animation and story viewpoint, but also from a FUCKING HORRIBLE VOICE ACTING side as well. Every episode comprises of two characters shouting each other's names in 2-frames per second mouth animations. Back to the story, the overall conversation ends with me saying "InuYasha anything is a bad idea."

Apparently, this discussion didn't settle well with the people in front of us. So the lady WITH SUBTLETY says to her friend in a loud voice, "Gee, I didn't know we had a couple THESPIANS in our line." Now, normally I would have called her on her use of the word "thespian", which boggles me to this day as to what she believed it meant. However, after seeing that she was a typical InuYasha fan, I realized that God had punished her more than enough. She was short, fat, had a face that her mother probably didn't even love, thick glasses, a pentagram on a string, and she was wearing one of those black shirts that has the wolves in the snow in the forest at night because that is so spiritual and natural and it shows how in tune with nature you are despite living in suburban California. The hardest part was not laughing in her face.