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I got your Japanese Anime right here
by Dale North, 02/18/2010

I got your Japanese Anime right here photo

See above, found by our on Jake Thomas.

That's your "Japanese Anime," according to one Craigslister. It turns out that I had the totally wrong idea on what Japanese Anime was all this time. I'm kinda embarrassed now. Here I thought it was a form of entertainment, but it turns out that it's actually a $35 object located in West Covina.

I'm half tempted to call this guy. I don't want the fig, though. I just want to talk to him.

#internet #ZOMGWTFBBQ

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Legacy comments:

Paustinj

Isn't Japanese Anime an Oxymoron?

Baka Tensai

That's some pretty shady stuff. If the guy selling it doesn't know what it is, then there's really no telling where he got it from. Oh Craigslist. You are indeed the most sketch local merchandise vendor there is.

Invader Alex

@Paustinj

No.

DMNT

@Paustinj

oxymoron - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

You decide.

Catrophy

maybe he meant redundant

JDavis

@Paustinj An oxymoron is something that contradicts itself. "act naturally", "deafening silence", "virtual reality", etc.

Assuming you meant "Isn't Japanese Anime redundant", then I'd still say no. Anime is simply the Japanese word for animation. Ask a Japanese person what their favorite anime is, and they may tell you "Sponge Bob." As a convention, we've come to use the term in America to refer to animation produced in Japan, but that's not what the word actually means.