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1/3 Dear Dan Kim-Senpai, I noticed you from the very first day you transferred to our school. As soon as I set my eyes on you my heart went doki-doki. Your soft, greasy neckbeard, the nervous sweat dripping from every pore on your face, the spaghetti spilling from every pocket... cont'

>2/3 I was particularly impressed by the baby carrot protruding from the front of your pants I assume was your penis at full mast. While everyone else laughed and mocked, I admired you. Dan-Senpai, will you put on a blue wig and be my waifu? I don't even have to be your number one, cont'
>3/3 Pardon my lewdness but I want to hold your hand and watch Chinese cartoons with you. And if you let me I will feed you tacos and touch your butt. I don't mind playing second fiddle to Sakura and I can guarantee you my chest is at least three times as flat as hers! I hope u notice me back -Anon
>blue wig
BLUE
WIG
I know who this is you massive sayakafag also stop betraying Sayaka, you shit.
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Hey Dan, have you watched the "ME!ME!ME!" video? It's on the Japanese Animator Expo website. I was asking people around on what is their take on interpreting the story. I was hoping you could share your part too.

Yup, I watched it. Great stuff.
It's the standard complaint -- there's nothing in nature as sweet and amazing as cake, no 3DPD can hold a candle to your 2D waifu, no adventure you can have will be as amazing as [your favourite story]. In short, that our fantasies are too good. That reality doesn't live up to the books.
Then there's another complaint about superficiality -- that there's something deeper or higher that we're obligated to face, and we've turned out back to it. That maybe all we're doing is hitting the switch like a lab-monkey, shocking our brain in the right way, and that we ought to take responsibility for hooking ourselves up to the machine. Or that if we can't take responsibility, we should at least feel regret.
I feel no such regret. I don't think we need to worry about supernormal stimulus deadening us to "real", "genuine" experiences. I don't think we need to worry about the stupid and frivolous crowding out the virtuous and sublime.
There is a story about a comedy film that was so hilarious that anyone who watched it died of laughter. There is an much older story about a statue so lovely that its maker fell in love with it. Both of these sound like a fine way to cash out - as a person, as a society, as a species. If we did, then it would be a fine joke, and reality would live up to the books after all.

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If you had more money than you ever need, would you give it away?

I'd try and find good causes. Maybe create an all-girl musical troupe that uses magical mechs to fight demons from another world -- that sort of thing.
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The nana comic is so sad how do you manipulate our feels so much

It's actually just a bunch of Key-level tricks (Key, the visual novel company)... the tricks are very effective, but once you figure out how it works it's not very interesting from a writing perspective. Basically: extremely simple characters (so the reader can project anything on to them), an unusual source of suffering (so there's no 'real case' to compare things against and there's plenty of room for the imagination), and then just keep the reader on an emotional roller-coaster and obfuscate the hand of god with a pseudo-spiritual fog machine. Bonus points for a streak of (black) comedy through the thing -- it's like salt on watermelon, accentuating the flavour.
That's not to say the comic is insincere -- it is. I was in tears while finishing the last 7-8 strips (I drew 'em in a single sitting on an empty stomach in Toronto). But any follow up I did to Nana that tread the same territory /would/ be insincere. That's why I now avoid Nana territory at all costs. It's was a fine trick, but one not to be repeated (by me, anyway).

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Dan, As a person and entity on the internet, do you get a lot of trolling, hate mail, threats, and/or other examples of the best of human nature? If yes, how do you deal with it? Thanks and Keep drawing.

Yeah, I used to get lots of mail (both fan and hate mail) but that was years ago, when I was more popular. Most of the hatemail came from people used to reading tame newspaper comics and were shocked when they found comics on the web for the first time. Classic T42R and the 9/11 comics drew the most hate, ha ha. Times have changed, though.
Anyway, I never took that stuff too seriously. The silent, lukewarm majority don't write letters or leave comments. They have more important things to do. So when you open up your mailbox, you only see the extreme ends of your audience. And frankly, even the extremes aren't that extreme -- for 99.99999999% of their lives, fans and haters don't give you a second thought - they have their own shit to do and worry about. You don't /really/ matter to them. Only a total narcissist with a serious persecution complex could take hatemail very seriously. Only a insecure twit would use fanmail to prop up their ego. Hatemail should be met with temperance and genuine attempts to understand (even if you ultimately dismiss them) -- fanmail should be met with gratitude (as any gift should be) but should not be allowed to feed your ego.
Bottom line: warm and fuzzy mails, snide internet comments, puffed up critics, reviews, sales, e-drama, etc. -- come on. Be serious now. Anything might influence you, but your star to steer by should always be the work itself. That's the important thing. Focus on that. All that other stuff is really just that -- "other stuff".
Well. That was then. These days I mostly get requests to team up ("idea guys" who want an artist) or a nice note from someone who used to read Nana or Tomoyo42 in middleschool. Sometimes people draw a cutest and best -- I like those mails the most. =3=

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So, on some days you regard Cupcake-tan as your most precious, treasured child...and on other days you regard her as a curse you can't wait to get rid of. What determines which attitude you take? Is it by your mood at the time? Or when Cupcake comes home with all Ds on her report card?

She's trash... but she's my trash. ;~;
My a cutest... ;~;
Did I mess up the recipe? Did I screw up the batter? Where did I go wrong...? ;~;
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