6 Misconceptions Anime Is Teaching Our Kids

I, like so many other infinitely awesome people, enjoy reading manga and watching anime. Like any good cartoon, the creators take certain... liberties when it comes to storytelling, physics, and general common sense. However, Japan, for all its talk of honor and pride and dignity, is notorious for being a shameless den of perverts. So naturally, some of that over-the-top psychosis tends to bleed through into one of their greatest exports: anime. Western cartoons may be silly, and often fail to teach children anything more than the most impractical method of blowing bubbles, but the most they usually defy is the occasional law of the physical universe. Anime prefers to defy every law of every universe as well as the very notions of reason and sanity.

Every. Single. Episode.

Something, Something, Dawn of a New Day

So, you may have noticed a new look about the ol' Nonsense Can. I felt it was about time to move on from the old LEGO look, and into the future of now. Or whatever.

"Synergize the geostreams!"

I would like to thank the brilliant Joaquim Borges for letting me use his awesome Yotsuba fan art for the new background. Please be sure to check out his other quirky, knock-out artwork over at deviantART.

I also chose (or rather, finally figured out how) to widen the actual blog-space... thing. Because, surprisingly, I am aware that many people these days have widescreen monitors, and a lot of space on the edges was being wasted. Furthermore, I was kind of sick of each line holding about a toothpick's worth of words. To top it all off, the new background segues into my next article on anime perfectly, so you can be on the lookout for that in the next day or two.

Anywho, hopefully you guys enjoy the re-engineered Nonsense in a Can as much as I do. It's been over a year since I started this rickety old joint, and I hope to distract you from your everyday responsibilities for many years to come. To infinity and beyond!

7 Terrible Candidates for Scratch n' Sniff Films

Odorama. Smell-O-Vision. Whatever the method, the crappy idea is still the same: deliver smells to a theater audience that coincide with what is seen and heard on screen. Both were rather short-lived concepts, and for good reason - most movies aren't filled with apple pie monsters and gingerbread guns. They're mostly fart jokes, dead bodies, sweaty pits, and marijuana. But, among all the pot smoke and toilet humor, there are a few choice movies that would not only upset an audience's collective stomachs, but probably leave half of them dead.

7. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 
The epic fantasy series by Peter Jackson and crew is based on perhaps the most well-conceived fictional world in storytelling history. Much of its appeal lies in the same arena as what made the original Star Wars films so timeless: realism. Both series feature gritty, rundown locales populated with hideous creatures and depressingly flawed characters. They're not shiny and new and perfect - they're falling apart at the seams and trying their best just to sputter on to the next day, like our own world. But the "hideous creatures" that more-or-less infect the lands of Middle Earth are extra hideous. Like... Resident Evil hideous.

9 out of 10 dentists recommend NOT being a puppet of Saruman.