I don't know I'm bothering, since everyone's just going to say, "Look at Aqizzar, getting at crotchety in his old age, turning into the Internet Wannabe-Mod Toughguy," but I'm going to ask anyway. Please stop. Stop with the borderline porn anime stuff. I know it's funny and "referential" and crap, that doesn't matter. I don't want to see anyone's threads locked because of smut, which is exactly what's going to happen if this oneupmanship continues, just like ever time before.
But I had a kinda-sorta related dream, the first dream I ever had in anime-vision. I had watched Cowboy Bebop and The Last Samurai before going to sleep. The setup is all pretty fuzzy, but it culminated in a samurai being hunted through a big wooden Japanese house by an assassin. Every time they fought, if the samurai connected a blow, the assassin would disappear in a puff of smoke, before another copy of her (it was a woman) would jump through a paper wall or a floor tile. But when she finally landed a blow, she would dice the samurai to pieces - but he didn't die. There was some expo-speak about the assassin trapping him in a world between dreaming and reality, and he vowed not to leave until he found a way to defeat her.
That's when things got cool, especially because I'm seeing this whole thing like it's actually a show, with dramatic camera angles and stuff, but realistic people. The samurai figured out he could reattach the parts lopped off him just by sliding up against them. Kicking a severed leg in the air like a soccer ball and jumping into it, or breakdance sliding across the floor to match up his torso after being cut in half. And on it went as a semi-lucid dream, the implication being that the way to win would somehow not involve fighting. Then my cat woke me up.
I figured Happytown would be a good place for that, because it was anime-esque-related, and really cool to watch. It's been a long time since I had an enjoyable dream.