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Earlier tonight I was talking to the only anime fan friend of mine offline (she goes to the same church I do), and the topic came to favorite anime.
I mentioned my favorites, and she told me that she considered Trigun to be borderline porn.
I was kind of shocked to say the least (I've seen the whole series, and the closest things I can recall to that are the Elizabeth fanservice in the "Lost July" episode where she was wearing that "Faye-esque" dress, one of the comments exchanged in the Vash/Dominique duel in the "Demon's Eye" episode, the Vash fanservice in "Goodbye for Now," and the Wolfwood/Milly implied scene in "Paradise," although that scene was a bit tamer than anything you see on even most American sitcoms LOL)
Anyway, none of that even approaches what I would consider pornographic. At most, I'd list it as serious fanservice (for the scene in "Goodbye For Now," the worst of those I listed)
Nevertheless, I think my friend-the same person who told me that Gundam Wing was probably yaoi-is upset at me, and considering the attitude a lot of people I know have about anime and that we discussed this in an IM conversation, she has enough "evidence" to start a very destructive and false rumor.
I would hope that as a Christian she would be above "spreading the word," especially when I think her claim is backed only by fanart or fanfiction (since when I asked her where she got her "information," she said she never watched any of the episodes I mentioned) and I'm not wanting to impress my interests on her.
The even more ironic thing about this whole situation is that I have NEVER been a fan of pr0n-the farthest I ever went in that direction was one time reading a soft lemon fic when I thought it was something else to begin with, and by the time the lemon was introduced it was so unusually well-written-unlike 99.9 percent of that kind of thing-that I followed it to the end. That's it. Otherwise I'm not guilty of any offenses in that place-when I had the chance to look up something, I've always passed it up because it's just not me.
However, this is a situation that I never wanted to be in: an awkward friendship with the potential to explode into a crisis that could lead to my family's condemnation, the loss of my reputation, everything.