Does the anime phenomenon go too far? No, it does not. Thanks to ANN, I have just found out that Gaza, a place where people are almost black and kill each other on a daily basis, due to several conflicts involving stuff I really don’t give a crap about, hosts little girls that like anime. While protesting against Hamas, against terrorism and various other things (like onii-chan doing sono kono ano to her while daddy was not watching), a young (but black, not yellow) girl was toying around with a placard hosting precious Haruhi Suzumiya, and bearing the text “Stop Killing the Children”. While I can obviously see the correlation between Suzumiya and children (and Mikuru is the first thing that comes to my mind… then Yuki), I don’t see how it will help kids not being murdered on the streets anymore. The protest was, it seems, a reaction to some dude shooting here and there, killing three children in the process.