I have already made it clear I hate woke culture. If my last few posts say anything more, as I told my cousin once, if the woke culture has a face, I'll punch it. And she complains about a costume that was changed from its original context. She literally moved her hand down as I told her that teenagers wear bikinis to show off their gangly bodies and she agreed just how ridiculous when the original context made more sense and more empowering to women who embraced their bodies.
These anime girls aren't real! They don't need protection from people who don't understand they are hurting the actual cause where actual human beings are being hurt! These fictional characters do not hurt the cause as much as they are just fictional!
Again, these fucking ladies aren't real!
Stop protecting fictional children who aren't fucking real and look at the real children who are being abused in fucking reality!
Saying these stuff made sexual abuse and child exploitation real is ridiculous. That existed long before anime became a concept! Let fiction explore and expand and let problematic things stand, not as something to wipe out of media altogether, as something to write about.
Hell, there are just as many sexual American toys out there. But they aren't being called out to the extent Japanese anime figures are. Showing that the woke crowd not only does not know the hell they are talking about but outright attacking the Japanese on something as basic as toys. The reason why people love anime figures is due to the art put into it.
I hate cultural imperialism.
Woke culture, especially those espoused by the radicals, seemed to embrace cultural imperialism.
Instead of listening to what the Japanese have to say including on their own social issues, they seem to think they can control another nation's social issues and change from another country!
These guys are treating the Japanese like idiots and never I wish to punch these people as much as I do now.
But I won't punch. I will tell them the truth that their silly brains can't comprehend.
For people who are preaching not to be racist, you sure as hell being racist now!
The sudden war on anime is surprising and at the same time, not surprising.
Anime and manga have been increasingly popular as of recent years. Even manga and anime popular like two decades ago like Naruto and Bleach have come back in full force. One Piece has increased in readership and I know more people are watching the anime now.
Just check out this.
Oh, are you woke people scared that your influence is dying and now anime and manga is your next target?
Is it your misguided form of progressivism that had been criticized enough that you are now attacking anime and manga? They are only looking at anime and manga, not western animation or even fucking American comics that do show 'problematic' things like say child protagonists and had bad things happen to children. Even ATLA has this. What cynical hypocrites woke people are!
Towards one of the biggest fanbases in the world!
Anime and manga have been popular because people want entertainment and not to be fucking preached at over telling stories. All anime and manga offered is a clear story and characters. Whether or not is it good writing is another thing.
Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Disney Star Wars certainly do this and ultimately lead to fans turning their backs on them and just looking at what previous installments have to offer. Even fans are happy to look at the prequels now. Because seeing how far their beloved franchises have fallen is not easy for a fan which I don't think any fan would want to feel that, even mediocrity is better as seen in the opinion of Final Fantasy, Sonic and Digimon fans. Even those kind of mediocrity is better than the 'storytelling' that prioritize politics over basic storytelling. Even storytelling that is not very good could be taken as better than woke storytelling. I've been seeing that lately... Mediocrity is better than woke stories.
If these fans are passionate, anime and manga fans will be even more displeased at the attack on anime and manga.
Are these woke people so cynical and puritan that they refuse to listen to international criticism who flat out pointed out they are not helping and that they are not helping them? I'm pretty sure America has a bad repute for butting in situations they don't have the right to.
What this woke crowd does is being stupid.
They don't know anything about Japan's social issues, anime, manga, and culture.
They just think they know best - women being covered up even when real female teenagers wear fucking bikinis to the beach and of course, fucking child exploitation lies on fictional characters, not real people. I'll rather have the pedos on fictional animated kids over real kids who are hurt any day. - in a country that has its own difficulties. What they are doing is doing nothing more but cause more grief to the actual cause.
These guys aren't helping the actual cause! They are in it to poise themselves as the superior moral person and in it for brownie points from radicals. They are not helping the actual cause who looks at the real people, not the fictional people which these people use to cope with their trauma - fiction helps trauma! -, the real people who are being hurt by real people and need the help they can get from real people! Not the media who attacked people who don't agree on a simple movie's flaws and believe perfection and everything about it is perfection! On a fucking piece of entertainment there to cheer!
Woke people had always been insane but now they are out for anime and manga, after their trainwrecks of what used to be pillars of western entertainment, they think they can attack the Japanese and present themselves better than them! These woke people aren't self-aware of what harmful and ignorant things they are spewing; it's as if they don't think through what on earth they are doing as long as they present themselves as the superior moral person even to the people they are supposedly propping. I'm pretty sure they are doing that because the new Marvel New Warriors is really...something. And it's not a good something. They cross into the realm of unintentional comedy because if it was seriously satire, the backlash wouldn't be as brutal and a laughingstock. Because wokeness could jump into narm if they aren't careful and this New Warriors bs is so narmy. And I laugh at Netflix Death Note live action more of its narminess. And that movie is not woke, just funny.
Well then, if they are going to be spiteful towards entertainment and these woke culture people are such idiots, I will be happy to watch and rewatch anime and read and reread manga. I already love this stuff anyway since my cousins always turn to me about that. Even my brother's girlfriend knows about it that the Christmas present I got from her is a fucking Sailor Moon graphic tee!
But it makes me more spiteful that I will dive myself into more Japanese media!
Even the not so good stories there has better storytelling than the woke storytelling that prioritize politics over basic storytelling!
So far that, I will be happy to see FFVII Remake and dress up Cloud in the most ridiculous way possible in how many ways I could restart that point just so I could make Cloud look good!
And I will be happy to destroy woke dubbing - a difference from actual dubbing where they are going to be fucking faithful to what could be translated as much as they can be - by watching the subs and actual dubs. If the One Piece dub that is coming soon from Punk Hazard onward is gonna be PC the hell out, you can say there will be lots of protests from fans, especially when Oda would not like it. Oda might even mock it as he did with lollipop Sanji in the WCI arc. I'm not gonna be happy if they don't adapt as faithfully as they can.
Look, I watch subs and dubs and I watch it to see the adaptation and how much they changed dialogue and tone.
And let me tell you that anime and manga have been huge business.
I don't deny trying to make live-action adaptations of anime and manga from Netflix and Hollywood because they will happen. If they see cash, they will try to strip-mine it. It's how they work and how they will always work. Regardless of fans' protests, these things are still going to be produced because of money.
The woke culture would, of course, be critical of what was evidently Japanese in ethos and think in terms of their own Western-centric world. Heck, I loathe Digimon Adventure O2 finale as much as the next person but I see the motivations behind the girls' career paths. Even when I have an abhorrence for the entire epilogue. Not just on the shipping point but also just how the hell these characters went from this to this and implications just seemed like they don't know what the hell they are doing with these characters. That is 02's biggest failure in that they have so many ideas and cooks that they failed to formulate a coherent story and characterization that the finale can happen without anything reining in. Tri attempted to give an explanation but it's still cheap.
I know that in these fandoms, they are still trouble because these guys still look at it from a Western perspective when looking at it from a Japanese lens makes more sense!
This is why I prefer to see fans analyze basic storytelling over whatever Japanese thing is tackling in the Japanese product such as the obvious Japanese-ness in the Persona series. I doubt they would understand just how much being a bastard hurts in the Japanese system or that Naoto Shirogane is not trans but a cross-dressing woman that is evident in the workplace in Japan or why Adachi Tohru is the way he is as a Japanese cautionary tale or that the mecha genre is born out of anti-war sentiments or that Japanese feminists and LGBT use manga to tell their stories or Japanese feminism is another beast altogether. These Japanese products are made foremost for the Japanese consumer. Even with those who had to take into consideration global popularity. While I do think Japanese anime would expand overseas for dubbing, I doubt they would see the popularity coming abroad.
Oh, they don't understand anything about Japan at all beyond universal storytelling!
I'm pretty sure I can add Korea, China, and every other nation that isn't the West in there too.
Because I doubt they understand anything about those nations!
Look, I'm not interested in Kpop and Kdramas but I would try to understand them beyond their rocky relationship with Japan! I would try to understand their beauty standards to the point plastic surgery is everywhere, for example.
It makes me want to buy lewd figures out of absolute spite for these woke people and buy more anime stuff. But I'll rather not give them the time of day and satisfaction so really keep buying that Windblade figure and anime figures out there, fans. You want to support or show your love, buy it. Buying things out of spite, even though it would spite them, would just take space if you don't want it. I don't want lewd anime figures, just figures that make me happy. And what makes me happy is what I love. But since I already lined up for April, I don't know because I am totally getting my figures and FFVIIR.
Because I am going to be spiteful towards them if they are going to be malicious for what I considered my loves in life!
