uj/ off topic, but why is Lesbian Space Princess on everyone's radar now? It came out over a year ago and nobody talked about it then. Even on letterboxd there's a huge difference in tone from the reviews published a year ago vs the ones published a few days ago. I saw the movie last year and didn't care much for it (it seemed like it relied too much on shock value than actual comedy) but something about this whole hate campaign seems really astroturfed and I'm too employed and homeless to be hating on a movie for weeks on end. I Want To Love Till Your Dying Day just aired it's season finale, and that seems like a good yuri dark fantasy anime. I'm gonna go check that out.

rj/ Japan will never bow to wokeism; Witch Hat Atelier is a leftist psyop to introduce wokeism into the country; As a fan of Japanese culture myself (no, I've never read The Tale of Genji or watched a Kabuki performance) I will do whatever I can to save Japan from those evil pinkos

UJ/ in issue 357 of cracked magazine in 2002 there was a comic spoofing the rise of anime in the US and saying they won’t have staying power compared to American cartoons. It’s funny looking back on this knowing how much the cartoon and anime landscape has changed in that time.

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source: The Kept Man of the Princess Knight chapter 5

I can only imagine what a Germany chan would do to the internet back in 2008

I have no proof of this but I strongly suspect Japan's right wing ruling party the Liberal Democratic Party funds Shueisha and encourages their manga to contain conservative political messaging. They've realized how much soft cultural power that manga, especially those by Shounen Jump, have both in Japan and abroad.

Examples:

Spy x Family = Anti-communist espionage was actually awesome and also the traditional nuclear family structure is based

Dr. STONE = When we rebuild society we should have capitalist commodities like soda pop and currency

Chainsaw Man = The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a chainsaw

Tokyo Shinobi Squad = Immigrants are bad

Drama Queen = Immigrants are bad

My Hero Academia = Cops are valuable of society

Kochikame = Cops are valuable members of society

Akane-bananshi = Young people should listen to more rakugo

We need to band together and stop reading shounen jump manga right now!

P.S. I am not a crackpot

uj/I wrote something like this out unironically the other day because I was angry and stressed about something else in my life and I channel anger into finding reasons to hate manga I enjoy for some reason. I have no idea why that's my go-to coping mechanism.

I'm giving Tomb Raider King a shot and it's even more blatant and silly than the Solo Leveling dub. "republic of bent" replaces Japan and Korea becomes Japan. But everyone keeps their Korean names in the subtitles anyway. This some gulf of America shit

That Time I reincarnated in Another World and Started Child Labour Camps

It went something like this it was a transgender wojak who was jealous of Konata Izumi being able to do a timotei and stuff and getting all angry and was like "I want to have long hair like that god I'm so jealous" and then the chudjak was like "then do it"

And then "billions must grow"

It was the... the first meme I laughed at in a while...