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King Chicken
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Seems like less of an apology and more of management telling him the Chinese and Korean markets are big for anime so this might cause some problems for them so he should just focus on drawing.
Every time this stuff happens I understand why Kenta Shinohara just up and quit social media entirely after getting into some political spats and realizing none of the drama is worth it and there's better things to do with life. |
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Keen Fox
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A pretty immature way of Sushio going into these stuff, both for the origjnal post and the apology itself. This is sad, what they say can be seen from the public and somehow they cannot tell if saying stuff like these would not cause any harm?
Especially if you are part of a bigger group in a work environment such as art, you should be responsible for the things you are saying. This would of course do damage to the studio and it is one more reason to think about what you say in public. As for the post why Sushio refers to themselves as Sushio talking to the 3rd person and not the 1st person? |
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Sinxi and heylog
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Not only that but he probably works with foreigners as well, so the Twitter posts he made were wierd as hell and just super cringe. And tbh, It's not that hard to avoid this type of backlash, Just literally dont be xenophobic, especially in a diverse medium called Anime. I would understand what you said about Kenta (idk if he said he quits social media or that is what you think) if sushio just made a random post about the sky and got backlash, but the man made xenophobic remarks, he deserved the backlash |
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Alphael
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Unless there's more to this story than being reported here saying he made xenophobic remakes is a gross misrepresentation of this story. He made no such comments. |
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Sinxi and heylog
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He did not outright say he hates Chinese people, foreigners, etc. But the person he supports or likes has those type of ideals. And the person he likes has similarities with the senseito party, another party that has um.....Takes about certain things lol. |
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Nekbone
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Realistically speaking there is no political candidate someone could say they like and not get backlash from because politics bring out the worst in people and are incredibly tribalistic. The only winning move is to not play if you want to keep everyone happy. On the other hand it's also incredibly sad being critical of China is considered such a controversial thing these days if you're in any kind of industry that has to toe the line for the sake of profit like the entertainment industry. I'll always think of the Kiryu Coco situation for Hololive or the Jujutsu Kaisen Twitter account apologizing for mentioning Taiwan and be thankful I don't work in an industry that would require me to do that.
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lion1122
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Really? Because praising China will get you in trouble in Philippines because If you support China that's means you're a traitor because they've bullied Asian countries in the South China Sea. China already keeps harassing the Philippines in the West Philippine Sea—now they’re showing up in the Pacific too? What are they even doing? They keep messing with our fishermen, building fake islands, blocking supply missions—now they want more?
Of course there’s more to it. Why think like this? especially with how aggressive the Chinese military is? You can’t just ignore the bigger picture, especially when the Chinese navy keeps pushing into other countries’ waters. There’s also a rise of foreigners doing crime in Japan, so I don’t understand why people get mad when someone criticizes it. Last edited by lion1122 on Sat Jul 12, 2025 8:08 am; edited 1 time in total |
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An Unchosen One
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Being critical of China isn't the problem, suggesting that all Chinese people overseas are agents of its government and should therefore be restricted is. |
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lion1122
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Well Japanese news media and articles always ragebait japanese people into hating China. It’s the same in the Philippines, India, and the United States. Heck, China does it too. Remember those giant Gundams? Chinese Politicians actually think Japan is going to use them to invade China. Imagine thinking a plastic robot statue is a military threat. Peak clown world. Every country’s media loves to hype the threat of the 'other side.' Japan blames China, China blames Japan, and people just eat it up. Media doesn’t inform anymore—they just fuel nationalism and fear so people stop questioning their own leaders. Rage sells.
Yeah, maybe that’s the reason why he apologized. Perhaps it’s due to the sizable Chinese population in Japan, although I’m fairly certain that most of them do not support the Chinese government.
It’s unlikely that his political views will change; they will likely remain the same despite the backlash. Honestly, he should just make a burner account if he wants to rant that badly. Lol |
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Sinxi and heylog
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Idk why he thought he wanted to do that on his main account, but i guess he did not know backlash would flood him lol. I think the point that some people are missing here is the fact that he likes someone that is not only very nationalist, but has the somewhat same politics to the senseito party. Let's just say that the senseito party is not want you want governing Japan at all He probably couldve gotten away with it, if he was just criticizing them on his own merits without it seeming racist, but the guy decided to support an nationlist on his main Twitter account. |
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yeehaw
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The apology seems a bit weirdly translated, or does he really refer to himself as Sushio in third person?
Either way his tweets didn't sound that much like "Im def voting for this racist" He said he likes her name and gumption basically. How is that different from a leftist tweeting about how funny trump is? |
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Juno016
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I don't agree with his choice of candidate, but am I the only one weirded out by the need to actually apologize for supporting a political candidate? Democracy won by intimidation just feels... wrong. If anything, it causes resentment and further drives people into their existing worldview rather than helping them self-reflect. It's half the reason countries like the US have become so cleanly divided. Constructive criticism is good. Public discourse online is not often filled with enough of it. The comments highlighted just don't seem line constructive criticism, and the apology just feels so... pointless and empty and worrying.
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Sinxi and heylog
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I get what you mean, but at the same time, endorsing that type of party is just something thats a bit rough especially considering he works in the anime industry. For the US from my understanding we have either far left or far right or right and then left (correct me if im wrong) while japan its far left, left, center, right, far right, things like that, hope I explained it well. If he stated he went right or even left, it wouldn't have been an issue, but what was the issue is that he went far right which dives into the nationalist type of shit, and you probably know what that brings. In the US the problem is there only 2 options, there is no Center or between for the left or between for the right, its just "pick red or blue sonny boy" but for japan its a bit different like I already stated. Like I said, I completely get where your coming from, but this situation is different compared to if this type of thing happened in the US. |
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An Unchosen One
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These are drastic misrepresentations of both countries. In the U.S., politics has long been dominated by republicans, which have been firmly right-wing since the 1970s and have only moved further since then, and democrats, which were liberal until around the same time period but have also moved to the right in the following years, meaning that the two options since at least 1990s have been right-leaning or far right. In Japan, the post-war government was functionally a one-party system ruled by a right-wing party until the country had a massive recession in the '90s, after which more parties became viable even as the LDP (the aforementioned right-wing party) continued to be the biggest, though even their most prominent opposition is likely still more liberal than left-wing.
That candidate's rhetoric is beyond worrying, being in line with those who wish for a return to imperial Japan, so it's hardly concerning to expect someone expressing support for her to rethink that support. |
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Touma55
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Yeah I'll say that I HIGHLY doubt the dude is sorry about his post. 5 years ago or maybe even less I would have said maybe but supporting people and groups even more to the right than the LDP has DEFINITELY become more popular these days so it's not like he doesn't have people that will agree with his views now. Personally I don't care what he thinks but I do wonder where things will go overall in the years to come because I will say I have definitely been getting more odd looks in public places than I was even just last year.
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