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The Irregular at Magic High School Anime Season 2 to Premiere in July

You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it."

Who will that matter to?

Slashman wrote:

You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to?

To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane.

Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though.

Slashman wrote:

You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to?

To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane.

Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though.

they brought this incest crap anime and still no news about season 3 of Magi?????? ok Japan

kotomikun wrote:

Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though.

I don't know that that answers why some are so invested in hating a show and making that known in every single news article about it to the point that they would feel that the world has gone insane if people didn't share their opinion about that TV show, even if they only watched one episode.

kotomikun wrote:

Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though.

People really like to make up things to be offended about huh.

Slashman wrote:

You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to?

To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane.

T.Silver wrote:

kotomikun wrote: Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though. People really like to make up things to be offended about huh.

I was just thinking the same thing. And imagine thinking the world is insane because people don't hate an anime as much as you do lol.

Kisuke525 wrote:

T.Silver wrote: kotomikun wrote: Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though. People really like to make up things to be offended about huh. I was just thinking the same thing. And imagine thinking the world is insane because people don't hate an anime as much as you do lol.

People want to imagine themselves having the moral high ground even when disliking entertainment media. So even if the supposed offensive content is nonexistent in the first place, they misconstrued and fabricate things in order to try to fool people in believing those things are there. Whatever helps them sleep at night I guess.

T.Silver wrote:

Kisuke525 wrote: T.Silver wrote: kotomikun wrote: Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though. People really like to make up things to be offended about huh. I was just thinking the same thing. And imagine thinking the world is insane because people don't hate an anime as much as you do lol. People want to imagine themselves having the moral high ground even when disliking entertainment media. So even if the supposed offensive content is nonexistent in the first place, they misconstrued and fabricate things in order to try to fool people in believing those things are there. Whatever helps them sleep at night I guess.

Wrong. I know this may seem surprising to you but there actually are works of fiction that contain hateful ideologies (Birth of A Nation, Gate, to name a few). And in this shows case you'd have to be pretty daft to ignore the shows obvious nationalistic overtones with the way the series depicts it's Chinese characters. Hell, the off putting politics behind this tripe are a big reason behind why Aniplex decided not to give it an English dub.

JonDoe wrote:

T.Silver wrote: Kisuke525 wrote: T.Silver wrote: kotomikun wrote: Slashman wrote: You're literally writing in to say: "I won't watch it." Who will that matter to? To answer your rhetorical question: sometimes it's just nice to know that a decent number of other people can recognize a terrible thing for what it is. Makes us feel like the world hasn't yet gone completely insane. Given the current geopolitical precipice we're standing on right now, such things are particularly relevant. As I recall, this show's surface-layer unpleasantness of "manliest man who is best at all things but especially making his sister want him" conceals a lot of war-glorifying stuff. Can't claim to have sat through more than one episode myself, though. People really like to make up things to be offended about huh. I was just thinking the same thing. And imagine thinking the world is insane because people don't hate an anime as much as you do lol. People want to imagine themselves having the moral high ground even when disliking entertainment media. So even if the supposed offensive content is nonexistent in the first place, they misconstrued and fabricate things in order to try to fool people in believing those things are there. Whatever helps them sleep at night I guess. Wrong. I know this may seem surprising to you but there actually are works of fiction that contain hateful ideologies (Birth of A Nation, Gate, to name a few). And in this shows case you'd have to be pretty daft to ignore the shows obvious nationalistic overtones with the way the series depicts it's Chinese characters. Hell, the off putting politics behind this tripe are a big reason behind why Aniplex decided not to give it an English dub.

I'm not saying those types of media don't exsist, all I'm saying is that I see far more instances of people reaching for reasons to be mad or offended about like in this case..
I'm not denying that there's some pro Japanese sentimentality in the series, however the author doesn't shy away from the darker and more corrupt side of the Japanese government and military. Literally in the movie, the main antagonists was a Japanese military base preforming inhumane experiments and weapon testing. So if the franchise was truly a Nationalistic political propaganda, why would it ever shine any negativity on the Japanese side?

Also just saying the chinese being seen as the bad guys is proof of the series being Nationalistic is grossly ignorant, cause you're clearly ignoring the context of the story. In the mahouka the world is in a cold war, as every nation is vying for supremacy in magical military might, so other nations will inevitably be involved. Add to the fact that mahouka is actually pretty popular in china, so they're not viewing the series as some anti-Chinese and pro-Japan propaganda themselves. I don't know about you, but I'm not going to be offended on someone's else's behalf if they themselves aren't being or feeling offended in the first place.