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Guile
Joined: 18 Jun 2013
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 2:33 pm
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| Wyvern wrote: |
| Stuart Smith wrote: | | Though the mountains of criticisms of 'problematic' things in anime and Japanese media by progressives is hard to miss. |
Sure, but for every one of those there's just as many conservatives complaining that a show is being too "politically correct." |
I dont think I've seen any anime be called politically correct unless its a localization issue like the dub for Kobayashi.
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Puniyo
Joined: 08 Oct 2015
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 4:25 pm
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...Newspaper cartoons are still a thing?
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Sneebs
Joined: 17 Oct 2012
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:18 pm
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Why is this relevant, at all? Anime isn't a new cultural force, it has little impact on mainstream society beyond young kids getting into pokemon (a largely non-partisan genre), and this specific joke neither comments on current political trends. The joke itself is unfunny (anime has no noses, haw!) and it fails to deliver any real punch on beyond an "authorities are incapable of uncovering mysteries."
I guess the ANN webcrawler had to pick up on something to keep the clicks coming in.
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TrailOfDead
Joined: 09 Aug 2012
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 11:19 am
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I count at least three people saying "STOP GETTING SO OFFENDED" on the first page, and zero people getting offended in the whole thread so far.
| invalidname wrote: | The conservative joke would be to say that the big bad government was rationing nose space, ever since the great Escaflowne Crisis of 1996.
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that would require Bruce Tinsley to actually know something about anime, or jokes
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Compelled to Reply
Joined: 14 Jan 2017
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Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:00 pm
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| SquadmemberRitsu wrote: | | [Sure you might occasionally get stuff like the weird nationalistic undertones in Attack on Titan and Mahouka, but the amount of people getting upset about that is extremely minor compared to the people who adore those shows. Most people either don't know about that stuff or, like me, they just don't care (Okay, maybe I care a little in Mahouka's case but only because it's a crap series that's not worth forgiving). |
Except Attack on Titan and Mahouka have no nationalistic undertones, considering they're called "alternative history" and "fantasy" for a reason. Also, the Senkaku Islands dispute was in the news around Attack on Titan's peak popularity, and some South Korean IT magazine made up some conspiracy about it being propaganda commissioned by the prime minister.
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