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He's right.

And people defending communism here really makes me sick. Really shows how some of you have never suffered from those kind of regimes. We know a bit of that here in south america.

Lots of Chinese watch anime + you call Chinese people cockroaches = you´re insulting your costumers. That's all.

SquadmemberRitsu wrote:

God, what a snowflake. He sounds exactly like those thin skinned 'anti S.J.W' reactionaries. If anything, Japan is way too light on racism. So I'm glad international audiences now have the power to stick it to these creeps.

Do you think international audiences have that kind of power in Japan?
The biggest problem wasn't that he made foreigners mad.

I know plenty of LN's that make Chinese and other foreigners look bad and none of them was canceled.

This got canceled because Japanese audience also got mad with the racist comments, and was that that make voice actors and talent management agency get out of the project. And in the end, even the publisher drooped the LN.
Racist comments on social media is bad publicity for them, and any good Japanese company don't want to get involved in scandals that make their Japanese audience mad. If the author got caught with drugs, even marijuana, the same would happen.

Japan are also cranking down on racism nowdays and social media can make some bad comments more visible, and is god that is happening so racism be removed from the industry.

But all comes down to image, No company in Japan want a bad image inside Japan.

And that is what Chiharu Takano was talking about. He is afraid that something said in a social media that makes a storm inside Japan can bring down a artist or author, He is afraid that some comments that the Japanese audience find offensive can destroy a carrier in Japan.

The big lesson is: Think very well in what you write in social media because that can come back to bite you in the future.

SquadmemberRitsu wrote:

So I'm glad international audiences now have the power to stick it to these creeps.

They don't, however. As mangamuscle pointed out this is only relevant to the relationship Japan has with China and Korea.

Years ago ANN was up in arms about Terra Formars being racist because people thought the cockroaches were racist caricatures of black people. Nothing came out of it because Japan doesn't care if it offends Americans, or more specifically, blacks. Likewise, Nazi imagery is everywhere in Japanese media, despite westerner's complaints. As much as I'm sure westerners would love to control the anime industry, it's pretty hyperbolic to say we have the power to stick it to Japan in any meaningful impact.

-Stuart Smith

Said it had to come to this but hey it was his opinon.Is he going to jail I hope not.I realize you want to have good PR.but cancelling his show might make the author more popluar and get to sell more books.

Stuart Smith wrote:

SquadmemberRitsu wrote:

So I'm glad international audiences now have the power to stick it to these creeps.

They don't, however. As mangamuscle pointed out this is only relevant to the relationship Japan has with China and Korea.

Years ago ANN was up in arms about Terra Formars being racist because people thought the cockroaches were racist caricatures of black people. Nothing came out of it because Japan doesn't care if it offends Americans, or more specifically, blacks. Likewise, Nazi imagery is everywhere in Japanese media, despite westerner's complaints. As much as I'm sure westerners would love to control the anime industry, it's pretty hyperbolic to say we have the power to stick it to Japan in any meaningful impact.

-Stuart Smith

and they should not care what we think ,it is their industry.Why should they cater to our fee fees hurt.

wintersun wrote:

Said it had to come to this but hey it was his opinon.Is he going to jail I hope not.I realize you want to have good PR.but cancelling his show might make the author more popluar and get to sell more books.

It would have to sell a lot to make up for the hit all other LN of the publisher could take should the people really take offense to them keeping the dude after the references to war crimes became public. The domestic public doesn't like controversy and the Asian market for Isekai novels... Well...

Not that it had much hope after the voice actresses jumped ship.

Artesox wrote:

wintersun wrote:

Said it had to come to this but hey it was his opinon.Is he going to jail I hope not.I realize you want to have good PR.but cancelling his show might make the author more popluar and get to sell more books.

It would have to sell a lot to make up for the hit all other LN of the publisher could take should the people really take offense to them keeping the dude after the references to war crimes became public. The domestic public doesn't like controversy and the Asian market for Isekai novels... Well...

Not that it had much hope after the voice actresses jumped ship.