When will anime become Politically Correct?

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That anime movie was produced by Netflix, which is exactly how they will poz anime since Netflix has a huge stake in the industry and influence on what gets made and how.

It's licenced by Netflix that keeps stamping "Netflix Original" on anime the same way Crunchyroll does with "Crunchyroll Original". I mention this because I've talked to people fairly in the know when it comes to anime that genuinely thought Netflix\Crunchy was involved in the production of these shows beyond just paying a fee to licence the thing. The producer is Nori Ueki, I'm not sure about how much if any involvement Netflix had but I can't see them titled as producers anywhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if you have the anime industry segment into two parts, one the more woke part aimed at export to the west and the other being the more conservative and traditional part aimed at export to China (which will of course have no fanservice and be totally in line with what the CCP approves of).

I don't think it will segment into two parts for the same reason that Hollywood didn't, It's simply not practical. Hollywood is already a decent template for what's most likely to happen when a industry tries to appease wokeoids and China at the same time, you just get bland shit like we do with special edits made for the region. I don't really see a reason the anime industry would follow a different path.

As for the no fanservice in China. I have to ask, have you actually read any Chinese comics or watched any of the anime they are putting out recently? Because I don't think you did. They are filled with fanservice and in some way remind of the earlier period when anime had a less "grown-up" waft about it. Chinese censorship is erratic in nature and usually deals with quasi-political/cultural stuff based on what happens around that specific work. For instance some shows will have time-travel censored and the others will have it in just fine. Basically you're only sure to get censored if you have material in there that is against the CCP narrative. Stuff like nudity and violence is pretty common.
 
Japan has been (((controlled))) since probably WWII. Many of the themes you see in anime, even back to the early 1980s, if you know what you're looking at, have much darker themes than you realize. Red letter media WASN'T KIDDING with the old star wars prequels videos back in the day about positioning of people, blocking, lighting, colors, etc.
The current battleground is what boundaries they are going to push since they already fell in line with who controls them. Same for video games.
 
I mean, Western style SJWisim is already a foreign concept the further east you go, even as shallows in as Eastern Europe. There's even a really big difference between former members of the Communist bloc, Russia and current members of the Russian Federation. Its a completely alien way of thought and (the most common thing of these countries is: Xenophobia). It is basically etched into their culture for basically since its inception.

If you look at anime, even a lot of subtle tropes become achingly common: The superiority of Japan and the central focus is that its culture is super awesome (even among Western settings), Christianity is hilariously viewed as this weird mythological religion (much like we have magical Asian Mysticism, the have magical Christian/Western Mysticism. We both do it.), reincarnation (hence why Isekai is so popular), being a 'man' (even in anime with strong female characters). personal and familial honor, honorifics and respect and blue-balling where there is love between characters but they never fuck. Even in small amounts you see this.

The values of Japan are different from the West. The thing is, Western values have always operated like a pendulum. We kind of swing from progressive to conservative. When the pendulum swings too extreme one way, we grab it and swing it back. So our culture is in a constant shift. Japan's culture and the East's culture has been relatively static. So its kind of hard to capture the zeitgeist of an unchanging culture to one that shifts. And we're pretty much in the middle of a cultural shift as our divide goes wider and wider. Our culture will never stay in one place for long because of the ideology we posses. It isn't stagnant and we're used to upheavals. And we're in the middle of one right now. Despite doom and gloom, progressiveness cannot hold onto culture forever. Its all a matter of how long will it take to shift.

So the real question you should be asking is this: Will SJW culture influence Japan enough for it to fundamentally change it before it crumbles? My answer would be no. There's too much there to change with too little time left. We're already seeing the rise of right wing populism across the Western world. Fundamentally, you have support for progtards going down. LGBT, Black Lives Matter, Troons, Illegal Immigrants...all down across the board. Get woke and go broke happening rapidly. The problem is with each hard shift to the left, the backlash grows more and more, with people saying 'I'm not going to buy this'. And the fact is, most anime is still made for the Japanese. The worry should be appeasing China. And then even that situation can change if Winnie the Pooh is fucked out of power, because he's basically doing what Putin did and centralizing the CCP. If Xi croaks and the other CCP factions start knifing each other in a bid for power, all bets are off.

There's another reason why Japan would be a lot harder to succumb to Western-style Woke Leftism and that's the issue of Christianity.

Japan is a fairly secular society but unlike Europe or North America, Christianity never really took root there outside of a few fringe minority communities. The Woke Left helped get a lot of traction thanks to the wider public turning against the austere moralism of Christian conservatism.

In Europe, this happened a lot earlier and has precedents with the French Revolution and Napoleon while World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution more or less blackpilled the Europeans and ultimately led to the demise of a Christian-centered Europe and World War II accelerated that process.

In America, it mainly emerged as a Millennial backlash against the Religious Right that was dominant in the 1980's and 1990's and still a major force in American politics into the 2000's. While the New Left was also a fiercely anti-Christian movement in many respects, it was crushed and the Boomers as a whole tended to either become corporate neoliberals (Yippie to Yuppie) or they were conservative and that led to the rise of the Religious Right and the corporate neoconservatives.

The Woke Left of the Millennials and Early Zoomers is firmly rooted in the New Atheism movement and the compromised nature of higher academia, where the remnants of the New Left still managed to survive as the rest of the New Left either died out or sold out by the time Clinton was elected in 1992, if not earlier.

It's possible the Woke Left could gain traction in Japan, but the historical and cultural differences make it a lot more difficult for it to gain traction in the same way it did in the West. If anything, I could see China as the one who'd try to take Woke Leftism and reformulate it to take down Japan economically with any SJW expats being an auxilary element at best.
The problem is also that Japan really, REALLY does not value degrees in the humanities or things that don't fulfill a purpose in society. Which makes it extremely difficult for academia to make a blow in their society. There's also really not much of a tradition of post-modernism in the East because uh, well....it was relatively resistant to it during the 1960s and had different struggles than the West did and it did not evolve out of it. So the history of the two sides of the world is different, as are its cultural moires and values. And the money is not manifesting in the SJW spheres anymore.

Maybe. Its entirely possible. That also depends on China's cohesiveness and whether or not Xi centralizes his power effective enough, or that his purges will leave a lot of weak underlings and people just start coming in with knives and wrecking balls to destroy what he set up. Its hard to predict. Right now I think China's eyes will be on destabilizing the US as much as possible since Trump fucked them hard with trade. So while China might influence it somewhat, the Chinese have much bigger fish to fry.
 
Japan is weirdly hypocritical at times in a way I don't understand, like pixelating genitals in otherwise ultra pervy porn and not allowing topless nudity in CERO rated games despite the countless hentai games.




By this point anime is mostly a nostalgia thing for me as well, I've only seen a few series post 2010.
The former can be thanked to the Constitution of Japan done by Douglas Macarthur on 1947.
I mean, Western style SJWisim is already a foreign concept the further east you go, even as shallows in as Eastern Europe. There's even a really big difference between former members of the Communist bloc, Russia and current members of the Russian Federation. Its a completely alien way of thought and (the most common thing of these countries is: Xenophobia). It is basically etched into their culture for basically since its inception.

If you look at anime, even a lot of subtle tropes become achingly common: The superiority of Japan and the central focus is that its culture is super awesome (even among Western settings), Christianity is hilariously viewed as this weird mythological religion (much like we have magical Asian Mysticism, the have magical Christian/Western Mysticism. We both do it.), reincarnation (hence why Isekai is so popular), being a 'man' (even in anime with strong female characters). personal and familial honor, honorifics and respect and blue-balling where there is love between characters but they never fuck. Even in small amounts you see this.

The values of Japan are different from the West. The thing is, Western values have always operated like a pendulum. We kind of swing from progressive to conservative. When the pendulum swings too extreme one way, we grab it and swing it back. So our culture is in a constant shift. Japan's culture and the East's culture has been relatively static. So its kind of hard to capture the zeitgeist of an unchanging culture to one that shifts. And we're pretty much in the middle of a cultural shift as our divide goes wider and wider. Our culture will never stay in one place for long because of the ideology we posses. It isn't stagnant and we're used to upheavals. And we're in the middle of one right now. Despite doom and gloom, progressiveness cannot hold onto culture forever. Its all a matter of how long will it take to shift.

So the real question you should be asking is this: Will SJW culture influence Japan enough for it to fundamentally change it before it crumbles? My answer would be no. There's too much there to change with too little time left. We're already seeing the rise of right wing populism across the Western world. Fundamentally, you have support for progtards going down. LGBT, Black Lives Matter, Troons, Illegal Immigrants...all down across the board. Get woke and go broke happening rapidly. The problem is with each hard shift to the left, the backlash grows more and more, with people saying 'I'm not going to buy this'. And the fact is, most anime is still made for the Japanese. The worry should be appeasing China. And then even that situation can change if Winnie the Pooh is fucked out of power, because he's basically doing what Putin did and centralizing the CCP. If Xi croaks and the other CCP factions start knifing each other in a bid for power, all bets are off.
We can also thank Otoya Yamaguchi for the reason why there is little of any Japanese Communist Party today, and how his actions essentially helped to show how extremist and insane communists can be when they do not have direction. After the death of Inejiro Asanuma, the Japanese Communist Party or whatever remnants there were engaged in constant terrorist tactics overseas, like how there was an assassination attempt in Italy in 1981 by a Japanese Red Party member, and essentially threw all of their credibility out of the window. Nowadays as the Chinese Communist Party and their puppets of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and all of the actively vocal fringe groups and ultra leftists have risen, even then, Japan still remains adamant against such foreign influence because they know how much Communism cannot be trusted.


EDIT: I was reminded that Inejiro's assassination was last week on the 12th of October and had its 60th anniversary. May all dangerhairs and commie sympathizers be done in like Inejiro here. BANZAI
 
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If you look at anime, even a lot of subtle tropes become achingly common: The superiority of Japan and the central focus is that its culture is super awesome (even among Western settings), Christianity is hilariously viewed as this weird mythological religion (much like we have magical Asian Mysticism, the have magical Christian/Western Mysticism. We both do it.), reincarnation (hence why Isekai is so popular), being a 'man' (even in anime with strong female characters). personal and familial honor, honorifics and respect and blue-balling where there is love between characters but they never fuck. Even in small amounts you see this.

The values of Japan are different from the West. The thing is, Western values have always operated like a pendulum. We kind of swing from progressive to conservative. When the pendulum swings too extreme one way, we grab it and swing it back. So our culture is in a constant shift. Japan's culture and the East's culture has been relatively static. So its kind of hard to capture the zeitgeist of an unchanging culture to one that shifts. And we're pretty much in the middle of a cultural shift as our divide goes wider and wider. Our culture will never stay in one place for long because of the ideology we posses. It isn't stagnant and we're used to upheavals. And we're in the middle of one right now. Despite doom and gloom, progressiveness cannot hold onto culture forever. Its all a matter of how long will it take to shift.
I've found Japanese takes on western culture fascinating (for one of many examples, look at Dark Souls) and that's why the concept of cultural appropriation is bullshit, cultural appropriation is cool, seeing familiar things through fresh eyes is not insulting, it's interesting.

And that's one thing I love about Japan and one of the main things I think that makes Japan Japan is the strong cultural backbone they have, for as much we think of Japan as being a "futuristic" place it's also much of what it's always been, Japanese culture is just Japanese culture, it gets recontextualized over time, but in a fundamental way it's the same as it's been for centuries.

The former can be thanked to the Constitution of Japan done by Douglas Macarthur on 1947.

We can also thank Otoya Yamaguchi for the reason why there is little of any Japanese Communist Party today, and how his actions essentially helped to show how extremist and insane communists can be when they do not have direction. After the death of Inejiro Asanuma, the Japanese Communist Party or whatever remnants there were engaged in constant terrorist tactics overseas, like how there was an assassination attempt in Italy in 1981 by a Japanese Red Party member, and essentially threw all of their credibility out of the window. Nowadays as the Chinese Communist Party and their puppets of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and all of the actively vocal fringe groups and ultra leftists have risen, even then, Japan still remains adamant against such foreign influence because they know how much Communism cannot be trusted.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM
EDIT: I was reminded that Inejiro's assassination was last week on the 12th of October and had its 60th anniversary. May all dangerhairs and commie sympathizers be done in like Inejiro here. BANZAI

So Douglas MacArthur is why the DOA girls can't officially go topless and Japanese girls can't show their vajayjays without pixels? Thanks a lot, Doug.
 
The former can be thanked to the Constitution of Japan done by Douglas Macarthur on 1947.

We can also thank Otoya Yamaguchi for the reason why there is little of any Japanese Communist Party today, and how his actions essentially helped to show how extremist and insane communists can be when they do not have direction. After the death of Inejiro Asanuma, the Japanese Communist Party or whatever remnants there were engaged in constant terrorist tactics overseas, like how there was an assassination attempt in Italy in 1981 by a Japanese Red Party member, and essentially threw all of their credibility out of the window. Nowadays as the Chinese Communist Party and their puppets of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and all of the actively vocal fringe groups and ultra leftists have risen, even then, Japan still remains adamant against such foreign influence because they know how much Communism cannot be trusted.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D4KROpdUkrM
EDIT: I was reminded that Inejiro's assassination was last week on the 12th of October and had its 60th anniversary. May all dangerhairs and commie sympathizers be done in like Inejiro here. BANZAI
The picture is REALLY fucking impressive:
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Like if you look at that video, it happens in basically a tenth of a second. This photographer, with no digital camera. I mean to get everything in focus, at that EXACT moment, and keep your cool about you, good god damn. One hell of a fucking shot. I like how Wikipedia calls the dude a socialist when he was clearly a fucking communist. I mean, I feel bad for the guy dying, but then I think:
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I think its going to be really fucking hard for Japan to adopt socialist and communist ideals when they just look across the sea of Japan and see what is happening in China. Not to mention that entire streak of nationalism that flows through them.

I've found Japanese takes on western culture fascinating (for one of many examples, look at Dark Souls) and that's why the concept of cultural appropriation is bullshit, cultural appropriation is cool, seeing familiar things through fresh eyes is not insulting, it's interesting.

And that's one thing I love about Japan and one of the main things I think that makes Japan Japan is the strong cultural backbone they have, for as much we think of Japan as being a "futuristic" place it's also much of what it's always been, Japanese culture is just Japanese culture, it gets recontextualized over time, but in a fundamental way it's the same as it's been for centuries.



So Douglas MacArthur is why the DOA girls can't officially go topless and Japanese girls can't show their vajayjays without pixels? Thanks a lot, Doug.
Yeah, it is really strange as to viewing the lens of your own culture through the lens of a culture that hasn't really changed all that much. Nor does it WANT to change that much.

MacArthur was responsible, but it wasn't like we were any different in 1947. Pornography was super fucking taboo back then in the US. And it wasn't so much Mac Arthur, it was basically just the feeling of the people. I mean, it doesn't seem like no big thing to just amend the constitution and remove censorship, but it doesn't really seem like there's any real political will to do that. It seems really archaic and I just don't know why they toss it. Maybe they feel its part of their culture at this point? Beats me.
 
I've found Japanese takes on western culture fascinating (for one of many examples, look at Dark Souls) and that's why the concept of cultural appropriation is bullshit, cultural appropriation is cool, seeing familiar things through fresh eyes is not insulting, it's interesting.

And that's one thing I love about Japan and one of the main things I think that makes Japan Japan is the strong cultural backbone they have, for as much we think of Japan as being a "futuristic" place it's also much of what it's always been, Japanese culture is just Japanese culture, it gets recontextualized over time, but in a fundamental way it's the same as it's been for centuries.



So Douglas MacArthur is why the DOA girls can't officially go topless and Japanese girls can't show their vajayjays without pixels? Thanks a lot, Doug.
I also suspect that modern producers in Japan made it their personal goal to circumvent the spirit of the law, while technically still obeying the letter. Certainly feels that way with the depraved stuff that comes out of Nipland sometimes.
 
MacArthur was responsible, but it wasn't like we were any different in 1947. Pornography was super fucking taboo back then in the US. And it wasn't so much Mac Arthur, it was basically just the feeling of the people. I mean, it doesn't seem like no big thing to just amend the constitution and remove censorship, but it doesn't really seem like there's any real political will to do that. It seems really archaic and I just don't know why they toss it. Maybe they feel its part of their culture at this point? Beats me.
It's just so weird, especially when you realize it doesn't apply to buttholes, you can see a lady's butthole, but not her vagina?

And the CERO thing is frustrating because there are over 9000 full on hentai games and mainstream Japanese games have brought us the hottest game girls ever, but you can't blend the two? Is there really no middle ground between full on porn and simply showing a female game character topless?

It's all really archaic and in desperate need of updating.

I also suspect that modern producers in Japan made it their personal goal to circumvent the spirit of the law, while technically still obeying the letter. Certainly feels that way with the depraved stuff that comes out of Nipland sometimes.

Isn't it a fact that tentacle porn was invented to circumvent the law that you couldn't show a penis?

You gotta love the irony of censorship laws only making some thing more pervy.
 
The picture is REALLY fucking impressive:
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Like if you look at that video, it happens in basically a tenth of a second. This photographer, with no digital camera. I mean to get everything in focus, at that EXACT moment, and keep your cool about you, good god damn. One hell of a fucking shot. I like how Wikipedia calls the dude a socialist when he was clearly a fucking communist. I mean, I feel bad for the guy dying, but then I think:
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I think its going to be really fucking hard for Japan to adopt socialist and communist ideals when they just look across the sea of Japan and see what is happening in China. Not to mention that entire streak of nationalism that flows through them.


Yeah, it is really strange as to viewing the lens of your own culture through the lens of a culture that hasn't really changed all that much. Nor does it WANT to change that much.

MacArthur was responsible, but it wasn't like we were any different in 1947. Pornography was super fucking taboo back then in the US. And it wasn't so much Mac Arthur, it was basically just the feeling of the people. I mean, it doesn't seem like no big thing to just amend the constitution and remove censorship, but it doesn't really seem like there's any real political will to do that. It seems really archaic and I just don't know why they toss it. Maybe they feel its part of their culture at this point? Beats me.

People talk about changing the porn laws there all the time.

https://tw.tinf.io/OnTakahashi/status/1196500884286427136

It's not some cultural value, it's just that a lot of politicians don't want to be that guy who officially legalised porn so there's a lot of dragging of feet. There really isn't anything particularly special going on. The whole tweet chain explains it all if you care to read it.

Also Japanese culture has changed enormously over the past century. They went from a mix of constitutional monarchy under a fanatical military junta (a bit like Germany during WW1) where the army and navy refused to cooperate and assassinations were commonplace to a full constitutional monarchy post-war. The emperor stopped calling himself chin for I and state Shinto disappeared. Among younger generations it's one of the least religious places in the world.

You're right that commies don't stand a chance there, but that's because of a combination of the threat of China/North Korea and domestic commies acting like a bunch of tards and burning all their public support during the cold war. The same goes for South Korea, Taiwan, India, and pretty much everywhere else in Asia that's not commie already.

Politically correct originally referred to accordance to communist doctrine, and given how big of an export market China is I would absolutely expect cartoons to be adjusted accordingly. They're cartoons, not nationalist political statements. Some cartoons might take a different viewpoint but those will block themselves out of the PRC market.
 
It doesn't matter to me because I never thought it was any good to start with. I just wanted to clear up a myth that no one wants to change the weird porn censorship laws.
 
We can also thank Otoya Yamaguchi for the reason why there is little of any Japanese Communist Party today, and how his actions essentially helped to show how extremist and insane communists can be when they do not have direction. After the death of Inejiro Asanuma, the Japanese Communist Party or whatever remnants there were engaged in constant terrorist tactics overseas, like how there was an assassination attempt in Italy in 1981 by a Japanese Red Party member, and essentially threw all of their credibility out of the window. Nowadays as the Chinese Communist Party and their puppets of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and all of the actively vocal fringe groups and ultra leftists have risen, even then, Japan still remains adamant against such foreign influence because they know how much Communism cannot be trusted.
Otoya Yamaguchi killed a leader of the Japanese Socialist Party, not Japanese Communist Party, who were more moderate. The Japanese left has always been deeply divided since the Japanese Socialist Party and Japanese Community Party were both relatively moderate as far as communists go but also relatively independent from both the Soviet Union and China which meant they had tons of splits, and those who split from the mainstream Communist Party were the ones who murdered people around the world, engaged in insane struggle sessions, and did shit like hijack planes in the name of North Korea.

I'm not sure how divided the Japanese left still is. There's definitely a lot of foreign influence behind the BLM protests there and some of the Antifa/"anti-racist" groups that have popped up (one of which, the CRAC, got a big donation from Open Society Foundation/Soros money) but the Japanese Communist Party seems to have captured pretty much everyone who dislikes the centrist/center-right direction tendency in Japan minus the far-right/nationalists. That's why they get 5-10 percent of the vote (millions of votes) every single election since they're the only alternative and according to an article I read on World Socialist Website (a commie website) many of their voters don't know what communism is, don't support communism, and support them because they're an alternative for change against the major parties.
 
Otoya Yamaguchi killed a leader of the Japanese Socialist Party, not Japanese Communist Party, who were more moderate. The Japanese left has always been deeply divided since the Japanese Socialist Party and Japanese Community Party were both relatively moderate as far as communists go but also relatively independent from both the Soviet Union and China which meant they had tons of splits, and those who split from the mainstream Communist Party were the ones who murdered people around the world, engaged in insane struggle sessions, and did shit like hijack planes in the name of North Korea.

I'm not sure how divided the Japanese left still is. There's definitely a lot of foreign influence behind the BLM protests there and some of the Antifa/"anti-racist" groups that have popped up (one of which, the CRAC, got a big donation from Open Society Foundation/Soros money) but the Japanese Communist Party seems to have captured pretty much everyone who dislikes the centrist/center-right direction tendency in Japan minus the far-right/nationalists. That's why they get 5-10 percent of the vote (millions of votes) every single election since they're the only alternative and according to an article I read on World Socialist Website (a commie website) many of their voters don't know what communism is, don't support communism, and support them because they're an alternative for change against the major parties.
You know that Inejiro was highly impressed with Maoism, and that he stirred major controversy when he wore a Mao suit back home after visiting newly Maoist regime China? I would be talking differently if he didn't incorporate Maoist or potentially even Stalinist ideas of thought post WWII.

I'm versed in knowing the difference between Socialism and Communism. Problem is, neither of those have proven to show means that help their people over periods of unjust powers wielded in harder times or when abuses and corruption begin to occur, and they share a lot of dangerously common political ground.

And yes, that is news to me. Problem is that the US will probably also be an example as to why Communism doesn't work for Japan's viewing pleasure. Japan is definitely not the 1980s powerhouse as it was years ago, and it will take a lot to remove the rigidness of the ultra right sentiment, but if they think Communism is a viable alternative, they're in for a bad time. Communism makes the Han caste system look quaint in comparison.
 
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