starting to think a lot of youtube-watching zoomers don't actually play it and just watch cutscenes or let's plays on youtube so they view it like a tv crime drama to have a "fandom" over
so is civvie gonna join in on this too. what about john romero. I don't care anymore just make everything insane
the fucking undertale creator becoming a "stop harassing people over fiction" guy while gmanlives goes "why aren't you doing decolonial revolutionary praxis in GTA, chud?" lmfao
that's what I meant by "having your ideal gender aesthetic defined by sexualized anime children". digi literally admitted that, clear-as-day. moe fucks your brain up way worse than "shounenshit"
not really; some nerdy obsessions are just more tied to healthy real-world values than others. if someone is really obsessive & bases their life around the values of shonen manga, what bad is gonna come of it? oh no, valuing hard work and friendship.
the most existentially threatening part: this is a legit skilled & versatile artist doing this media literacy stuff over liking lolicon. can easily picture a shmorky-tier battle over identity in this person's head. imagine what their 4chan posts read like.
except none of this is an overt "I think it's wrong" statement; just extremely vague signaling. all I'm getting from it is "I like lolicon but I'm part of a social circle where I can't say it out loud & need to drop little acknowledgments that it's weird"
in the second cap colin didn't fav the tweet from the zoomer getting offended. even knowing what the fuck moetan & popotan are to begin with is uh... something, & mentioning them as part of the thread makes for a very clear "I like this stuff" & I'm testing the waters" dogwhistle
"miyazaki is the only anime I care about cuz it's as good as heckin nimona" go away
it's not "normies", it's "really boring people who only watch whatever the most turbo-mainstream film critics acknowledge". Spirited Away won an Oscar & thus Miyazaki was immediately put in the same category as "truly noteworthy" (mainstream US) animation
>japanese twitter discussion about how progressive manga authors like tezuka and ishinomori, despite having their own issues with misogyny, would be ashamed of guys like ken akamatsu
>it's from an I STAND WITH JK ROWLING-ass radfem clique
yeah I doubt they'd like you much lady
I honestly don't see Akamatsu caring if someone is trans or not as much as just hating keyboard activists
from what I see as of now Japan still has a clearer defined line between liberal feminism and radical feminism. you still see comments like "you can be feminist and not misandrist" which would immediately be treated as an MRA concern troll dogwhistle in anglo twitter
I want to say these people don't know Morishima Akiko's work but I had to deal with people on 4chan's /u/ saying "she was forced to draw problematic yuri for money" & "it's NOT fanservice cuz the high school girls are flashing their panties at other girls"
this ep was written by Yoji Enokido who wrote FLCL right after he was done with Utena. an OVA that, if you're gonna focus on gender dynamics above all else (not something I recommend) is about a grown woman using a 12 year old boy sexually for her own ends