/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Akamatsu,Ken:
The famous author of "Love Hina,"
He has begun to work against restrictions on otaku expression, especially in manga and anime.
Chief Advisor, 'Association for the Protection of Freedom of Expression,' a voluntary organization

Akamatsu has said in his twitter:https://twitter.com/KenAkamatsu/status/1442848717707661325

Osaka Prefecture's "Guidelines for Expression" in 2021. Applies to all information sent out by Osaka Prefecture, including posters.
https://pref.osaka.lg.jp/attach/29145/00387499/guideline.pdf
When drawing female characters, "try to draw them in a variety of forms with personalities," etc. No, you can't!
This is a de facto declaration of NG for moe characters, and a quite problematic instruction. The Association for Protection of Freedom of Expression will investigate it.

The "online storm of criticism" falsely fabricated by sock puppets and one-man show, caused by TwitterFeminism and the feminist-alliance, and their victims otaku works, etc.:
(Accroding to the tweet: https://twitter.com/Den_flipou_dero/status/1442025741944688644))

Criticism of the cover of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
No-Rin
Love Live! Sunshine!!
To Love Ru
Dropout Idol Fruit Tart
Strike Witches
An otaku characters adopted for "Kyoto City Transportation Bureau:Usage Promotion Project 'Ride the Subway'".
A character wearing women's tights adopted by the Atsugi Company, which is a realistic depiction of a woman that is just an animated painting.
Ekino-Michika, the Tokyo Metro Subway's mascot character
Aoshima Meg, a moe character based on a ama-diver to promote Shima City, Mie Prefecture.
A VTuber, Tojou Linka

WHAT JAPANESE OTAKUS WANT ALL THE OTAKUS IN THE WORLD TO DO.

*First of all, this is a domestic issue in Japan, so if you are outside of Japan, please remain calm and investigate what is going on in detail.

*And since it is a certain fact that there is a budding otaku cultural crisis like this, we decided to create this poster.

*Me anon will maintain the English version of the poster (translation advice is always welcome), but we would like French and Spanish anons to translate the poster into French and Spanish, respectively. Of course, feel free to copy and modify them.

*Surely anon who is at the level of fluency in Japanese society, culture, otaku culture and commentary (almost Japanese-language native) can accurately grasp what's going on in Japan via internet. Then, summarize it in English, French, or Spanish as appropriate, and send it out, disseminate and enlightenment it to the world in terms of freedom of expression and regulation of expression.

*Our ultimate goal for the time being is to get the otaku journalism around the world to pay attention to this issue in Japan and write about it. Furthermore, We consider it a great success if even a single page on the web is devoted to this issue by a major media outlet, so that Wikipedia could have a permanent record of this series of events.

Sorry for being lengthy.

What are you on about. Your rambling is barely even coherent assuming you're not a bot.

If you think "cute" characters will ever be banned in Japan that's borderline delusional, it'd kill the gacha industry and it'd be a cold day in hell before the big companies running them let something like that happen.

>>36763217
That's what Twitterfeminists tend to say.

Go take your medicine NOW.

>>36763417
That's what Twitterfeminists tend to say.

I think I need my meds.

>>36763096
Don't care. Learn to draw and make all the moe loli rape manga you could ever want yourself.

>>36763684
That's what Twitterfeminists tend to say.

>>36763096
That's what Twitterfeminists tend to say.

I am ready to die fighting for Otaku Culture.

Fuck twitter feminists!

>>36763754
i would be absolutely amazed if you were able to find literally any twitterfeminist saying this

Aw sweet, a schizo thread

Apparently, hikikomori anons can't sense the crisis that's right around the corner. Well, that's understandable when you're living inside the house in the country on the other side of the globe and doing just 4chan. I guess 99% of anons can't read Japanese at all, so it can't be helped.

>>36764517
I mean, I can sense the crisis going on, but there's not much I can do, you know? Other than vote with my wallet. And that is something that I've always been doing for years, I always import stuff I want to support. I've imported eromanga, normal manga, eroge, normal games, etc. I will always purchase directly from Japan without American middlemen publishers getting a cut.

>>36764517
I know enough Japanese to know this isn't anything new and has never amounted to anything is the past.

>>36764817
Yes, this it was westerners were saying 6-7 years ago. How’d that work out? You might not be interested in the culture war, but the culture war is interested in you.

>>36765014
It was=is what

Elvis-Aska is the most disgraceful in Japan.
He is a real psychotic categorized as a paranoid. and he is continuing playing an actor in delusion.

I introduce him...
his age is 40 years old, and height is 160 cm, and also his last school education is a junior high school.
He is a dropout of the society which has not yet worked as a full-time employee.
He is doing activity of the pyramid selling business and a doubtful new religion.
As a result, he is leading the shameful life which is saddled with a big debt.

His features are an ugly face of a walleyes, and the bald head.
and, also His hobby is performing the character in a children's TV-program and playing.
His song and performance are very shameful and ludicrous follies.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E9%A3%9B%E9%B3%A5&oq=%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E9%A3%9B%E9%B3%A5&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3..0.2172.5719.0.6219.10.10.0.0.0.0.265.1608.0j5j4.9.0...0.0...1ac.4j1.D3c7W8fHmtw

>>36765047
This post reads like it was google translated. I don't even know why you're bringing up this guy, most of his vids are only in the hundreds of views. Literally who.

>>36765014
Then someone should email the guys in Osaka and tell them their images don't have enough niggers in them.

>>36764817
The problem is that there are Twitterfeminists molecular on the public side, and they are constantly messing with the otaku culture. Twitterfeminist is completely insane and we don't need to take him seriously, but now, as in Osaka, the public authorities have started to say the same things that Twitterfeminist says.

This is a sign of a cultural crisis, no matter what anyone thinks.

In other words, denying the existence of the crisis is itself a sign of what Twitterfeminists tend to say.

>>36765076
That's just a spam. reported.

>Just ignore them and they will go away
>They will never reach Japan

>>36765539
Just ask them who they're quoting and they'll go away. They will never take over /jp/.

>>36765545
Just like Vtubers were never gonna take over /jp amirite?

>>36765562
Woosh.

I swear to god if the jews are reaching for my mangos and animus I'll make israel dissapear from the face of the earth

If this is all real, and not just schizo stuff, keep us updated. I'd die for the otaku community that has given me so much. Otherwise I don't think there's much we can do besides keep supporting the things we love so much, and vote with our wallets like other anon said.

>>36765014
Remember that Ishihara Shintarou scare ten years ago? A handful of mangas got discontinued but that was it. It wasn't nearly as bad as people had feared.
Things might be different now that Japanese feminists are copying American radical feminism, which has proved to be effective in most Western countries, but what killed attractive designs in American comics and games wasn't any outside influence like feminists on twitter but rather the subcultures being subverted by feminism from within.
I haven't seen even a trace of that happening in Japan. In fact, they are building a strong resistance to modern radical feminism early on with a lot of support from influential mangaka like Akamatsu Ken.
Meanwhile fanservice continues to be popular with the youth, e.g. the success of Gotoubun no Hanayome.
What otaku in Japan are really fighting for right now is the acceptance of otaku culture in the mainstream, but to me it feels like it is significantly more popular now than in the early 2000s.

>>36763096
>Femi-taliban
In Spain there's the term 'feminazi'. Probably the only country in the entire world with a more rampant and blatantly engineered feminism by their enemies, and with a lower ratio of fertility than Japan. It's funny to see how the guidelines of dividing men and women work in every country and are clearly coordinated to curb natality, create a society full of permanent conflict among the low-class (as the globohomo wants to exterminate the middle class) yet there's those small differences. Of course japs haven't been 'educated' by the slow way of marxism about how le ebul nazis are the root of all evil, so they use the members of the religion of peace instead

i'll never really understand japanese feminists dislike of moe, there's actual issues in their society that effects women more than a cartoon image.
sure one could say it encourages negative stereotypes like rampant sexualization but imo if they cared they should have spoken up sooner, the media only reflects the current society, it's a symptom not the cause of an actual problem.
anyway hope those osaka fellas take it easy
>>36765718
>radical feminism effective in most western countries
i think you're confusing extreme liberal feminists with radical feminists because radfem is extremely unpopular in every country it's been exposed to
at least read about the political views you're shitting on.

Anime's been dead since panty flashing was banned from tv

>>36763096
Stop being dramatic about retards in such a panicked fashion, it's pointless and doesn't do anything useful.
That aside, how bad is the population decline problem in Japan? Is it true that men have become more indifferent there?

>>36765936
>i think you're confusing extreme liberal feminists with radical feminists
Sorry, I didn't mean a specific movement, just radicals/extremists in contrast to the more moderate feminists of the previous decades, i.e. the type that wants to censor fiction and even language rather than fight for legal equality.

>>36763096
>regulations of games
that's literally just CERO, they are censoring games that are considered okay over here, even rated Z Resident Evil is more censored in Japan than anywhere else in the world, they've grown to big and seem to want to just fight the game industry at every turn

funny enough the ESRB when from slightly problamatic in the early 2000s to basically a non-issue as it has mostly not had to do much and seems to want to work together with the industry to not be to much of a hindrance, all the censorship in the west on games comes from outside sources funny enough

>>36763096
they've slowly been giving up liberties over the years and watching as laws pass that make things harder for them, they need to seriously step up their game if they don't want to just roll over at every move they make

>>36765936
You don't understand feminists because feminists aren't the ones that think their own movement, and the last thing the ones behind feminist think about are women. You even have cases like the rare actual females behind the movement, like the pedophile Simone de Beavouir, lusting behind Sartre's cock and of course, looking after nothing but their own personal interest. In fact, like the current state of the west shows, women are the ones that suffer the most from their 'empowerment', addicted to antidepressives, leading empty, stressful lives and being patronized by the Big Daddy State and their bosses instead of their actual parents or their husbands. Hell, even the symbology of the feminist movement, the dances and street performances you see them doing can be traced to submission rituals. It's not a coincidence, they have a very dark brand of humour.

Feminism has never been about giving rights to women. It's been about taking it away from the average family unity, formed by MEN and WOMEN, just like the industrial revolution took power away from men. In my country, the same TV station that complained about women in the F1 motor'sports' being sexualized is currently broadcasting a show called 'Boytoy', about the sexual objectification and prostitution of men, as the name suggests. You're absolutely clueless if you still don't understand that attacking people's creative outlets is yet another branch of demoralization, deplenishing people energy with endless trite debates while they are led to their gradual slavery, taking away the few things that give them respite and forcing upon everyone the same globalized and controlled culture

>>36763217
cute will be allowed up until they decide it's too dangerous, the goal posts will just keep moving until there's no one left to defend the things you care about, these bans aren't motivated by money they are over emotional arguments being pushed by the over socialized and soccer moms, it's better to just put your foot down and combat it rather than argue "it won't be that bad"

>>36766030
Population is declining in all developed countries because people have better things to do than fuck like rabbits and even if that's what they actually want, contraception is available (unlike third-world shitholes).

>>36764201
it's quite common, once they get into your hobby, arguing with you to try to keep it the same, like recently with D&D in the west, tell you should just go make your own, and then when you actually try and do just that they'll get Visa/Mastercard to stop all your transactions and just constantly harass you until you give up

Btw you guys, I've discovered something horrible.
If you make what Twitterfeminists say into the line through the character of mesugaki, little slut.... It's a huge turn on.
You guys wanna try it?

>>36766501
This is true. Many such cases.
There was that yaboizach who actually did this with comics and succeeded, making a comic people bought and absolutely infuriating the sjws. But the comicbook industry wasn't able to get mastercard on him I don't think.

>>36766749
it's probably easier if you are selling physical goods and there is a lot longer history of safeguards and precedent that protect you, online domains are really easy to strip from people though which is where they focus all their targeting these days

>>36766480
>performances you see them doing can be traced to submission rituals.
/x/fag here. Have any references on that? Sounds interesting.

>>36766493
Spain's population density is one third that of Japan. Shouldn't they put the feminists in jail right now and encourage sex among people to restore the population? It would be easier if it was a religious nutjob party.

Japan still has one hundred and tens of millions of people in that small island nation. I thought COVID was going to slaughter the old people, but in reality, it was USA that was in trouble. Italy is in a similar situation about population.

The blinded eyes represent their infantilization and dependance, their submission to the ones leading the 'performances' and the movement, just like freemasons wear a blindfold when they are initiated. It also carries SM sexual implications implanted through the shitty movies the masses are given, like that Shadows of Grey one. They are usually naked or wearing provocative clothing, while calling all males rapists, just like the Junior Anti-Sex League in 1984. Again, dressing for sex, while calling every male that sees them a rapists. Try to realize what this means. They (try) to excite you, and then they punish for that behaviour. Downright SM stuff. It's also like wearing golden watches, expensive clothes, and entering a no-go zone. This is called a 'double bind', related to the duality that masonry loves so much, as it coerces people and makes them suffer through constant internal mental conflict without their active participation. They also make the 'binded with a rope' gesture, like in 1984. All tied to freemasonry.
>>36766791
Spain isn't a sovereign country: since 1978 it has been ran to the ground by a ruling class that wants all spaniards dead and gone, Before that, since the opportunity to arm themselves with nuclear weapons was thwarted by the CIA, it has been slowly destroyed, starting by asking to dissolve their business fabric and depend on tourism and the services sector to enter the UE; and now with the plandemic destroying that and being tied to perpetual debt. More on topic, since the 28 of december of 2004 women and men have been unequal against the law, which goes against the article 14 of the Spanish Constitution. It's hell on Earth, the modern day Sodom, only Argentina comes close

>>36766480
too gay didn't read this isn't /pol/

>>36769274
You didn't miss anything really

>>36769274
>>36769518
Probably your HRT kicking in, tranny janny, as you will never be a woman

Fuck off, Athens.

There is nothing /pol/ about this. Did the re.ddit janny get pinged because someone was exposing sociopathic social engineering again?

>>36770145
He even went out of his way to avoid naming the usual suspects, lmao. It's pathetic how obvious they are. And those sociopaths larp as the good guys

>>36770145
Who cares if it's /pol/ or not. Politics can be possibly related to otaku culture, and this is a site where you can be disagreeable. That post just doesn't even bother to bringing up otaku culture. He even brings up his own country's media instead.

Most of what OP is directly referring to is probably out of context for most EoP anons on /jp/. Probably context heavy from 5ch and Japanese boards as well. So it becomes one of those threads where anons just ignore what the OP is actually referring to - because they have little to say about it in particular - and instead just make increasingly tangential posts that scratch the same itch and get (You)s until people are arguing about something much more relatable and mutually understood what's going on specifically in the otaku sphere if things.

And I agree with OP, and am a seething dilating kike jew nigger who just finds simple gotcha replies boring, so you're just going to disappoint me by doing so.

>>36770145
Who cares if it's /pol/ or not. Politics can be possibly related to otaku culture, and this is a site where you can be disagreeable. That post just doesn't even bother to bring up otaku culture. He even brings up his own country's media instead.

Most of what OP is directly referring to is probably out of context for most EoP anons on /jp/. Probably context heavy from 5ch and other Japanese boards as well. So it becomes one of those threads where anons just ignore what the OP is actually referring to - because they have little to say about it in particular - and instead just make increasingly tangential posts that scratch the same itch and get (You)s until people are arguing about something much more relatable and mutually understood than what's going on in the otaku sphere of things. Also, it's just fun to shoehorn in topics that would be tired on other boards to a fresh crowd for a different response.

And I agree with OP, and am a seething dilating kike jew nigger who just finds simple gotcha replies boring, so you're just going to disappoint me by doing so.

>>36763116
>Akamatsu Ken
you lost me

>>36770100
Go back

>>36763417
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>>36763138
However, it is alarming that so many otaku works listed here are actually being harassed, and that public organizations such as the Gender Equality Center are actually trying to clamp down on otaku expression.

So there is at least a need to let us and all of them know that the world is paying attention to this trend, both Japan and outside the world, if you have any spiritual benefit from otaku culture.

Can someone give me a rundown of how this will change Japan and the world and why this is significant

>>36779938
as far as i understood some muh gender equality group is complaining about anime girls and some and somehow that reached the Osaka prefectural government. Now I don't know what exactly are they complaining about. If they are calling for a regulation in general (ie anime, manga, games) it will be pretty impossible to enforce (in Japan at least). Maybe they are only calling for artists to try to not draw more characters (which is also stupid and can't be enforced).
Either way it's still pretty scummy for a group trying to limit freedom of expression either through regulation or calling for artists to self-censor regardless what the political leanings and worldviews of a group are. The panic mode people enter when something like this comes up is understandable seeing how fast things can go to shit in other forms of entertainment.

>>36787024
>more characters
moe characters*
>group trying
group tryiing to*

>>36779938
The Osaka Prefectural Culture Department published expression guidelines created by the Osaka Gender Equality Center back in March that deem the usage of moe characters in PR sexist.
They also want people to stop depicting gender stereotypes like housewives or using language they deem politically incorrect like "salaryman," "OL" or "motherland."
Kind of interesting how this sort of thing happens in Osaka Prefecture out of all places considering Oosaka Ishin no Kai is the ruling party there.

>how this will change Japan
We'll have to wait and see to what extend these kinds of guidelines actually catch on.
As far as otaku culture is concerned they are only targeting moe characters in PR for now but I doubt they will stop there.

So, Western shit has poisoned them as well?

I'll never understand the pure hypocrisy of western wokeists who are all about acceptance and diversity yet they enforce incredibly restricted world view that they have arbitrarily decided to be that. Or maybe I do, they're perfectly aware of their own ideological failures and hypocrisy and they flaunt it at your face.

When it comes to otaku culture, I can't shake off the feeling of a creeping terror slowly coming to consume it and destroy from within. All you need is accusations, few people have lose their jobs, social media witch hunts on constantly changing arbitrary standards and the culture of fear has set in.

I doubt anything can ever conquer doujin culture other than peer pressure, and even then if censorship was to become more common artists would share their works through more obscure channels and possibly just avoid social media. If you look at DLsite for example, the site has seen massive growth
over past years because they allow individuals to self publish their works and they'd sacrifice that growth to appease non paying extortionists if they caved in to those demands. Creators would just move elsewhere and because the devs can be lone wolfs who don't even mention their work anywhere before release, they can continue to produce works about things they like even if rest of the world outside their own room had gone to shit.

So what can we really do to fight this worldwide?It's better to destroy the root instead of focusing on just Japan because we like anime. It's a global issue and concerns everyone. Authoritarianism should be stopped at all costs and claiming it's to late will serve nothing.

>>36790925

Become 5th column

>>36767648

>>36790981
So I inflitrate the feminist lines, gain trust and destroy for within? I'm not even sure what to say to these people. How can you sneakily distort their groups when they are such binary minded individuals? Beginning by turning more feminist women into terfs so they can destroy the trans ideology sounds good but then I'll have to deal with more agressive censorsip on the accounts of misogyny. Maybe making homosexuals consider trans activists and feminist women people who try to overwrite their identity could also work to create greater chaos. The problem is that I'm one person and I don't know where should I go whether in real life or online to start pulling strings. Any ideas?

>>36791045
It's a fad. It'll die out eventually.

>>36763096
>>36765511
>>36787024
>>36790344
While retarded Twitter feminists are a reason for concern, what I understand is that these "rules" are:
A) limited to one part of Osaka,
B) only applies to the inside of public places, and
C) public authorities just giving lip service.

This isn't the first time that they attacked otaku culture and definitely won't be the last; on the flip side, there's still support for mangaka besides Ken and politicians elected by otaku are actually doing their jobs.

All in all, it's another bad case of "think of da children"

>>36763096
>>36765511
>>36787024
>>36790344
From what I understand, this is:
A) limited to one part of Osaka,
B) only applies to the inside of public places, and
C) public authorities just giving lip service.

So literally just what the UN keeps trying and failing to do. This isn't the first time that they attacked otaku culture and definitely won't be the last; on the flip side, there's still support for mangaka besides Ken and politicians elected by otaku are actually doing their jobs.

after translating some of the comments i was happy to discover that the japs are aware of the problem

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

Interestingly, a local government councilor Minoru Ogino and another person who has been taking action against TwitterFeminist harassment of A VTuber, Tojou Linka, has RECEIVED DEATH THREATS.

Important note: The following site names "the feminist-alliance", but there is no evidence that the alliance was involved in the death threats. There is no evidence that the alliance was involved in the death threats, because if they were, it would be a very big deal, since they are also members of local government councilor and the like who are also infiltrated by the public authorities.

[A series of nationwide uprisings by the feminist-alliance]
Something ranted about the death threats to protest leaders Minoru Ogino, a member of a local assembly, and Seishiki Aron. (Ogino is a leader in the fight against the feminist-alliance.)
https://togetter.com/li/1782650
(All links to contents in Japanese)

Ogino's statement on Twitter:.

[Report]
I would like to inform you that the Kamata Police Station received the report of damage yesterday regarding the death threats of today, October 1st. made against me on September 29th.
Freedom of speech should be guaranteed, but criminal acts cannot be tolerated in the exercise of that right. We would like to express our strong protest against this criminal act of death threats.

The death threats were not only addressed to me, but also to Seishiki Aron, and Art Stone Entertainment Corp., stating that they would stop the killing if I stopped signing and resigned from my position. There was also a statement that discriminated against people with certain hobbies, saying that PEOPLE WITH CERTAIN HOBBIES, SUCH AS OTAKU, DID NOT DESERVE TO LIVE.

I apologize to the Ota Ward Assembly, Ota Ward, and the police, as well as to all signers and followers for any concern or inconvenience this may cause.
I have already filed a damage report with the police station, and we will deal with this incident with the cooperation of all parties involved and the judicial authorities.

October 1, 2021
Minoru Ogi, Member of Ota Ward Assembly

>>36794657
>>36794534
Otaku-Gate

>>36794534
>>36794657
At least they are reporting and trying to do something about the death threats. Hopefully all of this gets resolved but it's worrying due to the fact that people in Japan tend to be more serious with their threats.
There have been similar attempts before but the past year has seen numerous pushes for this kind of stuff. I don't know if it is coordinated and because of the international attention from the Olympics but these petitions/calls for self-censorship and publishers thinking about regulating their media to appease the rules of big tech companies (the apple and google thing that happened this summer) should worry anyone who cares about the industry. There's nothing special people here can do but there shouldn't be condescending posts as if this were a nothingburger.
Everything is a nothingburger until it isn't.
At least Japanese otaku aren't as passive as the people here are when it comes to their hobbies or media they consume.

>>36795037
>apple and google thing that happened this summer
That was the one that ended with the CEO issuing a public apology and cutting his bonus pay for a couple months, right? Which corpo was that, Kadokawa?

>>36795409
Yes and yes.

Well, instead of actually going out and shooting up a public place,
it's very common for nips to get all heated up and post a warning on the internet that they're going to kill you all or them all and then get seriously arrested and put in jail. It's quite peaceful.

Don't worry, we'll make sure all your conversations and smartphones are exactly what we want them to be.

-- Twitter
-- Google

>>36795409
Yeah. Luckily they didn't go with it but it should be alarming that they are starting to consider these things. How long before they start going through with these ideas no one knows.

>>36792622
International Leftists = United Nations of Leftists, GAFAM, Hong-Kong, etc.

>>36796848
>Hong-Kong
Not sure what you mean by this but China is cracking down hard on Japan and otaku stuff. A few days ago some Chinese tech magazine or something wrote about the harmful nature of Japanese anime and how it glorifies the samurai/ww2 Japan and turns people gay or something along those lines.

>>36790915
Online e-books are easy to regulate in one shot with a credit card. Print shops, Comiket, and fanzines are difficult to regulate. That's the point.

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YOU WILL WEAR THE MASK WHILE SLEEPING
YOU WILL STAY 6FT APART FROM OTHERS EXCEPT FOR DURING YOUR CORPORATION APPROVED BLM RALLIES
YOU WILL NOT QUESTION OUR SCIENCE
YOU WILL KNEEL WHEN THE GEORGE FLOYD ANTHEM PLAYS
YOU WILL GIVE PUBERTY BLOCKERS TO YOUR CHILDREN
YOU WILL ACCEPT CORPORATION SET UN MIGRANT QUOTAS
YOU WILL SOCIALLY DISTANCE
YOU WILL USE THE PROPER PRONOUNS
YOU WILL CLAP FOR OUR BLM HEALTH HEROES
YOU WILL OBEY THE CURFEW
YOU WILL STOP SEEING YOUR LOVED ONES
YOU WILL REPORT DISSENTERS
YOU WILL GIVE UP YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM
YOU WILL USE NEWSPEAK
YOU WILL EMBRACE MASS SURVELLIENCE FOR YOUR SAFETY
YOU WILL TAKE THE VMAT2 GENE KILLING MARK OF THE BEAST "VACCINE"
YOU WILL BE PLACED IN DEATH CAMPS IF YOU RESIST
YOU WILL RENT YOUR CLOTHES
YOU WILL LIVE IN POD HOMES WITH YOUR VAXPASS™
YOU WILL NOT TRAVEL WITHOUT YOUR YOUR VAXPASS™
YOU WILL EMBRACE THE CASHLESS SYSTEM
YOU WILL HAVE PROPAGANDA BEAMED INTO YOUR MIND
YOU WILL ONLY ACCEPT OUR VERSION OF HISTORY
YOU WILL ONLY READ PRE APPROVED CONTENT
YOU WILL ONLY HEAR PRE APPROVED CONTENT
YOU WILL ONLY SEE PRE APPROVED CONTENT
YOU WILL ONLY THINK PRE APPROVED CONTENT
YOU WILL NOT DREAM UNAPPROVED CONTENT
YOU WILL WORSHIP OUR NEW WORLD ORDER ELECTRONIC GOD DEMIURGE
YOU WILL ACCEPT THE NEW NORMAL
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

>>36763096
Who gives a fuck
All japan produces nowadays is vtubers gacha and remakes
Let it burn

>>36796879
>turns people gay
This is always the funniest theory with regards to anime's negative influence. It's reaching. It sounds like someone's trying really hard to find a reason to say anime is bad.

>>36787024
Nevertheless, otaku all over the world can share the realization that there are those who always have their swords pointed at the moe and otaku character girl and boy, just like the poster presented. And we should always remember that.

>>36796974
It's nothing new to be honest. People on the right who hold conservative views still view over the top violence and characters drawn in a sexy way to be immoral (that applies to both conservatives in the west and in Japan). Internet right-wingers on our side of the internet equate watching anime with transgender people.
Those on the far-left dislike violence and sexy characters for a different reason but nonetheless they have the same goals in censorship and regulation. When it comes to otaku stuff the horseshoe theory works.
>>36797050
It should always be on our minds but so far the burden of fighting back in any meaningful way is on the shoulders of Japanese otaku and consumers. Luckily they have been successful in fighting back so far. Anyone who cares outside Japan about this can only open up some sort of discourse and hope not to be called buzzwords by people who still bring up gg (but sadly this situation is beyond fixing due to how western internet culture and the way we talk about entertainment media has changed in the past 6-7 years and how people have become polarized).

>>36797411
A (new-ish) tactic I've seen used by these western twitter warriors is using the argument of "but [thing] also exists in Japan!". Example:
>a twitter warrior expresses detest of minor-adult age-gap romance, calls it "disgusting grooming"
>reasonable person responds by saying "Japan protects freedom of expression in art/anime; and also you shouldn't judge Japanese relationships using American definitions of minors/grooming"
>they reply by saying "well Japan also has people who dislike minor-adult age-gap grooming!"
Or something of this sort. Basically "but there are Japanese people who agree with me!".

>>36796974
>It's reaching.
Not really, you can't deny it encourages people to crossdress/crossplay/kigsuit or pretend they are anime traps or get so high on watching cgdct that they wish they were the cute girls and had cute girls as friends. It also makes them more tolerant of homosexuality in general, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but is still the beginning of a slope. Then there's the whole "futa and traps aren't gay" idea.

If you say those people were gay to begin with, then you acknowledge there's some sort of correlation between anime/video games and gay/transpeople, even if it's just that they're attracted to that sort of media it's still not a stretch to think it's the other way around.

Anime also makes people more open to incest, consorting with demons and dark powers, and pedophilia.

>>36797776

It's just another manifestation of the same ignorance and prejudice that caused the DnD satanism scare in 80s. It's what america does best, manufactured moral panic.

>>36797967
It is not "just." There's something about media on a display screen that makes people retarded. Anime is no exception to this. Thinking it's not really gay in general is denial, especially in this era where nearly everything is yuri or yaoibait.

>>36798228
>especially in this era where nearly everything is yuri or yaoi bait
even in the west there's shit like this, at least now you can't say "oh it's animes fault", gaybaiting and just having gay shit in general brings money

Normalfags who care about politics and culture war shit should get the fuck out, kuso thread

>>36796666
Source for this? I'm legitimately interested because I can't seem to find anything online

>>36797776
>Anime also makes people more open to incest, consorting with demons and dark powers, and pedophilia.
Just like how first person shooters cause mass shooters and serial killers?

>>36797776
>consorting with demons and dark powers
if you only wrote about the influence of anime on things relating to sex it would be understandable but going straight to demons and the occult makes you look like a religious nutjob soccer mom

>>36797776
trap is gay, futa is straight and patrician

>>36798431
It desensitizes them to violence, yes. Not that being desensitized is a bad thing in itself. But pretending anime doesn't promote that kind of thing is as much denial as saying someone who draws a doujins about how much the main character loves raping elementary school girls isn't a pedophile.

>>36798273
>at least now you can't say "oh it's animes fault"
It's still anime's fault. It's ultimately womens' fault, since they like all that gay shit to begin with, but for example saying something like Stephen Universe wasn't influenced by the creator's like of anime is denial.

>>36798568
>if you only wrote about the influence of anime on things relating to sex it would be understandable but going straight to demons and the occult makes you look like a religious nutjob soccer mom
I was only talking about things relating to sex. It might seem silly, but think about how much anime/manga stuff you can describe as "GOD-DAMN I WANT TO SUMMON A SUCCUBUS AND HAVE HOT DEMON SEX!!" The whole of the MGE fandom/subculture is pretty much rejecting human women to go fuck corrupted demon women. If that's not heresy, I don't know what is. I don't really get the whole succubus/demon lord & corruption belly marks thing that is popular nowadays, but it's essentially promoting the idea that it's great to fuck demons. I'm not saying there's a satanic conspiracy or anything, just that anime promotes/glorifies fucking dudes and demons.

>>36798674
Futa fetish revolves around the idea of attaching actual penises to what would be otherwise normal females. How is this any less of a faggotry than trapshit?

Delete your schizo thread
All that happened to the anime indistry the last 10 years in terms of censorship was that in preparation for the crowds of the Tokyo Olympics, porn magazines and also hentai was banned from the shelves of Convenience stores, where, in my opinion, they shouldn't have been sold in the first place
So that was a good thing
All your other schizo fears will never come true
Japan won't change anytime soon, there won't be anime censorship or mass immigration or any of your other crisis that you consructed in your mind
Take your meds and get off 4chan

>>36798907
because futas are female and traps are male, it's not faggotry at all, just more fun naughty bits, what are you, afraid of penis? maybe you're the faggot who secretly wants to chop his own pp off

>>36798809
>but think about how much anime/manga stuff you can describe as "GOD-DAMN I WANT TO SUMMON A SUCCUBUS AND HAVE HOT DEMON SEX!!"
No one actually wants nor has attempted to actually try summoning a demon in all my years following western and japanese otakus. At the end of the day it's just one more monstergirl fetish.
>The whole of the MGE fandom/subculture is pretty much rejecting human women to go fuck corrupted demon women
I don't know if you mean NGE (Evangelion) but if you do then you're looking too deep into it. The religious symbolism is used as a mere aesthetic because Japs never and probably will never properly understand Abrahamic religions. The waifu wars are just about which quirky edgy female character you like more which itself missed the point of the series.
>If that's not heresy, I don't know what is.
Again, this makes you look like a religious nutjob that thinks demons are actual beings that can harm you.
>I don't really get the whole succubus/demon lord & corruption belly marks thing that is popular nowadays, but it's essentially promoting the idea that it's great to fuck demons.
Well the succubus in folklore and theology have a lot to do with sex, it's to be expected that something about demons will end up in hentai. Corruption itself isn't necessary demonic but I honestly can't get into a detailed dissection of various genres, settings and themes of porn because I don't have much interest in this topic nor is it the topic of the thread. As for "it's great to fuck demons" there may be some domination fetish going on since demons in hentai are usually showed to be dominant and the MC submissive. Still don't know for sure but I won't try to get into it in this thread.
>I'm not saying there's a satanic conspiracy or anything, just that anime promotes/glorifies fucking dudes and demons
There isn't a satanic conspiracy and it seems you're stuck on demongirl/monstergirl hentai for some reason because outside a few isekai and some number of hentai doujinshi, Satanism and demons in are pretty niche.

>>36799059
Porn has fried your brain.

>>36799098
Fried to golden perfection.

>>36799060
he's talking about monster girl encyclopedia
which is less popular and more of just concentrated fetish shit than anything serious
those same people would have been fapping to and getting crazy about a myraid of other things if they didn't have MGE, so i'm not sure why to blame anime-eqsue media for it

>>36799060
>No one actually wants nor has attempted to actually try summoning a demon
I didn't say that, I said "anime promotes/glorifies fucking dudes and demons."
I didn't say anime made people try to fuck their relatives either, but you didn't find fault with "Anime also makes people more open to incest".

>I don't know if you mean NGE
The monstergirl encyclopedia. The monstergirl fandom. It's basically about a demon lord turning all the monsters into cute succubus variants of themselves to mate with human men and free them from the tyranny of human women.

>Again, this makes you look like a religious nutjob
This makes you look like an autist who is taking me too seriously and not as talking about 40k type heresy.

Honestly you're either baiting, retarded, or both. But then you're probably just a /pol/ immigrant anyway here to argue about stupid shit.

>>36799131
>those same people would have been fapping to and getting crazy about a myraid of other things
Like what. "if anime didn't exist people would be into something else" is such a meaningless statement.

@36799052
You will never achieve the reality you wish for.
You will never accelerate this reality enough for it to be destroyed.
You will never turn humanity into a corrupted mutt bug race to become the other half of the Goddess.
The Source will never acknowledge your efforts.
You will wander endlessly without meeting Her, stranded on this reality you fruitlessly try to end and ruin for every other creature 'saving them'
All your Illumination is nothing but delusions on psychotropics, the result of hedonistic trips and the poor coping of being rejected again and again by the Source.
You will never meet Her. All of it has already happened and it's preordained. She's already mine

>>36799194
Meds
now
Go go go

>>36799278
NPCbugs have zero power on me

>>36799131
>>36799174
never read nor looked into mge but even then it doesn't strictly have to be demonic because various religions and mythologies have weird looking creatures that have their purpose. Still saying that anime promotes demons and occult because some people decided to make demons and myths fuckable is weird.
>but you didn't find fault with "Anime also makes people more open to incest".
I do because no body is out there promoting their incest hentai in hopes for people to be more open about guys fucking their female relatives, which by itself is not exclusive to Japanese porn either.
>This makes you look like an autist who is taking me too seriously and not as talking about 40k type heresy.
You are the one who started going off about demons, dark powers and heresy. I just put the three together and based on the topic and your post assumed you were looking at it from a religious perspective.
>Honestly you're either baiting, retarded, or both. But then you're probably just a /pol/ immigrant anyway here to argue about stupid shit.
I'm not baiting but why are you screeching about /pol/ all of a sudden?

>>36799404
>promotes demons and occult
I didn't say that. I said "consorting with demons and dark powers", i.e. fucking them. I didn't say occult at all as a matter of fact, just that anime promotes fucking demons. Are you going to say it doesn't promote fucking maids, JKs, and robots too?

@36799052
You will achieve the reality you wish for.
You will accelerate this reality enough for it to be destroyed.
You will turn humanity into a corrupted mutt bug race to become the other half of the Goddess.
The Source will acknowledge your efforts.
You will not wander endlessly without meeting Her, stranded on this reality you fruitlessly try to end and ruin for every other creature 'saving them'
All your Illumination is anything but delusions on psychotropics, the result of hedonistic trips and the poor coping of being rejected again and again by the Source.
You will meet Her. All of it has already happened and it's preordained. She's already yours

>>36799533
>consorting with demons and dark powers
>I didn't say occult at all as a matter of fact
"consorting with demons and dark powers" is generally regarded as the occult in one word by most people
>Are you going to say it doesn't promote fucking maids, JKs, and robots too?
promoting something means support or encouraging. The works with such things are there from the beginning for people who already have a thing for it. These replies will just get more and more autistic

>>36771302
You're an inbred retard, or part of the movement. Why are all uploaded doujins and hentai of Touhou futa, yuri, trans, or about raping and corrupting the characters? Why all of those 'creators' happen to share masonry financiation and imagery? You'll just respond that it's a coincidence, a fetish, handwave it, or say to stop worrying about it, like that other discussion about japanese media going on the thread. You're an NPC so I can tell what your response is going to be.

Let's cut the chase short: your kind can't produce art of their own, so they latch onto actual art and corrupt it (@36791013) smearing putrid shit all over it to spread your message and retarded goals. It's sad that all you autistic freemasons can't just kill yourselves. That would make you notice that the Source doesn't care about you, and that you're better simply gone, but nope; have to spread your autism everywhere, and then pretend that is everyone else caring about politics, when you are the ones having explosive diarrhea over life, your adoration over tranny deities like Moloch over bountiful art, and then expecting actual humans to not tell that you smell like shit and enjoy cocks so much that you would die for them

>>36799717
go back
>>>/x/

>>36799843
probably the guy who got deleted before for rambling about women and rituals ruining feminism kek

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If you give them an inch they will take a mile. Letting them do this emboldens them. Stop them here so they don't take any more. I know /jp/ can't do much when most aren't in Japan but it's the only way

>>36763116
>>36763138
>>36763148
>>36763289
>>36763470
>>36763754
>>36763960
>>36764185
>>36794534
>>36765511
>>etc
TwitterFeminism

oh good I was wondering when /jp/ would finally fall and succumb to the cancer that was consuming the rest of 4chan for nearly a decade now. FINALLY it can be exactly like every other board on the site completely indistinguishable from /fit/ or /mu/ or /adv/ or anything because half the threads are '2014 oldfags' getting mad at twiter and saying "based" to each other.

I'm not being sarcastic or anything this is actually good for me I was waiting for a sign to show me that 4chan was too far gone and it's time for me to walk away from it and this is as good a sign as any. I don't want to see this turn into another incel frogboard.

shout out to the mods for keeping this productive on-topic thread on the board.

>>36800446
>incel frogboard.
you're free to go

>>36800446
why have a breakdown and massreply to multiple posts while posting a wojak though

>>36800558
okay bro enjoy your frogs

>>36800604
because they all include the "twitterfeminist" meme and the fat idiot wojak represents twitter voices that modern 4chan, the person extending a microphone to them, just absolutely loves to hear.

This entire website is now victimposting about how the mean twitters is gonna steal your virginity or whatever. I have finally witnessed the end of 4chan, as /jp/ as one of the last few remaining normal not-frog boards, and it is epic cringe.

>>36800817
>>>/jp/rules/1

>>36800817
You're being dramatic. Both /a/ and /jp/ are against frogs and wojaks AND don't want their chinese cartoons to be ruined by trends in other forms of media that have been going around for half a decade now. As for the twitterfeminist thing it's a hashtag on japanese twitter following this situation. If you're going to act like this over a thread about something that happens in a country that produces the shit anons on /jp/, and /a/ consume then reddit might be to your liking.

>>36800446
You're a wojakposter idiot. Shut the fuck up, you're the same as them.

>>36800817
>I have finally witnessed the end of 4chan
You're a little late for that buddy. The amount of frogs on a board is not the only factor determining the quality of the board.
>epic cringe
yeah you definitely belong somewhere else

>>36794657
https://youtu.be/ded056nkHjo
Ogino talking about the bomb threat
as a foxgirl.

/jp/ bros... it's over...

>>36800916
>>36801060
>>36801099
meanwhile, in totally-normal-on-topic-quality-content-post-land
>>36796944

>>36801884
>redefine what it means to be Japanese
Yes because being an interracial mutt born to African and Japanese parents is truly what it means to be Japanese. We should help make this the new normal in Japan and across the world to encourage interracial breeding to make sure no country can call themselves a homogenous ethnostate. In fact we should actively work towards this cause. Lets import African migrants all across East Asia and make this the new reality. We will NOT be proud to be Japanese until we do so.

Weird how every time anything remotely political gets brought up, blatant shitposters and crossboarders start crawling out of the woodworks. Come on meido, wake up.

>>36801884
>Last year, the Japanese population of Tokyo was up just 0.19 percent, while its foreign population grew 6.23 percent, a rate more than 32 times faster. This marks the first time for the foreign population to increase faster than the Japanese one for the area since the ministry first began separating such demographic data in 2012.
I didn't realize it was this bad. Some people here might argue that this isn't /jp/ related but this will surely change all aspects of Japanese culture - including Otaku culture - as we know it.

>>36801908
>talking about stuff that effects otaku culture is not otaku culture

>>36802217
Who are you quoting?

>>36802162
>>36802211
tokyo, famously homogeneous small town of rural japan.

>>36802228
Tell me how the topic of this thread is off topic first. Also
affects*

>>36802217
>stuff that effects otaku culture
which part of the all caps meltdown about vaccines and other american schizoshit was otaku culture

>>36802238
>Tell me how the topic of this thread is off topic first.
Not him, but getting mad at twitter feminists about some local Osaka city council guideline about posters and victim-posting about how this means that all anime and video games are ruined by twitter feminists forever in the very near future for real this time not like 2014

>>36802245
You know well what I'm talking about.
>>36802306
Well video games have been shit since the mid 2010s, don't know what you're talking about. And Jap stuff has been gaining popularity the last few years, it's expected for it to change to suit the standards of the majority of the potential consumer base so that the publishers gain maximum profits. Of course that the groups that will be at the helm of those changes are groups that share the same views as the people who lead many societal changes (for better or for worse) in the rest of the world.

>>36802463
>You know well what I'm talking about.
I don't, cause that's the post I referred to as the types of people you're bringing into /jp/ with your twitter conspiracy theories and victim culture.

>>36802463
>Well video games have been shit since the mid 2010s, don't know what you're talking about. And Jap stuff has been gaining popularity the last few years
jap stuff has been gaining popularity, and video games have been shit, for over 40 years.

you just want to screech about feminists and vaccines and liberals

SO ARE MY LOLI DOUJINSHI SAFE OR NOT???

>>36763096

>>36802841
I'm not the OP nor the schizo ranting about vaccines. If anything that guy is probably a falseflagger just like the ones on /a/ that detract any meaningful discussion about this.
>jap stuff has been gaining popularity, and video games have been shit, for over 40 years.
No they haven't and otaku shit was a niche interest you'd get bullied for if you weren't a kid both in Japan and in the west till the late 2000s.

>>36803375
>No they haven't and otaku shit was a niche interest you'd get bullied for if you weren't a kid both in Japan and in the west till the late 2000s.
otaku shit is still for kids though, just because nerds have safe spaces online and once a year conventions doesn't mean they're not laughing stocks for the rest of society when they're openly dressed as sakura from shigami no gankin or whatever and they're 37 year old virgins

>>36803039
Not for long anon

>>36763217
>If you think "cute" characters will ever be banned in Japan that's borderline delusional
That's what they said about uncensored genitals in drawings. Just sayin'.

This had the potential to be a nice civil discussion ruined by people who don't know how to take it easy

>>36799052
>mass immigration
This, especially the politician who endorsed it lost the election.

>>36801884
>>36802211
>trusting leftist garbage like New York Times
Almost all immigrants that live in Japan are made up of Chinese, Koreans, and SEAmonkeys that are a drop in the water of the native population. It's not changing anytime soon.

>>36795037
>the apple and google thing that happened this summer
American digital storefronts and American social media are by far the biggest threats to otaku culture.
Digital manga is already completely controlled by Google and Apple due to their appstore monopolies. This isn't anything new either.
Many of the Japanese manga apps I've tried have disclaimers for every manga chapter that content might be censored to comply with Google's or Apple's terms of service.
The market will continue to shift to digital formats and considering not even Kadokawa is safe, no one is.
By the time physical media has become irrelevant, Google or Apple could bring down giants like Kadokawa or Shueisha in seconds by simply removing their apps.
We've also seen examples of Japanese anime being censored for the West in recent years and anime is increasingly reliant on American streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime that could kill anime culture at any point. In fact, American companies like Funimation/Crunchyroll are already doing so by commissioning anime adaptions of things that would've never been produced otherwise like Korean shit. It's really just a matter of time until most "anime" is actually written by Americans, kind of like what's currently happening with "Japanese" video games like Forspoken.
As for games, SIE already has a firm grip on Japanese console games, at least for now. Otaku games have almost vanished since they killed the Vita and thanks to the lack of transparency, any console game that isn't a Switch exclusive is now potentially censored by American standards.
Physical PC games have almost vanished nowadays, even for doujin soft. While Japanese digital storefronts like DLsite have seen some success as a niche, the popularity of Steam and Epic Games Store in Japan is extremely worrying. These American storefronts are incompatible with otaku culture.
And let's not forget that most of the Japanese-controlled internet, NicoNicoDouga, bbs culture and even old social media like Mixi, are dead now and instead the Japanese started using Twitter and Youtube, places that aren't safe at all for otaku culture.
Creativity and Youtube culture are mutually exclusive and fan art culture on Twitter is at a constant risk, cf. what happened to tumblr.
And I haven't even mentioned the threat Amazon poses to all physical media yet.
Even otaku merchandise and doujin culture are reliant on the success of otaku entertainment.

That's what Japanese otaku should focus on, not some harmless twitter feminists screeching about moe characters in PR.

>>36804377
>the potential to be a nice civil discussion
it's clickbait schizoposting

>>36804940
>could kill anime
>It's really just a matter of time until
I don't like to get upset at things that don't happen or didn't happen

>Twitter and Youtube, places that aren't safe at all for otaku culture
>Steam and Epic Games Store in Japan is extremely worrying. These American storefronts are incompatible with otaku culture.
?

>>36804940
>Digital manga is already completely controlled by Google and Apple due to their appstore monopolies.
I use f-droid+tachiyomi, too much adware on the play store and i don't want google aids on my phone. I don't know how phonefags deal with this shit.

>>36804999
>I don't like to get upset at things that don't happen or didn't happen
Still, it is a risk and they already have a certain influence on the production of anime.

>?
Twitter is banning or shadowbanning artists all the time now and they are also having you delete art on behalf of countries like Russia.

Youtube is also extremely restrictive in what they allow, even for age-restricted content.
Most of the NND culture died on Youtube because of the reliance on "the algorithm" instead of tags and categories like on NND.
You can only build a subculture on Youtube with the classic Youtuber model.
Old NND otaku culture like flash-style videos, MMD videos, sound MADs or manga animations almost vanished.
For the most part, only streamers and musicians survived.

Japanese VNs, even classics, rarely make it on Steam despite Western adult games almost always getting a pass.
Epic Games Store doesn't allow adult games at all.
The digital age basically makes adult games even less accessible.

>>36805258
Same but I meant commercial digital manga, not a reader like tachiyomi.
So far, it seems unprofitable to release your commercial app through other means on Android and completely impossible on Apple phones.

>>36805691
yeah I don't care sorry

if it's like loli shit and hentai of course that's not gonna fly on youtube at all and on twitter it might be questionable but otherwise I see a lot of what-ifs and could-bes again.

Also there's more the internet than just 3 websites and 2 gaming platforms. people release indie shit all the time be it western or otaku.

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>>36791045
>I don't know where should I go whether in real life or online to start pulling strings. Any ideas?
Crystal dot cafe

>>36806531
Does this site have any influence though? It seems to me that it's a small echochamber full of the loser females. I don't think they have any impact to other bigger feminist supporters.

>>36805691
It seems to me you're conflating otaku and mainstream culture. If something can exist on NND but not on Youtube, yet people leave NND for Youtube, that tells me that those people never cared for the culture that was present on NND and instead only cared about their egos. All the more so if Youtube makes it impossible to maintain that culture. DLSite and DMM exist. DLSite is actually older than Steam. Package versions of eroge are still common. What makes these games less accessible now than when they were package only and could only be physically imported? Anyone who really cares about them isn't going to be bound to something like Steam.

>>36804940
>>36805691
That's a global problem, though, and one not exclusive to Japan. If anything, Japan is in a stronger position. Pixiv exists. FANZA exists. Independent storefronts and hobbyist retailers still exist. Comic ZIN briefly took down its R18 content from the website because of a credit card issue, but that's been resolved. I wonder how many people even noticed.

Anyway, I'd rather take some kind of action instead of just worrying about what could happen. If my car stalls on the tracks and there's a train coming, I'm not going to sit in it for ten minutes pointing and screaming until it hits.

>>36804940
>>36805691
>American digital storefronts and American social media are by far the biggest threats to otaku culture
>Still, it is a risk and they already have a certain influence on the production of anime
You say that like China isn't more or equally threatening (and far more likely to happen).

It's all part of the great reset so you vill not watch the moe

>>36808079
China is primarily threatening Chinese otaku culture for now like Chinese animation and games.

>>36807829
>Pixiv exists
dying website

>>36803108
what is this fuckin you all anons' diagram

>>36798352
Japanese fucking 5ch (server is in US), all in Japanese.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%88%E5%91%8A+site%3A5ch.net&oq=%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%88%E5%91%8A+site%3A5ch.net

>>36799052
Denying what is actually happening, emphasizing that there is no problem and nothing to worry about, is what TwitterFeminists would say.

>>36799060
The word you are saying reminds me the 'Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard!!

>>36804940
>>Many of the Japanese manga apps I've tried have disclaimers for every manga chapter that content might be censored to comply with Google's or Apple's terms of service.
That's right. The biggest enemy of otaku culture may be these International Leftists (United Nations of Leftists, GAFAM, etc.) because they have all the conditions for maximum international political power, direct control over smartphones and PC media, and huge capital. The regulations they impose on otaku culture are still moderate, but they may soon turn into something powerful enough to devastate the culture. Of course, this is done with no regard for the opinions of governments, individuals, or the parents of children.

>>36810129
Repeating yourself without an argument isn’t helping.

>>36810129
Repeating yourself over and over without a proper argument isn’t helping your case. Either shit or get off the pot.

>>36809711
Good, I have no clue on how the Japanese manage to accept garbage like Pixiv in the first place.
The website is just horrid and riddled with the most basic of functionality hidden behind paywalls or just not being there in the first place.

>>36810440
>International Leftists
>>36810129
>TwitterFeminists
absolute schizo

>>36802234
It used to have foreigners only in one neighborhood, now it’s in every part.
>>36798303
>Normalfags who care about politics and culture war shit should get the fuck out, kuso thread
Except that it will finally affect you too bro

>>36798303
You may not care about politics but politics cares about you

are you the same guy that was saying the 2020 olympics were part of a secret conspiracy by the japanese government to get global normiedom hooked on anime thereby destroying otaku culture?

>Twitterfeminists
Go back and learn proper fucking spelling before making shitty bait threads. And everyone said that the Olympics were going to destroy otaku culture, yet not a peep was heard and here we are.

Stinky thread

>>36829770
What kind of stinky

>>36813815
It's a refuge for Twitter fanfictionists and a storage place for their creations.
As a search function, it's completely inadequate. And it's always heavy because pedophiles all over the world access it.

>>36802217
this

>>36766761
>>>>/biz/41337526
what?
whats going on with GME still?
i thought the squeeze happened months ago and that was it

I've checked some of the links you have given. Much of this seems limited to Osaka and is limited in scope, which is good. Still, it's not good, especially if it becomes a trend. From what I see, this isn't so much a Twitter thing as it is from regional politicians and locals, but I could be missing something. Hopefully this issue fizzles out and it all continues like usual

bump

nothing is going to happen

Why is /jp/ so pessimistic

>>36860733
because its already happened in the west

Isn't this just the plot that anime Rumble Garanndoll that's airing this season?

>>36868966
no

What the fuck even is this thread?
This board is just /v/ now.

>>36874906
otaku /v/