this is almost certainly a troll, but it still caused me physical pain, so it deserves to be shared
also, kotaro uchikoshi seems pretty cool. the thread links to some of his good tweets
The woke hive mind is simultaneously taking over everything, yet small enough to not have any economic power. USians have zero critical thinking ability, just brains made of Coca-Cola, twinkies and chicken tenders.
it's like they recognize that the market is beginning to court consumers other than themselves, but they're unable to develop a critique of the market as such, so it must be some kind of irrational perversion of the rational market
Something something the enemy is strong and weak at once. Some something non falsifiable orthodoxy... :parenti-hands:
It's hilarious how weebs project everything they like onto Japan to the point of ignoring actual Japanese people who don't fit their fantasy.
if you look at his original tweet there are a bunch of people going "non-binary people don't exist in japan" and uchikoshi, a japanese man, saying stuff like
You said "only in the most privileged part of the west", but there are many non-binary people in any part of Japan too.
and then they try to explain to him that actually he's wrong, and they know more about japan than him
Absolute fucking legend coming in with the offer of emotional support and then the Sartre quote: https://nitter.exp.farm/Uchikoshi_Eng/status/1554731556920762368#m
very calmly explaining to all the awful people talking to him that gender is a social construct
I think I've heard of more enby celebrities from Japan than binary transpeople.
Now that I'm on the spot I can only remember Hikaru Utada and the singer in QUEEN BEE. Don't have tine to look them up rn but I've seen a few articles talking about how androgynous styles/aesthetics are becoming more popular and more people are identifying as X-Gender. Schools in Tokyo are also loosening their dresscode so that uniform genders are no longer strictly enforced and you can pick from 3 options now.
i could only think of hikaru utada and yuhki kamatani. should have remembered queen bee. i've read a bunch of stuff about x-gender people but i couldn't remember much, i was mostly just curious who you were thinking of
Yuu Watase (creator of Fushigi Yuugi and Ceres, Celestial Legend) also recently came out as x-gender!
"No... No! How can this country that produces so much dick girl porn not believe exclusively in traditional Western gender expression?!"
the amount of people who first encountered gender/sexuality outside the cishet western norm in anime has got to be pretty high
especially when some of the biggest early anime included :ranmao: and :hentai-free:, which are both queer enough to have completely blown some peoples minds in the 90s
It still baffles me how many chanlords jack it to "futa" cartoons but violently hate trans people and for that matter people with dyed hair or basically anyone that might even slightly resemble what they otherwise jack it to.
I file it under the same phenomenon as homophobic republican senators getting their dicks sucked in an airport bathroom by a man.
It is impressive that a teenage girl from California managed to write several visual novel games before being born. I think anyone that talented might have a point worth listening to.
being fluent in japanese and able to publish video games in japan before conception from across the pacific must be a real feat of logistics
also, california; notorious for having zero japanese people anywhere. mississipi is much more japanesey. more likely to find japanese people there.
Gambs is actually semi-famous (infamous?) for being extremely anti-localization and encouraging people to learn Japanese. Totally fetishized Japanese culture and people, you'd swear it was a parody but I'm pretty sure it's not. He's also the head mod of /r/visualnovels, because of course he is
im sorry, if you're not fascist, you need to give your japanese citizenship to a white american nazi. new law, didn't make it, im sorry japan; i recognize you didn't consent to this. but so many of you aren't even japanese anymore, so....
i like some anime but holy shit the western fan culture around it is full of some of the worst people imaginable
:shinji-screm: mfw i have to become socially and emotionally vulnerable to develop fulfilling interpersonal bonds instead of just disappearing into a fantasy world where my complacency is a virtue
there's no context to it other than kotaro uchikoshi isn't transphobic (or homophobic) and that doesn't mesh with their mental image of japan as a 'based ethnonationalist state where the woke hands of the west haven't reached yet'.
Good guy Uchikoshi makes stuff and is vocally positive to the various identities being depicted when doing translation work. Chuds no-likey.
Uchikoshi fight chuds with boundless levels of love and positivity.
he's basically a saint. I would not be nearly as patient with these guys
Hexbear method is like the exact polar fucking opposite lmao :stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
It's hard to foster sympathy for these people when they seemingly deserve none. Much easier to post pig poop balls and move on with your day.
yeah. i doubt it will change anything, but i figure maybe someone who follows uchikoshi but isn't a big fan of queer people might have their minds changed by this. if that happens it's definitely worth it
Dang, i really need to make some time to play the new Ai game.
Whenever people in real life ask me if I play video games or watch anime, I say “no”
Remember guys to play Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtues Last Reward, they aren't the best visual novels in the world but they still pretty damn good
Ngl I found myself bored-clicking through the VN bits so I could get to the puzzles in those games
I’m not a big fan of it, for a lot of very obvious reasons, but it is funny how somebody as dumb and unhinged as gambs is to use a subahibi avi. I know it’s the general rule for avis, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone even mention that game who wasn’t an intensely paranoid fascist or a very nice butterfly commie
i know basically nothing about subahibi other than it showing up in a lot of fascists avis. could you explain this?
It’s a very difficult game to explain thematically. There’s a lot of different readings of it, but primarily the main villain is a deeply misogynistic mentally unstable person while the main characters are in some way victims of abuse or mental issues themselves as well, and the ultimate lesson I think the game is trying to instill is a positive one. HOWEVER the game still has a very bizarre relation with portraying abuse and it’s definitely possible to read its “good” ending as being deeply ironic and is in fact pushing a nihilistic and misogynistic worldview, and frankly Im not too unsure if that reading. Either way, it is genuinely a fascinating read as somebody who doesn’t read VNs a lot, but it genuinely hard to stomach and it’s really hard to decipher what’s supposed to be ironic, what’s just there to sell, and how genuine it’s trying to be. KILLER sounds track either way. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bZWd_7Ud-Lc
A good chunk of fate and Higurashi which I need to get back to, Cartagra which I only read so I can start Kara no Shojo, Fata no Morgana, and Subahibi.
higurashi is good, and i assume you've already been told to read umineko after it. ryukishi07 is really fantastic at dealing with abuse, among other things
I'm actually three California freshman doing a project on media literacy in leftist spaces.
