The JSDF is like the appendix. Does nothing up until it will try to kill everything.
Japanese X has pretty consistently hosted some horrible voices. I follow and engage with topics in Japanese as I speak it and it is not good.
Thankfully, like most of the internet, its not the norm. Most Japanese people are just liberals who don’t care like anywhere else in the west. They are also mostly pro Palestine and against their state and America supporting the genocide.
japanese people love one piece
but they’re against piracy
japanese people like shonen MC with messages about not giving up
but they also enjoy isekais…usually starting with the idea of giving up to life and expecting to reborn in somewhere less crappy
they usually make anime joking about hitler and nazis
lots of weebs and japanese are nazis in twitter
I really have never understood he Isekai genre. They all seem like the most boring premise imaginable. Unless you’re actively buying into the power fantasy, they just feel incredibly dull, directionless, and devoid of any real statement about anything.
The existence and prevalence of them, as well as the patterns that emerge in their story structure and presentation, is more interesting then actually watching any of them. I can find more enjoyment analyzing what there place in the entertainment industry says about the human condition.
In a vacuum, they’re not horrible. Like anything. But I think they’re probably the hardest stories to make. You should look up Thermae Romae. I think it would be considered Isekai, but through time instead? One of the few mangas I can actually say I fully read and was disappointed when I reached the last page.
the early entries in the genre weren’t really power fantasies (shows like The Twelve Kingdoms and Escaflowne)
it only really started to become the god awful generic blob with fash/fash adjacent politics when the protagonists were switched to be dudes
Still at least it’s not isr*eli twitter but at this point the bars so low and some Neo-Showaist defendants I wouldn’t be shocked if some of these mfs defend japans actions in Nanjing. 🤮
