Here's something I just don't quite get how it happened.
Anime and Right Wing Politics What's the connection, if any? Does it just seem this way because I'm on this Sudanese Shrimping Enthusiast blog, biased because I'm at the bleeding heart of it? Or is there something about Anime and Japanese Culture that resonated with Conservative values?
Politics aren't as needlessly shoved into Japanese animation as they are over here, when they are it serves a purpose and isn't just "look how progressive we are!" Pic related.
I think it's just that a lot of internet right-wingers do not actually understand politics or anime. Politics is just trolling and trying to get reactions out of people. And it's incredibly tribal. The fact that feminists have targeted anime or games before with outrage doesn't help too. Anime kinda attracts people with social anxiety too so violent manifestation of that anxiety might lead to tribalism of right-wing politics too.
If you actually try to process the values and stuff of the majority of the anime then it's quite obvious that it's a liberal media. It's as far from conservative values as you could probably get.
Angel Phillips
I'd be less embarrassed reading futa than (((The Economist))).
Jeremiah Cooper
While anime is terrible and people who watch it are terrible it is the last bastion of great Western storytelling. Anime plots often revolve around groups of people working together to overcome an enemy and in doing so they overcome their differences. They have characters and development. Western stories used to be like this, now they're contrived vehicles for dopamine in self contained 90 minute or 45 minute slots where capeguy 1 has to smash the shit out of capeguy 2 because capeguy 3 is tricking them both in to thinking the other is the badguy, then they realise this and smash the shit out of capeguy 3 together then make a thinly veiled reference to modern political activities.
>Anime and Right Wing Politics >What's the connection, if any Jow Forums. No matyer how badly you wish it weren't, this site was made for anime, it evolved over time to incorporate other interests, but the core interst in anime remains.
Also libtards like to blame us for shit
Jeremiah Gomez
I'm actually an anarchist, but the discourse here is top notch. I'd rather sit and listen to my opponents arguments than those who would consider themselves a "comrade"
Jace Parker
Yeah you can't argue for anime being traditionalist at all with how much degenerate stuff is usually in it, it's just that feminists attacking it and video games led to the fans becoming politically aware in backlash.
Liam Perez
>is there something about Anime and Japanese Culture that resonated with Conservative values? Ethnostate and social trust.
Blake King
anime is the only medium free of jewish tricks
Liam Hernandez
Has nothing to do with anime. It is because it is an anonymous board w/images.
Jayden Scott
freedom and tits also calling people nazis brings them to the right
Really? Have we been watching the same anime? Anime has a lot of empowered women, anime has a lot of LGBTQ themes, a lot of rather extreme sexual themes including incest, polygamy, harems, and even borderline pedophilia, anime has a lot of struggle against hierarchy, against arranged marriages, against historical family values, anime has a lot of struggle against cultural traditions, anime has a lot of rebellious themes. The only thing anime kinda shares with right-wing is obsession with virgins.
Adam Reed
Don't listen to anyone else in this thread.
The real reason is because Jow Forums was founded by anime. A long time ago before any of us even heard of this site it was anime so that's where the connection comes from.
Brayden Allen
>Does it just seem this way because I'm on this Sudanese Shrimping Enthusiast blog Part this, part because the disaffected nerds are finding solace in the new right, mostly because anime is just increasingly popular.
Dylan Murphy
if you never noticed. all animes are white ethnostates.
Because Japan is a conservatives wet dream. >traditionalist >ethnically homogeneous >little to no crime >SJW propaganda doesn't plague their media >constitutional monarchy aka best system of government >capitalist and industrious
>empowered women In the meaning that at the end of it all they're women, not butch dykes as in the west >LGBTQ themes yeah, but they're used as a stereotype, and are far from being glorified >extreme sexual themes It's Japan, man >struggle against traditions Note that all of these struggles are oriented towards personal freedom rather than some idiotic notion of equality.
Benjamin Jenkins
Jow Forums is their overlapping point
Joshua Jackson
Recommend some good animes to watch. I've only watched attack on titan and I l have enjoyed it
Tyler Hernandez
Ore ga Suki na no wa Imouto Dakedo Imouto ja nai
Levi Russell
death note, dears, gantz, xxxholic, detective conan, highschool of the dead, cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, dragonball & dragonball z (not the newer ones), danmachi, noragami, dr. slump, one piece, full metal alchemist, sword art online,
Anthony Johnson
I don't watch it personally, but I know a few people, generally anime fans are pretty intelligent and introverted people, this leads them to browse the internet and get redpilled. essentially the demographic tends to lean right because the internet is home of the right wing.
But all of that and the whole culture is based upon political correctness drown to the point of being cringy. 人に迷惑をかけない (don't cause trouble for other people) is the main motto. Self-censorship is rampant. They have separate train carriages for women for example to protect them from even a possibility of chikans. SJWs are different in Japan but it's still there, the whole 苦情/クレーム culture is not that different from that. I guess they are just not as needed because government was quite progressive and liberal over the years. Technically LDP is right-wing by Japan standards but it will be considered outright communist by the US standards. They are technically capitalist but they have extreme form of socialism underneath the capitalism. Industry and business is heavily regulated and taxed. They have universal health care, vast social security, high minimum wage, a lot of worker protections, etc.
Logan Ward
*political correctness driven up to the point of being cringy
Robert Johnson
wtf japan
Description: A young girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and almost transparent white skin fights a war on the frontline, where she kills her enemies without mercy. Her name is Tanya Degurechov. Although she looks like a little girl and has a cute voice, she is an elite commander of the imperial army. Tanya puts her career on first priority and made her goal to become the most feared magician in the imperial army.
It’s funny because Jow Forumstards would only have a problem with this if the protagonist’s complexion were slightly darker.
Aiden Davis
>at the end of it all they're women, not butch dykes as in the west You sure? There are a lot of anime where women are butch dykes. >far from being glorified Eh? Almost all of the BL glorifies male gay relationships to a point of ridiculousness. >all of these struggles are oriented towards personal freedom rather than some idiotic notion of equality Yet there are a lot of humane and empathic aspects in those struggles which is kinda similar to the struggles of liberals.
Nathaniel Wright
Autism.
Evan Barnes
Just follow the noes
Jews or lack of jews unite the most unlikely groups
>Almost all of the BL glorifies male gay relationships Do fucking tell.
Zachary Murphy
Figure it out yourself cocklord.
Aiden Bell
it's better escapism than browsing Jow Forums. since it takes long-term attention span to actually watch it. Jow Forums is infotainment fast food
Levi Long
Junjou Romantica or something like that?
Nicholas Rodriguez
My fucking sides, user
James Lewis
>There are a lot of anime where women are butch dykes. Like what? Are they portrayed as normal people or social outcasts? >Almost all of the BL glorifies male gay relationships to a point of ridiculousness. What the fuck do you expect from a softcore porn genre aimed at women >Yet there are a lot of humane and empathic aspects in those struggles which is kinda similar to the struggles of liberals That says literally fucking nothing.
Christopher Walker
Well, show me an example of this.
Charles Smith
there's no connection user, anime appeals to people from every political affiliation.
>extremist politics actually the most extremist people are sitting in bars and sports clubs and drink tons of alcohol while bragging about their last thailand holiday where they fucked a cute little transboy in his ass
Liam Turner
>having your dick chopped off because you're not really a man, fer reals Normal >I think white people aren't responsible for all the ills of the world Sick extremism
Code Geass is pretty good for starting out although it has its retarded moments.
Evan Nelson
I don't like western media and how everything has politics injected into them. Also alot of Japanese understand western culture better than westerners.
don't listen to him. he's just some ungrateful shit who shits on everything because he can't enjoy anything. people who don't appreciate animes shall rot in their own misery, they don't even deserve watching animes. who cares what some shithead like him says as long as you enjoy watching them. just look at him saying "Jow Forums is not for faggots who want to be spoonfed.". it's because he is full of shit and he knows it, that's why he can't come up with any real arguments.
Angel Foster
I've seen it probably over 10 times along with countless others.
>no one has yet to say Girls und Panzer Its a sports anime about tankfighting, that promotes being a housewife while having some of the best characterization Ive seen in a long time Starts off pretty slow though