Yes . Its why the anime community has been invaded by shitty tourists and is no longer what it once was anymore
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I looked up the author of this article and found his twitter and he's one of those very conservative Christian types and he wasn't even an anime fan and he thought watching anime was cringe but he just got pestered in to watching Frieren and then decided he liked it and then he said something stupid like "Until Frieren I did not know that the Japanese had produced anything for the right wing, and here I am still looking." As if he's never heard of LOTGH, Spy X family and Fullmetal Alchemist.
But you can already tell he would be the type to start bitching about certain other common tropes in anime that he might not like if he gets more in to it.
God damn i hate tourists . Especially political tourists.
You can put down those "very conservative Christian types" all you want, but they stood against the Hellmouth when it started to infiltrate society, and look where we are now.
I was there, in the 1990s, when 1992 Republican VP Candidate Dan Quale chided the TV show Murphy Brown for showing a single white women having a child as a single mother. He was roundly condemned for doing that, then.
Where are we now?
Are there any tv shows on now that show a normal, well adjusted white family where the father is in the home, engaged, and not made the butt of all the jokes because he's an idiot or a spaz?
No, there isn't.
May i remind you that we also got the "Pokemon is Satanic and DnD is Satanic" types as well
If it were up to me i would have preferred if anime had remained niche and stayed that way instead of going mainstream, then we wouldn't have to have this debate at all and we wouldn't have to deal with political hounds from either side coming after it and it would stay in the territory of nerds and nerds only.
You're not wrong, but it's important to remember how exaggerated it was, too. We were getting it filtered through legacy media that hated Christians.
I always heard much more about how crazy the Christians were, than actually saw any Christians being crazy.
It's also worth pointing out that things like the PMRC, the organizations with actual power that were censoring things and imposing their views, including going after things for having perceived aspects of the occult, were liberal wives of politicians, such as most famously Tipper Gore.
It wasn't "very conservative Christians" sticking their noses into music and other entertainment.
I went to Church 7 days a week as a youth between two different denominations in a very backwoods Southern town, as in the most cliche possible place for a "ah mah god its Satan's work!" reactions.
The only attack or ban on Pokemon anything my entire Parish saw was the banning of the cards because of gambling problems on the school grounds and the banning of Gameboys as a whole because of distractions. Completely reasonable reactions, I'd say.
My mother did question if Harry Potter was Satanic to me once, but dismissed it fast once she read it a little. And you know where she got that idea?
Well the MSM told her it. And we all know the MSM loves to just make up moral panics from basically one retard somewhere and then scare everyone into following through social pressures.
So once again, it was a completely fabricated piece of delusions that the media treated as a totally real and dangerous thing, which then willed it into reality by scaring ignorant older folks into following along. Which then everyone seemed to collectively forget the original source and blame those naive fools. It was literally "kids are eating tide pods" level.
Have you seen the people playing it now? The art for it now? The things that company does?
They may have had a point. And if it wasn't then, it certainly is now. It's all so queer now, I struggle to think of a franchise more pozzed.
Not satanic, but demonic for sure. I doubt even Satan would put up with this crap. This is some Chaos energy.
No they didnt have a point , obviously DnD NOW is bad, but DnD in the past? There wasn't anything wrong with it .
The pope right now is bad and woke so does that mean all popes since the beginning are bad and woke?
Leftist media promoted the satanic panic in order to discredit the right.
Correct. Some fringe "Christian groups" get LOTS of Media attention don't they? When it serves the leftist purposes.
"Nerd shit (anime) is too mainstream! It needs to go back to the fringes!"
"Remember when nerd shit (D&D) wasn't mainstream and it got ridiculed? Those mean old mainstreamers!"
Pick a lane.
GOD DAMN. MAY GOD SMITE THIS TOURIST. FUCKING TOURISTS. I HATE THESE PEOPLE. HATE. HATE. HATE
boy, you are no less deranged than the people you claim to oppose.
P.S. i would not call on God for anything when you hate Christians this much.
Especially as all he does is post about Frieren, the biggest mainstream anime of last year, and then lists off three of the most mainstream shows possible.
Its literally a newfag calling a slightly newer fag a newfag.
I think we should vet anime fans by making them rattle off the weirdest shows they've watched to completion.
Wierd is too easy, you will just end up with gag series that everyone watched. Pop Team Epic or Lucky Star types.
You need to vet using extremely mid shows that you not only would not have heard of when they were actually airing, but you might be the only person that still remembers their existence.
Buso Renkin is my choice. Jiken Jaken is my manga choice (which contains the meme worthy line of "How do you make a boy notice you?" "By having white skin.")
How much does Serial Experiments Lain rate these days?
Or require that Kodomo no Jikan get at least an 8 on their MAL...
I've been reading/watching anime/manga since 20 years ago. Which is probably longer than you have. And i listed off the other anime because he wanted to know what anime would work for right wingers specifically. if i listed off the more weirder anime, , right wing normies wouldn't like them.
And LOTGH is highly rated but not mainstream, most people haven't seen it.
Well considering I got my first start with Toonami, which is nearly 30 years old now, it seems like you are wrong there. And I was watching some of my buddy's older brother's bootleg imports before that but I can't remember what they were so we can not count it. But good try, my nigger.
Its one of the most commonly named anime out there. Its entirely mainstream, despite nobody having seen it, because its super popular for people to name it for weeb cred to seem more deep and smart than they are.
He did use the GD expletive but he probably only meant it in the common way not literally "God, damn them!"
"Until Frieren I did not know that the Japanese had produced anything for the right wing, and here I am still looking." As if he's never heard of LOTGH, Spy X family and Fullmetal Alchemist."
I've watched a few anime shows including full metal alchemist. I wouldn't call myself a fanatic, but I've pretty much loved all of the anime I watched. That said, I've never heard of LOTGH, Spy X family, or even Frieren before now
Or basically any sports anime.