Gonna press X to doubt on this whole sentiment as I recall Ichigo's odd hair color being used as a reason to bully him. Having weird hair colors in Japan goes pretty hard against the grain because their society has such a strong penchant for conforming. Nail that stands up gets hammered down and all that.
It's been a thing for fucking decades so ofc OP only just now heard of it and had to blog. This was one of the big points about the original Super Saiyan look. Going from black hair to bright yellow. Chi-Chi even exclaims Gohan looks like a gang member during the Cell Games saga when both Goku and Gohan have managed to attain a permanent SSJ1 state to skip the power-up.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
Its such a common thing that a character having blond hair is supposed to be visual storytelling to fill you in about a character's personality and backstory in a lot of works. They are either a rebel/delinquent, or a foreigner (and always at least partially Japanese because otherwise that's a big problem for them).
This doesn't always apply in series with rainbow colors present, but even then the blond specifically often will still get singled out as a big deal because of how much cultural baggage the Japs have with it.
It's really common. Persona 5 had it with Ann and her entire thing being an 'hafu', and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai's MC had people assuming he dyed his hair despite it being a natural color.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
You're an autistic idiot who fails to grasp that my grievance has absolutely nothing to do with Trump or the election. Shut your damned mouth until you have a better understanding.
Pretty sure Mari222 is not an industry insider and the bit about banks is just them guessing.
Japanese companies are NOTORIOUS for being resistant to borrowing. They operate their books on cashflow rather than credit. It's admirable, sort of, but the unwillingness to take on debt at all is a contributing factor to why they've spent the last 30 years in stagflation.
Yes, but it also means you don't attempt to grow with business cycles. There is such a thing as being TOO risk averse.
But in this case... for better or worse, banks have basically no sway over the animation industry; not IN Japan anyway. You can't pressure on someone who doesn't owe you anything.
Pretending like the banks don't have any power is naive. And if the banks didn't , the card companies certainly do, like how mastercard and Visa by making it so that people can't buy Japanese things with cards
Doesn't really influence what gets greenlit. Anime producers know what sells. So far as I've seen their response to western prudishness has been contempt.
They'll make more money slapping the latest anime tiddies on a JR card than they will from Visa and MasterCard combined.
They also know what doesnt sell. So you will see anime producers sometimes pick up some sort of woke media because someone made a good pitch and tried to convince them it would sell. Then when it doesnt, instead of doubling down like a Western company would, they say "Well, so much for that" and move on to the next one.
Gonna press X to doubt on this whole sentiment as I recall Ichigo's odd hair color being used as a reason to bully him. Having weird hair colors in Japan goes pretty hard against the grain because their society has such a strong penchant for conforming. Nail that stands up gets hammered down and all that.
It's been a thing for fucking decades so ofc OP only just now heard of it and had to blog. This was one of the big points about the original Super Saiyan look. Going from black hair to bright yellow. Chi-Chi even exclaims Gohan looks like a gang member during the Cell Games saga when both Goku and Gohan have managed to attain a permanent SSJ1 state to skip the power-up.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
Its such a common thing that a character having blond hair is supposed to be visual storytelling to fill you in about a character's personality and backstory in a lot of works. They are either a rebel/delinquent, or a foreigner (and always at least partially Japanese because otherwise that's a big problem for them).
This doesn't always apply in series with rainbow colors present, but even then the blond specifically often will still get singled out as a big deal because of how much cultural baggage the Japs have with it.
It's really common. Persona 5 had it with Ann and her entire thing being an 'hafu', and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai's MC had people assuming he dyed his hair despite it being a natural color.
The ultra conservatives of any culture are always against dying the hair . That doesnt mean there wasn't a "coolness" culture surronding it. Just like in the West, dying your hair didn't originally have a stigma of being a woke activist but only recently is that now a thing.
More zero context .jpg posting as if it means anything or is real.
Get your fucking shit together man.
Trump won and you're still acting like this is going to make him lose.
You're an autistic idiot who fails to grasp that my grievance has absolutely nothing to do with Trump or the election. Shut your damned mouth until you have a better understanding.
Trump won.
You're going to get what you want.
And you're blackpilling.
I swear this board WANTS to be angry.
Erm...
Pretty sure Mari222 is not an industry insider and the bit about banks is just them guessing.
Japanese companies are NOTORIOUS for being resistant to borrowing. They operate their books on cashflow rather than credit. It's admirable, sort of, but the unwillingness to take on debt at all is a contributing factor to why they've spent the last 30 years in stagflation.
Being resistant to borrowing is a good thing. Also the problem is the card companies
Yes, but it also means you don't attempt to grow with business cycles. There is such a thing as being TOO risk averse.
But in this case... for better or worse, banks have basically no sway over the animation industry; not IN Japan anyway. You can't pressure on someone who doesn't owe you anything.
Pretending like the banks don't have any power is naive. And if the banks didn't , the card companies certainly do, like how mastercard and Visa by making it so that people can't buy Japanese things with cards
That doesn't bother the producers in the slightest.
"Fuck America" is not an uncommon sentiment over there. They don't care if we buy or not.
True but the comment is about ccard transactions not loans.
Shrug
Doesn't really influence what gets greenlit. Anime producers know what sells. So far as I've seen their response to western prudishness has been contempt.
They'll make more money slapping the latest anime tiddies on a JR card than they will from Visa and MasterCard combined.
They also know what doesnt sell. So you will see anime producers sometimes pick up some sort of woke media because someone made a good pitch and tried to convince them it would sell. Then when it doesnt, instead of doubling down like a Western company would, they say "Well, so much for that" and move on to the next one.
Yes they do.
Incidentally the biggest title in Japan right now is a setting that has legalized prostitution and state sanctioned indentured service.
I once saw that kind of hair translated from Japanese as "primary color hair" and had a good laugh.