Do you think Japan/Anime/Manga industry will bend the knee?
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@FallenOmegaStar Oh, I’m not a complete optimist. I do agree things always get worse before they get better. There’s a reason the term “hitting rock bottom” exists.
What I am is a realist both in regular terms and by the definition of International Relations Theory. I’m also a pragmatist, and I try to look at everything using flat logic with all the facts on hand. I try not to make assumptions or talk beyond what I know. One of my many useless pieces of paper is a History Degree, so whenever I try to understand everything that is going on, I look for the historical parallels. There is always something the past can teach to help understand and cope/navigate with the present. That’s how I try to keep a handle on everything. Find answers in the past to craft a solution for the present.
Now, yeah. We are in unprecedented times with the existence of Big Tech, but in the end, it’s still Marxist Thugs behind it all. And yeah, they have the advantage with so much of the population doped up by technology, but the fact that we here are having this discussion, and that with persistence and careful execution as smarter individuals all around we are capable of using the tactics of the enemy against them, we can bit by bit turn the tables. And as always, they are always gonna in fight and weaken their own defenses.
Just look at Bill Fucking Maher….one of the biggest liberal bomb throwers of this era…and he’s turning on the woke brigade. Like him or not, he has a big audience that blindly listens to him…and he’s turning his lefty guns on his own side.
This is battle of inches. We fight for what we need and do not give up the ground we liberate.
Like Patton said, “I don’t like paying for the same real estate twice.”
I can definitely see Japanese entertainment in this day and age becoming “woke”, why? because in 2008 Konami went super woke with Metal Gear Solid 4, by making Meryl into a man-hating caricature of her original self, that was 13 years ago, at this point I have little doubt that not only Konami, but other Japanese companies will be willing to go that route now that it has been normalised, personally I am a little worried about the new Resident Evil animated series, because even though it’s made in Japan, there’s no knowing how much the writers have been influenced by western garbage by now, also due to contractual obligations, the writers might be under orders from Netflix to put in woke stuff even if they don’t agree with it, this has happened before, for example Batman used to be a pro gun character, then he was made anti gun, some of his stories were written by conservative Chuck Dixon, who admitted that he followed orders from the editors to put in anti gun messages despite himself being in the NRA.
And yes, stock up on Blu Ray and DVD, I was always a skeptic of streaming being the new “format”, because ultimately it’s all about having leverage over us by being able to censor, ban and rewrite history with impunity, and ultimately, I don’t feel comfortable having to constantly pay my dues to watch something that I could watch for free offline after paying once.
I can definitely see Japanese entertainment in this day and age becoming “woke”, why? because in 2008 Konami went super woke with Metal Gear Solid 4, by making Meryl into a man-hating caricature of her original self, that was 13 years ago
To be fair, that was all Kojima and he’s not the gaming legend that everyone thinks he is. All those Metal Gear games you enjoyed was written/co-written by Tomokazu Fukushima. He left after MGS3 which is why MGS4 had a lot of crap that didn’t make sense. Kojima idolizes Hollywood too much and hellbent in being a movie producer which is why his latest game is trash. Can’t speak about MGS5 though since I never played it.
Do you think Konomi being a huge holding company vs. just a game studio played into that version of the game in 2008?
@Vknid To be honest, I’m not sure if it was a top down or bottom up decision, I haven’t heard anything about the decision to make Meryl that way from any inside sources in the same vein that Chuck Dixon revealed about why Batman doesn’t like guns ( which was ordered top down and confirmed to be not reflective of Dixon’s views on guns), I do know from some very basic research that Hideo Kojima was previously creatively “restrained” in some way back in his early career (not sure regarding exactly what though) and that his MGS games were not entirely his creation but also the work of another Japanese writer and a Canadian (if memory serves) dialogue editor, most bizarrely of all was that Meryl didn’t even originate from MGS, but was from another unrelated game Kojima worked on called “Policenauts” and that she was designed by another person, it seems bottom up since there’s no evidence they company gave any particular orders, though it can be ether way or a combination of both.I am with you on the streaming stuff. You own nothing in that case and they are free to censor, ban and change all they want. I keep a large movie collection at home. And almost none of it goes beyond 2010. I believe that is the year Hollywood decided to make nothing outside of propaganda.
I like streaming as an alternate to cable TV (though I admit that I still like the “randomness” of it), but as a replacement for actually owning your content in the form of discs and downloads? for the love of God NO? I cannot for the life of me understand people who throw away their DVDs “Because it’s on Netflix now”, Netflix and these other platforms don’t have as much movies as they’re cracked up to be (which is why I sometimes felt like I wasted my time paying for a subscription), also they add and remove stuff all the time, and probably will until they obtain the hegemony they desire, and after that point will only “drop” stuff for political reasons.
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