Genuinely concerned with people refusing to acknowledge that Japanese media just like every other media has ratings and restrictions and you can, in fact, stop your kid from watching something you know to be truly horrific
Wow Fairouz Ai, an Egyptian and Japanese voice actress, gets to voice an Egyptian and Japanese character! You can hear her speak Arabic as well as Japanese! ๐
Do you let your kid just watch whatever fucked up horror movies too at any age? Is that also their canon event? Why only do this with JP cartoons?? Be serious
Ryuchell, who had recently come out has trans, was found dead from an apparent suicide. They were working so hard on their new image and new music, but transphobic people would harass them tooโฆ I'm crushed. I had such hopes for them.
Since Rurouni Kenshin is getting a remake, friendly reminder that the author Nobuhiro Watsuki is a literal pedophile and was only fined ยฅ200,000 for possessing a hundred videos of child pornography back in 2018
This image is going viral as someone at this convenience store has hand written a sign completely in Japanese saying โTo foreign customers, pointing and saying โthisโ is prohibited. Say โMeat bun, please.โโ ๐ฌ
Friendly reminder the words weeaboo/weeb were originally used to point out when people were being racistly obsessed with Japanese people by focusing on parts of our culture and it got โreclaimedโ to mean โfan of Japanese cartoonsโ
anyway reminder that pripara has this girl whose weight is never made fun of and who is canonically considered beautiful around her, is praised for her natural talent as a model, is popular in-universe and has a banger song
I understand this video is probably a bit but imagine if a kid really did watch Elfen Lied and then later found out their parents knew that was happening and knew what was in that and let them watch it anyway
Itโs 2022 and there are still people who think Japanese people have never seen a Black person irl ๐ฌ especially ones who work in the big cities making video games with built-in international audiencesโฆ
Two basic reasons why itโs messed up:
- JP people point and say โthisโ to order too
- The foreigners who can only use simple JP phrases probably canโt read the sign, doofus
What feels missing from this survey is that working Japanese women are still doing the bulk of housework, so this question is really โWould you rather *just* do housework or do housework while also having a career?โ
@Loyal_Robyn
Blackwashing isnโt a thing because there isnโt a history of systemic erasure of white characters by black people. It can be difficult to understand but historical context makes this sort of thing not equivalent to drawing a poc as white.
โThe other day at Takasaki station they were selling these cat custards. I asked if they really jiggle all that much and the lady at the counter shook the case for me. All the cats moved. I bought one.โ
@KotW94
Iโm aware of this. But weโre not talking about back then. We are talking about today. Adults are supposed to learn from the mistakes of the past and not inflict them on their own children this really isnโt complicated.
"People are dying of hunger," says a Japanese man who's been pushed into poverty because of the pandemic.
500,000 people have lost their jobs in the past six months.
Definitely my favorite Japanese trend is when scammers try to call elderly mothers/grandmothers to get money and their security is โSince youโre my kid you can name all the PreCure right?โ
Okay I already had replied to someone I follow on this topic but I wanted to make a thread about why I, as a Japanese person, have difficulty at best and intolerance at worst when non-Japanese people use our names and words as usernames online and so on. Here we go. (1/
โBoss: Do you watch PreCure?
Me: No...
Boss: My daughter loves Princess PreCure so I bought her a Cure Princess Doll, but she said itโs wrong?
Me: Princess PreCure is one season, but Cure Princess is in a different season
Boss: Do you watch PreCure?
Me: No...โ
Despite the fact that we have our first main boy Cure in Cure Wing, there is no official childrenโs costume for him. OPโs son is a PreCure fan and was happy to go to this event, but cried because he felt left out of the โtransformation cornerโ because there was no Wing costume.
@NemoEntropy
There are ways to present the concept to children for their safety without making them *watch it happen*, be serious. This show is not the example for that omfg
Voice and screen actor Taiki Matsuno died of a brain hemorrhage yesterday. He was 56.
He was the JP voice of SpongeBob, Wisdom in PreCure, Tarte in Fresh PreCure, Rascal in Akazukin Chacha, Agumon in Digimon, Koga in Inuyasha, and Elios in Sailor Moon.
The problem with the myth of "Madoka tainted the magical girl genre" is it ignores the fact that most *children*'s magical girls are always less likely to be exported (to the US), while Toei has been able to focus on a single franchise (PreCure) that overpowers its competition.๐งต
Yknow i think alot of the deku hate is coming from the fact that teachers in the west arenโt treated that well
But in japan and the culture Horikoshi grew up in
teaching in Japan is considered a most honorable profession and teachers are given high respect and payments
I see this breached containmentโฆ Iโm just a Japanese person very tired of the way the world sees us and our media. But mostly I talk about magical girls on here & on my podcast
More importantly, free Palestine! ๐
Wonderful PreCure, the 21st season of the Pretty Cure franchise, will start Feb. 4th!
Let's meet the characters of Animal Town, including our first dog protagonist?!
One thing I love about Ojamajo Doremi is whenever someone even whispers the thought โShould I watch Doremi?โ A flood of diehards swarm with tales of how the show rewired their brain and saved them from the dark abyss of sadness, etc.
They put Go Princess PreCure on Crunchyroll so everyone could actually send people somewhere officially to understand that My Adventures with Superman was not referencing Sailor Moon
Whenever I see some take complaining how โPreCure seems to be appealing to five year oldsโ Iโm always flabbergasted because like, who do you think this cartoon is for
Itโs more than just a stunning transformation sequence for a magical girl series.
Cure Nyammyโs transformation is less than a minute long, contains references to Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, TroPre, and HiroPre, and still feels new and incredibly unique. ๐ฑโจ
As a friendly reminder โLillianโ is the Japanese name for a knitting spool. Because they are cheap and easy to use for a lot of kids itโs their first introduction to knitting!
Sailor Mercury popularity discourse is happening and even as a lifelong Sailor Mercury fan I need it to be understood that the reason why she is the most popular Sailor Guardian by a landslide is she is the platonic ideal of a young Japanese woman. Sheโs an archetype.
The assumption that all Asian massage therapists are sex workers or victims of sex trafficking almost destroyed my motherโs career in massage therapy. Support Asian sex workers but please continue to check yourself.
Genuine question why are people using the r slur in full swing again like itโs the early 2000s??? Iโm genuinely baffled?? I thought this was done and over with??
Here are some fun facts Iโve pulled from the Soaring Sky PreCure issue of Animage!
I will continue updating when I have time to go through the full magazine!
Btw when a Japanese company requires you to move to japan but they say โwilling to move to japanโ on the job offer that means youโre paying for that flight lmao
One of my colleagues at my new job doesnโt seem to realize that I actually know Japanese and has been casually talking trash about me to the others right in front of me, and at this point Iโm just looking forward to the day she realizes I caught every word
One last note about Cure Butterfly: her hummer appears in both her transformation and her attack. Impact frame easter eggs are one of the signature parts of any Yoshiyama animation.
I wish there was a way to never see any โJapan didnโt have a lockdown and have so few covid cases/deaths because everyone wears masksโ tweets ever again
There is fun subtext in PreCure but good god please do not give PreCure as an actual yuri recommendation that is insulting to the people making actual yuri magical girls
This yahoo comment features the parent of a 4 year old who is a bit small for their age and doesnโt eat much to the point of being anemic. Seeing Cure Precious get so powerful and enjoy food got their child interested in eating lots too!! This parent is super grateful to PreCure.
Mutsumi Inomata has passed away. She was primarily an illustrator known for her very cute girls and cats, but also worked in animation, including Minky Momo and Mai-HiME. She was 63.
I was not allowed to do ANY CARTOONING in my American art school unless I showed evidence my art style was not inspired by Japanese artists. Same for my non-Japanese Asian American classmates. Anyone who knows the history of cartooning should know how fucked that is.
While the woman whose tweets made this happen is not online yet Iโm seeing other comments from excited parents with PreCure sons sharing the good news about the Cure Wing costume and Iโm so happy for them ๐ญ
Friendly reminder if youโre getting into Ojamajo Doremi for the first time that because the series is from the 2000s, the fan subs include the r word, but Doremi would never use that