Blackstone buys major Japanese manga publisher!

Well, chasing after anything profitable has been huge for western corporations for decades now. Anime is mainstream media, so all this is inevitable. I don't think it'll have too much impact on the industry tbh. This DEI thing will not work, cuz it goes against what anime is fundamentally. "Inclusion" is nothing more than a strategical term being thrown around by large companies to make easy profit, so if it fails to make profit it is abandoned immediately.

isnt that a good thing or am i missing something?

@TsutanaiFuun It means modern West minded woke manga is incoming.

@Coaghim nooooooo :(((

but it clearly wont sell as much so they will have to go back to their old ways is what i like to believe. i mean most of us here loath that woke shit and if that starts to appear in mangas then most of us wont read or enjoy those mangas, right?

@TsutanaiFuun Blackstone will buy so much stocks that they will gain the power to steer the company wherever they desire and they don't care about the initial disruptive consequences on the market. Blackstone itself will always survive by being a kind of parasite that has penetrated nearly all markets on this planet. Sadly Blackstone only cares about pushing the agenda and streamlining/creating the hivemind they desire. In other words, Blackstone loves to engage in culture wars. Divide & conquer. It's the equivalent of (super ultra) rich people playing Crusader Kings essentially.

You don't have to believe me, feel free to go on the net and investigate yourself.

"DEI" doesn't exist in media. It's a corporate term that refers to inclusive hiring practices that prevent you from excluding people from a job they're otherwise qualified for due to factors such as their race, gender, or sexuality.

Anyone who cries "DEI" or "SBI" whenever they see black people or women in media is just a bigoted moron being taken advantage of by grifters on social media who are banking on people being dumb enough to believe that diversity in media is a "new" phenomenon, and that it's part of some "woke agenda" being pushed by "woke" companies, rather than something that's been happening for decades, across some of the biggest and most iconic film franchises of the 80s and 90s, and even in early 3D video games.

Besides that, the publishers often don't have too much of a say in the content of the manga they publish outside of some general guidelines that the mangaka have to follow. If you see diversity in your anime and manga, it's because the mangaka want it. Like Hirohiko Araki, who wrote a strong female protagonist in Stone Ocean (serialized from 1999 to 2003 IIRC, before the terms "wokeness", or "DEI" ever existed), because he wanted to make Weekly Shounen Jump readers more accepting of strong female protagonists.

@ShatteredSans Then how do you justify what's going on with the entire video game industry right now? And don't forget how Hollywood went to complete ruin the moment these DEI investors came aboard and started producing these gender/race inclusive media while also hiring talentless actors, writers, and directors just because they belonged to a certain gender/race.

The fact is that DEI does exist and it promotes hiring people based on race/gender instead of their talent and these talentless apes then proceed to make media that is shittier than some Tumblr fanfiction of Twilight. When the writer actually wants to write a female character then it works because he has a creative vision for it(Maomao, Vi, Jolyne, etc.) but if he is forced to do it because some woke braindead investor told him to, it results in a character that is made only to check the boxes turning her into a boring girl boss that the audience hates(Rey, Captain Marvel, whatever that ugly bitch from Acolyte is called, etc.)

And then we have the final piece of this mess, YOU. Whenever someone points out this shit then you immediately start playing the " You are a rAcIsT/bIgOt/hOmOpHoBe" card to justify this enshittification of media. What this does is it actually turns the person you are targeting and those reading your stupid arguments into said bigots who are then taken advantage of by the grifters.

@AshuAmbrose what's going on in the gaming industry right now is that corporate executives who are out of touch and care solely about chasing trends and making profits are forcing developers to make games that they either don't want to make (Redfall), that only exist for brand synchronicity (Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League), or that are just conceptually bad (that Gollum game), rather than letting the creatives in these companies make the games they want, which, in addition to rushing out games that aren't finished yet to please investors and pushing live-service elements in games where they don't belong (Avengers and Gotham Knights) is resulting in a lot of bad games, and incredibly buggy and unpolished games releasing every year. But none of that has anything to do with "wokeness" or "DEI". It's just capitalism doing its thing, and the quality of art suffering as a consequence. None of these problems would be solved by replacing all black, female, or LGBT developers, writers, or directors with white men.

I never claimed that DEI in general doesn't exist, only that it doesn't exist in media. If you could actually read, perhaps you would've picked up on what I meant, because I already spelled it out. "DEI" is a corporate term used to refer to inclusive hiring practices, not when black people, women, or LGBT people show up in your movies, TV shows, and video games.

And no, I don't just randomly call people racist for just criticizing media in general. That's a BS way that you "anti-woke" morons like to deflect from any criticism of your bigotry. If you want to legitimately criticize the writing, gameplay, visuals, or other aspects of a piece of media, there's nothing wrong with that, but "oh no, there's black people in the new GTA trailer! It's gone woke! DEI! SBI! Video games are supposed to be escapism!" Is not a valid criticism. It's just racism, and if pointing that out makes someone into a racist that's manipulated by grifters, chances are they were already racist to begin with.

@rsc-pl

If you are really upset about me calling out people for spreading hateful conspiracies you really need to reevaluate your priorities instead of buying into said hateful conspiracies.

@LSSJ_Gaming Weird how you spread hate when you say you are calling out hate... Really calling yourself out in the process huh

So you're against Stan Lee writing Heroman? What about Felipe Smith? Are you against those? What about anime adaptation of webtoons and Chinese manhua? What about Kurokami (the creators are South Korean)?

Oh, and what about Shotaro Ishinomori's Zelda: A Link to the Past OEL manga?

Do you realize when you're saying you're against DEI, you're also saying you're against having Stan Lee, and Felipe Smith getting involved in doing manga, or Japan adapting webtoons and Manhua into anime. That's Japan being inclusive and being diverse by doing that.

Do you realize some of those right-wingers have also said things negative about anime like Matt Walsh for example. I can say the same for Tucker Carlson.