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Jan 9, 2019 5:18 AM

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Another controversy huh, This is why I watch hentai instead.
Go read 'Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece' If you like webnovel with historical, military and kingdom building genre.
Jan 9, 2019 5:21 AM

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copyrightRingo said:
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I don't know how it rebukes slavery if slavery still exists and the hero doesn't do anything against despite his status AND despite the fact he is coming from our modern society.


Or is slavery abolished at the end of the story ?


The story explores on slaves on one arc. Is slavery abolished? It's illegal by law, but people are still doing it.


That would be a good argument.
Nevertheless, it's illegal but the royal family does not implement nor execute the law and let the hero goes on with it.

Furthermore, back then pro-slavery people argue that the economy couldn't work and society would crumble without slavery, it was a kind of necessary evil.

Here in the manga our hero can not fight the waves without his slave and his pet (that's the way the story is written).

It's the same kind of "necessary evil" argument we got one or two hundred years ago.


Having said that, I still think the main goal of slavery in this story is fetishisation of the master-servant and a certain kind of man-woman relationship and maybe he takes also inspiration from some fantasy games.
I don't think the author is pro-slavery though, he just doesn't care and he thinks it's "useful" for the story but because he doesn't care it can be read as something acceptable "if there's no better way" and that's not so cool.
Jan 9, 2019 6:31 AM
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ANN is a joke. Apparently anyone can write there and be called an expert, no knowledge is needed.

I found the misogyny article really funny but the one that refuted it was the real gold.


Link to the article that refuted it ? lmao


it was on a blog named unnecessaryexclamationmark ...something
Jan 9, 2019 6:52 AM
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Ysad_Ziwezhan said:
copyrightRingo said:


The story explores on slaves on one arc. Is slavery abolished? It's illegal by law, but people are still doing it.


That would be a good argument.
Nevertheless, it's illegal but the royal family does not implement nor execute the law and let the hero goes on with it.

Furthermore, back then pro-slavery people argue that the economy couldn't work and society would crumble without slavery, it was a kind of necessary evil.

Here in the manga our hero can not fight the waves without his slave and his pet (that's the way the story is written).

It's the same kind of "necessary evil" argument we got one or two hundred years ago.


Having said that, I still think the main goal of slavery in this story is fetishisation of the master-servant and a certain kind of man-woman relationship and maybe he takes also inspiration from some fantasy games.
I don't think the author is pro-slavery though, he just doesn't care and he thinks it's "useful" for the story but because he doesn't care it can be read as something acceptable "if there's no better way" and that's not so cool.

Another social justice warrior.
Its just a plot in a work of fiction, why do you feel the need to look for any kind of controversy, promoting negative things and all that shit. It is not important, it is just an imaginary setting inside an imaginary story.
If you want to dig into problem in every work of fiction then 99% of them have something negative in them, do you want to persecute each and every one of them?
Unless autor tries to rally people to bring slavery back, there is nothing wrong in depicting it in one way or another inside a fantasy.
Jan 9, 2019 7:00 AM

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fuckin hell controversy again? I thought we had enough from just Goblin Slayer and Zombieland Saga.
Jan 9, 2019 8:47 AM
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@Huex3 Try to give me an example?


nahh I give up. You seem to genuinely believe you're fighting the good fight. good luck hero!
Jan 9, 2019 9:39 AM

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Hm, I certainly mistook her gender. Thank you for the correction. That being said, it's not like women can't be sexist or support slavery, so it doesn't make the books any less problematic.


The sexism and slavery are both extremely shallow takes though. The series is highly critical of the slavery system and Naofumi only utilizes it as a manner of survival. The first episode, or the first arc even is only more or less the prologue of the story anyway, Its a little quick to judge the entire merits of the story based on a cursory first glance. Calling a Bitch a Bitch isn't any more sexist than calling a bastard a bastard. I think you're taking all the wrong things away from the incident in the first episode. Naofumi loses his ability to trust people over the incident. Pretty much the only person he thinks favorably of at first is the blacksmith and thats practically only because the blacksmith was the only person to show Naofumi a bit of kindness (and he helped him out).

A lot of this story is about a guy who lost his ability to trust and give faith to people, regaining that through his interaction with his companions. What is problematic anyway? That an author dared to insinuate that a rape accusation could be weaponized and used by a malicious actor to ruin someones life? The author in no way insinuated this was a normal, usual or acceptable thing so what is problematic about it? Keep in mind this was written back in 2013 or so.

I would like to point out that I've read first 7 LNs, so I think calling it 'quick to judge' is rather stretching it.

As for what's problematic, please refer to my earlier post
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Promoting slavery is simple: the MC supports actual slavery by being a slave master. That's bad enough but furthermore


I've mostly focused on the slavery bit but as for misogyny

EDIT: tl;dr: Guys get to be heroes, girls get to be slaves. Real subtle, guys.


@Xederpl No topic is forbidden, but the author's writing is so bad as it comes off as misogynist and promoting slavery. As for why, please refer to my quote above. So as you can see this is a problem, unless you specifically want to promote those (which I assume you don't)?

@Huex3 Well, thank you for at least providing your viewpoint. I hope you found my arguments reasonable.
Jan 9, 2019 10:28 AM
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@NthDegree

And once again, no it's not a problem. Its a work of fiction nothing more.
You can write a story based on anything you wish, even if it is considered evil, good, or in the middle. The only reason people nitpick on it, is because they are social justice warriors who are allergic to any topic related to different colours, woman, homosexuality and all that stuff who are a plague today.
Once again, there are stories about murder from a killers perspective with motives and all that stuff and noone says that it promotes murder, because any thinking person would understand that it is just that, a work of fiction.
And once again, if you want to nitpick, you can nitpick at literally everything.
Nisekoi is promoting woman physical and mental violence against the main hero.
Shrek promotes murder as long as the target is considered evil.
Examples can go on and on, and once again, any thinking person will understand that just because it is in the show doesn't mean that it promotes said thing.

You are creating a problem that wouldn't exist in the first place.
Noone would notice that anything is wrong with how the show is presented if it wasn't for people like you who go everywhere just to nitpick a problem and blow it out of proportion.
You are helping literally nobody. No slave would care about slavery being presented in an anime.
On the contrary, some people find relief in a fact that there are people who suffered the same way they did. It brings them a peace of mind, not because they wish more people would suffer, but because they know that they are not monsters, alone in the world, that there are people like them and that it is not forbidden for them to live after what was done to them.
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Ysad_Ziwezhan said:
copyrightRingo said:


The story explores on slaves on one arc. Is slavery abolished? It's illegal by law, but people are still doing it.


That would be a good argument.
Nevertheless, it's illegal but the royal family does not implement nor execute the law and let the hero goes on with it.

Furthermore, back then pro-slavery people argue that the economy couldn't work and society would crumble without slavery, it was a kind of necessary evil.

Here in the manga our hero can not fight the waves without his slave and his pet (that's the way the story is written).

It's the same kind of "necessary evil" argument we got one or two hundred years ago.


Having said that, I still think the main goal of slavery in this story is fetishisation of the master-servant and a certain kind of man-woman relationship and maybe he takes also inspiration from some fantasy games.
I don't think the author is pro-slavery though, he just doesn't care and he thinks it's "useful" for the story but because he doesn't care it can be read as something acceptable "if there's no better way" and that's not so cool.
Ysad_Ziwezhan said:
copyrightRingo said:


The story explores on slaves on one arc. Is slavery abolished? It's illegal by law, but people are still doing it.


That would be a good argument.
Nevertheless, it's illegal but the royal family does not implement nor execute the law and let the hero goes on with it.

Furthermore, back then pro-slavery people argue that the economy couldn't work and society would crumble without slavery, it was a kind of necessary evil.

Here in the manga our hero can not fight the waves without his slave and his pet (that's the way the story is written).

It's the same kind of "necessary evil" argument we got one or two hundred years ago.


Having said that, I still think the main goal of slavery in this story is fetishisation of the master-servant and a certain kind of man-woman relationship and maybe he takes also inspiration from some fantasy games.
I don't think the author is pro-slavery though, he just doesn't care and he thinks it's "useful" for the story but because he doesn't care it can be read as something acceptable "if there's no better way" and that's not so cool.



As I understand this story do tell that slavery is bad. Just if you are given choice take slave as helper or die alone what will be your chose?
Jan 9, 2019 11:18 AM

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This entire thread is asinine.
SJWs, Antifas and snowflakes have taken over the message boards. I suggest all the forums to be shut down indefinitely to purge the toxic environment they cause.
"Manga readers are annoying, all they do is complain or spoil the anime we discuss in an anime forum.
They should really do their whining at manga forums.


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Jan 9, 2019 11:36 AM

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Another snowflake theme ... fictional world can be different than ponnies and happy clouds ...same goes for reality, just deal with it or cry at home, just dont bother everyone else.... im still wondering how someone can take those snowflakes seriously tho :D ...i remembered valkyria chronicles 4 accusation, that was funny af :D
Jan 9, 2019 11:45 AM

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no-one cared about rape accusations/.
Jan 9, 2019 11:45 AM

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Groenboys said:
fuckin hell controversy again? I thought we had enough from just Goblin Slayer and Zombieland Saga.


There is not one ? where is it.
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Sooooo, is To Kill a Mockingbird now considered alt-right sexist trash? If you believe so, you're going to quickly run out of media to consume. Otherwise, lets see where this goes.

On the slavery front, Shieldbro thus far, even after the entire world has shunned him and he could care less about anyone there, has still treated everyone fairly. He paid the blacksmith back right away. He sold the skins at the same price the merchant paid the other guy. Yes, he's buying a slave, because in this world, that's about the only person he can trust, but based on what we've been given, at least he should not mistreat her.
Jan 9, 2019 12:00 PM

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If you want to dig into problem in every work of fiction then 99% of them have something negative in them, do you want to persecute each and every one of them?
Unless autor tries to rally people to bring slavery back, there is nothing wrong in depicting it in one way or another inside a fantasy.


That's where you're wrong. Saying it's reality or it was reality or it's a fictional setting isn't enough to get away with it.
You can do a movie showing some heros sacrificing their lives crushing a plane in some buildings if you want, I bet the "it's a fiction" argument would not save you in the US.

Nonetheless it's true, like you say, that in many works of fiction there are some points worth criticizing, it's even worse in the anime world (that's just my impression) and you're right that it's too tiring to focus on that every time.
On the other hand, right here, I'm just a bit bothered once again about the "obligatory" slave status of the female character and even more with the "it's good, I want it" and the "the male master is so nice anyway".

But yeah, it's not the end of the world and it's not the first nor the last time I'll see something like that in a shounen/seinen "setting". It's still lame tough.


@gamers12
The hero can survive without the slave. You can see it in the first episode.
The slave tool is just a shortcut at the beginning and then a "necessary evil" imposed by the author of the manga.
Jan 9, 2019 12:20 PM

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@gamers12
The hero can survive without the slave. You can see it in the first episode.
The slave tool is just a shortcut at the beginning and then a "necessary evil" imposed by the author of the manga.


Did you just completely ignore that the wave exist?
As if he doesn't get killed during the wave. No, he can't hide. He gets teleported to the battlefield when the wave starts.
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"True, I've given up on the real world. However, I haven't given up on myself!! The world doesn't get to decide whether my life is boring, fun, or ordinary because that's my decision to make!! As long as I have the will, nothing is impossible!!" -Katsuragi Keima
Jan 9, 2019 12:31 PM

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Gerver said:

Also newfags who dont know when Shield Hero was released will say "boo hoo another isekai with slave girl harem we've seen it 1000 times"


Regardless of source material release date the only reason this series is getting an anime is because the current isekai craze same reasin most movies in America are super hero movies. If you're saying that's not a factor the I fear for your future business endeavors

Shiro_cze said:
Another snowflake theme ... fictional world can be different than ponnies and happy clouds ...same goes for reality, just deal with it or cry at home, just dont bother everyone else.... im still wondering how someone can take those snowflakes seriously tho :D ...i remembered valkyria chronicles 4 accusation, that was funny af :D


What valkyria chronicles accusation?
"among monsters and humans, there are only two types.
Those who undergo suffering and spread it to others. And those who undergo suffering and avoid giving it to others." -Alice
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“Evil is created when someone gives up on someone else. It appears when everyone gives up on someone as a lost cause and removes their path to salvation. Once they are cut off from everyone else, they become evil.” -Othinus

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@Ysad_Ziwezhan
You are bothered because you have no real problems in your life so you go on and nitpick on some problems in fiction to make you feel good about yourself, or atleast better than those nasty people who write such things and those who watch those things.
You know what helps to fight with slavery? Actually fighting the slavery.
The problem is not presentation of such things in fantasy, the problem is people who take it serious, to the degree that they believe that work of fiction is presenting it in a positive manner in order to pomote it to people, which everyone who is able to think know is not right.
Actually, people who claim themselves to be "feminists", "people against racism", and "people against homophobia", or whoever you want to pick, who everyone else labels as social justice warriors help noone by picking problems like that. On the contrary, they piss so many people off that they bring bad name to those who actually try and do something good in this regard.
Just as an example, when you thought about a feminist 50 years ago, you came with a strong woman, who was fighting for laws for woman, and who wanted equal treatment for both sexes.
Now when you think about feminists, you imagine a yelling lesbian insulting all males, treating males like trash, acting like non-feminist woman don't know what they want, you see all the naked protests, non stop yelling about wage gap and how there are more male CEO than female ones. But you don't see them going to muslim countries to fight how males there treat their females.
While those "good feminists" who actually do that receive the bad name because of those "bad feminists"

And yes, I would not be able to create such a movie, but not because it is really that bad to create such a fiction, but because people like you and like those who I mentioned before will be outraged. Its because of that that movie makers are forced to include atleast one black person and one homosexual person. Its because of that we gat all female remakes of old movies. And because of that, majority of people are so pissed at majority of such movements.

People forgot what they were taught at school, to not believe in everything you see, or hear. Fiction is fiction, it is separate from the real world.

As for the end of your post, I don't know which episode 1 you watched, but in mine, it was clear that although he could have survived without slaves at the beginning, he wouldn't be able to survive / fight with "waves" to get back to his world, which was impossible without getting stronger. And as it was presented he wasn't able to get strong fast enough by his own, nor did anyone else want to help him.
Jan 9, 2019 1:20 PM

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so Im usually into shit bait level conversations but I cant be bothered to read 5 pages. Anyone here with an TLDR for me? What is the consent here?
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It is for Madoka alone." - Homura
or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica.
Jan 9, 2019 1:22 PM
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@NthDegree I find it delusional but I find your advocacy worth fighting for, it's just that it's terribly misplaced because you're targeting a harmless anime. There are a lot more issues out there that deserves attention instead of creating one for something that doesn't deserve it.
Jan 9, 2019 2:35 PM

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Janethan23 said:
This entire thread is asinine.
SJWs, Antifas and snowflakes have taken over the message boards. I suggest all the forums to be shut down indefinitely to purge the toxic environment they cause.


We need to build a firewall between us anime fans and them snowflakes and make them pay for it.
Jan 9, 2019 3:19 PM
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Can’t we just like let this series release a few more episodes before people say ITS THE NEXT BIG CONTROVERSY OMG BAN IT BAN IT. Like come on that’s idiotic
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People writing articles about a show having horrible values isn't a "controversy". Y'all are so quick to get offended at the idea that someone might take offense to something that you managed to actually get offended at them before they said anything about the topic.

And yeah, this show has trash values. And people can talk about how horrible those values are and look at the show with a critical eye. That's not censorship, they're not calling for the show to be cancelled. They are using their freedom of expression to talk about this piece of media. That is in no way similar to the call to ban video games or burn books. Those two things are not even remotely comparable. And you know that. It's just a very convenient, easy argument to make, so you don't care that it doesn't hold even the slightest bit of water.

In these articles, they are pointing out and discussing the elements of a show they found gross. They are not anti-art. They are, in fact, looking at a piece of art with a critical eye as opposed to simply being spoonfed the content without giving a thought to what its place is in the broader context of society. To be critical of a piece of art isn't offensive. It's not a controversy. But you are all so quick to jump on "SJW snowflakes" that you've decided any time anybody thinks something is bad, it's a controversy. You anti-SJW people are so easily offended, it's ridiculous.

As I said earlier, the hypocrisy of threads like these is so painfully obvious that it's hard to believe anyone is actually taking this bait.
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People writing articles about a show having horrible values isn't a "controversy". Y'all are so quick to get offended at the idea that someone might take offense to something that you managed to actually get offended at them before they said anything about the topic.

And yeah, this show has trash values. And people can talk about how horrible those values are and look at the show with a critical eye. That's not censorship, they're not calling for the show to be cancelled. They are using their freedom of expression to talk about this piece of media. That is in no way similar to the call to ban video games or burn books. Those two things are not even remotely comparable. And you know that. It's just a very convenient, easy argument to make, so you don't care that it doesn't hold even the slightest bit of water.

In these articles, they are pointing out and discussing the elements of a show they found gross. They are not anti-art. They are, in fact, looking at a piece of art with a critical eye as opposed to simply being spoonfed the content without giving a thought to what its place is in the broader context of society. To be critical of a piece of art isn't offensive. It's not a controversy. But you are all so quick to jump on "SJW snowflakes" that you've decided any time anybody thinks something is bad, it's a controversy. You anti-SJW people are so easily offended, it's ridiculous.

As I said earlier, the hypocrisy of threads like these is so painfully obvious that it's hard to believe anyone is actually taking this bait.

The show doesn't have trash values as it doesn't have values (that it stands for). It's a work of fiction and the author is not inciting anything. The values that you speak of are the values of the universe of the series. It's not a commentary of real-life society, but some people took it that way as soon as they saw the false rape allegation.

I don't see the anti-SJW crowd getting so easily offended as they are not the ones who conflated fiction with reality. The SJW crowd did. That is why we see some very ridiculous accusations such as the author is misogynist or because the MC judged one woman as a thot, he must be sexist towards all women. The SJW's were the ones that made the series unnecessarily political.

And you're also making a strawman. No one is saying people cannot criticize Tate no Yuusha. People are calling out certain "criticisms", if you can even call them that, as wild hot takes.
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They are, in fact, looking at a piece of art with a critical eye


Definition of "with a critical eye"
: in a manner using or involving careful judgment about the good and bad parts

Yeah... No... If they were looking at it "with a critical eye" then the criticisms would be way more constructive.
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Why is it a big deal now? cause its been out there for a very long time now in the Manga and LN that he was falsely accused. It's a big controversy because it's in anime adaptation now?
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Japan dosent give a flying fuck about landwhales crying over their anime, dosent matter, snowflakes getting triggered by it will only make the series more popular, like it did with goblin slayer.
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Kougeru said:
The people most sensitive seem to be the ones complaining about non-existent outrage lol

That's about 99% of this thread.
There could be 1 ANN article by some idiot saying the anime is terrible, and it will spawn 1,000 threads by anti-sjw's reeeing about it for the next 6 months. Hell, there could be 0 negative sjw articles and they will scream about it anyway.
I'm adverse to hyper sensitive people too, but the most triggered people are always the anti-sjw crowed because they scream like the 1 stupid ANN review is gonna ruin anime forever.

Guys, just let it go and enjoy your anime.
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Not even surprised OP got it right. This type of "outrage" is so ironically predictable it's even funny anymore, and gets less amusing. Starting to understand that NPC meme.

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Why is it a big deal now? cause its been out there for a very long time now in the Manga and LN that he was falsely accused. It's a big controversy because it's in anime adaptation now?


Pretty much. It makes sense since anime is more often marketed and brought over to other audiences, such as the West. It increases exposure for the "normies" that don't really know or care anyways, especially for the source material, to stick their nose in.
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Well there's one thing that is important nowadays, education. Yes it is somewhat a serious matter.
Slowly explaining things to kids so that they don't become stupid adults later.
And with fictions you can educate too or ... comfort people in their ignorance and biases and when it's the later, why not just saying it ? It doesn't hurt much and on the long run, it might help some few, those who are willing to learn and understand.

But again, despite me voicing my view here, I don't take the case here too seriously, I really don't. It would be too tiring. It already is.


@ copyrightRingo

you're right.
"time pressure" plot device and then " level up" plot device.
Necessary evil.

All according to the author's choices. That's the point of the criticism.
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I'm so disgusted with the people who get triggered over works of fiction solely aimed at our enjoyment. Rape and slavery? What? You people are idiots who got triggered over this. If we let you snowflakes dictate what's appropriate then it's the end of anime and entertainment as we know it. There will come a time even depicting war or showing a gun would be considered insensitive. There won't be a ceiling to where they'll be triggered so we shouldn't let them take over by indulging them with their complaints.
These snowflakes should all react to real events happening today instead of hijacking the entertainment aspect of people's lives so they can impose their agendas. Most of us watch anime to be entertained, not to be lectured or judged by what we watch.
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Funny on how reviewer's dislike the shield hero bc false accusations but see promised neverland "children getting murder? Soooo good"
Dont get me wrong i enjoy the anime just pointing out the bs here
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Well there's one thing that is important nowadays, education. Yes it is somewhat a serious matter.
Slowly explaining things to kids so that they don't become stupid adults later.
And with fictions you can educate too or ... comfort people in their ignorance and biases and when it's the later, why not just saying it ? It doesn't hurt much and on the long run, it might help some few, those who are willing to learn and understand.

But again, despite me voicing my view here, I don't take the case here too seriously, I really don't. It would be too tiring. It already is.


@ copyrightRingo

you're right.
"time pressure" plot device and then " level up" plot device.
Necessary evil.

All according to the author's choices. That's the point of the criticism.


Because this is a complete fantasy fiction aimed at adults, or atleast teens.
Its like saying that lord of the rings is evil because it promotes racial violence.
It is not promoting anything, it is a fantasy story about a fantasy situation, it has no connection to the real world whatsoever. Any thinking person will not take it out of context and take it as a direction in which to go.
And any sane person should not look at it as a promotion of such behaviour, but some of them do, and thats just stupid.
Looking for problems where there aren't any is jsut making life more difficult for others.
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@Xederpl We can talk about whether it affects the real world or not later. If you have read my replies, you would know I haven't really commented on that at all yet, so you're trying to refute something that hasn't even been said.

My point is simply that the show promotes slavery and misogyny within the work for the reasons I quoted in my previous post. Once we have cleared this up, we can argue about the real-world implications all you want.
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People getting triggered by something not real is utterly ridiculous to me. I'll cover what I think people would find controversial as someone who has read into the future chapters of the manga, straight to the point. One, this show doesn't put all women down. It does, however, promote the idea that there are some evil women or sociopaths out there who will lie and do anything to increase their status in society. Also, this coincidentally is relevant with the current times, where women allegedly accuse men of sexually assaulting them these days, and there is like no proof in most of these cases. Some of these women are attention whores and will take advantage of a matriarchal-biased society this way.

I won't bother elaborating on the whole enslavement part, but I'm sure there's some dunce out there who thinks someone watching this type of stuff will promote this sort of behavior. I learned from Sociology that school shooters are not influenced by movies/videogames. Same can probably be said about a sociopath that wants to ruin people's lives or enslave people. You have to be psycho or messed up in the head already already to want to do that to someone. If you live in an environment that fosters that sort of behavior, I feel bad and hope it gets fixed.

It's a given though that in entertainment, school shootings (and terrorism, if there were any recent terrorist attacks) are very sensitive topics, but anything else is basically free-game. In a lot of shows, rape, slavery, and human trafficking are common. I would argue wanting to see less of this sort of thing reduces awareness and allows more of these evil people to prosper in our society. Entertainment and comedians help raise awareness by indirectly pointing at the problem. For example, slavery in a fictional show being about demi-humans and not black people.

In the end, this show and Goblin Slayer are works of fiction, which makes the fact it triggers anyone even more ridiculous. It's a fantasy that draws some ideas from what's wrong with our real society, but in the end, it's just entertainment. It's not real. Anyway, I enjoy this show and regarding other shows, I look forward to more people getting mistreated, enslaved, and raped in fiction shows because it's NOT real.
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Jan 11, 2019 12:58 AM

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Only_Brad said:


Link to the article that refuted it ? lmao


Here's the article. Unlike ANN's childish "this does not fit to my narrative, so it must be an evil, disgusting show" reviews, this one seems to be more balanced.
Jan 11, 2019 1:32 AM

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hazarddex said:

Regardless of source material release date the only reason this series is getting an anime is because the current isekai craze same reasin most movies in America are super hero movies. If you're saying that's not a factor the I fear for your future business endeavors

Then consider this anime as a fanservice for ranobe readers and move along.
The opinions of people with shit taste, such as yourself, may differ of course.
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@Ysad_Ziwezhan

I won't agree. He isn't exactly one man army. One on one maybe he can, vs many it isn't as easy. Yeah those with weapons had easy time, but he struggled with low lvl monsters.



Yeah slavery is bad. But morally he did nothing bad, just the opposite. If you are so worried about slavery in fiction, what is your take on slavery that is going on right now in world?
Jan 11, 2019 12:52 PM

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Kougeru said:
The people most sensitive seem to be the ones complaining about non-existent outrage lol

That's about 99% of this thread.
There could be 1 ANN article by some idiot saying the anime is terrible, and it will spawn 1,000 threads by anti-sjw's reeeing about it for the next 6 months. Hell, there could be 0 negative sjw articles and they will scream about it anyway.
I'm adverse to hyper sensitive people too, but the most triggered people are always the anti-sjw crowed because they scream like the 1 stupid ANN review is gonna ruin anime forever.

Guys, just let it go and enjoy your anime.


There isn't just one article doing this though. There's multiple, and from the comment sections there seem to be friendliness of authors between sites. Anti-SJW outrage is a response to SJW outrage. That's usually how I've seen it work. And considering how these sites are saying it's misogyny or w.e to have a woman falsely accuse rape on a man, and men have lost decades of their life in prison or have died in prison because of false accusations, I think this pushback is justified. In certain instances I would agree that the outrage becomes too much, but this is just how the current culture war plays.
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It sure did make a controversy that is so stupid and so dumb
Jan 11, 2019 6:24 PM

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I don't see the anti-SJW crowd getting so easily offended as they are not the ones who conflated fiction with reality.


lmao. Try putting 1 male gay character i(Not-stereotyped, not a joke) in a work of fiction and check out the reactions. Especially in western fictions. Or maybe a woman who doesn't act like the virgin Mary. (Hi Kokoro from some seasons ago!).

There are people that are still raging at Yuri on Ice existing to this day because LE SJW INFILTRATED BASED JAPAN.

"Anti-SJW" (I used this term loosely because they are not anti SJW, they are simply right wings pricks triggered by anyone who is different) are the biggest snowflakes on the planet. Jesus Christ we had like TWO threads about you guys bitching about some random who on twitter publishing his opinion on this.
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lmao. Try putting 1 male gay character i(Not-stereotyped, not a joke) in a work of fiction and check out the reactions. Especially in western fictions. Or maybe a woman who doesn't act like the virgin Mary. (Hi Kokoro from some seasons ago!).

There are people that are still raging at Yuri on Ice existing to this day because LE SJW INFILTRATED BASED JAPAN.

"Anti-SJW" (I used this term loosely because they are not anti SJW, they are simply right wings pricks triggered by anyone who is different) are the biggest snowflakes on the planet. Jesus Christ we had like TWO threads about you guys bitching about some random who on twitter publishing his opinion on this.

I've hardly heard any raging about Yuri on Ice. You're likely describing something like the "outrage" of Doom's "mortally challenged" joke. It sounds to me that a bunch of random people got overly sensitive about something and the folks from the other side misinterpreted that as widespread outrage.

I searched any topic about Yuri on Ice on Kotaku In Action, for example, and I didn't find any anti-SJW's getting mad over the existence of the show. However... I did find a thread about TheAnimeMan getting attacked as "anti-LGBT" for his opinions about it. Point is, I didn't find any "rage" you're describing in one of the biggest anti-SJW online groups.

It's funny that you try to paint anti-SJW's as the biggest snowflakes when you're the one who's making a rather outraged, hyperbolic statement. I mean how dare we "right wing pricks" (fantasic over-generalization, btw, as I'm not even right wing) criticize someone's opinion about an adaptation of a series we happen to like.

And perhaps we're bringing attention to and refuting the SJWs' irrational outrage because they've been publishing articles with rather hot, unsubstantiated takes. But hey, apparently expressing disagreement constitutes to "bitching".
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I've hardly heard any raging about Yuri on Ice.

You don't like YoI? Go read about the incels comments on Franxx, or I dunno, SSY, or any gay character in media. But I bet these comments don't even faze you.

You're likely describing something like the "outrage" of Doom's "mortally challenged" joke. It sounds to me that a bunch of random people got overly sensitive about something and the folks from the other side misinterpreted that as widespread outrage.

No, I described right wing snowflakes ranting about LE MARXIST CONSPIRACY TAKING OVER JAPAN in this very place.


I searched any topic about Yuri on Ice on Kotaku In Action,

You brose Kotaku in Action and you want to pretend you don't know about right wing outrages? They have a 500 answers thread about a gay character in game, a thread about TloU 2 about how it will "get woke and broke" and 2 weeks ago they raged at a cover featuring two black girls (Until they found out they were the villains lol).



Nobody cares! T-totally not outraged!

And why would you even look about YoI on a gaming subreddit? Not that it mattes, the outrage about it was spread all over the Internet and mal with people getting pretty nasty.



we "right wing pricks" (fantasic over-generalization, btw, as I'm not even right wing)

Let me guess, you call yourself a left-wing and browse youtube for the Quartering or Sargon videos.




And perhaps we're bringing attention to and refuting the SJWs' irrational outrage because they've been publishing articles with rather hot, unsubstantiated takes. But hey, apparently expressing disagreement constitutes to "bitching".

"I'm not right wing"
Proceed to link alt right political site. I bet all the comments will rant about the jews and whatnot... yep! What's the next, one angry gamer?

Also kudos for lack of self-awareness. "I hate ANN for being political... here is political site that tells you about le evil leftist agenda in comics and cartoons!"
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hazarddex said:

What valkyria chronicles accusation?


Some special females accused valkyria being totaly sexist game, becouse there is 1 scene where guy slaps girls ass... so they claimed its sexist game that put womens as low lifes and other BS :D .. it was kinda funny statement.
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hazarddex said:

What valkyria chronicles accusation?


Some special females accused valkyria being totaly sexist game, becouse there is 1 scene where guy slaps girls ass... so they claimed its sexist game that put womens as low lifes and other BS :D .. it was kinda funny statement.
but most the girls in valkyria chronicles are op as fk... >_>
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The king was not pleased with his presence to begin with, the woman (who I can only guess is a princess) alone wants to join him on his adventure and nobody even seems to bat an eye at this, the woman informs us that it is a matriarchal society, he is robbed by said women and accused of falsely raping her, everybody turns on him, he is practically exiled, then he goes an looks into buying slaves.

There was nothing controversial here. Everything was planned from start to finish. Hell, if you were one of the heroes there is no way you would defend the other guy at the risk of losing everything yourself in a foreign land. Buying or obtaining slaves has been done in almost every other isekai under the sun. This reads like a predicable isekai with a victimization complex flavor, not as a controversial start.
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Bernrika said:

You don't like YoI? Go read about the incels comments on Franxx, or I dunno, SSY, or any gay character in media. But I bet these comments don't even faze you.

Again, you're just asserting without evidence. And this problem will repeat itself as I point out at other points of your response.

No, I described right wing snowflakes ranting about LE MARXIST CONSPIRACY TAKING OVER JAPAN in this very place.

See what I mean. You make an assertion, but you don't show anything beyond that. It screams "anyone who doesn't agree with me is a right wing snowflake".

You brose Kotaku in Action and you want to pretend you don't know about right wing outrages? They have a 500 answers thread about a gay character in game, a thread about TloU 2 about how it will "get woke and broke" and 2 weeks ago they raged at a cover featuring two black girls (Until they found out they were the villains lol).

I was solely talking about the alleged outrage about Yuri on Ice, though, and used KiA as a barometer. I never claimed that KiA does not get outraged about gay characters, so this part of your comment is a strawman argument.

And even if I were to just go with the flow, is it the existence of gay characters KiA gets outraged about, or is it possible that KiA doesn't like the way gay characters are portrayed, i.e. they are just shoehorned in for no other reason.

EDIT: I checked out that thread and much of the comments were either (1) Who cares?; (2) Blizzard is doing this to distract from the "Ellie" fake news; and (3) Blizzard is using Solider 76's homosexuality as a cheap way to bring positive attention to Overwatch (sort of relates to #2).

And this is why you have to actually check the comments rather than look at the number of comments. Just because a thread has a lot of comments, it does not necessarily mean all of those comments are full of outrage.

Nobody cares! T-totally not outraged!

And why would you even look about YoI on a gaming subreddit? Not that it mattes, the outrage about it was spread all over the Internet and mal with people getting pretty nasty.

Once, again another assertion with no evidence.

Let me guess, you call yourself a left-wing and browse youtube for the Quartering or Sargon videos.

Oh, cool, an ad hominem on top of the many other fallacies you have already made. Apparently to you, a person's political leanings are dictated by who that person watches on the Internet rather than the opinions and principles that person stands for.

But hey, this is clearly right wing, am I right?



"I'm not right wing"
Proceed to link alt right political site. I bet all the comments will rant about the jews and whatnot... yep! What's the next, one angry gamer?

And yet another ad hominem. Excuse me as I pretend to act surprised that you don't even bother to read and address the article's points, and instead slap labels willy-nilly.

Also kudos for lack of self-awareness. "I hate ANN for being political... here is political site that tells you about le evil leftist agenda in comics and cartoons!"

How do I lack self-awareness if I never said I hate ANN for being political? Once again, you're just shooting down a statement I never uttered, i.e. it's a strawman.

So to tally up how many fallacies you managed to make in a single comment, this is what I got:

3 Proofs of Assertion
2 Strawmen
2 Ad Hominems

And yet, it's the "right-wing anti-SJWs" that are getting all outraged for no reason, and not you with all the fallacies and hyperbole... But hey, continue to dig that hole deeper for yourself because it's just bringing more attention to here so I have nothing to complain :)
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This world has really gone insane.

Pages of political gender bullshit discussion, over a fucking fictional show.
If you can't distinguish what's right and wrong, reality and fictional and you are older than 11, you should stay in a mental hospital.
We are humans. We HAVE the capability to distinguish things like these.

Think to yourself, what are you doing? Why are you outraged/so critical over this? Is it just because you hate this show? What are you even trying to accomplish?
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theboxcarracer said:
People writing articles about a show having horrible values isn't a "controversy". Y'all are so quick to get offended at the idea that someone might take offense to something that you managed to actually get offended at them before they said anything about the topic.

And yeah, this show has trash values. And people can talk about how horrible those values are and look at the show with a critical eye. That's not censorship, they're not calling for the show to be cancelled. They are using their freedom of expression to talk about this piece of media. That is in no way similar to the call to ban video games or burn books. Those two things are not even remotely comparable. And you know that. It's just a very convenient, easy argument to make, so you don't care that it doesn't hold even the slightest bit of water.

In these articles, they are pointing out and discussing the elements of a show they found gross. They are not anti-art. They are, in fact, looking at a piece of art with a critical eye as opposed to simply being spoonfed the content without giving a thought to what its place is in the broader context of society. To be critical of a piece of art isn't offensive. It's not a controversy. But you are all so quick to jump on "SJW snowflakes" that you've decided any time anybody thinks something is bad, it's a controversy. You anti-SJW people are so easily offended, it's ridiculous.

As I said earlier, the hypocrisy of threads like these is so painfully obvious that it's hard to believe anyone is actually taking this bait.


Except this show is not problematic in the slightest so your entire argument falls flat. It’s anti art to control what the author can and can’t do.
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Except this show is not problematic in the slightest so your entire argument falls flat. It’s anti art to control what the author can and can’t do.


It's hilarious how much his point seems to have flown right above your head.
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