Are there people that got into anime "for culture war reasons"?

Yes. Hollywood became unwatchable, so I picked something else.
I mean I did watch some shows before, but I can count on what hand those.


When people complained about Stellar Blade's MC being unrealistic, the devs actually responded, saying that they literally modelled her after a real woman.
We are in a stupid situation where not participating in the culture war is in and of itself a strong stance.

I have actually never heard of any of those, but I don't know Stellar Blade either.

Again, who's "people"?
I remember the drama at the time where people would make collages of articles that were supposedly "lambasting the game", then I actually went to read those articles... and they were speaking positively about it.
People were so unnable to read past headlines that the article people spammed me that "LOOK, THEY'RE SAYING SHE'S A DOLL!" was actually a pro-sexy characters one.

I have actually never heard of any of those, but I don't know Stellar Blade either.

There is a reason why anime/manga is dominating and it's because too much money was funneled into Hollywood and other slop, so people are not interesting in making quality product, but only making more money. They know perfectly well, that consoomers will gobble it up, despite all ambition and creativity from those products being long gone and it's just a cashcow at this point.
There is still some sorry of passion and ambition when it comes to anime, but by seeing how it became more popular and mainstream in recent years and how all of the worst people got interested, I'm afraid it won't last forever.

This is just paranoia. The Western gaming industry and Western entertainment media in general isn't being forced by law to do what they are doing and it's not like everything they are producing will always includes the "Woke-boogieman" some seem to be so concerned about. You are talking about pushing agendas where coming from a neutral perspective there is also an "Anti-woke" agenda that is sometimes even far more extreme in most aspects. Where people will be willing to defend wanting to reverse decades of social progress just for the sake of not wanting certain things to simply exist.

Where I currently live there is a local library that just closed down recently due to conservatives in my state ended up basically banning almost half the books they offered. Some literature that has been around since the end of the sexual revolution in the 1970s way before anyone was bitching about "woke" this and "woke" that. If people want things to be like the 50s again, go buy tube TV and only watch 1950s sitcoms, destroy your computer and cellphone and stop using the internet, and go buy a typewriter as a replacement. lol

Many Anime fans especially the ones from 2010s and 2020s were turned off by woke Western Animation. Why Western Animation start to decline since the 2010s in popularity? (same shit with comics dying) It's very obvious, wokeism -originally known as SJWs- started in the early 2010s where radical far-left people beginning to dominate western entertainment, first -being more obvious- with western games, then with Western Animation, it went out of control since then and it looks like MAYBE is going to die starting in the previous year. I don't know if wokeism is finally going to die or its going to transform into something new with a new name or worse came back stronger.

In my case, I started to become interested in Anime in the 2000s so being anti-woke wasn't a big factor for me to be an Anime fan but its a big factor to protect the medium I love so much considering how wokeism destroyed comics and Western Animation. Gaming was half-destroyed, only Western Games were affected while Asian Games remained almost intact.

@Nurguburu
"wokeism" is just a repackaged talking point under a new coat of paint. It doesn't die you just change the wording to give yourself a new enemy. Before it was "SJW" and before that it was "PC Culture". Its all the same argument just obfuscated by different outer coatings. "Wokeism" will never die because people with progressive ideas always will exist, you people just find new insults and ways to make people with forward thinking ideas look bad

@LSSJ_Gaming So what you are saying is that because people swapped to shorter labels that disproves their points?

@JaniSIr
I told yall to stop pingng me while i play my game but I will respond this once

Conservatives have been swapping out words every few years or so for decades now. How the fuck is "Woke" shorter than "SJW"? How is SJW shorter than PC? It isn't shorter in the slightest, the words are in fact getting longer. Its just reassigning new terms to the same things when the old one falls out of favor in the eyes of the public to keep an "Us vs them" culture war narrative going rather than addressing actual class issues

@ItachiDeltaForce

Diversity, equity, and inclusion literally fosters a sense of belonging. When people feel that they belong, they are more likely to be engaged, be productive, and contribute positively in communities. It generally promotes mental well-being and social harmony.

More in-depth, diversity brings a range of experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. Not like one would want to eat the same cup of noodles every day of their life. Historically, diversity has always lead to creative problem-solving, innovation, as well as creative decision-making. When people from different backgrounds work together it usually leads to better ideas because there will be diverse approaches to challenges from different angles and perspectives.

Equity generally promotes fairness. The goal is to ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities despite background. Which address disparities that usually arise from biases and inequalities. Just because you are poor, wouldn't you like the opportunity to get a chance to be accepted into a good school or would you just rather only rich people to be able to have those types of opportunities?

Specifically Diversity, equity, and inclusion is all about positive moral and ethical principles at it's core.

@ColourWheel that is just pure modern day naive californian shit, activist communist bile u are spewing.. and in turn blind to the fact that this activist mind-set is the very thing that subverts entertainment media.

when i play a video game or watch an anime i could'nt give a fuck about "social harmony" "productive" "contribute positively to communities" and all this other bs messaging, i dont want to be preached to in said media.

sounds like what u are describing is a communist utopia..which to me is very disturbing

i want to be engaged and entertained nothing more nothing less

@ItachiDeltaForce

Diversity, equity, and inclusion literally fosters a sense of belonging. When people feel that they belong, they are more likely to be engaged, be productive, and contribute positively in communities. It generally promotes mental well-being and social harmony.

More in-depth, diversity brings a range of experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. Not like one would want to eat the same cup of noodles every day of their life. Historically, diversity has always lead to creative problem-solving, innovation, as well as creative decision-making. When people from different backgrounds work together it usually leads to better ideas because there will be diverse approaches to challenges from different angles and perspectives.

Equity generally promotes fairness. The goal is to ensures that everyone has access to the same opportunities despite background. Which address disparities that usually arise from biases and inequalities. Just because you are poor, wouldn't you like the opportunity to get a chance to be accepted into a good school or would you just rather only rich people to be able to have those types of opportunities?

Specifically Diversity, equity, and inclusion is all about positive moral and ethical principles at it's core.

@ColourWheel Meritocracy is the ideal to strive for.
Diversity in this context is NOT diversity of thought.
And equity is really just achieved by pulling down people who do better than the rest.

According by who? Anyone can look up what diversity, equity, and inclusion is and I am "spewing" what basically it is. Just because you don't like what it is doesn't make it some "activist bile".

@ColourWheel same could be said to you....just bc u dont like my stance on these issues does not mean they are not righteous &/or popular or even superior....

I never claimed this. But you are simply just denying what diversity, equity, and inclusion actually is and just making up non-sense effectively defining it on the spot. Where if I would look up what you have said about it, it would be totally wrong and this would be based on numerous sources that anyone could find simply doing a simple google search and reading what diversity, equity, and inclusion is really about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion

@ColourWheel That's just what the word means, when someone works hard to achieve a good result and someone else doesn't and consequently achieves a lesser result, that is an inequity that is most efficiently resolved by fucking over the guy who worked hard.

That is only what you think it means but that's not the case. This is purely in your own mind where I doubt you could even show any actual proof of this happening. lol

Oh yeah that's pretty obvious. You can spot them a mile away but some also were into it before but they decided to try to be disingenuous and present things differently to push their agenda.


Japan has Akamatsu Ken in their House of Councilors and part of his platform is defend anime, manga and games from further censorship. They also have some otaku in other branches of the government power.


Technically those aren't conservatives but Reactionaries. Conservatives conserve, Reactionaries do the same thing Fascists do which is try to return ti a fantasy version of the past. Also the NCOSE which is literally just Morality in Media that renamed itself trying to mascaraed as a non partisan child protection group but is really a far right Christian Reactionary group trying to outlaw porn and nudity and uses the "must protect the children" bit to manipulate people with half truths and outright lies. These were the people who threatened the credit card companies leading them to attack Japanese businesses to point you could argue they are doing something illegal by discriminating against these businesses for example this could be argued as being ethnonational discrimination
https://www.techopse.com/visa-escalates-anti-japanese-bias-by-targeting-otaku-dating-platform-aellune-without-explanation/
And this could be argued as akin to destroying cultural heritage which many would argue is a war crime. Though not literally since it's just not doing business.
https://www.techopse.com/ken-akamatsus-manga-library-z-shuts-down-thanks-to-visa-and-mastercards-censorship-demands/


DEI just implies required diversity sensitivity training for all employees which has been proven to have the opposite of intended effect so it needs to be abolished as a policy.

The thing is it hasn't been proven to have the opposite effect, not to the point that it would be something that can't be adjusted or even reformed. It's just people have unfounded worries about it being implemented poorly. Where they will only see the potential for unintended negative effects and completely ignoring the positive things that it suppose to promote.

That would be like saying the fire department doesn't work because sometimes houses will still burn down. So lets just get rid of the fire department now.

Oh yeah that's pretty obvious. You can spot them a mile away but some also were into it before but they decided to try to be disingenuous and present things differently to push their agenda.


Japan has Akamatsu Ken in their House of Councilors and part of his platform is defend anime, manga and games from further censorship. They also have some otaku in other branches of the government power.


Technically those aren't conservatives but Reactionaries. Conservatives conserve, Reactionaries do the same thing Fascists do which is try to return ti a fantasy version of the past. Also the NCOSE which is literally just Morality in Media that renamed itself trying to mascaraed as a non partisan child protection group but is really a far right Christian Reactionary group trying to outlaw porn and nudity and uses the "must protect the children" bit to manipulate people with half truths and outright lies. These were the people who threatened the credit card companies leading them to attack Japanese businesses to point you could argue they are doing something illegal by discriminating against these businesses for example this could be argued as being ethnonational discrimination
https://www.techopse.com/visa-escalates-anti-japanese-bias-by-targeting-otaku-dating-platform-aellune-without-explanation/
And this could be argued as akin to destroying cultural heritage which many would argue is a war crime. Though not literally since it's just not doing business.
https://www.techopse.com/ken-akamatsus-manga-library-z-shuts-down-thanks-to-visa-and-mastercards-censorship-demands/


DEI just implies required diversity sensitivity training for all employees which has been proven to have the opposite of intended effect so it needs to be abolished as a policy.