Why Anime Destroys Right-Wing Media
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- With the release of the Daily Wire's Mr. Birchum, we need to talk about why right-wing media, and Western media in general, will continue to fail in comparison to anime. Plus I give some anime that serve as much better "right-wing" shows than the actual stuff conservatives put out.
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Story told for storytelling sake destroys stories told for propaganda sake.
That is true.
I mean, some of the greatest stories have political messages. But I get what you mean.
@@jackmcglion8337 political stories are are risky. If you look at good disney stories the villains are often given the best arguments they can. But with identity politics that would mean taking both sides seriously.
Imma be real chief, that was a terrible title
"Arm and a leg" *snorts in corny* 😂
I'm glad there are so many more starter anime I can recommend. I often suggested Hosoda or Shinkai films for non-anime viewers as a start, but also Erased was a good 12 ep series that helped me get friends to take the plunge.
Oh man Shinkai films are really good starters too, can't believe I didn't think of that 🤦🏾♂️
7:44 As much as I agree with most of what this guy says, it's pretty fucking ironic and funny that he says "These shows include LGBT content because if they don't, they are at risk to get cancelled" while showing a clip from The Owl House which is... A show that got cancelled for having LGBT characters in it 🤣🤣😭😭
ikr lol
I think this guy just wanted to rant. he's got a spicy video title and its coincidentally 11ish minutes instead of 5.
Damn 😂😂
Damn 😂😂
@@irregulargamer1352 the new time is 8 minutes afaik but he might not know that
As much as you should be knowledgeable about your politics, don't let it ruin or shape your judgement of a show or anime. If it's good it's good. Trust me you'll be happier
Yeah that's usually how I try to operate
Im confused, the title is "how anime destroys RIght Wing media" but most of your vid describes how Anime does story telling better than western media, both right wing and left wing. How most anime priortizes story over a political message. With that said, there is anime that does shove in a political right wing Japanese messsage, such as GATE: JSDF fought there enforces a right wing militarization story that the main right wingers of the Japanese diet keep forcing. The difference is that such political and cultural propaganda is rare and obvious when it occurs. Meanwhile the majority of media in the west is controlled by the western political left, the right have little to no media power when it comes to fictional shows, movies, etc. They are mostly relegated to right wing e celebs on social media.
I F@@KING HATE GATE. IT IS PURE DISTILLED DOGWATER.
It was one of the first anime's I ever watched and it was so unbelievably ass that every time read its name, I feel PTSD. I thought it had such a fascinating premise, rife with potential for some incredible geopolitics, world-building, magic-technology interactions, etc. Another similar premise was the _Destroymen_ novels but this had even more potential I thought.
What I ended up watching was a f@@king glorified ADVERTISEMENT for the JDF begging pleading sobbing for otakus to get up and join them so they too can get cat-girl body pillows i don't know. Either way, it was so ungodly ass. Literally nothing but a long compilation of the author glazing the military stomping over the most insufferably generic fantasy world occupied by a cartoonishly evil dollar-store Roman empire. The world-building didn't have the depth of a puddle, it had the depth of a droplet of water scrapped thin across a petri dish.
I guess the animation of the military stuff is cool, especially if you're a nerd for it and notice how detailed it is. And I guess, it's "brain-tingly" fun for the first few fights between them and the fantasy world. But yea, that's literally all there is.
@@leobriccocola8141 The main reason why GATE was bad was because the author pandered to otaku with the waifus and tried pushing miliary nationalism
@@GlaDos321 Spitting facts brother 🔥 While I genuinely also think the author is just a lack-luster writer, the fact that they have to ALWAYS portray the JDF as the good guys no matter what is the reason for 90% of the problems.
@@leobriccocola8141 Hated the part where a couple of JSDF members and a single magical girl manage to take down and outsmart the American, Russian, and Chinese special forces all by themselves like they were nothing.
While it wasn't the first, I'm pretty sure GATE spawned the 6000 year old vampire meme into popularity with its weird bland of Japanese imperialism and pedophilia.
Baki is written by a right wing Japanese man. WTF are you talking about?
He's talking about that the japanese media arent revolving around someone'se political view.
Whenever Baki is written by right wing or not, does not matter because its not necesary being forced down my throat.
Would like to see a source on Keisuke Itagaki being right wing though.
@@Bossk-q2n Oh okay. It's common knowledge that Itagaki is a hardcore Japanese nationalist.
@@nappyheaded Well its not so common knowledge for me, so I would like to see what is the source of such claim.
@@Bossk-q2n I was going to punish you for asking me for information that you could have found easily on your own but youtube isn't letting me post the link to the thesis paper on Itagaki. Just use google and you'll find plenty of evidence.
@@Bossk-q2n I was going to punish you for asking me for information that you could find easily on your own but youtube won't let me post the link to the Itagaki thesis paper.
I didn't know that Spy x Family was Right-Wing 😯
it is if you believe the idea that one healthy family exists is Right-Wing, according to this video
so i'm far from convinced lol
As a conservative, I'll be real, most anime is fairly conservative, at least almost all the mainstream ones are, they all mostly deal with having to work hard no matter the obstacles. I imagine Isekai's closer to like, leftist ideology, lots of privilege in most isekais :D
One piece is one of the most Leftist manga ever, and Oda has a Che Guevara poster in his office. Some of the only Right Wing mainstream anime I can actually think of are Death Note and Attack on Titan. Spy x Family is Centrist, about 1/3 of all isekai are leftist by the method of transportation alone. Most art averages to left leaning in general, because Art is usually made to challenge the status quo.
@@Saltyoven the irony being that the status quo is leftist now 😂
@@OscarOliu "the status quo" as it stands is making homelessness illegal.
@@Saltyoven Even the "most leftist manga ever" like One Piece still makes fun of crossdressers and promote family values and straight romance. Maybe it could have been considered progressive in the 90's like Sailor Moon was progressive with Uranus and Neptune, but in modern days Oda "is way behind" which is why many woke people wanted One Piece to fail for not having colorswapped main characters and/or because is male dominated and main leader is male
@@Saltyoven One piece is not leftist. Leftist is big government. That's the opposite One Piece's message.
anime is not left wing media.
Blackrock bought one of the biggest E-manga sites for the "modern audience" prepare for cancer woke and another company ruined.
Except it is.
A lot of strong female protagonists who empowers man? check
Male characters arent epitome of masculinity and has a lot of self reflection? check.
Black characters? check.
Homosexual characters and homosexual undertones? check.
And its not some obscure stuff, its in most mainstream anime titles, so yeah, you trying to filter everything through american politics, not everyone has the same idea about same issues as you do.
@@Bossk-q2n You realize that anime as a whole is a medium with diverse stories and points of views right? For each example you gave, I can give you an anime that shows the opposite.
@@dustin3596 It is not so diverse, there's mainstream stuff that gets more attention then the others and from what I got, it has all those mentioned.
I mean you can believe whatever you want man, but I watch anime for two decades and its always has strong left wing tendencies, its practically dominates it, thats pretty much why so many anime fans are left wingers, right wing fans are the kind of who only watch shounen or some edgy stuff and even then would miss every left wing stuff just because its not convenient to think about it.
"For each example you gave, I can give you an anime that shows the opposite"
I dont even know what kind of opposite you wanna give but proceed.
@@Bossk-q2n Easy, "Male characters arent epitome of masculinity and has a lot of self reflection?"
Have you not seen DBZ, Baki, JJBA, Berserk? Do you want me to continue?
But... the Owl House wasn't bad story telling? It's main character was a girl who had a girlfriend, sure, and they show a diversity of representation for who loves who- but that story was actually really solid- have you seen it?
I have seen TOH, granted I never finished it, but it just didn’t strike the same chord with me as a show like SVTFOE or Gravity Falls
@@nicwithnok I would encourage you to give it another shot, then. I think they did really well in the last two seasons- just like SVTFOE hit a bit of a lull in direction, TOH found there's after a bit too.
A ton of isekai are left wing by the method of transportation alone. You know how Death by overwork is such a common method nowadays? That's a criticism of the Japanese Work culture right there. In a related example, look at the fairly recent Zom 100: Bucketlist of the Dead, which has similar criticisms to those Conservative Beliefs.
You're ascribing western political ideologies to Japan. You're literally seeing what you want to see. Japan is a very conservative country.
@@HeadstrongPrideKing "Japanese media can't be progressive because Japan is conservative." I really hope I'm misunderstanding your argument here.
Idk if anyone’s seen it but there’s another right wing animated sitcom on twitter called “the new norm” that has Dave Rubin in it and it’s easily ten times worse and more unfunny than Birchum. It has a freaking laugh track and everything.
oh yeah I saw that this morning, it would've been brought up in the video if I hadn't finished the script a while ago 😂
@@nicwithnok for all the complaining that conservatives do about how art is so ugly nowadays, we sure aren’t making it any better.
What right wing media? Are we talking about movie classics like Lord of the Rings or Terminator? I'm a total weeb who thinks movies are too short form to get me invested in, so I've never bothered to watch 'em, but even I can tell it takes some serious balls to go after content like that. Or are we going the soft "activists never make good content, therefore my activism is better" route?
I just watched the video. It's the second route. Except, get this, he's actually conservative.
I love how your comment goes to show just how horrendous the title is with communicating the points in the video.
I think there are two different points going on here--one, that right-wingers blast the SJWs/wokes/etc., which they do, and two--that they themselves can't create compelling works of their own.
I think these are two different points.
One need not necessarily be a master chef to say that the cooking sucks.
Making compelling experiences is MUCH harder.
Credit to TheCriticalDrinker for trying, but his book got "okay" reviews, and previews of his film look like it's a "direct to DVD" sort of thing, as well, but that seems to be because he went for the pulpy low-hanging fruit stuff. But the point is that someone that's considered *THE* top tier movie critic these days has trouble creating a compelling experience of his own, despite having so much experience/wide audience critiquing various works.
There are also other factors to consider, such as WHEN a work premiered--DBZ is legendary, yes, but it doesn't really hold up as spectacularly if you just showed it to a random person nowadays. They'd think why are there so many episodes to get anything to happen? Why is it that the big trick the bad guys have post Frieza is that they just have infinite regeneration?
And then we're talking about survivorship bias on top of that. Sure, One Piece, some Gundam series, DBZ, etc. seem spectacular, but how many animes have come and gone? Tons.
To compare any random work to some of the best anime, would be in general, to set the challenger up for a shellacking. Because the best stuff from Japan is those few cases of catching lightning in a bottle--when so many things go right and align correctly in just such a way.
This isn't to say to cut every random creative slack--but rather, that making a good, compelling, memorable experience is DIFFICULT. To make it stand the test of time? A whole other level of magnitude more difficult than that.
I'm sorry, but random eskais are better than 90 % of right wing media. It's really hard to find something that bad, and if you do, now you're looking at the opposite problem because now your comparing the worst of anime to the average right wing show.
@@Novis-N The right, by the sheer focus of their own philosophies and values, is generally going to make inferior art to the left. Because the left is about idealism, whereas the right is about realism. That said, whether one considers 'right wing art' bad likely also has a lot to do with one's own values and ideals.
This becomes worse--regardless of which political faction we are discussing--when a project puts political values before artistic integrity. Consider how High Guardian Spice was marketed by Crunchyroll, with an emphasis on its all female writing room and a lack of details on the actual story when its promotional materials were released.
There is always the risk that someone's pre-existing values are going to prevent them from connecting with something. Or that someone on the left and someone on the right are going to watch the same piece of media and interpret it with emphasis on different story aspects--sometimes to a point where one would question if they both watched the same episode.
Gen Z: *anime is left wing media* :)
The people that grew up watching Super Book, candy candy and Girl of the alps: *Are you sure about that?* 🗿
Don't forget shows like Space Battleship Yamato and Fist of the North Star.
Anyone who says "__ medium is __ political view" is a dunce.
This has been split into two parts because there's a lot to say in response to this 11 minute video and it capped out RUclips's comment size apparently.
you know, with a title like that I was expecting something about how anime is clearly better than this stuff and how it is pretty non-"right-wing" by design... i had to rewatch the first 2 minutes because i was so confused until you said you don't believe in lesbians, which is a wild claim because anime has like, so many lesbians, for example. Your title is so clumsy that RUclips is recommending this to me, and then recommending me from this stuff like "Bocchi and the Art of Shipping" (Bocchi the Rock has a lesbian and is a mostly female cast) so clearly RUclips thinks that you're "Left-Wing" lol
OK so your first expample with footage, Lightyear. Um, the gay kiss appeared for maybe a second. The context of the gayness appeared for like, a minute tops. The character who is gay (not her child) is there for, what, 15% of the film? And the fact that one of the characters who accompanies Buzz throughout the film is the child of his past crewmate, as well as the fact that Zerg sought to erase the world as it was in pursuit of a better one based off of his really old mistake, are things that technically relate to the gayness but also aren't reliant on the gayness to exist nor are they, in scenes focused on them, particularly affected by the gayness. Lightyear's a mediocre movie because it's a mediocre movie, not because of this single creative decision that hardly impacts anything
Now let's go to the anime side where you show My Hero Academia as a positive example of "Right-Wing Media". The show that has a thematic disparity with a trans woman who is in poverty and thus can't get the resources she needs to traditionally "pass" leading to her being taken in by the villains who still treat her with respect, with those same villains, despite their moral alignment otherwise, literally correcting improper pronoun usage against her (not to mention the fact that she gets little screentime due to being killed quickly, a pretty overt reference to what we know as the "Burying your gays trope") meanwhile on the hero's side there's a character who you could very well not even know is trans since the information isn't strongly spread or anything (but it IS canon) and he passes extremely strongly. Still a side-character but I mean MHA has a LOT of side-characters.
3:18 It's called representing real life. It's weird how few gay characters there are in most media if you want to get statistical with it.
3:26 How exactly does representation get in the way of telling a story? I could follow up that question but honestly this take makes so little sense to me that I want to hear the answer to this question alone first
4:29 That's why something like Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur is great since it also includes a lot of cultural things. Honestly this racebending chat of yours has been the most sound thing so far and that's mostly because you literally want things to be more "woke" in this instance.
4:55 and yet you can't consume media with lesbians in it? selfless and encourages people, really?
Would anime's storytelling go down with more diversity and inclusion? No, not particularly. If anything there might be fresh storytelling potential there. Asia itself doesn't have as much racial diversity afaik, though, so it's more-so for global-based ones, like Pokemon and Guilty Gear (both games but still lol)
5:28 This has nothing to do with the amount of melanin in the characters' skin or the gender that they want to smooch 5:42 And there we are again with the mention of MHA lol...
5:44 Haven't consumed it but I've heard a lot about it having trans characters and Luffy himself is Aro/Ace. And some would argue that Luffy not having a romantic arc is beneficial to the series. Almost as if "representation" presents further avenues for ways to tell a story and doesn't actually get in the way of storytelling or something.
6:44 I... don't know what you want, you say that Lightyear has things that you don't agree with while showing the gay kiss scene but you're fine with Bocchi the Rock? I REALLY want to hear your thinking to be honest because like, huh? 6:58 AND NOW YOU SAY THAT GAY CONTENT IS *WHAT?* dude, pal, buddy, i specifically seek out gay romance over straight romance because in my experience i associate *straight content* with naughty content MORE than gay content. It's not like gay romance DOESN'T have that stuff, but it's way less in my experience.
7:14 True, actually. Anime is far from innocent in this regard but still
7:41 "Infested" like dude you REALLY think you're "Selfless and encouraging of other people"?
7:50 Riiight... The Owl House... The show where the bi show creator made the main character bi... It was to appease Disney, the company that not too long before that was censoring anything gay. And it's a pretty common belief that at least part of the reason that The Owl House's third season was extremely shortened was the fact that it has said content, being that the sourced reason for it being cancelled was that it "Didn't fit the Disney brand". The fact that it has LGBTQIA+ content at the forefront and in several forms is extremely outlierish in nature. Like, its sister show, Amphibia? You know the LGBTQIA+ content in that show? One gender non-conforming man in the third season (who is somewhat of a villain so that can pass as 'coding) and a pride flag heart in the SERIES FINALE that shows up for a few seconds and can easily be edited out in certain countries.
7:57 I'm gonna go back to The Owl House for this one. OK so, as I said, Season 3 was shortened. It was supposed to have around 20 episodes, but it was shortened to three 44-minute-long episodes, which is about the length of 6 episodes in full, since it's a 22-minute episode show. This put the writers in a position where they were given a mandate that strictly limited what they were able to do in a story that had already been planned out and largely released. You know what they did? They adapted, and still gave its fans a strong story that has a natural conclusion given what came before. They hadn't finished releasing Season 2 so they were still able to prepare then, but still. A writer's job when given mandates is to adapt and still turn out their best work. So, back to your point, does it REALLY limit the writers to... include diversity? Like, OK, if you're adding a romance plot that wasn't there then that could take up some time, yeah, but even mandating a straight couple would have that problem, and also this works in the opposite way again with including aromantic people lol. Now, especially GOOD representation? That could take a bit more resources. Including stuff like the struggles against people who discriminate against those people (That's you in the instance of at least lesbians BTW) DOES take time. Does it take up so much time that the writers still can't turn out a good movie or show? No! Your logic fails! Don't get me wrong, I'm sure that you could fault Hollywood with rushing its writers in GENERAL, but that doesn't limit itself specifically to representation!
I also just want to point out again that you're saying that Lightyear is worse because the writers had to "shoehorn some sapphics in"... (I've been avoiding using the term "sapphics" despite it being more accurate because I don't expect you to figure it out but like whatever we're clearly gonna be here for a little bit longer I may as well give you a vocab lesson, basically a sapphic is a woman who is attracted to women, so it's bi-inclusive among other things)... I will repeat, the amount of time that sapphics alone take up in Lightyear is very little, and, look, let's say there's a Lightyear script from before the representation was added. You know what it would've probably been like? The same thing except Buzz's crewmate from before the time travel kisses a man. Literally it just takes a minor revision and maybe one new 3D model. The animators aren't the writers but if they were then that still wouldn't have taken much time. The most possible time it could take is if you say "Oh, but their offspring! Maybe she wasn't a character!". But like... Buzz has more than one new crewmate. And I highly doubt that "Have one of his new crewmates be the child of one of his old crewmates" is a late idea in the script, considering how much it ties into the themes that the story tries to tell, being that if Buzz were successful he would literally be erasing one of his new friends who is ALSO strongly related to what he is trying to get back in the first place. Dude, you just made me indirectly praise Lightyear's storytelling...
8:31 How "anti-family" is "woke" content, anyway? I mean, if we go back to The Owl House, a major part of the story is Luz's relationship with her mother and vice versa. And Luz has a found family of sorts with King and Eda. I mean, I guess you could say "Oh, but if the family member is against the identity of the child, then the child is encouraged to cut them out of their life!". YEAH? Like, I'm pretty sure this goes back to Romeo and Juliet, their love wasn't supported by their families so they ran off. Could do without the taking of their own lives part since we've come a long time since Shakespeare but like, yeah, people move away from their parents eventually anyway in many cultures so if said parent is being a negative impact on your lifestyle then you should no longer be connected to them. There's being pro-family, and then there's supporting abusive families. Not that any discrimination against a child is automatically on the level of worser abuse, but there's plenty of cases where that coincides, like if a parent wants to send a child to a "conversion camp".
9:00 not everyone should have or wants to have children, and while spending time with a good family is nice, the opposite rings true as well. it's worth noting that you don't choose most of your family, because you're born into or adopted into them as a child. Romantic partners and friends are chosen, and even then you have break-ups and ends of friendships. So when you don't even make a choice to get to know your family, why should there be a guarantee that it is beneficial to you to be near them? Spy x Family is an example of a good family that can stick together, but not every family has that privelege.
Well, from what I hear, King of the Hill is a good example of "Right-Wing Media". Because Hank Hill, despite being stuck in his ways as a conservative Texan, comes to term with when change is good. You know, if that counts as being Right-Wing. Haven't watched it for myself, though.
If a show that shows a healthy family is your example of right-wing media then yeah I guess it'll live on, because of straw grasping. But a show that tries to convince you that gay people shouldn't exist/aren't real/are sinners/etc. is flawed in its logic so a show like that probably wouldn't work, unlike the opposite where you see "Oh wait there's nothing wrong here"
Very curious to hear your reply in this discussion, because I'm genuinely curious in your strange way of thinking at this point; plus it helps that you sometimes had actually sensible things to say when you ended up being on the "left" of things by seemingly accident.
finally someone that says that both sides are wrong
has someone who used to be a bothsidist type of political person..no we arent do this ignorant stuff agin.. the side is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy worse ...wayyyyy worse
The left side is extremely pro-foreign and oppressive.
@@JoshuaTerence38 Which side is way worse?
That's a heavily biased and politicized perspective. Anime and a lot of asian media is in a league of it's own right now. In the comic world with manga and manhwa, Korea with their music and dramas, China with their xianxia (Best word I know for it, but not the right one), etc. To the point that all western media is failing in comparison. Most people are going back to older stuff or trying these things.
First i would like to say i made this as i watched and secondly what exactly do you clasify as western media because i say its any media from the americas and around that area (thats orobably correct but im bot the brightest)
So what do you mean by you threw away all but ditch western media entirely because there is some western media that certainly lets your imagination run wild and thay dont have a ideology pushed into every episode also what do you mean where sex scenes are overly used in wedtern media where as i can only name a handful of anime (ive watched) without way overly sexualized scenes even dragon ball had a couple explicit scenes like how goku figures out if your a man or a woman however i do agree with you on the race and gender swaping of characters such as shaggy or making hawk girl the main hawk person of the arrowverse
Thank you for reading this and sorry it was long please dont start any arguments because this was written with good intention at heart with wanting to expand more in the subject considering I dont have a pc or a facecam or any good way to just make this into a full video like i wouldve wanted to.
Yeah I'm not gonna say anime is perfect, since it's not, but compared to Western media it's at least a bit more varied. There's also a handful of Western shows that I do enjoy, but they're mainly pre-2016 since that's when things took a downhill turn.
@@nicwithnok Yeah, politics has gotten really, really heated within the past few years, and the more politically motivated anyone is, the worse they will be at creating art.
western media is like saying western nations.. americas, eurupe, canada, etc,etc altrhough america media is the one that is the actual problem,
i disagree on a couple points.
i think that anime that doesn't have some kind of sexual fan service is pretty hard to come by. sure they are out there but I'm willing to bet that 8/10 amines have this sort of thing.
I also don't think the creatives working on these films are "forced" to do these things. I went to a school that taught creatives like that. Everything from graphic design to animation to cinematography to game design. there is a certain breed of people that like these sorts of things. They all happen to have neon hair color, body dysmorphia or a sexual orientation that is not hetero. They are very happy to inject these ideologies into everything. Just how the guy in the tanktop with the red MAGA hat wants to inject his ideology into everything. it's just how they are. now of course I'm generalizing. however they are not a vocal minority they are very much a vocal majority. when they finish their studies, studios are going to hire these people and they will do these types of things.
but yea anime is cool and western animation generally sucks.
The more creative someone is, the more likely they were patronized for their differences, and were forced to find a way to express it. One of the main ways this is done is through art. This means that later in life someone that would fall into the categories of LGBTQIA+, and in turn, bullied for most of their childhood, is far more likely to pursue the arts, and have far, far, more success then someone that may have adopted more conservative views. This is also a major part of why conservative stories are garbage. They don't know how to write, as they never had the consistent emotional trauma that would drive them to perusing the arts at a young age. Even if they did, it would be far less expressive than someone who learned art through expression.
Side note: He never said that anime wasn't sexualized, but that there's less blatant sex.
@@Novis-N just want to get this straight. Are you suggesting people with conservative values don't get ostracized or don't experience emotional trauma?
regardless of the answer the point I'm making is that creatives aren't forced to inject left leaning ideas into their works by producers or studios like the video was suggesting. its that the creatives do it out of their own volition. i don't care that lefties tend to pursue art more than righties.
"He never said that anime wasn't sexualized, but that there's less blatant sex."
he stated that movies inject sex scenes that add nothing to the overall story. anime does the same with fan service.
i don't want to see the 14 year old high school girl their panty. i want to see how the story progresses. i think its silly and pointless. he also goes on to say that its easy to avoid certain themes which i disagree with. there are hardly any anime that don't do this.
@@downey2294 I would just like to correct one notion, especially on the fanservice "14 year old" point. I watch about 2~5 airing shows every season, maybe 10~15 a year. In the past few years, there's only one show (Summertime Rendering, and while they could have used an alternative, they did try to use it for the story) that wasn't a blatant ecchi show that had any kind of content like that. 15 years ago? It was totally an industry standard.
I mean, there ARE other ways of doing fanservice. But even more mature shows are getting a bit more shy about showing off these-a-days. I almost wonder if you're more caught up with older shows, or you're into a genre that just overlaps hard into ecchi (like anime comedy does).
I'm so sorry, but this sweeping notion that anime has no agenda or that Japanese creators are somehow just completely devoid of any type of messaging or theming in their art is a notion that nearly all fledgling anime fans fall into and is simply a fallacious notion to subscribe to at best, and incredibly dangerous at worst.
First off, placing Japanese entertainment up on a pedestal only plays into the soft-power play that Japan has been engaged in since WW2 in an effort to infiltrate the good graces of foreign audiences. It maneuvers in a way to ingratiate itself to mass audiences abroad in order to gain support and goodwill, largely in its ongoing efforts by its conservative/nationalistic government to one day be able to remilitarize. Treating Japan as this little wubby that can do no wrong is how we get the "thing. thing in japan" memes and its undertoned with a degree of infantilizing Japan and its people in a way that is both offensive and misguided.
Second, your thesis is that anime has no agenda it ever tries to push, before then bookending your video naming shows you specifically acknowledge have themes that would 100% be labeled as an "agenda" if they were in a piece of western media, again playing into Japan's soft-power play. FMA's theming of questioning the structures of power is no different to say, Nimona's, a piece of western media that 100% gets labeled as having an agenda. But I guess since there's no gays in FMA, that means its overtly political theming is free of politics. As are any of Miyazaki's anit-war, pro-environmental films, or the remilitarization propaganda in Gate that was actually produced in collaboration with the JDF.
And third, just real quickly, the notion that Spy Family is "right-wing" just because it's a show about "family", as if leftists don't care about the themes of family, is also a very under-baked notion. In fact, Spy Family spotlighting themes of adoption, found-family, and its antiwar sentiments can arguably be seen as left-wing. So, just saying, thinking more critically on these takes of yours could help you out in the future.
Now I get you're young and new to anime, if your listing off of only the most popular and mainstream titles of the past decade are any indication. This is stuff you really only begin to learn once you develop an interest in Japanese CULTURE and not just one specific form of its media exports. Japan is literally just another country, no better and no worse than all the others. Subs are not automatically better than dubs, "thing" is just as good as "thing" in Japan, and being a fan of something doesn't mean it has to be "better" than the thing other people are a fan of.
I've done the whole song and dance of at one point in time thinking anime is the greatest form of entertainment created by mankind to then going thru my "normie" phase and thinking anime is the most cringe thing on the planet. I've now found a happy middle ground of acknowledging that some anime is true, honest to god art and some of it deserves to be put into a museum, and then there's some that is just the most disposable trash, I'd honestly rather watch Thor 2 than have to sit thru a single episode. Just give yourself room to grow and take an actual interest in where this art you love so much comes from, who the people that make it are, and what leads them to wanting to make it in the first place. These artists are people who have stories they want to tell, and they often want to tell them for a reason, just like artists in the west. Whether you decide to label that story as an "agenda" is really going to come down to how much contextual knowledge you have.
tl;dr: Enjoy anime, just don't be a "weeb".
Anime can have all the messaging it wants and if you want to read into it and take the time to think about it, that's cool. I'm just going to get high and watch a guy punch a crab
Too bad, I was a weeb 10 years ago and am still a weeb today. Japan is clearly better than other countries, not all countries are equal. Somalia is clearly worse.
I'm 25, I yearn for fascism, I am in an American swing state and will be voting for Trump.
@@irregulargamer1352 do you think the same with typical "left"/"right" leaning media as well?
If not what is the reason you can't do it?
@@plompudu2529 what the hell is "left" media? If I like it I watch it. I don't need some hyper analysis to not like something.
You talk about labeling things as "agenda"...and call out japanese media for having agenda...
Japan has no "soft power", people like anime/manga and Japan profit from it, thats it, manga is not created by big companies but but individual creators, and all they care about is if their manga gets popular enough so it can feed them for many years, not to infiltrate someone's mind.
Christian Conservative Zoomer here. Just thought that I would give my two cents. I love anime. It recaptures my inner child, and is full of great role models. The animation is amazing. Spy x Family is so wholesome, and I love it. I haven't gotten around to watching Season 2 yet, but I'm looking forward to when I eventually sit down and watch it. Mr. Birchum is just mean-spirited drivel. It's sad. We need more good stories, more wholesome relationships, and good art in this world.
We also need more cunny. Far more cunny. Wish the christian conservative prudes would lighten up a bit.
100% agree!
Anime creators put beauty and honesty to their desires before everything else, it's that simple, anyone who seeks to interfere with that order of priorities is always seen as a nuisance by anime fans
Well, I think a story comes tied with beauty on the priority list.
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w8 u telling me that the Conception series does not have an agenda to fight against declining birth rates in Japan?!
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Wrong thumb nail budy maybe Eastern media is better currently.
While it does have LGBT representation, it's not really fair to cite Owl House as an example of the checkbox mentality of western media. Not only was said representation part of the reason for its cancellation, the fact is that the show was known for taking significant inspiration from anime. This includes a cast of fleshed out characters, both action and slice of life episodes, a focus on both humor and drama, a protagonist slowly falling into despair, and the standard isekai setting that's been so popular the past decade or so. Lining it up with Velma of all shows makes no sense at all, especially when Owl House put in the work to make the original characters you wanted
okay this is not the argument you think you want to make. if anything, popular anime supports right wing discourse.
I don't understand the whole purpose of this . Since when is making normal Media right wing?
He's saying that the fact that a healthy family is shown is right wing
Because the LGBTQIA+ community faces struggles against discriminatory family members and they distance themselves from those people, which is, according to him, anti-family.
That's what he was trying to communicate, which is goofy because for example he hates on The Owl House, which has major family themes lol
@@JoelTheParrot Yeah I was confused about that bit too.
the good thing about anime/manga is that they are able to tackle real issues not because of a need to satisfy political agenda but because they want to show good in people
Even when they cover things that we would see as "Political" it's not because politics, it's to tell a story.
"It's a good thing they tackle real issues because I hate that Gay people think they exist"
Is that your take summarized?
Anime --) Right wing viewpoint
Id say anime destroys left wing media, because most of the developers are based, and the content of the stories are actual stories, real character development, not cliches, not exploitation, not caricature of representation, not an enforced mandate of a diversity quota which ALWAYS affects the final product,
thank god DEI is being shut down by most businesses, it was untenable, unprofitable, and unnecessary.
Please don't claim anime for your side. That's laughable. It's not yours. You didn't make it.
No, the term "woke" hasn't lost all meaning. We all know what "woke" means. You're just saying it's lost all meaning because you want to discredit the right's criticism of woke culture infiltrating and ruining everything we love.
If it hasn’t lost all meaning yet then it’s about to. The right labels everything they don’t like as woke even if it isn’t. As someone on the right I will discredit their criticism if it isn’t valid
Anime has barely anything to do with politics. You're just delusional. I've been watching anime since 2002 and not once have I thought "oh wow this really reminds me of left-wing or right-wing political principles".
Anything not pushing the left agenda is right wing now.
Then you're either void of media literacy, or you just aren't very politically inclined. The latter of which is actually understandable.
@@andrewcotter2036 Give 50 examples of left wing politics in anime
Anime destroys woke dogshit like The Acolyte or any other media created for The Message. Bring on the ecchi fanservice!
Anime and manga are also popular among many on the right. Anime is not LGBT propaganda, but nice try.
i like how you not watching the video has shown just how uncommunicative the title is lol
@@JoelTheParrot I was about to say the same thing, lmao
The video was not what I was expecting, good thing I stuck to hear the whole thing.
And yes, all western media will fail as long as it keeps being so overtly politic and bland.
It's a culture issue that will not change until there's a huge generational shift.
The Japanese really don't care. As long as they tell a story they'll make it. without political views from our viewpoints. No left or right-wing bs or caring what the alphabet thinks. That's why I love anime more than any show or movie here in America. I still fear for anime in America when Disney and a couple others get their hands on the distribution rights. They tend to mess with translation.
I do like anime but we do have good shows/movies in the west, like Arcane, Infinity Train, Gravity falls, invincible, Fiona and Cake, Lupine from Netflix, Fallout and so on. But i get your point. I don't like where the entertainment industry is going, but i think it's important to keep fighting for better entertainment in the West instead of running away from it. I love cartoons and live action too, and i think they are worth fighting for.
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Way more examples of anime too.
Oh don’t worry I’ve got another video cooking with more recommendations 😏
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Anime is extremely 'right wing' because Japan is a conservative country in general.
Anything else is just delusional
Nintendo gives gay support to its workers despite the country not doing so and has included an outright trans character in a recent Mario game who struggles with discrimination.
"Huh! But that's not the country, you just said so!"
Yeah, but it's the media, and anime is media, so it's an example of Japanese media. And Nintendo ain't no small fry.
Spy x Family is not political, which is one of the reason's it's good.
I don't think people want either woke or right-wing commentary in anime. It's like choosing between ugly "empowered" characters that have nothing going for them but being a minority or if it was the right, don't expect seeing a cute girl in bikini because that's going too far
Yeah, I'd say that's why anime has jumped up in popularity. It's a (usually) politics free entertainment, which is in stark contrast to our politically driven media here in the west
Spy x Family absolutely is political. It's just politically centrist.
all art is inherently political. spyxfamily is just more in line with the current status quo, and has less to say politically. this isn't a good or bad thing, but to say that it is unpolitical simply isn't true.
Idk what happened where normal became right wing for a while and there's a whole history of Right wing Media being bad for different reasons but all I can say is thank God for Anime.
Normal became right wing when abnormal became left wing
Conservatives don't understand Anime! Matt Walsh is just the biggest joke for it.
Its not just conservatives, its all people who are political in the west dont understand anime, both on the right and the left. Both sides will attack it. Conservatives will call you creepy and unmanly for liking this foreign thing, but so called western Progressives would try to enforce change with cultural imperialism so it fits their viewpoints. I dont understand why the video is titled so that anime somehow only hurts the western right but then all it talks about is how it hurts the left.
@@GlaDos321 correct theres 2 type of brain rot: right = "anime is for pedos" and left = "yamato is trans"... and yeah, the title or is clickbait or really fucking bad
The spy family part rings very true to myself, one of my favorite anime. I'm not a very political guy but the thing that puts me so off from western American media be it right wing slop that daily wire puts out or left wing slop that every other company puts out, is taking current hot topic, grey political issues that have two valid sides, and painting them in the most black and white way and making the other side the most insane strawman you have ever seen. Mr Birchum is a good right wing example and The Boys is a good left wing example. Media like this that just demonizes the other side just makes the political divide worse. Norm Macdonald said something like "to parody something succesfully, you need to like it" and I stand by that 100%.
Daily Wire is left wing. They are controlled opposition.
Anime humiliates both sides because the Japanese just do whatever the hell they want. You'll see anime with strong women in power at the same time they wear clothing so revealing that would make any western feminist scream and explode. And then another strong woman will kick that villainess' ass with the help of her boyfriend/husband because neither of them were strong enough without the help of the other.
Nobody wants to watch cartoons to be reminded of how awful the world is. They want to see something artistic that makes them feel better after watching it, not some hideously drawn show with abysmal "jokes."
They hated him for telling the truth
wokism is a pestilence.
Define woke
Define woke
@@nkemnoraulmanfredini7286Ignore. He probably doesn't know what it means
@@markbravenlumbria1827 Yeah
@@markbravenlumbria1827 Yeah