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caterpillargrl discovered 11 months ago- Article refutes the arguments made in a recent WSJ article on anime and manga. The WSJ article describes anime and manga negatively and claims they are "ill-suited for Japan's public relations campaign". Here's why author Bianca Bosker's arguments are silly and uninformed.
- Lilynia rated 8 months ago
- Stop with all the judgement and let me enjoy my anime and manga!
- TurtleSoupage rated 9 months ago
- The problem is all the American morons out there watching anime that was intended for children in Japan. The more mature series are often ignored.
- skipp0023 rated 10 months ago
- WSJ's point is that Japan really thinks anime and manga are going to help its image abroad. You needn't look any further than a single anime nerd to see why this is a bad idea. But that's stuff above and beyond this author's grasp. He's too busy crying over the suggestion that anime is lewd and/or strictly for kids. Get over yourself and, I dunno, try reading.
- madman0004 rated 10 months ago
- two thumbs up
- Andendau rated 10 months ago
- nerd rage. This critique of a article in the "taste" section of the WSJ takes itself too seriously. Anime and manga is an incredibly small subset of Japanese culture in toto. The content of anime and manga definitely runs the gamut of blaise material to potentially disturbing. Consider the WSJ audience potentially considers anything animated as soley being of interest to children
- GangstaMonkee rated 10 months ago
- "Perhaps the biggest problem is the highly sexualized nature of the form, which can be exceptionally seedy, if not illegal. Earlier this year, 13 manga comics, including "Rape Me in My School Uniform" and "Pedophile's Banquet II," were labeled "harmful books" by the Kyoto Prefecture for featuring excessive sexual acts involving girls under the age of 13."
I knew it all anime, like Hamtaro, is really all about pedophilia and tentacle rape! - "Perhaps the biggest problem is the highly sexualized nature of the form, which can be exceptionally seedy, if not illegal. Earlier this year, 13 manga comics, including "Rape Me in My School Uniform" and "Pedophile's Banquet II," were labeled "harmful books" by the Kyoto Prefecture for featuring excessive sexual acts involving girls under the age of 13."
- Nutzilla rated 11 months ago
- I'm not surprised that a conservative rag like the WSJ had such a degrading story. It's so infuriating that people still just think of Anime as just cartoons or cartoon porn. True there are those elements, but most of it is so much more.
- xtxzt rated 11 months ago
- Do your RESEARCH before writing a misleading article like that. Bah.
- Therapie220 rated 11 months ago
- From the page: " I'm not sure why it's so difficult for people to grasp that anime and manga are forms of media rather than genres - just as "books", "movies", and "magazines" are forms of media. In each form of media, there are genres and categories like action, sci-fi, romance, comedy, horror, and yes - even "adult oriented". "
