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INTEREST: Digimon Tamers 20th Anniversary Stage Show Features 'Cancel Culture' Villain

Just a few months ago I was lamenting Tamers not getting any sort of official follow-up like Adventure.

Now I'm realizing that was probably a dodged bullet.

The moral is that private platforms shouldn't be allowed to boot people who are spreading demonstrable falsehoods to sow doubt in the medical establishment during the biggest health crisis in a hundred years.

No offense intented, but ANN must have thought twice before bringing up a controversial topic like this.

It looks like someone has also gone through and translated Konaka's past blogs, and has explained it in detail, while simultaneously going over the conspiracies themselves and who was pushing them, all in a very reasonable matter with sourcing backing them up. The last page on the "proving him right" bit is very important as well, as I've always seen that brought up a number of times.

https://twitter.com/dakarananitte/status/1422979179125952514

luisedgarf wrote:

No offense intented, but ANN must have thought twice before bringing up a controversial topic like this.

What you're suggesting is censorship of the media in favor of avoiding difficult topics because it brings weirdos out of the woodwork. Reality is real even when it's inconvenient and I disagree with the idea of simply pretending things aren't happening because one person might show up to yell on a soapbox.

Nobody lost any audience. There is no actual controversy. This is a very vocal minority of western fans complaining about something. This is just more bleating like how Koichi Sugiyama is still getting work and was even featured at the Olympics. Or how Subaru Kimura is in Jujutsu Kaisen and the upcoming Kamen Rider series. A dozen upset westerners on Twitter do not make something newsworthy. Nobody in Japan cares about any of this stuff or considers these issues. People are trying to rationalize why all the companies and other cast members and writers went alone with this rather than simply realizing that they were all perfectly fine with it and supported it. Digimon is canonly against cancel culture. And indeed, there was zero complaints about the stage play until the fansub came out and English speaking fans saw it. What happens when the community is mostly in agreement with these messages and it's the complainers who are not welcome in it?

ANN_Lynzee wrote:

luisedgarf wrote: No offense intented, but ANN must have thought twice before bringing up a controversial topic like this. What you're suggesting is censorship of the media in favor of avoiding difficult topics because it brings weirdos out of the woodwork. Reality is real even when it's inconvenient and I disagree with the idea of simply pretending things aren't happening because one person might show up to yell on a soapbox.

Does Konaka being a “weirdo” betray the fact this site has often praised his work?

I'm against PC and cancel culture. I think the world has gone off the deep end and are just cry baby's.
The world needs moderation and justification, not a bunch of people with flaming pitch forks.
Some stage play isnt going to hurt Digimon Tamers. That ended years ago. Its just his way of getting his thought message out into the mass media. But oh no; lets cancel him!!

I miss the 90's. Everyone was sensible back then.

The problem isn't because Konaka is criticizing "cancel culture." The problem is that he is being very black-and-white about the situation and stating that "cancel culture" is being used to stifle freedom of speech when in all actuality he is upset that people making harmful conspiracy theories, as well as anti-vaxxers, are rightfully being deplatformed for spreading misinformation.

I don't think he should be de-platformed, no matter how conspiratorial/alternative his views. My problem is that he's using Digimon, a franchise this politically polarizing content has no place in. Digimon should not be a battleground for the culture war. He can explore these topics in a mature anime aimed at adults with minds of their own, not a franchise intended for the most easily influenced demographic.