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NEWS: HENNEKO Author: Anime's Foreign Product Placement to Be Removed

The KKK thought that what they did wasn't racist, what didn't stop it from being racism.

According to the closet racists in this thread, yes.

I think you'll notice discrimination eventually if you're in Japan and you're not Japanese. It won't be direct or have any heat in it, but it won't be invisible. Stuff like them assuming you can't speak Japanese, so when/if you do, it can really surprise them. Then they'll open up and be nice and courteous, more than usual. But either way, you'll always be a foreigner and prejudices will always exist unless Japan seems more ethnicities and races mix in. Just a generalization, of course.

FLEABttn wrote:

Polycell wrote: Given that those "racist twats" would be the customers on whom the producers' livelihoods depend, I'd say they have every right to control the media that panders their way. Racism is acceptable so long as it benefits the bottom line?

According to the closet racists in this thread, yes.

My point was that Chagen was forgetting that he who pays the piper calls the tune, especially when we're talking about people dropping hundreds of dollars.

Chagen46 wrote:

The KKK thought that what they did wasn't racist, what didn't stop it from being racism.

Refusing to buy something over a poster hardly rises to the level of the Klan; really, it's more stupid than bigoted.

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According to the closet racists in this thread, yes.

Pointing out the facts doesn't make one a racist.

Hence why the issue with "racism" here is tricky. Regardless of what we call it in the West, to them, they're the ones feeling like they need to preserve themselves and keep themselves "pure." Pointing out that they're the "bad guys" because they're "racist" does no one any good. Rather, gradual change under the skin is the only true way to make change, assuming there isn't a huge national movement driven by a major incident. And trust me--these small things are happening. J-Dramas like "Smile" and the influx of Korean entertainment is proof of that. In fact, backlashes like this are kinda a reaction to this change by people who fear their Japanese values being de-valued. And to clarify, I'm not saying they value racism. I'm just saying racism is partially a reaction to their fear of losing their uniqueness, so the issue is complicated.

Everyone has music genre's they hate and wish would die in a fire, for us, it's rap and anything written by Rihanna, for them, it's just k-pop. If you wrote a piece of fiction and your work's adaptation had a Snoop Diddy poster in a scene, I'm sure you'd be a bit annoyed too.

How popular was the show anyway?

If it was going to flop anyway, this is irrelevant and simply another example of nationalists ranting about a big dump of nothing.

The best way to earn respect instantly while being a foreigner is to be a teacher of some kind. So go teach.

I prefer to go as part of a conquering army. Oh yeah, we already did that.

Why do I have a feeling that a majority of this thread is filled with privileged white people so unattuned to racism they don't even notice it.

Oh wait, that's because it is.

Must be real fun, being so privileged you can't see two goddamn feet in front of yourself.

I think you'll notice discrimination eventually if you're in Japan and you're not Japanese. It won't be direct or have any heat in it, but it won't be invisible. Stuff like them assuming you can't speak Japanese, so when/if you do, it can really surprise them. Then they'll open up and be nice and courteous, more than usual. But either way, you'll always be a foreigner and prejudices will always exist unless Japan seems more ethnicities and races mix in. Calling them out on overt racism will likely just offend them and you'll lose their attention and respect, that's not how Japan operates, nothing is ever direct.

guildmaster wrote:

While I would agree that the creator was probably well within his rights as the owner of the work to not have anything extraneous added to the animated work, the way he went about exercising his rights were highly unrefined (to be polite - i could use other terms), and reflect poorly on himself and his whole nation.

I don't know about Japanese contracts, but in America the original creator pretty much gives up all creative control over movie or TV adaptations. I suspect this author did as well. Now he's bitching about a single background in a single scene as if his creation was somehow violated? Considering the amounts of complaining I hear from manga readers about anime adaptations, the author should be lucky if this is the only alteration in his original work.

You got a mouse in your pocket, who the hell is "us"?

Again, this is HIS work that's being altered in a way he doesn't like. What if he hates k-pop? Do you think he'd just sit back and accept how they added something he hates into his work?

Though don't really blame him for financial reason, I think the author missed the opportunity here to be the better man and tell people to grow up.

enurtsol wrote:

Though don't really blame him for financial reason, I think the author missed the opportunity here to be the better man and tell people to grow up.

Whats to say the author himself wasn't upset to see K-pop in his LN adaption?