Forum - View topicINTEREST: Light Yagami Encourages Hondurans to Vote In Presidential Election
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Zeino
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Because a murderous, sociopathic fascist is clearly the best endorsement you could pick.
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Dayraven
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“It’s a secret ballot, I definitely won’t be making a note of the people who vote for the wrong candidate.”
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monsieurb1982
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An ad with Light Yagami as the new spoleman of democracy. What's next? Hunter X Hunter's Hisoka as the new spokeman of an all boy elementary school? O_o
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Tanteikingdomkey
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Vote or light Yagami will have political power........
Are you allowed to threaten people in a political ad? |
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mangamuscle
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We already have Luffy from One Piece talk against piracy, so anything is possible. animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-10-16/luffy-naruto-conan-kirito-eren-join-forces-to-fight-piracy/.80017 |
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invalidname
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So you’re telling me I can use a page from the Death Note for a write-in ballot?
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xxmsxx
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Is there potentially a reason behind this choice? Like trying to encourage younger voters? Is DN relatively popular than other anime titles or something? If someone can kindly provide some context here, it would be greatly appreciated.
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RockSplash
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My guess is they are targeting younger voters. Younger voters like death note. Death note does have politics in the series, and DN is still extremely popular today. It's a gimmick. I don't really understand it only studying in Marketing(not from Honduras), but it is definately an appeal and a call to action(a playful message to vote, though having a killer as your spokesman would never fly here in the US). |
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jdnation
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The most likely explanation is that some government propaganda arm, or marketing firm, who are entirely clueless about anime, decided to use anime to attract the young folk's attention. Randomly picked a popular anime from a list, and simply picked the main character without knowing anything about him. Or they just looked at a bunch of images of main characters from various shows on a projection screen, saw Light as the most sensible - handsome male student dressed like a normal person - versus Super saiyans and other sword weilding fantasy characters and big boob ladies - and marketing said to go with that as the image for the campaign.
These important adult people aren't actually going to watch the shows. Cartoons are for kids after all and in their memories cartoons are tame cat'n'mouse affairs that are usually educational and teach children good moral lessons and to fight in WWII. Yes, these are the people in government, advertising and the media. Judge accordingly. |
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xxmsxx
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Appreciate your thoughts, but I was kind of hoping it would someone at least from the region because, I am sure you are aware of this since you study Marketing, regional variety is a real thing. Take Case Closed/Detective Conan for example. It has household recognizability in Japan. In other parts of East Asia, it does have fairly wide recognizability as well, even amongst people who don't watch anime. But if you come to North America, plenty of people know the show, but it is most definitely not THAT well know. Europe is a different story, so is the Middle East. If the newspaper decided to choose this title, it must think there is appeal to whoever the target audience is. How did they arrive to this conclusion? I want to presume that the entire series is at least legally available to viewers in Honduras on some streaming service. But is it? I would love to know more about how anime communities operate in Central America in general, if it helps. |
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RockSplash
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I hope somebody can help you out. I know some anime cultures(YuYuHakusho is beloved in Brazil, Saint Seiya is huge in Mexico, and Lupin might as well have a second home in Italy), but this I am not so sure. |
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MFrontier
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I would've used L instead of Light personally, but...
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delirante_otaku
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I really hope to have an update on this if the guy won or not
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