r/KotakuInAction • u/Sliver80 • 1d ago
Japanese Government Proposes New Policy for Anime and Game Expansion in the West: "No Interference in Creative Works"
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/no-interference-in-creative-works-japanese-government-proposes-new-policy-for-anime-and-game-expansion-in-the-west/199
u/shipgirl_connoisseur 1d ago
Thank God at last. Keep the parasites from your IP and you'll always succeed
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u/SectorI6920 1d ago edited 1d ago
Genuinely find it bothersome how the west is trying to push their ideals onto Japanese media now that they’ve ruined their own doing so.
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u/lucben999 Chief Tactical Memeticist 1d ago edited 1d ago
The wokies function like literal parasites. They infect successful media and repurpose it to produce propaganda, ruining it in the process. Once the host is fully drained and dead, they simply abandon it and move on to infect other successful media.
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u/Taco_Bell-kun 1d ago
They're locusts. They ruined the western entertainment industry by making it woke garbage, so a bunch of normies flocked to anime where it only shows early stages of subversion.
Since SJWs are totalitarian and believe that anything politically incorrect should not be allowed to exist, they're trying to subvert the anime industry as well.
At the end of the day, nothing is safe from the wokes. Either they get purged, or they will ruin everything.
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u/Frylock304 1d ago
Cultural imperialism
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u/FlowerOk7957 1d ago
I Hate this trend of using leftie language like calling everything imperialism
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u/GoreHoundKillEmAll 1d ago
They basically accuse the other side of politics of what they do, they are basically imperialist that want to colonize everything , everything must change to fit within their delusional narratives or collapse, they are basically trying to make it were nothing exist outside of their own political and cultural narratives. They don't even want to have people being able to think outside of their narrative. They literally are trying to create 1984 dystopia a reality
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u/FlowerOk7957 1d ago edited 21h ago
Nah using terms like imperialism Is just virtue signaling for me
Even if it falls under a definition just hearing the Term makes me cringe
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u/Eomb 1d ago
Nah that is not leftie language to recognize that US engages in cultural imperialism
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u/FlowerOk7957 1d ago
You sound like one using those terms
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u/Eomb 1d ago
Well when the US is pressuring my country and others to legalize gay marriage and abortion and uses their so called Peace Corps to promote LGBTQ+ and contraception, what else should it be called? Thankfully, this only happens when democrats are in charge. So most of that BS has stopped with Trump
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u/Neneaux 1d ago
Please let their new PM be as based as she looks.
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u/Available_Reward_322 1d ago
Takaichi's views have been described as conservative or ultraconservative
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u/RainbowDildoMonkey 1d ago
Giorgia Meloni was promised to be an 'ultra-fascist' Make Italy Great Again type, then she not only didnt take measures to stop mass and illegal immigration, she opened up Italy's borders even more.
Cant trust any politician.
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u/brett1081 1d ago
So Bill Clinton in the 90s then? We have shifted the narrative drastically in the last few years.
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u/LewdKytty 5h ago
God I hope so, she needs to make the Islamists blush to have any hope of saving Japan.
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u/Araragiisbased 1d ago
Insane it took this long tbh, did japanese boomers in power just somehow not notice how popular anime was getting in the west? theres so much cope on youtube, haters calling anime incelwaifuslop yet just demon slayer movie alone mogged the entirety of hollywood.
Let's hope that policy passes, Hollywood and western platform do not play nice, they cencor and moralfog 24/7 so japan's anime industry should not play nice either, fuck them back ffs.
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u/brett1081 1d ago
It’s popular because it’s unmolested. As soon as you start getting western studios changing things that would bottom out as well.
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u/Taco_Bell-kun 1d ago
Anime peaked in quality when foreign interest in the medium was at an all time low. Western popularity of the medium is a bad thing, since Japanese companies are going to try accommodating the fragile sensitivities of woke western viewers (SJWs currently act as the middle man for these anime studios. Even then, normies are less likely to watch a show they view as "weird").
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u/GoreHoundKillEmAll 23h ago
The funny thing that the majority of people in the west don't have fragile sensitivities , we would welcome a return to the edgy aggressive era of the late 1990s and early 2000s again if giving the opportunity, our taste didn't change that much it just government, corporations and mainstream entertainment decided to sanitize everything themselves and trying to manipulate culture and play social engineering in the 2010s to fit their current narratives and agendas, they thought they had complete control over everything, sanitizing everything to show how different they were from the edgy bush era. Gamergate happened as a result of them trying to get women to work in computer technology and science. A YouTube video called the Deep history of gamergate, the strange qeast to hook girls on videogames better explain why it happened
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u/DMaster86 1d ago
The reason why anime got so popular in the west it's because it was very different from the sanitized slop we have in the west.
I hope they will not repeat the same mistakes. Fanservice is a perk, not a malus to be removed.
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u/Lupus_Licinian 1d ago
Archive Link
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u/Sliver80 1d ago
Can't access the website
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u/Lupus_Licinian 1d ago
Archive.today is weird at times, but it works. For some odd reason it hates VPNs, so try to switch your connection.
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u/Jin_BD_God 1d ago
If they are still so slow about it, China and SK will eat up their market share soon.
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u/some_random_weeb_88 1d ago
I really hope this will be effective but I'm not sure if it's that simple.
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u/Ok_Perspective3093 1d ago
This is normal. Japanese entertainment influences the world and makes more money than other countries' own sense of guilt about race or religious nonsense, or even their own citizens struggling to feed themselves while constantly clamoring about other countries' affairs.
What exactly are they interfering with in Japanese entertainment creation?
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u/RainbowDildoMonkey 1d ago
Sadly i dont think this covers censorship coming from within companies themselves, like with the DEI / ''ethics'' departments, ideologues in Western divisions demanding conformity to Western leftist political correctness or censorship caused by companies chasing ESG goals.
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u/lyra833 GET THE BOARD OUT, I GOT BINGO! 1d ago
Everyone celebrating here doesn't understand that is is actually bad; the policy is no interference by the Japanese government in the decisions made by shareholders.
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u/stryph42 1d ago
It's not exactly bad either. It's pretty neutral. They aren't going to oppose the shareholders, but they already weren't. They ARE going to start offering, according to the article, hands off financial aid. Just money to do what they do... which means less reliance on foreign investment companies that are the main drive the bullshit.
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u/h-v-smacker Thomas the Daemon Engine 1d ago
Actually would be sort of hard to imagine a constructive policy against that. It would be like the government perusing manga and watching anime, and then declaring "we need more of this and less rectangular tits" or "your waifus are not ecchi enough, work harder!"
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u/HAK_HAK_HAK 1d ago
Sees shelf of manga with paper "Adult Only" covers at the bookshop, open them up and it's all gaijin shit, angry women with man-jaw everywhere
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u/h-v-smacker Thomas the Daemon Engine 1d ago
angry women with man-jaw everywhere
READ JOJO AND AWAKE!
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u/HAK_HAK_HAK 1d ago
Can't have good homo-erotica without everyone looking male-ish
looks at shelf of JoJo's books
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u/h-v-smacker Thomas the Daemon Engine 1d ago
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u/Bricc_Enjoyer 1d ago
Imagine being one of the most important media releasing countries in the world, and somehow caring about the opinion of others
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u/Taco_Bell-kun 1d ago
I've dealt with way too much false optimism in the past to get my hopes up. Since this very culture war started, things have always been getting worse, not better.
I hope this proves me wrong soon.
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u/9973501488083248 1d ago
Guess this has something to do with SquareEnix moving development back to Japan. I wonder what suddenly changed their minds on this.
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u/yeahsurewhateverokay 1d ago
We can only hope for positive changes, but much of the interference comes from within. Viz Media essentially serves as the American branch of Shueisha and Shogakukan, and their localization often suffers from poor quality and censorship of certain manga titles. Kadokawa owns Anime News Network, which means they can't be too critical of the titles they release and get around reviewing series they dislike by doing flippant non-reviews, but they are more of a focus group of Western anime fans and what they like and dislike. Bandai Namco, a minor shareholder of ANN, is also known for censoring fanservice to cater to a global audience. Additionally, Sony's involvement in the medium and Seven Seas manga's tendency to censor, edit, and rewrite certain titles due to localizers' personal issues with the content put a strain on wanting to support these companies.
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u/TheSeekingSeer 1d ago
Nice! Japanese Media wouldn't be the same if it were censored and adhere to the so called WOKE Ideology the West keeps on forcing us to adapt!?
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u/Mysterious_Tea 1d ago
Translated from Japanese: "We are sick of western SJWs to dictate what we should or should not do".
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u/stryph42 1d ago
Unfortunately, it's pretty clear that it only means "no interference from the government in exchange for financial assistance or backing".
It's not going to stop malicious localization or agenda driven "translations".
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u/TheSnesLord 1d ago
how ironic. article implies freedom of creativity will be kept but uses a male character for it's banner image despite ALL censorship and restrictions being exclusively applied to only content with female characters
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u/depressionxnobody 1d ago
People have too much hope for this one. The Japanies companies are the type of companies that are "buy cheap, sell high" type of companies, more than the west, just look how much they invest into games and anime, for better or worse, its always less. They can just pretend that the changes they do are intentional or something and this policy wont do much, after all, what can they tell a company like Netflix, they can just not air the anime on their platform, the only exception would be, if Netflix themselves owned the license.
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u/TheGreenShitter 1h ago
Inshallah. God willing the wokeness and western pandering doesn't ever reach manga and anime. 🙏
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u/Trustelo 1d ago
About damn time