Hi everyone, I'm trying to finish university and writing my thesis/dissertation. If you're over the age of 18 and are into anime/manga, I would be SUPER grateful if you could please fill out my survey, it will take no longer than 10 minutes, thank you <3
Whenever a new anime releases, I like to check it out to see if it's something worthy of my time, but it usually just ends up being the typical normie/weeb stuff instead of something for real otaku.
You wanna know the truth behind whether your weeb friends are mentally stable? Ask them what anime characters they kin. If they say literally any major supervillain, that's you're que to be concerned.
But if they say Osamu Dazai? Might oughta hit up a crisis hotline. You can thank me later.
Non-linguists: The way weebs are butchering Japanese and then loaning it into English is unique and bad.
FatAthenianThighs69: UwUus, Greek διόπερ kawaii est! We should learn their language so we can sound cool like them!
SocraticToeSucker: I'm trying but they have all these weird sounds! I know how to pronounce "ph" but I can't figure out how to pronounce "th", "kh", and "ch".
FatAthenianThighs69: Honestly I just pronounce them like aspirated stops, it doesn't really matter I think my future Hellenic boywife will understand me when I debate him on philosophy. Greeks are really wise, they can figure it out.
SocraticToeSucker: You're right what's important is that we use as many Greek words to describe things as possible.
FatAthenianThighs69: Right you are! Now are you coming to Agora Rome this year?
SocraticToeSucker: Yep my Aristotle cosplay is finally finished.
FatAthenianThighs69: Why did it take so long?
SocraticToeSucker: I had to wait for the ships to return.
The ‘American Feelings Yakuza’ article reminded me of something that’s been brewing in my head for a couple years about Japanese media and the rise of antis. Like, there's always been inflammatory bad faith criticism of characters and ships due to ship wars, but I think antis in the modern sense started to really gel when we started getting really obviously anime-inspired American cartoons by creators who actually grew up on anime and the fandoms that emerged around them (See Avatar, Korra, Steven Universe, and Voltron: Legendary Defender).
Like, it’s not wrong to like those shows, but I do think they tended to be especially efficient spawning vats for modern anti rhetoric and behavior for some reason, and I think the way the Japanese cartoon aesthetics were removed from their original context (Japanese culture, especially their post-war period) and sanitized for the consumption of American viewers that lent itself to batshit, self-entitled fandoms who spread their attitudes like a mind-virus.