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ANN has many hilarious interviews in which u can see them trying to get a reply they want from japanese authors, and unltimately failing because the japanese are simply not ideology driven (well, at least not manye of them are).

ANN recently interviewed Naoko Yamada, legendary director of moe anime (K-on, Hibike! Euphonium, Tamako Market and Liz and the blue bird) They embarrassed themselves yet again. Here are the highlights:

Asking if K-on being a show aimed at men was a myth, getting a reply that it was indeed aimed at dudes
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Asking if Yamada's intention was to set a trend of cute girls doing cute stuff, getting a very uncomfortable reaction and a normal reply because trends are sometimes organic and not astroturfed by execs like in the westView attachment 3903408

Wanting to make Yamada say "gay rights", she refused yet again (she has refused before in another ANN interview)
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Trying to make Naoko YYamada say the reason she decided on chubby girls in her film is due to activism, gets a reply that's due to chubby girls feeling more real "as if u could touch them"

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Cornering yamada now saying BUT HERE IN THIS FILM YOU SAID IT WAS A ROMANTIC STORY WHY YOU DONT SAY THE SAME ABOUT THIS 2 GIRLS. SAY GAY RIGHTS PLEASE PLEASE
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the interview:https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...-of-remembrance-director-naoko-yamada/.191331

Yeah, the stupid weebs at ANN don't really understand that the US concept of yuri doesn't always match the Japanese concept. As in a lot of yuri I think is what I would call "Class S" genere where it's between students in an all girls school and is completely emotional and romantic, sometimes just like a strong crush, and not sexual at all. This trend goes back into really old works from the 1910's and may have reflected some student relationships from that era. In fact, I wouldn't even say it was Japan-only, some western works with really strong sisterhood type freidnships that seem almost like romance kind of bleed into it especially from the 1910's and earlier into the 1800's. Overall, a Class S relationship could be lesbian, but it could also just be really intense friendship and sisterhood. Everyone actually into yuri should know this. It's really basic stuff.

So yeah, sicking someone who doesn't even understand anime and manga on an interview like that seemingly to push an agenda was fucking retarded, but that's ANN. Overall, US weebs, these works belong to the Japanese and regard Japanese cultural concepts, they are only as gay as they want them to be, so you have to deal with that.
 
Yeah, it's only been in recent years that a gay relationship in anime could be a legit romantic/sexual relationship that's not played for titillation. It's otherwise fetishized and it's open about it being a fetish, or in the case of yuri, shows the childishness of women (hence why Haruka and Michiru are considered progressive characters because they were portrayed as mature women the adolescent Sailor Scouts strived to be). It really explains why Western fujoshi/yuri fans are as fucked up as they are.
 
ANN has many hilarious interviews in which u can see them trying to get a reply they want from japanese authors, and unltimately failing because the japanese are simply not ideology driven (well, at least not manye of them are).

ANN recently interviewed Naoko Yamada, legendary director of moe anime (K-on, Hibike! Euphonium, Tamako Market and Liz and the blue bird) They embarrassed themselves yet again. Here are the highlights:

Asking if K-on being a show aimed at men was a myth, getting a reply that it was indeed aimed at dudes
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Asking if Yamada's intention was to set a trend of cute girls doing cute stuff, getting a very uncomfortable reaction and a normal reply because trends are sometimes organic and not astroturfed by execs like in the westView attachment 3903408

Wanting to make Yamada say "gay rights", she refused yet again (she has refused before in another ANN interview)
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Trying to make Naoko YYamada say the reason she decided on chubby girls in her film is due to activism, gets a reply that's due to chubby girls feeling more real "as if u could touch them"

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Cornering yamada now saying BUT HERE IN THIS FILM YOU SAID IT WAS A ROMANTIC STORY WHY YOU DONT SAY THE SAME ABOUT THIS 2 GIRLS. SAY GAY RIGHTS PLEASE PLEASE
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the interview:https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/in...-of-remembrance-director-naoko-yamada/.191331

This kind of thing is why we really need to get these people out and away from the fandom ASAP.. Or at least make it be known that they only speak for elites and other outside ideological interests, not the fans.

It really is amazing how hard it is for westerners to comprehend the idea of targeted demographics.. especially since it was still a known and used concept here only ~2 decades ago. Which is why it's much easier to believe people who do are simply playing games out of ideological distaste for such concepts. This kind of thing also exposes the mentality in the west of conflating outcome with intent, as well as completely missing the forest for the trees. "But some girls watch these shows for boys too.. we MUST remake the series to their socially accepted/directed tastes now!" Usually ruining said media in the process. Some members of one sex watching media made for the other, doesn't mean the work needs to change.
 
This kind of thing is why we really need to get these people out and away from the fandom ASAP.. Or at least make it be known that they only speak for elites and other outside ideological interests, not the fans.

It really is amazing how hard it is for westerners to comprehend the idea of targeted demographics.. especially since it was still a known and used concept here only ~2 decades ago. Which is why it's much easier to believe people who do are simply playing games out of ideological distaste for such concepts. This kind of thing also exposes the mentality in the west of conflating outcome with intent, as well as completely missing the forest for the trees. "But some girls watch these shows for boys too.. we MUST remake the series to their socially accepted/directed tastes now!" Usually ruining said media in the process. Some members of one sex watching media made for the other, doesn't mean the work needs to change.

It goes back to the fact that Japan didn't have to go through the post-World War II commie indoctrination backlash to the Nazis from academia the west went through that produced idiotic anti-logical postmodern concepts like "Death of the Author" where it doesn't even matter what the author thinks regarding their own work, it's how society and individual neon hairs interpret it.

So we have all these spoiled western brats that are literally trained by college instructors to interpret art meant merely as entertainment for a specific audience like it's possible World War II Nazi propaganda that could lead to a new Holocaust instead of yeah something targeted at a specific audience for people that just want to relax and enjoy something on its own terms. Your work doesn't even belong to you of course, so you don't get to decide what audience it's supposed to have either.
 
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For the shitshow that is ANN on the topic of the Mario movie. A few members spoke out against the corporate propaganda message, more came in to kiss ass and defend it. Classic shitshow ensues by pseudo intellectuals, we laugh, they continue being lolcows.

I posted this in the Mario movie thread: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/mario...h-universals-illumination.36479/post-13586613 but either or have fun.

ANN has many hilarious interviews in which u can see them trying to get a reply they want from japanese authors, and unltimately failing because the japanese are simply not ideology driven (well, at least not manye of them are).
If you can believe it or not, there are Japanese nationalist manga publications that aren't hesitant to egg on other nations and expats and immigrants, and while it's not surprising that they are not getting their own anime out of it, I'd fucking love to see a day when ANN interviews them and culminates into a brilliant circus shitshow of an international incident. They're practically Japan's equivalent of Ben Garrison, but in ANN's eyes that's all they see about Japan, along with whatever cum they guzzled from William Gibson and Blade Runner.

As someone that unashamedly loves K-ON! and Hibike! Euphonium (Tamako Market is pretty under appreciated, in my opinion), I’m glad Yamada did not fall for the bait. ANN is just proof that gāijin really need to learn when to stop talking. They’re confusing literal fantasy with reality.
I was hoping ANN would stoop to utter lows and rag on her passive aggressively for "making moe anime instead of my precious artsy fartsy hipster faggot hobby ego boosting consuum shit", like how they fucked with Vic Mignogna. They could even invite back Colony Drop and have them harrass Yamada the next time around. I wouldn't expect anything less from a bunch of hypocritical suburbanite spoiled gaijin weeaboo bottomfeeders, and in this case, a trust fund baby hipster loser and his dicksucking clique of whiny faggots.

Justin would go on the one board on 4chan that prioritizes mecha content and think that everywhere else is his literal Twitter hugbox that should not be questioned. It’s rather insane how he still has a job, to the point where he now has to create boards amongst himself to act as if he’s talking to real people.
Come on schizophrenia, you can't fail us now, especially with Justin. I'd love to see his unloved sociopathic hapa ass go off the fucking rails one day and end up destroying everything he's built in a single day. Cocksucking buck breaking beta faggotry, not even once.

This kind of thing is why we really need to get these people out and away from the fandom ASAP.. Or at least make it be known that they only speak for elites and other outside ideological interests, not the fans.

It really is amazing how hard it is for westerners to comprehend the idea of targeted demographics.. especially since it was still a known and used concept here only ~2 decades ago. Which is why it's much easier to believe people who do are simply playing games out of ideological distaste for such concepts. This kind of thing also exposes the mentality in the west of conflating outcome with intent, as well as completely missing the forest for the trees. "But some girls watch these shows for boys too.. we MUST remake the series to their socially accepted/directed tastes now!" Usually ruining said media in the process. Some members of one sex watching media made for the other, doesn't mean the work needs to change.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: If so called Americentrism exists, anime weeaboos have shown me it does. ANN is stuck in the same mindset that views comic book fandom and industry as where it's dominated entirely by males, and made for males, like it was in the 90s for the US comics industry, in all of its irony. Despite preaching on about "respecting cultural boundaries" (which is something they've never done in their lifetime of the site btw), they're just as guilty as being just like their strawmen of "backwards backwater cousin fucking pig humping hicks", only they're doing the pig fucking and incestual backassery.

Seriously, projection is a major fucking bitch, aylmao. It's not Japan's fault the Dark Age of US Comics came about. Take that up with DC and Marvel with that shit. They've never cleaned that mess up, aylmao. Like if weeaboos hate that they're not full blood Japanese, ANN definitely has that in their closet, hardcore. And they think doing the same ol' shit is going to fix things? Biggest bunch of ignoramuses, ever. Good luck, you hipster weeaboo dipshits!

I remember Colony Drop being shilled on /m/ at the same time they shilled it on /a/ and IIRC /jp/. I remember telling them to fuck off since it was pretentious shit.
Colony Drop was another product of the Great Recession of 2008. Whiny, nonsensically angry hipster manchildren lead by a California champagne socialist trust fund baby weeaboo faggot angry that anime isn't pumping out Cowboy Bebops and Gundams and "muh manime for muh scrawny wojak hipster gaijin weeaboo incel ass". Fuck, it is funny to remember all of their raving first world faggotry horseshit angry that another nation isn't sucking their dicks and making them feel validated. I wouldn't be surprised if Sean O'Mara or his family is associated with Blackrock in someway. He and his kind fucking shot his own weeaboo foot with their financial manipulation faggotry, hahahahaha
 
This kind of thing also exposes the mentality in the west of conflating outcome with intent, as well as completely missing the forest for the trees. "But some girls watch these shows for boys too.. we MUST remake the series to their socially accepted/directed tastes now!" Usually ruining said media in the process. Some members of one sex watching media made for the other, doesn't mean the work needs to change.
That's such obnoxious shit because if the unintended demographic actually likes the show, they like it because it's not pandering specifically to them, at least the people who aren't utter faggots demanding that. Pandering to adult fandoms of a children's show is the worst kind of this shit, because it ruins the show for its intended demographic and the unintended one.
 
ROFLMAO fucking wow at the 5th or 6th post in that first pic.. he goddamn set them on fire! Nothing hurts more than the truth sometimes.


That's such obnoxious shit because if the unintended demographic actually likes the show, they like it because it's not pandering specifically to them, at least the people who aren't utter faggots demanding that. Pandering to adult fandoms of a children's show is the worst kind of this shit, because it ruins the show for its intended demographic and the unintended one.

Exactly! It means they created something worth watching, not that they need to rethink who they are making it for! JC are these types of people and arguments so fucking annoying. This is one of the things that is normally so hard to articulate correctly in normie and tard infested spaces. Shills are really good at controlling the narrative to frame their argument/whining in a certain context that always twists the question into something like "why are you against including/worrying about _blanks_?" Sadly, even though normies don't usually outright defend such arguments, they still seem to feel guilty over them.
 
Exactly! It means they created something worth watching, not that they need to rethink who they are making it for! JC are these types of people and arguments so fucking annoying. This is one of the things that is normally so hard to articulate correctly in normie and tard infested spaces. Shills are really good at controlling the narrative to frame their argument/whining in a certain context that always twists the question into something like "why are you against including/worrying about _blanks_?" Sadly, even though normies don't usually outright defend such arguments, they still seem to feel guilty over them.
A long time ago, believe it or not, I used to respect the Brony community for just liking its fun little kids show about ponies and doing their own fan shit. Pony fucking and its own side of dipshits aside, bronies were fascinating to know how they just liked a kids show with references adults could get, just for being what it is.

Then later, I heard the show later catered to them because the side that vocalized "the show is made for adults, don't let the kiddy facade fool you" shit won over the investors. You know, that kind of fanwhore shit was on par with Colony Drop and the other cliquey faggotry elite weeaboos pulled. Shit got creepy, worse, and derailed a kids show for girls to a small circle of dudes eager to make up their own pony OCs to flex on past series of said girly pony show for kids.

Main point, it's not merely about "purity". So many people need the lesson hammered that shit has to be accepted for what it is, and if you don't like it, fuck off and do your own shit. But some folk deserve targets on their backs, in Minecraft, I suppose.....
 
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aylmao, projection much? Go and make your own shitty story about how you burnt out as poser gaijin fag weeaboos instead of inappropriately touching fictional characters who are much more interesting and lively than you, fags. Just as fucking bad as the SJW twitter art police and Bikini Battle Armor Damage losers.

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You could have honestly fooled me. If this was the 2000s, stuff like Chainsaw Man would had never gotten this kind of praise by this place. They would have raved on and on about its setting and premise while jamming their mouths full of Studio Ghibli cock doing so.
 
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aylmao, projection much? Go and make your own shitty story about how you burnt out as poser gaijin fag weeaboos instead of inappropriately touching fictional characters who are much more interesting and lively than you, fags. Just as fucking bad as the SJW twitter art police and Bikini Battle Armor Damage losers.

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You could have honestly fooled me. If this was the 2000s, stuff like Chainsaw Man would had never gotten this kind of praise by this place. They would have raved on and on about its setting and premise while jamming their mouths full of Studio Ghibli cock doing so.
Isn't Chainsaw Man edgy, grim dark stuff?
Remember, ANN jizzed over that stuff too. That's why they where praising Psycho Pass for the longest time til the "twist", then they dropped it. Either way,know they're falling ever harder into irrelevancy is something that brings a smirk to my face.
 
I would go on a roast and tell people that they have no idea that Konata from Lucky Star is just another girl who represents the slice of life otaku lifestyle very well and she does not need to be changed to protect your current day sensibilities.

But I don’t need to roast them, since in the back of my mind, ANN would be the type to do this to Konata:

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That's such obnoxious shit because if the unintended demographic actually likes the show, they like it because it's not pandering specifically to them, at least the people who aren't utter faggots demanding that. Pandering to adult fandoms of a children's show is the worst kind of this shit, because it ruins the show for its intended demographic and the unintended one.
Ask them if Precure should be remade for the middle aged men that watch it
 
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HaHaHaHaHaHaHa Nigga You Live In Trudeau's Canada Just Walk Away From The Screen Nigga Close Your Eyes

Also, paddling and woodshed? Do you ANN fags also have cultish get togethers where you all get hazed to become in the "in group" of ANN's circlejerking orgy faggotry?

Also, consolatory prize for faggotry on fencer_x, going for the gold as Japan's second/nth place Arundo Debito. Go for it, gaijin loser!
 
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Also, paddling and woodshed? Do you ANN fags also have cultish get togethers where you all get hazed to become in the "in group" of ANN's circlejerking orgy faggotry?

Also, consolatory prize for faggotry on fencer_x, going for the gold as Japan's second/nth place Arundo Debito. Go for it, gaijin loser!
>Canadian poster on ANN
>talking about politics on ANN


I’d say he has a lot to worry about than just condescending minorities for the sake of thinking of you care about them over your own Canadian citizens who were treated as cattle as Trudeau’s whipping boys for the establishment.

Though, then again, this is ANN we’re taking about. I’ll just go about my day.
 
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HaHaHaHaHaHaHa Nigga You Live In Trudeau's Canada Just Walk Away From The Screen Nigga Close Your Eyes

Also, paddling and woodshed? Do you ANN fags also have cultish get togethers where you all get hazed to become in the "in group" of ANN's circlejerking orgy faggotry?

Also, consolatory prize for faggotry on fencer_x, going for the gold as Japan's second/nth place Arundo Debito. Go for it, gaijin loser!
That gaijin crying about not being able to vote when you just know he would try and vote for everything that makes Western countries repressive shitholes is exactly what the system is designed to prevent. (Sadly, it likely won't matter in the long run because from what I've read Japanese teens and young adults are exposed to so much regressivism thanks to the Internet that their beliefs are falling in line with genderfucked Western zoomers and sooner or later insufferable faggots like this will be allowed to vote anyways...)
 
Yeah, the stupid weebs at ANN don't really understand that the US concept of yuri doesn't always match the Japanese concept. As in a lot of yuri I think is what I would call "Class S" genere where it's between students in an all girls school and is completely emotional and romantic, sometimes just like a strong crush, and not sexual at all. This trend goes back into really old works from the 1910's and may have reflected some student relationships from that era. In fact, I wouldn't even say it was Japan-only, some western works with really strong sisterhood type freidnships that seem almost like romance kind of bleed into it especially from the 1910's and earlier into the 1800's. Overall, a Class S relationship could be lesbian, but it could also just be really intense friendship and sisterhood. Everyone actually into yuri should know this. It's really basic stuff.

So yeah, sicking someone who doesn't even understand anime and manga on an interview like that seemingly to push an agenda was fucking retarded, but that's ANN. Overall, US weebs, these works belong to the Japanese and regard Japanese cultural concepts, they are only as gay as they want them to be, so you have to deal with that.
I meant to ask about this. Maria Watches Over Us isn't really yuri right? Its more a big sister little sister/senpai student type thing right?
 
I meant to ask about this. Maria Watches Over Us isn't really yuri right? Its more a big sister little sister/senpai student type thing right?

It's a kind of yuri and was very popular among Japanese lesbian fans, but it's traditional Class S yuri, so to an American I'd call it yuri lite or maybe even Schrodinger's yuri as in it's not blatant and more emotional where you just read the subtext between characters.

Japanese creators seem to like this kind of romance. You can see it in a lot of hetero couples too in standard anime where there's a lot dancing around between the male and female lead but it ultimately doesn't turn into physical romance and just remains hints and subtext. But yeah this was still shojo consumed by Japanese lebians. The unrelated big sis/little sis thing has always been popular with the yuri fandom since like forever.
 
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