“It’s A Gundam’s” video is flawed: Do NOT reject comics for MANGA
Reject Comic Books Embrace Japanese Manga
One hand, yes, being belittled by your media is a deal breaker, that “toxic masculinity” shit being said when women being toxic is a thing too.
Yes, cringe identity politics is cringe. Agreed.
Yet having double standards doesn't help the credibility of said opinion.
IE. While he rightfully criticizes modern comic creators being fetishists? Living out a fantasy-
X-Terminators #4
He conveniently misses the part where Mangaka do exactly that, often, consistently, too often, regularly actually. SO regular it IS the culture.
His reasoning is selective and biased because you have to ignore the same issues in Japan's media to say people should use it as an alternative, while criticizing "Fetishists" & other issues in the West in the same breath.
Giant Ojou-Sama, i swear to God the entire Manga is just her ass in the goddamn camera & Sebas (her companion) commenting how big her ass is.
I felt like i was reading a bizarre Deviant Art entry.
Another day, another Macrophile being a cringe factory on full display, but you see THIS author projecting their brain dead fetish isn’t a problem even though the sexual pandering gets in the way of what could’ve been a solid, wholesome, funny Superheroine story.
What SHOUD be funny situations are absolutely held back by the Author’s imaginative limitations and lack of restraint, having to revolve everything around a Giant Rich Girl being Giant and her ass is in plain view, that’s his fetish, so that’s the manga.
But you see it’s not a Trans woman, a Lesbian or a Gay man, it’s not political- so it’s either 100% okay or nobody knows this shit even exists (lucky them); So the double standard doesn’t exist because you don’t know what you don’t know right?
Not cringe at all, despite my wanting to cringe so hard i poof out of existence.
Thus the title of the video is bullshit:
*Do NOT abandon comics for MANGA*
Just because current content is trash doesn’t mean there aren’t things to read that's been published already.
Point being, he should’ve specified which manga by genre that people should be turning to, just telling people to just to “Embrace Manga” is reckless because Manga is a mixed bag as well.
As i’ve demonstrated with Giant-Cringe Sama, vs a good Manga like Bokurano, which everyone should read.
Which ironically has an underage pregnancy involving a teacher because OFC, cause Japan amiright? Babies having babies, jfc.
I apologize for the spoiler, but i need to enforce the point. I won't spoil who it is though.
Or something Ecchi and actually funny:
Desert Punk (aka Sunabozu)
Too many genres to just say, "Leave comics, embrace Manga for the sake of Manga, because...MANGA!"
The main difference is aesthetic, but both have their own cultural deviancy issues.
I see he has Ochako in the thumbnail like she's prominent or even a main character yet MHA is one of the most incompetent reads i’ve been on.
Its a narrative embarrassment.
What it does right is backtracks on because the Author is afraid of change if it means mixing the formula. Status Quo-
And how is that any different from Comics? It’s not different.
Because that same character barely gets anything to do until its barely plot relevant (where the most she’s gotten to do since the Sports Festival & Jaku Raid was give a goddamn speech in the most contrived situation possible chapter 325 was fucking hilarious).
She’s not afforded a w when its organic. Barely involved in what’s really going on like Todoroki & Bakugou, always a sideshow.
NOTHING LIKE Katara who is consistently involved, or getting active in the action.
Ochako is rarely allowed any real W's like the male characters. Urakaka's been under-utilized and sidelined horrendously for 6+ years now.
*The Maxx is a better book with a better/more compelling female lead in just the first 3 issues vs all 350+ chapters of My Plotarmor Academia*
All the good comics have been published already, and some gems slip through in current day as well.
You just have to stop getting caught up in Youtuber melodramatic anti-woke hysteria and actually look for yourself, Action comics #1040 (2016) is an excellent Superman comic.
1930s to year 2000s+ 70-80 years worth of material, why pretend that doesn’t exist or invalidated because the industry is going through a rough phase right now and then hype up Japan like they're the paragon of storytelling when the best they've got is making it nice to look at but are just as corrupt.
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All because mangaka/anime can draw/animate worth a shit (regardless if the writing is shit or not) it just looks pretty and can not be political about it.
*Which is what this is really about, not the quality of writing, but the politics.*
Not that Japans pandering is any better, not that it's any good, or not creepy, it's just not woke. That's all the issue is.
Cause if you had a Trans woman in a comic but she had the physical complexion of Mirko, Lucy Heartfilia or Lady Slan and drawn sexy as shit by an artist worth a damn.
And infantile like a baby looking for the approval of her male romantic interest 24/7, can cook, docile, feminine. Absolute waifu matierial:
People wouldn’t be bitching and moaning at the same frequency because people don't care about writing as much as they do looking at something well animated/drawn.
That’s the bare minimum to win people over. Pandering.
And Japan knows this and panders accordingly, but that’s not a problem:
Furthermore, many mangaka are too pedophile for me to take most manga seriously these days. But again, it depends on the genre.
Mitsudomoe’s Author is a woman, the Anime & Manga are hilarious but some of the jokes lean too far into pedo territory ( Marina Sugisaki is an open predator/ PEDOPHILE)
As you can tell, this toxic leniency with pedophilia is an across the board a moral bankruptcy issue in Japan.
i’d rather deal with a cringe coming out story that i can meme, than deal with yet another casual pedophile adult in a story involving 12 year old children.
That aside, I’ve watched the show twice, it’s gross, it’s wholesome at times when it’s just the main 3 girls and their Dad. And it’s peak.
#SingleDads
Fact is, a lot of these Japanese content creators aren’t projecting their real life experiences to tell a good story, like Stan “The Man” Lee:
Instead too many of em are projecting their kinks and regressions to live out some fantasy just like these metrosexual weirdos in the West.
*Its pathetic artistic bastardization deviancy on both sides.
The Anti-Woke camp just seems to conveniently ignore the one side of the coin to complain about the other.*
Sexualizing middle school kids constantly in books, and Japan as a society does NOT give 2 shits.
*Hoozuki no Shima* is a good read, when it's not a creepy pedo fest.
A literal child, 11 year old, is highlighted for: Panty shots, nudity, changing clothes, in the bath buck ass naked, shot of her bare ass, getting caught naked by another kid, having NO panties on in multiple scenes, teacher finding her naked then taking off her panties to sniff it hence how she lost her panties in the later scenes etc.
An eleven year old little girl. (Hoozuki no Shima, Chp 3, if you can stomach it, i PROMISE you this is not a Doujinshi.) Written by a grown ass man.
But Bi-sexual Superman sales is what we’re nitpicking? That’s what has our attention...
And the manga was only 27 chp but the Author found the time to exploit this 11 year old child character in mostly all instances, one of her first 2 introductory shots in the manga is her dripping wet in the ocean from the waste down, school gym uniform.
How do we know this? The author made sure to give us a view of her ass in both shots, & some thigh gap in the 2nd so we could see what she’s wearing. (CHP1)
ELEVEN YEARS OLD.
But your biggest concern is a TRANS Woman in a DC comic with a Trans flag on a baseball bat?
Are you kidding me? (Is it cringe, YES, but i’d take that over a grown ass bastard sniffing a 11 year child’s panties, with the insinuation being he’s doing to deflower her)
One panel is literally supposed to be a serious revelation of a plot threat for one of the boys, Kokoro, but that 11 year old little bottom is just in the frame, not her face, her little butt. (Horikoshi might’ve taken notes from this)
I bust out laughing at how desperately creepy and unnecessary this was, this is what happens when talented creeps assume their audience is as damaged as they are:
But the premiere concern in the video is a weird segment about women roasting a dude for having a piss fetish. Is it weird, yes. Does it top the insinuation of an 11 year old mute child getting raped, while unconscious? You tell me.
And yet, nobody in the anti-woke camp panics about that, or brings it up i nthe comments because most of your Manga/Anime Palate is:
Seinen
slice of life
and A LOT of that Shonen garbage.
They don't even know these examples of Manga being a scumbag paradise even exists, cause despite the vocal opinion some people have, most of us have very little experience and exposure in the media we're hyping to death.
But roasting fetishes in the same breath.
And i’m not even woke, I agree with the guy but the double standard is what’s hurting my intelligence.
The guy goes on a tangent to shill Demon Slayer, not Monster, not Gunslinger Girls, not Noir, not Blue Gender, not Moribito the Guardian of the spirit- but DEMON SLAYER
Normie bro, fuckin normie.
Most people don't read the in-between genres and it shows, because if more people had that exposure, we as a collective would know his entire video both has a good point but full of bullshit because it's overlooking a media problem to complain about a media problem.
*I can read Power Pack 2006 trusting the author won't dedicate a panel or two to the youngest member Katherine: 8 years old showering or showing us her panties, a character commenting on how soft her skin is, hitting on her older brother, or bending over for a shot of her ass, because culture.*
I just need a good character driven story. That’s it.
And you can get that with already made Comics, abandoning comics for Manga is idiotic.
You don’t need to whore out teenage/child characters to tell a story, but that’s exactly what Japan allows.
*This is why i say specify the Manga genre.*
Because NOT ALL MANGA is pedophile bait but too much of it is to say abandon the west content and ignore the clear issues JAPAN has just because identity politics is spooky to you-
But actual creepiness in Japan's subtext somehow doesn’t compare to a Trans Woman or you conveniently leave that part out to shill for Japan’s industry.
Point being, there are good Manga/Anime (MONSTER, Hokuto No Ken, Ah My Goddess, or Psycho Pass, Bokurano, Getter, Gundam, Evangelion, Junji Ito’s Collections) but not all of em are bangers nor are free of their fair share of Authors being weird; The same logic you're criticizing Comics by, hold that energy to how scummy and creepy Manga & Japan is, and still is.
*There's a trans person being corny in a DC comics so lets bitch about that, but instances of underage kids being objectified in stories, belonging to a society and culture that sees no issue with grown ass men fighting for the right to make Child porn legally & clear instances of that attitude is projected into the stories with confidence. THAT's part of the media called Manga that i'm going to endorse to people.*
-Criticize the West media for Fetishes and weird shit
-But endorse the East media, despite their Fetishes and weird shit
When all your issue boils down to is the fact that Manga & Anime look pretty and it's not political, it's all about the aesthetic at that point.
Then you don't have a leg to stand on, because you're not holding both to the same standard.
Criticize one, but glorify the other when what you're shilling has more problematic issues than a trans woman, a Bi-sexual man, or preggy Joker.
That's what most are hung up on, not the quality of writing, not the storytelling, not even the execution. The style points, how it looks, how it makes you feel, and how much of the pandering is what YOU WANT it to be.
100% Biased, selective criticism.
I repeat,
*Do NOT abandon comics for MANGA*
I understand the title of the video is likely to be hyperbole, but even as hyperbole, it’s moronic to say with a straight face.
Because you have to ask yourself: What exactly are you willing to ignore, just to spite your political enemies.
Because it’s no secret Japan cares very little about Child protection laws in terms of media, so you shill for Japan because no Trans politics but pedophiles are KNOWN for being prevalent in the industry.
Look at My Hero and you tell me Horikoshi isn’t wrestling with his own sexual hang ups, cause i can make all the MY SUS ACADEMIA’s i want but that weird shit i’m mocking is actually CANON.
I repeat, just because current content is trash, cringe or struggling, and it is- doesn’t mean there aren’t things to read that's been published already.
Go back in time, and find the literary Goldmine.
Image comics, Marvel, Darkhorse, DC, Wildstorm, Indie’s is all there.
300 is Darkhorse Comics owned.
Not all of it’s 9/10′s but just because it’s not new, doesn’t mean reject it because the modern is bad for Japan’s stuff like the older better shit doesn’t exist.
