November 12th, 2024 
AstroNerdBoy The West Kills Akamatsu-sensei’s Legal Manga Site
Hey gang! As you know, the West has been pressuring Japan to change its anime, manga, and video game content. Japan creates content its audiences want, but in the West, including the U.N., this could somehow cause violence to women.
Here’s my video on the subject.
I really do fear that Japan will cave. However, I know Akamatsu-sensei won’t take this lying down. He along with Yamada-san (whom he ran for election with) can hopefully get the Japanese government to go after this collusion by these payment collection companies out of the West.
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Akamatsu is still a newcomer to politics and anything he says is globally shut down with a “this guy used to draw nude little girls” by the kind of forces he opposes.
He does have allies. Plus, Akamatsu-sensei was recently appointed to some new thing. I need to check, but I think it is some ministry in Japan.
If Japan bows to the West and say “Yeah, we shouldn’t produce anime and manga and video games any more because you don’t like them”, they’ve lost their ever-loving minds.
Not to mention the utter hypocrisy of the West, who’s been spinning back the clock on women’s rights and enacting horror after horror on women in less-developed countries, all in real life… complaining about theoretical harm perpetrated by/against pixels. What a world.
The issue is: money. The industry runs on money, money obeys to international interests now, and those interests mostly are moved by the West.
If the West doesn’t want to invest on something they legally can do so and nobody can forbid it. It’s their money. And the Japanese industry spent so long looking at its own navel and aiming mostly at the otaku market that is ultimately niche– Masaki Kajishima and his managing of the Tenchi franchise come to mind, as does Akamatsu adapting his works in a way that makes no sense if one doesn’t already consume his manga– that they failed to build a robust enough perception internationally.
The international juggernauts of anime are mainly those that don’t concern themselves about sexuality all that much, like the Shonen Jump mainstreams. Dragon Ball, Bleach, One Piece, Naruto, Boku no Hero. Those are no perceived threat for the West’s values. But something like Negima or Tenchi or To Love Ru with heavy sexualization will always ruffle moral feathers.
No one has a problem with individuals in the West deciding to not consume or invest. The problem is that Western banking has gotten way too cheerful about using its dominant position as a payment processor to deny and even seize payments, particularly as a way to bankrupt any perceived threat to power/profit for subsidiaries/partners or to force entire countries to obey their will. It’s gotten to the point that even the copyright cartel can call in economic airstrikes, using
pixels’women’s rights as an excuse.It’s not going to take much more of this heavy-handed arm-twisting for countries to start switching to the alternatives that are being developed.
But it’s still legal. Anti ethical but still legal so nothing can be done to prevent that.
They have their “problematic” moments, depending on which nutjob is complaining, but your point stands.
Well, Japan may not get much of a choice. If I weren’t so insanely busy and exhausted, I’d have done a video about Sony possibly buying Kadokawa. Sony will for sure force all anime and manga titles published by Kadokawa to conform to “Western standards” as they define them.