Gamergate Triggerhappy: Dragon maid
After injecting politics and lowering the quality of videogames in the recent years, social justice warriors go for the next step and try to inject them into anime. We have already talk in past comics about how they attack ecchi and every anime on the line of Keijo, while promoting animes like Free! focused on the male anatomy or Yaoi, seemingly oblivious to the double standard (Not that promoting them is bad, i liked Free!, mind you, but don’t tell me that watching sexy males is cool while watching sexy females is a crime). We have already seen how funimation tried to inject attacks on Gamergate in their dubs, but now they go beyond that and change the dialogue of an anime until it changes the setting, what happens in it, and the personality of one of the characters, all to make feminist propaganda.
Kobayashi’s Dragon maid is a monster girl anime on the same line as every other Monster girl anime in recent years; which is essentially copy pasting the formula of the boring Monster musume; about a Dragon who goes to live in a human house, causing a lot of other dragons to go live in this world. One of them is the ex dragon goddess Quetzalcoalt (Lucoa). The setting never shows any kind of sexist attitude being prevalent in the world; in fact it doesn’t show any sexist attitude at all at any point. The dragons know nothing about the society of that world, its societal norms, how they think regarding sex and sexual exposition, and even less about ideologies or words made up by Tumblr. Lucoa is a very sexually open character, who’s acustomed to be revered and to be at the top of the pyramid.
In the original anime, Lucoa is often used in humorous situations where she shows too much or acts too friendly towards people, but this is always played on a funny way, as a contrast with how Japanese people are afraid of sexual contact. The characters either look at ther in awe or get paralized or flee on fear that she could initiate sexual contact. But the only time on the anime you can actually see anyone forcing her to cover up is a baywatch woman who makes her change from a super revealing bikini to a normal one, and at no point anyone acts or says anything about her in a harmfull way. In fact people avoids so much talking about it, that Lucoa is completelly clueless about this for most of the anime.
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It’s sad to hear about these things, but good article as usual. You make a solid point about dragons being absolutely out of human society, both in Kobayashi’s modern world as in their own world. One thing I gotta say I genuinely enjoyed the anime more than the manga, from wich they toned down the sexual humor.
All said, I’m quite disappointed you translated “mongolada” for “stuff” in the english version of the article.
Oh no! Some mongolian could be offended by the use of that word! (SJW whining mode: OFF).
Apparently, the term has it’s origins in an ancient belief that mongol people were retards, hence calling “mongol” or “mongoloid” to someone particularly stupid in Spain.
So, it is actually a racist term and a mongol would be right to be offended. But it’s just used for the laughs and no one here would give it a second thought beyond SJWs.
Similar terms are “mongolo”, “mongolico” and “mongoloide”.
I know all that, I’m spanish.
Fucking mongoloides, arruinaron mongolia
I was super annoyed because people try to defend the use of “patirachial” like it was okay for a multi-millennia old god to think that modern soceity has somehow got it correct. and not that it’s floatsam compared to them
She wouldn’t even know the word. And even if she did, she comes from a world where she’s been revered her entire life, she’s a super powerfull dragon with no predators, she would simply not understand the concept.
There we have it again…catering to the people who do not watch anime/play videogames…why does this keep happening?
The reason I hate this sort of shit is the same reason I hate inserting memes/”references” in any other work, it immediately dates it for a pop that no one but a select few are gonna get. It’s no different than the shit you’d see in a seltzerburg piece.
Feminists and Progressive Social Justice Warriors literally spread themselves like a disease. They already infected the Governments, Philanthropic organizations, Academia, Journalism, Western Entertainment. But the train doesn’t stop there, they will find you wherever you go.
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You don’t like their politics or ideas? Well too bad, you sexist pig, now you’re gonna hear about them in your favorite hobbies. Because fuck escapism.
The best part is the show implies Lucoa (and all other dragons too) has a sense of morals so alien that human morals literally make no sense to her. She lost her goddess powers over seemingly molesting her sister during a drunken binge, is a borderline pedophile and cradlerobber, and *can’t see why any of this, or anything else at all, would be a problem for any human*. That is ignoring Tohru who plainly admitted she’d eat people she dislikes if it weren’t likely to get Kobayashi in trouble, or Kanna who is an extreme omnivore and DID try to chew on people on top of eating several things alive at random.
And that’s their day to day morality. That they would apply human morals and/or politics when their mindset is so alien is absolutely ridiculous. The only reason they even get along with Kobayashi at all is because Kobayashi is a pretty, uh, terrible person herself and can get behind their warped morals.
Yeah, they simply have no concept of our morals nor know our world, they would never use complex concept made up by ideologies.
This is why the dubbing medium is going to die and be a horrible blight on the anime industry as a whole. We as fans initially prefer the original dub in Japanese as a general rule, some of the dubbing done for western audiences is just bad.
And this from funi doesn’t surprise me, the whole thing with their track record of crappy additions or edits are as bad as 4kids.
When we finally give the full middle finger to the dubbing scene as a whole, I think places like Funi will shrug and give up, turning to other things to make them money, because just outsourcing the original is less profitable and will likely be seen as a net loss for places like Fuji TV(why outsource to the States when they can pay people to sub it in english and sell it themselves)
And that’ll be a damage to the anime industry itself.
Feminism is doing to Anime what it has done everywhere else, hurting it. And it pisses me the fuck off!
Subs over Dubs.
And the list of reasons for why I try to only watch “raw” anime (original japanese, no subs) just keeps getting longer…
The Anime Fan Community: Thank God that 4Kids is dead, and the fact we have all learned from the Warriors of The Wind incident that wound up getting Miramax an ‘famously infamous package from Studio Ghibli’ just as they got the rights to dub Princess Mononoke! We’re all sure this’ll never happen again as long as the anime industry in North America keeps mentally stable, compitent, and widely renowned industry professionals at the helm!
FUNimation: Hold my beer.
I’ve seen the 4kids stuff mentioned a lot, but i don’t know the story
Básicamente censuraron yu-gi-oh, one piece y pokemon de manera idiota como suelen hacer los gringos, totalmente retardado. Hay varios videos al respecto en youtube.
SUBS >>>>>>>>>> DUBS
The thing is, though, is that this “feminist” is a pedophile.
After seeing this and seeing the evidence, I had to talk about it and did my own little discussion on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcvybDiMHH0&spfreload=10
I honestly am scared as this is unprecedented, and it is scary.
SUBS OVER DUBS!!!
I actually take a more case by case approach, but Kobayashi Dragon Maid, sub>dubs