https://x.com/GerHolanda63475/status/2045923095886672316
CW: SA Mention of the Comfort women
https://x.com/hlnolvrgo_c/status/2044507463173456300
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045525574408368600
https://x.com/Erivlt/status/2045545414875574751
Auto-translate feels like releasing invasive species into Japan. I saw a Japanese threatening a Russian by pirating Dostoevsky, only for the Russian to reply with a pirate site and some book recommendations. They have no natural defenses against these people. RIP the ecosystem.
https://x.com/AllbonesJones/status/2045309780177330663
lol watching the conversations happen because of the auto-translate feature has been neat. More frieren dicussion unlocked hahaha
frieren discussion
basically some fascist guy said that frieren was a catholic story and the japanese fanbase picked that up and started discussing it.
japanese frieren demon discussion goes more or less the same as it does in english where people liken the demons to a dangerous “other” (such as bears, or people who dont understand emotions) that needs to be killed in the context of the story. The picking up of christian notes is interesting (while acknowledging it isnt a christian story at all,) but not as good as the analysis i’ve heard from filipino comrades where they say the demons fit in an orientalism metacontext.
I kind of wonder given the inheritance from old DND being morphed into a new context if the demons aren’t basically the distilled idea of racial prejudice somewhat separated from a specific race being targeted. Among Japanese people I suppose I once read the work of a fascist who portrayed Koreans quite like the Demons (the manga Shamo, which needless to say I don’t recommend), but I think that that was probably a significant outlier in terms of the style of anti-Korean racism.