shikamaru317 said:
Mnementh said:
Typical right wing shitmob trying to bully someone into submission. The message are filled with racists/nationalistic remarks and stereotypes about asian and japanese people. Some messages refer to the "tranny devs who threaten women". And a lot of messages claim that game tries to peddle porn to kids (the game is rated mature by the way). Concern about the purity of children somehow tainted by media is typical right-wing shit. So another instance right wing cancel culture, like "Heavy Metal is satanic" or "D&D makes our kids murderers" or bullshit like that. |
Actually, having read all of the screenshotted comments they posted, I'd say it's a mix of left and right wing criticism they are receiving. Some of the messages seem to be from right wing folks, mainly the ones that seem to be from parents worried that their kids will see the game on the eshop, and those calling the game demonic. However, some also seem to be from left wing folks. Unlike in the past, most attacks against Japanese games/anime/manga for their sexualized character designs tend to be from left wingers these days, who believe that sexualized female character designs are setting back the causes of feminism and social justice in general, so basically most of the comments criticizing the game for misogyny or the large breasted main character are probably from left wingers. Some of the messages seem to be from a subset of left wing feminists known as TERFs, or Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists, people who believe that womens rights are being superseded by trans rights, for instance trans women being allowed to compete in sports against biological women; these TERF's seem to think the main character is trans (not sure if that is true or not as I haven't played the game). One comment, which was posted on Nintendo's Youtube trailer for the game I believe, straight up says "kill yourselves for giving these right wing fags a platform", in other words the poster is a left winger criticizing the devs, who he believes to be right wingers, and telling Nintendo they should kill themselves for giving the devs a platform to release their game on. So yeah, basically devs are getting flak from the more radical parts of both sides of the political spectrum, far right and far left. |
And this is what is happening with everything, the outcries to ban everything come now not only from conservative and regresive people, now they come from all sectors if they think their movements can benefit by attacking others on social media. Just look at what happened to pronhub last weeks both conservative,religious, right-wing aligned and "intelectuals",progressive, social justice advocates, left-aligned people were celebrating for one reason or another.
In anime, manga and videogames it's as you say before we had to put up with the religious nutjobs and the ultra conservatives that kept saying that pikachu and yu-gi-oh were satanic, that the knights of zodiac and ranma 1/2 would turn you gay or whatnot, that the characters, their outfits and transformations from magic knight rayearth and sailor moon will turn your girls intro strippers.
For videogames it was cases like incidents where a kid used a weapon to commit a crime: it wasn't because they got access to weapons, or because they had family problems, or because they had a medical condition that needed treatmen, it was because videogemes, because according to them videogames disconnect you from reality, because videogames make you violent, agressive and crazy, so videogames were satanic and we needen to prohibit them.
Now the people that are supposedly more rational, advocate for freedom and the betterment of society, want the very same things as the old prudish ones, because according to them everything in anime, manga and videogames is offensive whether it is racist, mysoginistic, homophobic, transphobic, or encourages or promotes harmful attitudes towards certain people, then you create women that keep on ranting how Mario and Link saving princesses is condescending or patronizing, and how if that continues girls will keep on being subservient and obedient, now everygame with characters like the ones from cyberpunk are "trans appropriation". Hopefully they will find other areas to keep their delusions at bay and leave the videogame industry alone.
