03-05-2017, 03:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2018, 06:20 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
Everyone on the internet seems to be talking about this, so i'll just bring the subject over here in order to know what do you guys think.
Basically, BBC's Stacey Dooley grilled Girls Und Panzer character designer Takeshi Nogami for 3 hours, telling him that his works should be outlawed. A translation of Takeshi's response was done by Twitter user @walterinsect (I'll leave the links for each individual tweet later on)
Personally, I see nothing wrong with the desings of the characters in Girls Und Panzer, they seem pretty generic to me.
https://i.imgur.com/bwYeXw7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ijy9Pty.jpg
Also, does Stacey realizes the purpose of Moe? Is not about sexualizing females, but rather to empashize cuteness.
Oh yeah, Stacey also released a documentary called "Young Sex for Sale in Japan" and needless to say, it's a goddanmed mess. The only good bits of the documentary are two sequences that focuses on actual criminal activities where organized crime is being used to focus on vulnerable girls.
For example, between 1:00 - 1:15 there are some footage of nighttime Tokyo interspersed with shots of various Ecchi manga, Adult AVs, and advertising placards. Of note are: Shots of a AV cover that clearly states that the actress is 18歳 (18 years old), footage of an Idolmaster game, and the cover of a Takeshi Nogami doujin that features 007-like spies using sex to defeat their targets (None of which are depicted as being underage).
She also puts heavy emphasis on the fact that many of this artist are male. Sure, let's just ignore the dozens of dounjinshi/hentai artists that are female, as well as the fact that male characters in japanese media also get sexualised A LOT.
Oh, and the interview mentioned above wasn't featured in the documentary for obvious reasons...
Basically, BBC's Stacey Dooley grilled Girls Und Panzer character designer Takeshi Nogami for 3 hours, telling him that his works should be outlawed. A translation of Takeshi's response was done by Twitter user @walterinsect (I'll leave the links for each individual tweet later on)
Quote:"I was interviewed by this lady at my workplace. One-on-one Q&A session for three hours. Through that I realized one most important thing. I was thinking about releasing it online as manga but… The core difference between this interviewer and myself was the attitude towards human being. My position is... “all human beings have “dirty desires”. Isn’t it better to be vented appropriately?”. On the contrary…Ms Susie(sic) stated this. “All human beings are naturally innocent and have no “dirty desires” and reading media...media depicting erotic, pedophilic, and gore contents will affect them to be corrupted”. Then I realized.So the definition of human being, or Operating System(sic) is different. After three hour long interview, this realization was the most productive experience, I think. Oh, on top of that, she said, with a look of a hitman in BLACK LAGOON, “My desire is to put all pedophiles, and ones who produce pedophilic media into jail”. Ah, “Justice” is kinda scary when it infects people. Isn’t she trying to substitute everything into the subject of that sentence? It’s been two times where I was interviewed like this. She ignored me when I said... “Don’t look at us to turn away from your problem within the UK”…. During the interview, we touched upon ways that we can tackle the child abuse issues in Commonwealth world. She said “banning all fictions like this!”. I suggested “Well, solve poverty first. Legalizing fictions that has no victims will lower the crime rate”. She seemed like she didn’t get the idea. It seems that her view is a common one throughout the Commonwealth countries (that’s why you get arrested... for having porn comic in Canada), so objection in words might not help much. It might be better to foster... young, enthusiastic “comrades” within them. Ms Susie(sic) asked me, with formal voice, “Why don’t you Japanese people follow what the UK does?” so I answered... “Why don’t you British people follow Japan, since we’re more civilized, and have lower crime rate than the UK?”. I think the starting line is here."
Personally, I see nothing wrong with the desings of the characters in Girls Und Panzer, they seem pretty generic to me.
https://i.imgur.com/bwYeXw7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ijy9Pty.jpg
Also, does Stacey realizes the purpose of Moe? Is not about sexualizing females, but rather to empashize cuteness.
Oh yeah, Stacey also released a documentary called "Young Sex for Sale in Japan" and needless to say, it's a goddanmed mess. The only good bits of the documentary are two sequences that focuses on actual criminal activities where organized crime is being used to focus on vulnerable girls.
For example, between 1:00 - 1:15 there are some footage of nighttime Tokyo interspersed with shots of various Ecchi manga, Adult AVs, and advertising placards. Of note are: Shots of a AV cover that clearly states that the actress is 18歳 (18 years old), footage of an Idolmaster game, and the cover of a Takeshi Nogami doujin that features 007-like spies using sex to defeat their targets (None of which are depicted as being underage).
She also puts heavy emphasis on the fact that many of this artist are male. Sure, let's just ignore the dozens of dounjinshi/hentai artists that are female, as well as the fact that male characters in japanese media also get sexualised A LOT.
Oh, and the interview mentioned above wasn't featured in the documentary for obvious reasons...