03-05-2017, 07:53 PM
(03-05-2017, 03:40 PM)Zpace Jockey Wrote: 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)
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
EDIT: also, I wonder if this woman is aware that many dounjinshi/hentai artists are female and that male characters in japanese media also get sexualised A LOT.
So basically. this woman is living in the past and thinks that the outfits of characters pushes people to sexual violence and thoughts, instead of their own minds? It's true to a point that we are born innocent, but once sexual urges occur, a lot changes, plain and simple. People seem to forget that a lot, especially these days, when a woman, who for all we know is a feminist. Sexual urges are natural, and these fairly tame outfits are going to have very little impact on anyone, positive or negative. Like you said as well, men are sexualized a lot in Japanese media, even if sometimes, it's in a more joking manner than when it's done with women. I'll tell you what though, even if this woman is not a feminist, she's way off the mark here.