Say No to Moe!

[doronjosama]

Manga artist Mimei Sakamoto does her version of the classic Shatner "Get a Life!" speech.

She's pretty right on the nose about it. And it's awesome that she spoke out so plainly about it!

Comments

[pmbq.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Thanks for posting this. I often wonder what people are thinking in Japan. I've been asking my friends who live there a lot of questions, to try and understand more of what their true cultural attitudes are.

We only see a small part of their culture here, and I'm all for de-mystifying it and getting people to accept that NO, not EVERYTHING in Japan is cool and amazing! They're just people with a slightly different way of life, just like everyone else!

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

It's a great article! Especially for me, because I've had to deal so often with people who want us to print lolicon or shotacon books at Radio, and they always say "well, in Japan EVERYONE LOVES LOLICON!" Like there are giant billboards of lolicon porn all over Tokyo or something, to advertise Coca-Cola or C.C. Lemon... But no, not everyone in Japan likes lolicon! Hooray!

And yeah, the fetishization of the Japanese culture/lifestyle is kind of goofy. It kills me to overhear anime fans at conventions talking about how someday, they're going to move to Japan, and become perfectly assimilated into their culture... and of course, they'll get jobs as animators or manga artists! Suuuuure, they will...