Name: 反アニメ「左翼」はゴミであり、その理由はここにある (The Anti-Anime "Left" is Garbage and Here's Why)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:23:42.000Z
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Definition Anti-Anime: a dismissal of anime and its related

communities and aesthetics characterized by a belief in anime's supposed “backwardness”

or “weirdness” relative to western media [Lachlan, from off-stage] Please welcome the

arrival of comrade Zeria, esteemed chairman of the anitube left vanguard, lover of isekai,

and scholar of yuri, for her polemic against the anti-anime saboteurs who number among

[I enter, turning to the camera, proclaiming this section as if it were a speech] My comrades,

it should come as no surprise to you when I say that we are beset on all sides by the

Our world is increasingly one of great peril, as the right grows ascendant ona global scale.

The society we live in is more charged than it has been in a great many decades.

As such, the time has passed for which we must declare all media to be political; that

The question, then, is how we, as leftists, must relate to this media.

And no, that relation can not be hating on everything, abolishing the commodity form

Our enemies certainly know what their relation to this media must be.

Let it not be said that they understand the works they consume, a mere glance at the anime

right should put that thought right out of your head, but they know that culture is a

battleground, and are preparing for another battle.

AnimeGate is nigh-inevitable at this point, it seems likely to happen in the next year,

and with conflicts over Goblin Slayer, Shield Hero, and Zombieland Saga scarcely banished

from our collective memories, it appears that this will be a fight against the “Western

anime industry” of Crunchyroll and Anime News Network, while a number of unfortunate

suspects sit by, ready to lead the fight and, if they're lucky, to make a profit from

This obviously their actual aim, let's be clear, they saw how GamerGate worked out for

Maybe these new people should try something else.

Regardless, while this coming AnimeGate may end up less effective than ComicGate — and

that would be saying something — it must be strictly opposed by the left, after all,

GamerGate did play a big role in radicalizing many Extremely Online people into outright

fascists, though of course, we needn't and shouldn't ally with the companies involved

either, only the unfortunate people caught in the crossfire.

But this brings me to a central question.

How should the left relate to anime and its associated communities?

Many leftists I've talked to simply accept the alt-right's positions: that anime is

an inherently right-wing medium, that Japan is a reactionary hellhole far more misogynist

and queerphobic than the oh-so-venerable West, and that as a result, leftists simply shouldn't

You'd assume that self-proclaimed left wouldn't just accept fascists at their word — after

all, if you end up dead in a fucking ditch — but, well, look at the twitter reaction

So, let me be clear: for as much as the right ignores reality in acting as if Japan is a

safe-haven, free of the SJW scourge, my attentions here are turned towards many members of the

By accepting that Japanese works are necessarily 'weird' and 'backwards' due to their

supposed lack of struggle, they end up infantilizing and depoliticizing an entire nation that is,

like any other, political on all fronts, and that ain't the tea, sis.

The people who often proudly call themselves the anti-anime left poison any efforts to

create a proper leftist relation to media.

Because yes, the leftist boogeyman is real — though not nearly as successful as the

right would have you believe — we want to win, to take over the world, we are the post-modern

neo-marxists that they are so afraid, and if we're going to do so, we can't give

up an entire nation's media or the communities that enjoy it.

Anime is good, folks, don't give it to the chuds.

Fortunately, many members of the anime left are building the spaces for agitation that

Allowing the alt-right to claim anime as their own, to act as if it's naturally theirs due

to the Japanese being “inherently traditionalist”, is just bad praxis that forfeits an entire

And in practice, this anti-anime sentiment is a symptom of a broader racist Othering,

one that not only hampers our ability to relate to culture but hurts many marginalized people,

though for that discussion, let's move into a slightly more intellectual headspace.

I promise, I won't use too many big words.

Part 1: Wacky Orientalism [Puts on fake glasses] The comments I received

on Twitter upon announcing this video's title are quite enlightening as we move into

a discussion of how anti-anime sentiment is harmful.

The Nazis, of course, came out in full force, and the veiled anger they displayed was frankly

enough to make this entire project worthwhile.

There's little better than Nazis spamming anime girls in SS uniforms, after all, who

can deny the comic genius of having a generic seasonal waifu say “burn the degenerates”.

A common theme among these replies is the idea that anime is one of the few places free

from politics, whereas us greedy SJWs have stuck our gender- and race-tainted hands aaaaaallllllll

over every other aspect of common media today, including games and comics[show political

They're wrong on the anime itself, but they've got a point about the community.

In the pst couple of years, leftists in those spaces have done a good job at showing, contesting

them and, in some ways, trying to prevent them from planting their seed in the fertile

Anime communities have not had that, at least not to the degree that they need to, this

is a space full of alienated young people . Of course, the biggest anime convention

in the world was founded by a guy who, uh, got arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktails,

and Comic-Con sure as hell can't say that, but y'know.

However, what there right wingers are not correct about is the idea that all anime is

apolitical, or even worse, that it's all reactionary due to Japan's inherently traditionalist

When I look at Gundam, what I see is a series with a strong respect for imperial expansion.

It's the leftist responses that are really concerning, however.

Many claimed that I was calling them racist if they didn't like anime — something

I never did, though I will get into how that might be the case later one — while others

did something even worse, which is to say, accepting the right's premise that Japan

As we all know, only under the proper civilized boot of the mighty European can the reactionary

savages be fixed and brought to true humanity.

This is, unfortunately, not an uncommon reaction.

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反アニメ「左翼」はゴミであり、その理由はここにある (The Anti-Anime "Left" is Garbage and Here's Why)

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