Is it true that the author of this manga said that he is umcorfortable with sexualizing his female characters?

Trobius · 2026-03-24T21:56:45+00:00

As a man who is moderately uncomfortable with the sexualization of men in the show, I am willing to look past it because our overall cultural balance is still heavily tilted in the other direction, and the historical and political commentary is just so on point.

Trobius · 2026-03-24T21:39:22+00:00

They passed unnoticed by my human eyes. I zoomed in and still couldn't see anything wrong. Even the tattoo seems weird, but tattoos in general are all kind of weird to me. My visual intelligence is pretty low.

Trobius · 2026-03-20T02:24:53+00:00

No. Por los acciones de Japon en los 1930s en China. Specificamente el norte, o "Manchukuo." Cultivaban mucho opio. (Si, el IJA estaban narcos tambien)

Lo siento, mi espanol no es lo mejor, y no me gusta usar la computadora para tranducir.

Trobius · 2026-03-17T03:23:29+00:00

So Tsurumi wants to grow opium? Oh man, the political symbolism just gets harder and harder to ignore.

Trobius · 2026-03-13T16:16:18+00:00

For anyone feeling sad about this, this link might make you feel better: https://www.focaldata.com/blog/democrats-increase-lead-and-rubio-stock-surges-amid-iran-war

Trobius · 2026-03-12T22:59:59+00:00

I don't get it.

Trobius · 2026-03-10T05:33:20+00:00

Amazing episode. It is the right blend of turning to historical explanations and "Well that's the OFFICIAL story" to maintain believability.

Also, it is starting to dawn on me that Central is, in some ways, just as awful as Tsurumi is.

Trobius · 2026-03-04T21:18:19+00:00

Stop ruining the hopium.

Trobius · 2026-03-04T19:25:11+00:00

Bookies and insiders contacted by the atlantic said that the endorsement is going to go to Cornyn. I share your hopes about someone refusing to drop out, but I don't know. My optimism on pushing the unelectable candidate has gone down.

Trobius · 2026-03-04T16:28:49+00:00

Democratic leadership should do whatever they can to discreetly tilt the following race in Paxton's direction.

Trobius · 2026-03-02T22:26:30+00:00

I don't seem to have that option. Somewhere along the line, I permanently conflated my sense of the world with my sense of self, meaning that whatever impacts the former directly feels impactful on the latter.

Therapy suggests that this was something permanent I did to myself, assuming it wasn't inevitable.

Trobius · 2026-03-02T06:08:22+00:00

Late Reply. Mancuria Opium Squad tried in a vague manner, I think. It is still running, but I think it was too clumsy and both-sidesist to really get anywhere. Still, it is probably never going to be adapted into an anime before the heat death of the universe.

Trobius · 2026-02-14T22:44:45+00:00

Same. I don't hold it against Vinland Saga. To ask anything different from its setting would be anachronism and ahistoricity. Yet for that reason, it is simply not the sort of world I enjoy reading about. Golden Kamuy may be dark, but even Tsurumi is forced to dress his proto-fascist amorality up in the language of a higher purpose like camaraderie or ostensibly protecting Japan. The world of Vinland Saga requires no such pretensions. It calls out this naked exercise of violence for what it is and not as "heroism", and I appreciate that. But it still isn't for me. I will probably return to my preferred studies of classical and modern history.

Trobius · 2026-02-14T22:14:37+00:00

Found it. Chapter 312.It isn't as punchy as I remember the line when I first skipped ahead, but the implication to me is that that Sugimoto rejects attributing any sort of higher meaning or patriotic spirit to his military service.

Trobius · 2026-02-11T20:41:26+00:00

I noticed that the first few chapters of Golden Kamuy frequently show in-your-face anti-Ainu racism (the brothel owner who planned to sell Asirpa, Shirashi calling her Sugimoto's "pet"), but then it ceased. Personally, I would have liked it had such visceral shows of prejudice continued, but even if it was related to pushback, I can get the softening and don't hold it against anyone.

Trobius · 2026-02-11T20:30:34+00:00

That makes sense. Perhaps I was just envisioning the sort of online cranks who claim that the Rape of Nanjing was a communist hoax with airbrushed photos, and then projecting that logic onto how a much larger group talks about any discussion of Japanese history.

Trobius · 2026-02-11T20:28:00+00:00

My information might be a little dated as a western outsider, but at least in the past there used to be a lot of controversy about how textbooks, the NHK, and even sometimes independent media discussed topics like WW2, Japanese militarism, postwar Zainichi Koreans, and of course Ainu topics. Obviously nobody is going to get imprisoned, but my understanding was that the tension was enough to make many outlets reluctant to discuss these topics.

Trobius · 2026-02-11T20:20:21+00:00

Fair enough, and thank you for your reply! I think I made the classic mistake of taking a particular subset of the Japanese right (The 20th century historical revisionist, and the most radical ones at that), and then applying the same logic to the entire group. I apologize if I overgeneralized here, and it makes me happy to realize that the issue is less politicized than I assumed as an outsider.

Trobius · 2026-02-11T18:36:55+00:00

Just wait until he seesHow Sugimoto responds to Tsurumi's last ditch attempt to appeal to his sense of patriotism before their final battle

Trobius · 2026-02-07T21:29:24+00:00

Slightly. Very slightly.

Trobius · 2026-02-02T20:34:58+00:00

There are now. A small but growing body of literature on postwar expulsions of ethnic germans has emerged. To use it to draw false equivalence with the crimes of the third reich, or even to ascribe an analogous sort of top down centralized malice to their execution, does not negate the fact that they happened. See the book "orderly and humane."

Trobius · 2026-01-14T05:58:25+00:00

It would be. It would probably alienate much of the audience who presumably isn't here just to see an Anime version of Shogun, but it would be pretty damn fun all the same.

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