So on a twitter post, whom I won't link as the guy isn't a lolcow or really horrible or anything, he was having a fight with anime/manga fans who were talking about how Manga is kicking Western Comic's asses in sales for obvious reasons, and a bunch of people even claimed that Anime/Manga was no less woke than western entertainment (one guy even used fucking Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop as examples). While even if there is a grain of truth to that, they are definitely no where near the insanity of the left in America these days, to the point I think the guy who said that was trolling, but I do see this weird sentiment pop up quite often and it annoys me. Almost as if people actually don't mind left leaning ideas and thought, just when it goes insane it's a problem.
It was due to "post-modernism" apparently, which I do see in Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, but even then it's not an issue and isn't pushing a really fucked up agenda.
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to say is; Why not ask WHY Manga is selling so much better than Western Comics? Like...I mean from my point of view, isn't it just a sign that Manga is giving people something that they want, while western comics are just devoid of what people want and are generally miserable and ugly to look at?
This is of course referring to the Big Two, DC and Marvel. Not indies or French Comics.
Being Woke is not the same as being progressive.
The defining aspect of wokesped shit is crowbarring in various progressive sounding buzzwords and narratives and aesthetic shit and loudly and obnoxiously shouting about this to everyone in earshot as an especially shallow gimmick to cover for the laziest and most uninspired trash quality imaginable, and as a cynical way for the creators to look marketably trendy and to maximise positive reviews from mouthbreathing critics even if that shit is so unpopular among actual people it bankrupts the producers.
An example that immediately comes to mind are the differences between the three star wars trilogies with regards to black representation.
The OG trilogy has a black main character introduced halfway through who is a suave and extremely adept leader and pilot who winds up destroying the second death star as well as being one of the key leaders in the final battle of the trilogy.
This was treated in and out of universe as entirely natural and expected and nobody involved in the production made a big deal about it.
The prequel trilogy has the highest ranking Jedi outside yoda being a black guy who is shown to be an extremely shrewd and stern authority figure, and is depicted as probably the most accomplished duellist of the entire franchise who managed to almost kill the emperor in a one on one fight until he was backstabbed by Anakin.
This was treated in and out of universe as entirely natural and expected and nobody involved in the production made a big deal about it.
The sequel trilogy.....has finn. A literal janitor who quickly becomes doofy comic relief who accomplishes jack shit during his entire screen time beyond being a doofy silly distraction to various villains, is thrown around like a ragdoll by everyone around him, and is a walking punchline whose only defining feature winds up being his obsession with the white woman super-duper main character.
This character received wall to wall shrieking proclamations of his casting being the most progressive step forward in cinema history and for years it was endlessly regurgitated how stunningly bravely important and amazing this character was just for existing while being black, and how anyone who voiced the slightest concern about the quality of the movies was actually a disgusting subhuman racist monster who was just furious to see the first black man in star wars history....
....then the moment higher-ups became aware of how the chinese dont rike brack peopre, he was scrubbed from marketing and posters, his part in the last movie turned into a literal footnote, and everybody involved in the corporate constructed mass hype orgy spontaneously forgot all about him
You see what im getting at here?
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