4 ms·
Nothing quite like being a Jewish kid going to middle school 15+ years ago and seeing classmates reading manga where the characters are basically dressed like N
by spike021 7y ago
Nothing quite like being a Jewish kid going to middle school 15+ years ago and seeing classmates reading manga where the characters are basically dressed like Nazi Youth and they're 'protagonists' of the story.
- krapp 7y agoTo be fair, there is plenty of historically based anime and manga in which the Nazis, or vague stand-ins for the Nazis, are villains. Still, Japan was an Axis power, and every vile thing the Nazis did, they did to foreigners half a world away, so Japanese media winds up being a lot more comfortable around Nazism as a motif than Westerners would be[0] because there's just not the same stigma around portraying it. [0]https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-troubling-relationship-between-anime-and-fascism https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-troubling-relationship-bet...