[FairyKing]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Oh yeah sure, there's no way Japan gives a fuck and the 3500 people who marched in Tokyo were just out shopping simultaneously or something.

How fans of Kamen Rider of all things can be so fucking narrow-minded confuses me to no end. The very first show was about a fascist organization kidnapping people to brainwash them until one guy got out and said "No more, I'm drop-kicking all of your asses".

You guys are just as ignorant as those lowlife "gamers" who think Japan is some sort of sacred miracle island that is free of "censorship" and doesn’t give a damn about what's going on in the west. Newsflash, they do. And creative media is their way of expressing what they think about it.

If you believe a show dealing with race like Zero-One ending with protests and violence is not in any shape or form connected to what’s going on in the world right now, be it Hong Kong or the US, then I would be very careful to call others stupid.

And stop being fucking cowards already. "We’re here to talk about toku, not politics.". The show is about goddamn politics, if you talk about the show you talk about politics. If you want to blend that out and be like "Wow cool suits", be free to do that, but don’t go around trying to pretend there are no politics in toku and people from the outside bring that in just to annoy you in your comfort zone.

Strongly agree. To clarify my previous comment, I just think it's strange to draw comparisons to the American protests instead of the Japanese ones. Kamen Rider in general and Zero-One in particular are absolutely making social and political commentary, and to pretend there's no connection between the Humagear protests and real-world protests against racism is just willful ignorance.

One of the bizarrest things about geek culture, to me anyway, is how people can be obsessive fans of a franchise even as all its themes and messages fly right over their heads.