Donald Trump continues to kill it in the Anime/Nazi fanboy demographic

Weren’t some of the SS uniforms designed for looks to the point that their wearer’s couldn’t sit down without removing their trousers?

I get way too overprotective of other child abuse victims, don’t I. =P

I honestly don’t think that’s possible.

“Childless single men who masturbate to anime, indeed. I just don’t understand why you’d wank to bug-eyed caricatures of women instead of, y’know, porn. It’s not like it’s difficult to find or anything.”

Because porn is made of caricatures of women too. 99.99% of all pron, japanese or otherwise, is so caricatural and feel so wrong I could not masturbate to it if my life depended on it.

Re: ‘Fashy neko’ = fascist catgirl

Technically, ‘neko’ is just ‘cat,’ though perhaps mainstream anime fans assume the catgirl thing is implied.

The yaoi fangirl contingent knows that ‘neko’ is also slang in Japan for a man who bottoms in a gay relationship.

Which, you know, makes that particular account pretty funny to me, even as I rage that these asshats are using my fandoms (seriously, Edward Elric would Not Stand for This Shit) to further a disgusting idiology.

People comment on the anime big eye thing a lot. Strictly speaking, it’s more the Disney big eye thing; the characteristic anime style is significantly inspired by early Disney movies (notably Snow White). You’ll see the same thing in modern Disney movies, including Frozen. The reason is actually visible in the first picture; imagine drawing Trump’s expression by hand. Now imagine doing that for ~25 minutes of runtime at 24 FPS. You have one week.

So by drawing a few relatively simple exaggerated facial features, it’s relatively easy to convey an emotion. Curve the top down a bit and you get anger. Switch to a dull color and you get despair or blankly emotionless.

As for the Nazi chic thing, I think it’s generally preferred in anime for villains that are generically Nazi-like. If you see it on a protagonist odds are it’s a German military protagonist. If you see the actual Nazi flag the character is specifically a Nazi and almost certainly the villain. Also, slight subtle point: in the US a red armband brings to mind the Nazi flag armband, in Japan school club presidents wear red armbands.

I’ve heard a little about it elsewhere in Asia. First, the Swastika is actually an Indian religious* symbol. The actual Aryans controlled parts of India for a while, you see. So its display obviously isn’t banned outright. Second, in WWII Nazi atrocities were mostly in Europe and Asia mostly saw Imperial Japan’s. Fewer gas chambers, more biological warfare. The doctors responsible turned over their results in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

My knowledge of racial issues in Japan is basically that official records say it’s 98% Japanese and also that everyone born in Japan is Japanese and there is no reason to provide a further breakdown because they are all one race. I gather that this is no more true than if the US said it.

But when it comes to anime and militarism/conquest, it’s generally not positive. There’s a presently ongoing series called GATE, which is the most pacifist military propaganda I have ever seen. It’s got a lot of showing off the JSDF’s weaponry but also just as many scenes of committed diplomatic efforts to reach a peaceful solution.

*Used by several of them

@ WWTH

Not at all teal deer. I’ve been through similar obstacle courses to get to the same conclusion – and I think there is a connection between that and the OP.

Even more so perhaps because in this country it’s been a while since we had the death penalty (even quietly dropped from being on the books for treason and arson in the royal dockyards, I believe) and the memory of some of the more flagrant miscarriages of justice have faded.

It’s even longer since we had public executions, but I’m pretty sure if we brought them back, some people would take their kids along and a picnic.

One reason this is an area that most reputable historians avoid is that the whole area of ‘what drove Hitler psychologically?’ is associated with crank pseudo science.

Lots of unqualified people have speculated endlessly, and luridly, about whether Hitler was a paedophile, a coprophiliac, a repressed homosexual, only had one testacle etc. There’s also that whole diagnosing mental states from a distance thing. As a result any serous research gets tainted by this.

We do know quite a bit about his medical history during his final years, but he surrounded himself with quack doctors, so again, any evidence from those sources must be treated with caution.

But the crank pseudoscience has fuck-all to do with his relationship with underage girls, which is a well-documented historical fact.

BTW, if anyone’s interested in this topic, Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman is a great novel on the subject.

About Hitler the possible sexual abuser, Hitler managed his image extremely carefully, especially anything connected with his private life. Before he was in power he posed as an austere working man with no family connections (in spite of having his half-sister and her children living in as his housekeeper), and once in power ‘reworked’ and/or had destroyed a lot of the records connected to his family life.

Afterwards, of course, his surviving relatives didn’t particularly want to brag about the connection either. Plus his enemies may have embroidered matters (as if the facts weren’t bad enough). So there’s a certain amount of mystery there, even today and it’s not easy to find clean sources of information.

Even people relatively close to him and living in the Fuhrerbunker in the last days had no idea who Eva Braun was or what their connection between them was, for example.

Geli’s is a grim story.

The tale about the testicle may be based on fact, though. The record of his injury in the trenches came to light only a few years ago – he got a shrapnel wound to the groin in 1916, which got him the nickname “screamer” from his battalion mates (my, how we laughed!)

The injury is apparently confirmed in the doctor’s notes made when he was in prison in 1923, but the documents relating to his imprisonment are not published yet – due out this year.

the quai | February 14, 2016 at 2:28 pm
The yaoi fangirl contingent knows that ‘neko’ is also slang in Japan for a man who bottoms in a gay relationship.

As a (kind of former) Yaoi fangirl, I was not aware of this.

Suddenly Loveless makes a whole lot more sense.

Quai, Edward Elrich was a Nazi, in case you were unaware than individuals who work for the military under rule of a Fuhrer are nazis, no matter if they are infantry or alchemy.

My knowledge of racial issues in Japan is basically that official records say it’s 98% Japanese and also that everyone born in Japan is Japanese and there is no reason to provide a further breakdown because they are all one race. I gather that this is no more true than if the US said it.

??? I’m not sure why you think that can’t be true. Japan is not a major immigration center like the US. For ~100 years, Japan wouldn’t even let non-Japanese onshore. They’ve never welcomed immigrants, or made it simple for immigrants to naturalize. The only other ethnic group on the islands is the Ainu, who have been resisting slow-motion genocide in a similar manner to the Native Americans in North America.

I find this claim completely plausible, personally.

Basically the sum total of my knowledge is that the dominant ethnic group in Japan is the Yamato, there are others, there is some level of discrimination, and the government is conspicuously unwilling to discuss the subject. Which I generally take to be a bad sign rather than a good one.