Not sure if you read my response to your Blackrock thread, but I'll copy and paste it below in case you didn't
Just skimming through this thread and most of the replies I see are not getting the point you're trying to make. I'm sure you could have articulated the post a little better and probably moved this to the anime discussion section, but honestly anybody that has a semblance of critical and rational thinking can understand the nuances of your point and the takeaways from it
Yea the future is very uncertain for the anime/manga community. As more time passes, anime is getting increasingly more popular in the west. This is thanks to anime such as One Punch Man, Boku No Hero, Kimetsu no Yaiba and Juju Kaisen. To put the blame on these shows is pointless, as something else would have eventually taken it's place as the normie anime the west will watch. Higher entities see this increase popularity and see it as a chance to make a greedy profit and will do whatever means necessary from their point of view to make that a certainty. Pushing quotas and checks via DEI benchmarks to further push the visibility of anime to the forefront of the west is their current goal. This will result in anime ceasing to be anime. They will say "we are just fixing anime" but in reality all they will be doing is stripping away all of the unique traits that makes anime truly special. The funny thing is that anime is already naturally diverse with it's story telling. When you try to FORCIBLY put diversity into something, it comes across as extremely contrived.
However imo, I don't think the forced diversity is the biggest issue for the future of anime and manga. I believe it to be the censorship of said media. The west will see all of the "negatives" from their eyes and try to eliminate it. Harem anime, lolis shotas, highschool anime with romance, ecchi and other story telling elements will cease to exist. I'm sure a person with the rational thinking of a monkey would respond to this statement by saying: "THaT's a GooD ThINg, ThoSE tHinGS ARE BAD, and ThEY sHoLUD bE gONE" News flash buddy, if you don't like something, stop watching it, stop reading it, stop engaging with it, stop being a bitch and having the world revolve around you. I personally dislike super hero stuff a lot, but I don't go to the movies to see something I actively hate, and I don't talk about my hate for it and try to belittle others that like it as well. Unless someone directly tells me what my take on it is, I don't talk about it. It wasn't made for me, and as long as there's an audience that it is made for, then it should be allowed to exist as a form of artistic freedom. Do not dilute a medium of entertainment with your childish thinking and paper thin morality statements, when in reality you're not a "moral person" at all.
I'm mixed with the future. On one hand I could see the Japanese being vehemently against the restrictions of what they can and can't put out as entertainment, as the anime and manga sphere of entertainment is robust with blood sweat and tears of passion and hard-work. However on the other hand I can see the higher entities, production committees, networking agencies and very prestigious and high end companies caving in to the west. In result they will bully and harass the people below them to make that goal a utmost certainty. Time will tell, and I'm kinda scared...
I wouldn't pay much mind to the majority of the people that commented with your post, as a lot of them are emotionally charged people that get offended by anything. If you bring up that kind of stuff people get extremely defensive and lash out. I find it incredibly funny with the people that said you had a "tinfoil hat" or that you're exaggerating, when it was companies like Blackrock that share a lot of the responsibility of ruined western media.
Now do I think this particular thing that Blackrock did with the manga site will be THE detonator for ruining anime? Of course not, that's not how the world works, things like that don't instantaneously happen over night. What it does massively allude to, is the gradual change over many years to dilute and taint anime and manga as a medium. You're basically my age, so you understand this notion, that diversity and forcing agendas stuff didn't happen over night, but took years for it to seep in. Basically a death by a thousand cuts.
I think it's incredibly important for this topic to be talked about in the community because it brings awareness to the issue, and in a way can be used to retaliate. Because just like how the west gradually took their time to insert ridiculous and insane agendas, the anime and manga community can gradually rebel against it by voicing their vehemence against it.
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I wouldn't pay much mind to the majority of the people that commented with your post, as a lot of them are emotionally charged people that get offended by anything. If you bring up that kind of stuff people get extremely defensive and lash out. I find it incredibly funny with the people that said you had a "tinfoil hat" or that you're exaggerating, when it was companies like Blackrock that share a lot of the responsibility of ruined western media.
Now do I think this particular thing that Blackrock did with the manga site will be THE detonator for ruining anime? Of course not, that's not how the world works, things like that don't instantaneously happen over night. What it does massively allude to, is the gradual change over many years to dilute and taint anime and manga as a medium. You're basically my age, so you understand this notion, that diversity and forcing agendas stuff didn't happen over night, but took years for it to seep in. Basically a death by a thousand cuts.
I think it's incredibly important for this topic to be talked about in the community because it brings awareness to the issue, and in a way can be used to retaliate. Because just like how the west gradually took their time to insert ridiculous and insane agendas, the anime and manga community can gradually rebel against it by voicing their vehemence against it.