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Japan just elected its first mangaka to the national diet.
Akamatsu Ken, the author of Love Hina and Negima, has won a seat in Japan's House of Councillors.
A major plank in Akamatsu's platform is freedom of expression in subculture media (anime, manga, etc).
Here's him.
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A 21 year old girl was arrested for stabbing her male friend, who she had an emotional obsession with.
She "liked him so much, she wanted to kill him and then kill herself".
The man survived and she was arrested.
Here's her smiling in the police car.
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Mike Pondsmith, creator of Cyberpunk 2020 and consultant on Cyberpunk 2077 on the drama surrounding the game:
'Stop telling me what to be offended by. Go tell your racist uncle to STFU instead.'
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By day, 83-year-old Iwamuro Sumiko is the proprietor of a Tokyo Chinese restaurant.
By night, she is SumiRock, the world's oldest pro DJ. She can be found in Kabuki-cho playing mix-ups of techno, rock, classical, jazz and French chanson.
She learned how to DJ at age 77 for fun.
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I am Japanese.
Cyberpunk is not xenophobic toward Asians.
Asians helped to establish cyberpunk.
Images of Asian culture in cyberpunk are not representations of Asian Menace, but depictions of post-nationalism and cultural dynamism.
Please don't use cyberpunk to spread hate.
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Twitter alternatives fail because they try to cater to a community. Twitter is not a community. Twitter is a Florida meth war inside a hurricane. People are here to bathe in blood and collect screenshots of protected accounts like a necklace of human ears.
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Early screenings of Godzilla: King of the Monsters has some critics complaining that it places too much emphasis on the monsters fighting and not enough human drama.
So it's good.
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Japan: makes a character
tumblr artists:
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Kotaku's Luke Plunkett falsely reported that Mordhau's developers created an option to "turn off" characters that aren't white.
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This is beautiful art.
Don't post their @ or do a bully.
Just enjoy.
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Ohhh…
Husbant…
You invest too much in Tesra.
Now we are homeress.
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@MallowyGoodness "Waifu" isn't "bad Japanese"!
It is how we actually pronounce it. Our whole language is, with few exceptions, Consonant＋Vowel.
日本語は基本的に母音で終わる言語です。
「ワイフ」をローマ字で書くとWA・I・FUと母音で３つの音節に分れ、個々の音節はCV（子音+母音）の構造になっています
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Crazy people were sending harassing messages to anyone who PewDiePie follows on Twitter, and this guy was trying to exacerbate it.
You'll never guess what happened next.
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@Kotaku_UK Is it true that the author of this piece has a vendetta against this series of video games because they subscribe to a conspiracy theory that professes that these games are transphobic?
How do you feel about your platform being misused as a weapon by said author?
Any comment?
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A photo has leaked showing the police arriving to find the assailant sitting on the floor next to the victim. The assailant is smoking a cigarette and talking on her phone while the victim lays bleeding next to her.
100% psychopath.
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1) Sony moves PlayStation HQ to California
2) Sony California—scared of "social activism"—forces Japanese developers to censor themselves, even in Japan.
3) Japanese developers and gamers get pissed, flee PlayStation brand.
4) Nintendo overtakes Sony console sales in Japan.
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Japanese made GHOST IN THE SHELL and LAIN.
Japanese made AKIRA.
These works borrowed from Western creators, and were borrowed from in turn. They fostered cultural exchange.
That is a good thing. That is progressive, in the true sense.
Please don't misinterpret it.
みんなのおかん。ゲーム好き。Everyone's #01 Mom. I like video games.