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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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On June 13, the newly elected Akamatsu Ken announced the organization of a team of experts to embark on the legal preservation of all old video games in a playable state.
Akamatsu is also interested in preserving online games and social games that are no longer available. twitter.com/KenAkamatsu/st…
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The Japanese government has already created an archive for the preservation of books and CDs, of which digitized copies can be accessed online.
Akamatsu hopes to expand this online archive to include games, envisioning a system that would allow users to play games remotely.
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This is "Myakumyaku," the official mascot of the Osaka 2025 World Expo.
Japanese internet users were quick to point out that he looks like a cosmic horror.
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Japan's "otoko no ko" (男の娘) movement and transexuality are not the same, and re-writing 男の娘 characters as transgender amounts to harmful sexual colonialism in which one queer subculture erases and undermines another when they should be mutually supportive.
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The essay below provides a nuanced objection to the assertion of "男の娘-transgender interchangeability" by chronicling the 40-year history of 男の娘 subculture in Japan. Even the first few paragraphs are worth reading.
note.com/wakari_te/n/n3…
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If Bridget is canonically a femboy in Japan, and transgender in America, then what is Bridget in the United Arab Emirates?
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「オハイオ」ございます。 twitter.com/sewerpvnk/stat…
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A cosplayer in Jiangsu, China was taken away by police and interrogated for 5 hours for wearing a Japanese kimono.
In the video, a police officer shouts, "If you were wearing a Chinese dress, I wouldn't have stopped you... You are Chinese. Aren't you?"
news.livedoor.com/lite/article_d…
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Frodo, did I ever tell you about the 2 weeks I spent alone on a life raft with Sauron? He took me in every way a man can take a womanーuntil the dawn shone gold in the sky. It was blasphemous, Frodo. Like an endless porno. You couldn't even imagine. And he was a good friend.
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After some introspection, I've made the decision to focus my time and energy on being even worse.
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SO LONG, GAY LOVER twitter.com/Kotaku/status/…
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Someone is projecting mean messages about Elon Musk onto the 11-floor Market Square complex that Twitter is housed in, but they got address wrong.
The messages are being projected onto the office floor of manga & anime publisher Viz Media.
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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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Ohhh…
Husbant…
You invest too much in Tesra.
Now we are homeress.
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I was recently told there is an entire industry of "news" sites that hire people in developing countries and pay them a few dollars to write clickbait targeted to western readers. Not just entertainment, but politics and even local news. No editors or fact checkers are involved.
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In Japanese there's a verb for the feelings embodied in the "MAN" meme: "tasogareru" (黄昏る).
Tasogareru means "fade to twilight" and, colloquially, "to be lost in melancholic thought". So, Japanese make a mental association with "MAN" moments and the sunset.
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My brain: Things are not "worse" than when you were young. Everyone yearns for their youth, when pain was only an infrequent guest, and sleep was only disturbed by dreams of tomorrow. The hands of time turn on, and resistance will see you crushed between their gears.
My eyes:
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Opinion: respected twitter.com/LimitedRunGame…
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The new Metaverse-ready "Mutalk" uses a Helmholtz resonator to reduce the volume of screams by up to -30db, allowing the user to suffer mental breakdowns privately without disturbing coworkers.
みんなのおかん。ゲーム好き。Everyone's #01 Mom. I like video games.