I'm pretty sure the short answer is: "Well, 4chan, right?". But it goes a bit beyond that.

If there's something that I have learned is that your standard :le-pol-face: is nearly IDENTICAL to ISIS, it's just a matter of whether they want to be a Christian CHUD or a Muslim CHUD. Osama Bin Laden was found to be a fan of anime too, among many other ISIS/al Quaeda members. Hell, ISIS members are frogposters just as much as "defend the west" CHUDs. There's a joke online about how fashy a lot of weebs are and I really don't understand it.

Anime is Japanese and Japan fought on the side of the axis is the only connection I can think of, but it's not like Japanese people are considered white in the US, the country that these hogs apparently love so much. Hell, hogs demonized the FUCK out of Japan in the 70s and 80s too despite being a fellow capitalist nation. Now they're coming around?

Also, look at two of the most popular anime: Pokemon is pretty pro-environment and Dragon Ball Z: where Frieza talks almost identically to your average chanbrain and was inspired by real estate speculators because of how evil they are.

Is there a deeper connection besides "4chan lol"?

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Once you start doing research on imperial-era Japanese fascism, you start seeing tidbits of that Era's philosophy in anime. IMO, the messaging tends to speak to the fears that privileged classes of people have in relation to their colonized surroundings. Shonen anime especially makes frequent appeals to strength and self-sacrifice against an alien extremism, usually in opposition to civilized society. Example: the author of Attack on Titan when it was found out he's racist against Koreans for nationalistic reasons.

    But also, incels love anime tiddies. :hentai-free:

    • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Continuing from my original post, I'm kinda surprised that 4chan didn't reject dragon ball because Frieza is a picture perfect portrayal of them. Arrogant to a fault but is deeply terrified of a "super saiyan" that will fight back against them and disprove their delusions of grandeur.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I mean it's also because they can conveniently hide with the normies. Imo JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is the best of battle anime these days. Dragon Ball Super is pretty bad. That being said, at this point I literally am more likely to listen to a podcast about an anime, than actually watch an anime.

        • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Not really? They're kind of barbarians, like in the D&D sense. They're not "good" or anything to aspire to, they're just slightly above-average fighters. If they feel enough righteous fury they can access a form which makes them very above-average fighters, at the cost of even more of their already fragile emotional state. And if they get enough D&D good-aligned saiyans together and believe hard enough they can perform a religious ritual to turn one of them into a ... god? Demigod? What is even a god in Dragon Ball is kind of unclear.

          But yeah saiyans were never supposed to be some kind of ideal. For most of the known history of Dragon Ball they were going around committing genocides, not even for some fucked up cause they believed in, but for money.

        • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          There is an episode where a german general tries to recruit them because they are blonde haired blue eyed super soldiers

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That is absolutely my read on it. I was just telling a friend like two days ago that all of Japan is incredibly myopic, even if the Japanese Communist Party is pretty great sometimes.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      But also, incels love anime tiddies.

      Or the lack thereof. :epstein: