I've posted about this before but it continues to fascinate me. I'm also not talking about the more obviously fucked up topic of the sexualising of teenage girls in Japanese media, but what constitutes an "older" person over there.
I'm currently watching the Netflix adaptation of One Piece, and saw some Japanese discussion about the show's portrayal of Shanks and the actor playing him, who looks like this on the show:
There were comments saying that he "looks too much like a man past his prime" but also comments like "I like seeing attractive older men in media" and I'm just confused since he looks like a perfectly normal handsome actor man. They talked about him like Western social media talked about a 65-year-old Jeff Goldblum
I guess you turn into an ossan immediately after your 25th birthday
They were an empire that failed and became a client state. They’re not colonized at all unless you’re counting the indigenous people
We paid the yakuza to shoot leftists, they are still a one party state using only institutions we created, and every one of your favorite hentia tags was created because of a law we put in place. Are you telling me the plaza accords would have happened if we didn't have them under control.