Current Events > New Digimon cartoon is about the dangers of cancel culture

(+) Yeah! (+)

And the dangers of being PC
https://twitter.com/TheBrando2/status/1422565888981708805

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Is the little childrens cartoon upsetting you?

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lol WHAT?

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Is the little childrens cartoon upsetting you?

No? Why would it?

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totalnerdken posted...

If this is referring to the reboot of the OG series that's going on now. NGL, even though I'm just not that interested in watching it now, from what I've seen, it's better than the OG.

It has to do with the D-Reaper in Digimon Tamers.

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Wtf i cant read twitter comments anymore without making an account

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Ratchetrockon posted...

Wtf i cant read twitter comments anymore without making an account

Make sure you're tapping on the tweet body and not the comment picture itself. That little comment counter thing is the trigger to write a new comment, which is what you need an account for

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Doe posted...

Make sure you're tapping on the tweet body and not the comment picture itself. That little comment counter thing is the trigger to write a new comment, which is what you need an account for

Ahh i got it now thank you

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I bet all the weebs got hard over this.

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Why are there people on a stage?

Background_Guy posted...

Why are there people on a stage?

Because Japan

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where's the digimon

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Random Twitter complaints is not cancel culture.

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Is cancel culture brave enough to cancel itself

creativerealms posted...

Random Twitter complaints is not cancel culture.

I believe the people on stage were performing a live reading of the script. And the writer of it did indeed confirm the subject matter is on cancel culture. So its not just random complaints.

As to why theres no clips of the show yet, Im guessing it hasnt been animated yet.

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One more reason why Digimon > Pokemon.

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DJquackquack posted...

I believe the people on stage were performing a live reading of the script. And the writer of it did indeed confirm the subject matter is on cancel culture. So its not just random complaints.

As to why theres no clips of the show yet, Im guessing it hasnt been animated yet.

But weebs tell me that political correctness and cancel culture don't exist in Japan!

Background_Guy posted...

But weebs tell me that political correctness and cancel culture don't exist in Japan!

Nah from what I hear, the antivaxx movement and even some of the Q-anon rhetoric is big over there in certain circles.

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I'm amused.

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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

It has to do with the D-Reaper in Digimon Tamers.

Best season.

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Solar_Crimson posted...

I bet all the weebs got hard over this.

I'm not even a weeb, and I got a stiffie.
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He should be cancelled for this

Season 1's cast get like 3 sets of remakes and sequel movies, but Tamers -- the objectively best season -- just gets this.

I hate it here.

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DJquackquack posted...

I believe the people on stage were performing a live reading of the script. And the writer of it did indeed confirm the subject matter is on cancel culture. So its not just random complaints.

As to why theres no clips of the show yet, Im guessing it hasnt been animated yet.

You believe? How do I even know digimon is involved? I need more information man.

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It doesn't sound like this is going to be an actual anime, just the stage show celebrating Tamers' 20th anniversary. Doesn't make the material less batshit obviously, but...

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

The problem is, he's fucking one of them.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-04/digimon-tamers-20th- anniversary-stage-show-features-cancel-culture-villain/.175872

Writer Chiaki J. Konaka, who worked on the screenplay of the original Digimon Tamers anime, confirmed on Twitter that he wrote the script-reading play.

Konaka has also been maintaining a retrospective blog for the series, where he writes his recollections and thoughts about various episodes and other aspects of the anime. A number of posts share his thoughts on the current technological landscape, including his beliefs around the suppression of "alternative information" regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a post from May, he wrote that when writing the original Digimon Tamers series, there were certain depictions of violence and the use of guns that he avoided due to the political climate around the 9/11 terrorist attack. Later, in the 2010s, he began to look into the background behind the incident. Although he thought that the early conspiracy theories were "unrealistic" and was critical about the 9/11 "Truthers," he admitted to maintaining some suspicion around the circumstances in which the attack occurred.

He then drew a comparison to the year of 2020, remarking that he saw the YouTuber James Corbett describe the situation as "COVID-9/11." (Corbett is a prominent 9/11 and COVID conspiracy proponent.) Konaka wrote that while he did not agree with everything Corbett said, he described him as someone who "analyzed the situation rationally, and simply continued to sound the alarm around the dangers, not just of the illness but of the societal situation happening in the world."

Corbett's views have included blaming Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for "manipulating" the virus and pandemic, that the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and the Apollo Moon Landing was a hoax, along with other unsupported conspiracies.

He expressed dismay in seeing Corbett's YouTube channel get removed last year, and said that he has personally lost faith in academics and medical professionals, especially when it comes to the topics of epidemiology, bacteriology, biology, information technology, and social engineering.

He remarked that the situation has inspired him with his fiction, and that he has been looking for ways to portray it through symmetry and symbolism, even if it does not exactly match reality.

"I hope you will forgive me for the unusual contents of this entry," he concluded. "However, if I don't write about this, I don't think you'll be able to understand why I've been speaking so passionately about this anime from 20 years ago."

In another blog post from June, he wrote about the temporary suspension of Google's services during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. He also highlighted a seminar at the World Economic Forum in October 2019 which included a section on how to control information. "I have not written anything conspiratorial at all. I'm just stating the facts," he claimed.

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C_Pain posted...

You believe? How do I even know digimon is involved? I need more information man.

I dont follow Digimon at all bro. And I barely follow anime in general. But theres a whole like 13 page topic on it somewhere around here, and from what I can tell its legit.

I just regurgitated what was there.

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The writer / series planner for Serial Experiements Lain and Digimon Tamers has been under fire recently for his views on Covid-19, the Covid Vaccine , 9/11, and complaining that the people who promoted those views keep getting deplatformed. That's the Cancel Culture he's talking about here in the Tamers reading. His views primarily center on the belief that some sort of super rich group gets together to announce and create disasters for their own dastardly ends.

The source for this is his own blog. It's in Japanese, machine translation works well enough but apparently someone translated it a while ago. I've included that too.
https://tamers2021.hateblo.jp/entry/2021/05/17/224604
https://twitter.com/dakarananitte/status/1422979179125952514

For those who care about this sort of thing; Digimon Tamers was under production before, during and after 9/11. Allegedly they ended up needing to change one scene of a building being destroyed, but because he was absorbed with work at the time he largely ignored 9/11 until after production ended.


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Uta posted...

The writer / series planner for Serial Experiements Lain and Digimon Tamers has been under fire recently for his views on Covid-19, the Covid Vaccine , 9/11, and complaining that the people who promoted those views keep getting deplatformed. That's the Cancel Culture he's talking about here in the Tamers reading. His views primarily center on the belief that some sort of super rich group gets together to announce and create disasters for their own dastardly ends.

The source for this is his own blog. It's in Japanese, machine translation works well enough but apparently someone translated it a while ago. I've included that too.
https://tamers2021.hateblo.jp/entry/2021/05/17/224604
https://twitter.com/dakarananitte/status/1422979179125952514

For those who care about this sort of thing; Digimon Tamers was under production before, during and after 9/11. Allegedly they ended up needing to change one scene of a building being destroyed, but because he was absorbed with work at the time he largely ignored 9/11 until after production ended.

Its funny cuz theres people out there thatd cut off their right arm for a chance to write a digimon anime, yet Bandai keeps working with this kook.

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Their main contribution is Digimon Tamers and this Stage Play. There's a rumor that they might be involved with Digimon: Ghost Game, but the vast majority of Digimon has had little to no involvement with him.

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