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People comparing "woke" comics to "apolitical" manga is something I've been thinking about a lot lately (and hopefully you'll see why in a few days), but a big reason why people say that stuff is because they use the language and cultural barrier to cover that stuff upPermalink On twitter.com
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People think politics is when pride and BLM, so when they see these things in comics and not in manga/anime they claim that the former are "political" and the latter are "just focused on telling a good story", without realizing that manga/anime are the same but JapanesePermalink On twitter.com
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Kill la Kill is a pretty beat-for-beat retelling of the history of Japan from the Edo period through World War II. It's super in-your-face and literal. But if you're an American weeb, this goes over your head and you get to insist KlK is "apolitical" mindless fun with titsOn twitter.com