there are so many beautiful words out there in the world. ones you’ve read a thousand times, ones you haven’t read at all, ones waiting in the wings for their time on the stage.. so many and they can fill you up from the outside in, the pulse point of the shared human experience
it freaks me the fuuuccckkkkk out how easily those who weren’t victims of japanese imperialism are willing to let the rising sun symbol slide because apparently its a ~traditional japanese design~ and going as far as accusing people who criticize this of ~being white~ you weebs are freaks.
hello kny/demon slayer fans! i would really appreciate if you guys would use the canon, modified version of tanjiro’s earrings when drawing fanart/merch for him!
the rising sun flag is known throughout east and southeast asia as an imperialistic war time flag and it was used during WW2 to commit cultural genocide, mass ra/pe and forced prostitution of hundreds of thousands of women and children, and massacring innocent civilians by the japanese imperial army.
i know many of you want to use the “most canon” version of tanjiro’s earrings, but it is a very controversial flag that has very serious and hurtful implications behind it. i implore you all to read up on japanese war crimes as they STILL affect modern japan’s relationship with south korea and other countries.
thank you all so much, and thank you for understanding.
edit: in my previous version, i wrote “south asia” instead of “southeast asia”! i really apologize for the mistake, i kind of whipped this up pretty quickly and didn’t realize until someone brought it up to me. i really apologize since this is supposed to be an informative post and i’ll try to proofread posts like this in the future!
Anonymous: i'm not really sure why this akimoto thing is even a big deal? he's just a producer? what has he actually done? it's insane that you all are going after bighit based off nothing. now all the armys crying about it are just attracting more negative attention and this is turning into a mess
this is indeed a big issue and bighit does need to give feedback, people are angry with the yasushi akimoto collaboration with good reason.
i’m sure you are familiar with imperialist japan and the atrocities committed during the japanese occupation of korea…. it’s something that’s deeply sensitive and painful to korean people to this day.
nippon kaigi is an extreme, right-wing group in japan. the current prime minister, shinzo abe, is a right-wing nationalist and an adviser in the organization. this isn’t just any conservative group, he supports extreme ideologies like the erasure of japan’s violent history and war crimes. things that korea takes to heart, because it’s like erasing their own suffering and history.
there is a government initiative called “cool japan” to spread japanese influence and culture all over the world through entertainment. and the person who works with shinzo abe as the chairman of this effort is the producer, yasushi akimoto. they are known to be close friends, abe even invited akimoto to a private dinner at his home. this might not seem like a big deal, but any relation to abe’s administration is quite alarming.
on top of all this, akimoto has written lyrics that are pedophillic and degrading to women. he created the group akb48, who have been involved in controversies with the rising sun flag during a performance and imagery that highlight the glorification of war. he created music for an ultra-nationalist kindergarten that waves around rising sun flags proudly, where kids are brainwashed with anti-korean and anti-chinese sentiments. to anyone with morals, supporting a person with such views is unthinkable. how can you even consider allowing this?
so for bang pd to say in an article that he “admires akimoto’s worldview” is disappointing and upsetting. b*s values are not aligned with this kind of mindset, but being even remotely connected to such a name is enough to have people turn against them.
other celebrities who have been entangled in these kinds of relations have gone through immeasurable hatred and resentment by the general public. they will be associated with “우익” (right-wing) and it is hard to overcome. b*ngtan’s legacy and reputation is at risk, everything they believe and achieved is at risk. more importantly, our humanity is at risk by accepting his involvement to happen. hence armys are terrified by this development in their japanese album and the consequences it could have on b*s, not only as korean artists, but as korean citizens. it reflects on all of us, as people, to do the right thing and withdraw support.
it’s fine if you don’t see eye-to-eye with the current movement to demand feedback from bighit, but i ask that you respect it and refrain from distracting from this important discussion.
“Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that—to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.”
