Erika2rsis

Komi, Bocchi (var. Hitori), Bocchi (var. The Rock), Watamote, or something else?

Boyyoass we gotta catch us some muthaflippin CLOW CARDS

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Or give guided gondola tours of a 1:1 recreation of Venice on a terraformed Mars in the distant future…

There’s no real consensus on translating neopronouns, so different translation approaches are used depending on the needs of the translation and its target language. It’s a good idea in any case to provide translation notes or glosses for anything that might get lost in translation.

What I’d personally recommend is this:

When writing about a real person, ask yourself:

• Can I ask this person for translation recommendations?
• If yes, translate according to the recommendations.
• If no, does this person also go by pronouns which are easier to translate?
• If yes, use those pronouns instead of the neopronouns.
• If no, use the “default” gender-neutral terms of the target language.

When writing about a fictional character, ask yourself:

• Can I ask the original author for translation recommendations?
• If yes, translate according to the recommendations.
• If no, use whatever feels right.

Avoiding pronouns entirely, leaving the neopronoun untranslated, or matching the neopronoun with one from the target language, are all translation approaches that may be more appropriate in some situations, but which also present unique challenges for the translator.

Insert that manga frame that says something like “male crossdressing is by definition something only men can do, and therefore it is the most masculine act there is”

Honestly with a million dollars you could just become a cis-passing trans girl and still have at least $800,000 left to spend, if not >$950,000. Or in other words, the button gives you a 1% chance of only you becoming a girl, versus a 99% chance of you and at least four others becoming girls, assuming that you spend the remainder of your wealth on funding other girls’ transitions. Though you could just as well spend that money on funding trans advocacy and medical research or other sorts of long-term investment.

From that perspective, the 1% chance seems like a loss. What does “become a girl” even mean? Are you transported into the timeline where you were AFAB? Are you transported into the timeline where you had a botched circumcision and your parents decided to raise you as a girl despite being told not to? Is your body just magically poofed into a cisfeminine phenotype? Is this the timeline where you transitioned MTF but did so before puberty? Is this just the same as transitioning MTF but now the folks who won the million dollars are sponsoring your transition? Is this the same as transitioning MTF but all of society has with a snap of the fingers unlearned all transphobia, getting rid of the social and material barriers to transitioning?

There are so many questions one can ask about this premise, like, “What would it mean for me to have been AFAB? Same zygote but with a random AR mutation? Do I keep my old memories from when I was a boy?”, or, “If I was circumcised, and have my genitals magically transformed, have my new genitals undergone type 1a FGM? What happens to my secondary sex characteristics?”, or, “If I’m magically transformed, is my ID also magically changed? Does God drop down some boxes of tampons and new clothes from the heavens above?”.

I would ask the maker of the button to write some very clear terms of service, because this seems like it could be a real monkey’s paw…

I’ve heard that a pretty big component of the sexualization of underage characters in anime is actually pretty similar to why casinos and their machines are so… slimy, as it were.

I’m not going to claim to be some expert on Japan or the anime industry, so take this with some skepticism, but what I heard goes roughly like this:

Anime is a risky endeavor because it’s very costly to produce. Most anime will be costlier to produce than live action or even other forms of animation, and on top of this, the average consumer will not spend very much on merchandise, or manga, or blu-rays, et cetera, and will not stay up 'till the wee hours watching commercials just to catch a show live. Therefore, in an ever-saturated anime market, new anime increasingly have to walk a tightrope between not being patently offensive to 99% of their viewers, and being appealing to the 1% of “whales”, to use the gambling term. The anime wouldn’t be financially viable without both of these demographics.

And the types of people who would spend tens of myriads of yen on figurines and posters, evidently, are disproporionately likely to enjoy sexualized cartoon high school girls. Meanwhile most normal viewers evidently have a threshold of how much underage sexualization they can roll their eyes at or ignore, before it becomes too disgusting to keep watching. This especially applies if a large portion of the viewers are in the same age range as the characters, and so might themselves find the sexualization to be relatable; and this double especially applies in a very hierarchical society with very visible issues with misogyny and ageism in general, where people might generally be less critical of those things. And even within a production, even if the vast majority of an anime’s staff are normal people, there could always be some small portion of the staff who are so-called “lolicons” who would put that type of shit into a production unquestioned.

Regarding why everyone is a high schooler, regardless of sexualization— The other comments I think have part of the story. Another part of it is just how high school is a universally relatable experience, since people’s lives start to diverge after high school; and how the high school setting has just been proven to be a successful formula, and so they’ll keep doing that and the “hit by a truck and reincarnated into a generic high fantasy world” stuff until consumer trends change — and the consumer trends will only change when someone actually creates an alternative, and God knows when that will happen. There are plenty of great anime where the main characters aren’t high schoolers, but those are riskier to make.

One last piece to the puzzle concerns people like Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai. Which is to say, that people just eat up the idea of minors saving the world in general, not only in fiction but in real life as well. Minors themselves like seeing people their age celebrated and empowered, and adults also like the idea of just a few kids fixing everything, instead of all adults collectively working towards a better and safer world. And adults also like looking back on their teen years or childhood as a time of freedom, even though in truth people are certainly no more free at that age than as adults. Realizing that fact for many comes with a feeling of responsibility to use adult freedom for good, and who likes having even more burdens and responsibilities? And realizing that fact also comes with the burden of actually making children and youth free, and who the heck wants to do that, right?

I dunno. This is a media analysis 60% based on a half-misremembered video essay, so this is probably a worthless contribution, especially when this thread is already like five days old.

Come to think of it, it could’ve also been that that community maybe actually did show up in the sh.itjust.works search results when you searched for just “piracy”, but that the community was lower down on the page and sort of blended in with the other results, so you didn’t notice it.

You can try searching just “piracy”, and then choosing “communities” from the drop-down menu just to the left of the “subscribed” button. That should make the search results show only communities, so that it’s harder for communities to get buried by or hidden among irrelevant results.

Try searching for !piracy@lemmy.ml on sh.itjust.works while logged in.

“Ahh, this sight reminds me of when Cousin Sowkje decided to commemorate the winter solstice by creating a ‘gift for everyone to pass down for generations’. Sowkje had procured some ochre, and nobody knew his intent with this ochre, but for months he would enter the Great Cave with it every day at noon, and he would only reemerge from the cave many hours later. Finally, on the day of the winter solstice, Sowkje led us to the Great Cave and struck his torch to reveal that he had been painting scenes from our clan’s great epic all over the walls of the Great Cave. Cousin Sowkje showed us how his cave paintings would appear to move with the flicker of the torch flame, and for us this was practically magic, and so immersive that I myself cried when Retap-Sotokra held a dying Undiqesh in his arms… But compared to the forms of storytelling now available to our descendant here, who lives in such a time of great abundance that he can hear the epics of foreign nations, our moving cave paintings seem crude in comparison!”