After 7.18, the attitude towards the entire ecosystem of the Japanese animation industry has completely changed.
Set aside the claims of the arsonist, and whether the allegations of plagiarism are true or not - the suspect has no power to impose a lynching verdict against an employee of a company, and all employees of a studio: plagiarism is the identification and accusation of the other party's illegal behavior , arson is an act of revenge for extremist tendencies.
Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if the arsonist were identified as an extremist or a lone wolf terrorist.
The Kyoto Animation arson case reminds me of a few years ago, when there were minors who were addicted to online games for money and small frictions in their lives, robbing adults they never knew, and even killing each other. There was no anti-addiction system at that time, and now gaming addiction is included in the International Classification of Diseases as a mental disorder.
on the other hand:
If you compare religious classics like the Bible, you will find that Japanese animation has many, many distorted interpretations of the Bible since EVA. Why is it distorted—if even the Holy Spirit is ignored when citing the content of the Bible, can it not be called distorted interpretation?
Forcibly interpreting the meanings that were not originally in the religious scriptures, what consequences will it cause? To be honest, this is just like an earthquake. After the earthquake is felt, there will be waves of aftershocks. When will it end, can it be known by human strength?
It's not that art workers are hard to say, but "odd," "new," and "different" that are out of traditional morality, or even too far out of routine, are not artistic creations, but destroy traditional morality and ethics.
I have liked 2D works in the past.
But now, I'm ashamed that I once liked the second dimension.
What I have done in the past is to ignore as much as possible the extreme emotional expressions, extreme thoughts or content that justifies the extreme tendencies of the characters in these animations, but I found that I made a very obvious mistake - watching In the process of video production, I was willingly deceived by the producers, editors, and distributors, but forgot to review these colorful works, whether there is extremist content, whether there is any content that defends kbism in disguise, and whether there is careful Whitewashed neo-Nazi content. I have seen so many animations, whether there are any and how many, I don't know, because I have not reviewed them. But really not? impossible.
The pride of mainland audiences
I don't dare to say all, at least some of the animation viewers I have seen sometimes fall into such a pride: "Which enthusiastic viewer reported it casually, the animation I like to watch has turned into a violent animation."
Yet we are not as judgemental as we imagine.
Can you see that other people have magically changed Buddhist scriptures? Others demonized Christian teachings, can you see it?
The official statement is called distorting religious teachings.
So after thinking about it carefully, the list of violent and terrorist animations of radio and television is very useful for reference - do you choose to trust the judgment of the audience in the two-dimensional circle, or the judgment of the staff specially responsible for the government department?
I didn't have this awareness before, but now I choose to believe in radio and television.
Once life withers, it will never bloom again
If my child is going to work for a company that receives death threats from time to time, I will try to stop him/her as much as possible. Is life more important, or is my child's childhood dream of two-dimensionality more important? I think my child's life is more important.
Works handed down? NO. Sprinkle cold water, these things will eventually disappear completely.
Back to Purple and the Kyoto Animation Arson Case:
Heartfelt sympathy to the families of the victims.
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