The only place anyone should consider donating money to is a fund set up specifically to benefit the families of the deceased with funeral expenses etc. Sendai may even be well-meaning here but any money you hand to a corporation will by and large go to benefit the major shareholders of that...
@ikotsu The notion of Tribalism has certain connotations though when it comes to individuality and independent thought. The more people get onboard with the idea of belonging to a tribe the more susceptible they are to brainwashing and subverting their own better judgment in the name of...
@crazybars I'm not judging based on the manga. I'm judging based on the numerous reports about institutional sexism there.
http://time.com/5374353/japan-sexism-me-too/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/29/japans-not-so-secret-shame
In America and most of the Western world, this kind of thing is...
@Isekaijin Huh? I was talking about the depiction of workplace sexual harassment. I don't know anything about Team Medical Dragon, but according to JA wikipedia the author died of liver cancer...
For a country at its level of development Japan has an exceptionally sexist society. It probably has a lot to do with the population trending old and conservative.
I'm glad this manga has the guts to actually depict stuff like this instead of trying to sweep it under the rug like they do with...
@DarkFlame It is this. A "Weeaboo" (the origins of the term are both obscure and dumb) is someone who takes their love of anime/manga so far that they become a hardcore Japanophile.
If you're as femme as your avatar I might be ok with it.
The person below me wants to live in Japan and is fine with being a second-class citizen doing so because that's how little self-respect they have.
Naruto/DBZ/One Piece/name-your-popular-shounen are mostly perfectly fine as entertainment for children. The problem is that too many bitter manchildren refuse to accept them for what they are and whine incessantly about how series made for 12 year-olds don't meet a 26-35 year-old's standards of...