a cartoon writer has been using a toddler's show to promote his far right agendas

[YUPPIE]

Note: I hope the mods move this thread if it's not appropriate for this general, but between politics and general it's hard to say where it fits with the context.

Chiaki J. Konaka is an eccentric conspiracy theorist long known for co-producing strange, inappropriate surrealist cartoons for decades. Some works to his name include Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, and Shadow Star.

While his works have been said to be polarizing and controversial, it wasn't until he directed a subseries of a popular kid's franchise, Digimon, that he made people notably upset. Digimon Tamers was notable for being a cartoon relatively on the same field of content as the aforementioned ones, making parents upset since this is a G-rated franchise.

By 2021, more of his views have come to light. Although most of them are traditional far-right views such as being anti-vax and 9/11 insider, he has come under immense scrutiny for once again using Digimon as a political platform. But this time, he is not even subtle about what it's about

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The "DigiFes 2021" event on Sunday featured a 20th anniversary stage show for Digimon Tamers, the third Digimon series. The show included a live script-reading play, with an original story serving as a sequel to Digimon Tamers set in the modern day. Notably, the story featured a number of politically charged words and themes, including "political correctness" and "cancel culture."

In the play, the Tamers are reunited to fight against a new villain, which takes the form of "Political Correctness," that threatens the real and digital worlds. Chief officer Yamaki dramatically describes it as "the greatest problem facing the internet and media" because it forces people to "conform to a single values system" and "censors real news to replace them with fake news." Although the Tamers are initially nonplussed by Yamaki's breathless call to action, they are shaken when "Political Correctness" takes on a physical form and launches into attack.

Writer Chiaki J. Konaka, who worked on the screenplay of the original Digimon Tamers anime, confirmed on Twitter that he wrote the script-reading play.

Konaka has also been maintaining a retrospective blog for the series, where he writes his recollections and thoughts about various episodes and other aspects of the anime. A number of posts share his thoughts on the current technological landscape, including his beliefs around the suppression of "alternative information" regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a post from May, he wrote that when writing the original Digimon Tamers series, there were certain depictions of violence and the use of guns that he avoided due to the political climate around the 9/11 terrorist attack. Later, in the 2010s, he began to look into the background behind the incident. Although he thought that the early conspiracy theories were "unrealistic" and was critical about the 9/11 "Truthers," he admitted to maintaining some suspicion around the circumstances in which the attack occurred.

He then drew a comparison to the year of 2020, remarking that he saw the YouTuber James Corbett describe the situation as "COVID-9/11." (Corbett is a prominent 9/11 and COVID conspiracy proponent.) Konaka wrote that while he did not agree with everything Corbett said, he described him as someone who "analyzed the situation rationally, and simply continued to sound the alarm around the dangers, not just of the illness but of the societal situation happening in the world."

Corbett's views have included blaming Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for "manipulating" the virus and pandemic, that the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and the Apollo Moon Landing was a hoax, along with other unsupported conspiracies.

He expressed dismay in seeing Corbett's YouTube channel get removed last year, and said that he has personally lost faith in academics and medical professionals, especially when it comes to the topics of epidemiology, bacteriology, biology, information technology, and social engineering.

He remarked that the situation has inspired him with his fiction, and that he has been looking for ways to portray it through symmetry and symbolism, even if it does not exactly match reality.

"I hope you will forgive me for the unusual contents of this entry," he concluded. "However, if I don't write about this, I don't think you'll be able to understand why I've been speaking so passionately about this anime from 20 years ago."

In another blog post from June, he wrote about the temporary suspension of Google's services during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. He also highlighted a seminar at the World Economic Forum in October 2019 which included a section on how to control information. "I have not written anything conspiratorial at all. I'm just stating the facts," he claimed.

On Wednesday, he tweeted in English: "I'm going to write my view for overseas fans in 9/8 or later."

The DigiFest 2021 event stream is available for archive viewing within Japan for ticket holders until August 7.

The Digimon Tamers anime debuted in Japan on April 1, 2001. The series commemorated its 15th anniversary in 2016 by rebooting its Digivice, the D-Power (or D-Ark in Japan), for a limited time.

Source: DigiFes 2021 event livestream
Other:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/int...illain/.175872
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/dig...ancel-culture/
https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-d...points.466149/

[stross01]

Entertaining conspiracy theories and not being fond of political correctness and/or cancel culture are not "far right agendas".

[Usernameforforums]

Digimon isn’t a toddler show... its made for ages ~8-13...

[YUPPIE]

Entertaining conspiracy theories and not being fond of political correctness and/or cancel culture are not "far right agendas".

he is definitely on the spectrum of far right if one digs deeper (see the resetera link). And there's nothing entertaining about such conspiracy theories. On top of using a kid's show as a platform for these views, this guy seems pretty insane. It's trending on twitter as well for some reason.

[klogaroth]

he is definitely on the spectrum of far right if one digs deeper (see the resetera link). And there's nothing entertaining about such conspiracy theories. On top of using a kid's show as a platform for these views, this guy seems pretty insane. It's trending on twitter as well for some reason.

That's not what entertaining conspiracy theories means.

[bluesock]

It's pretty amazing to see how we devolved so far down as a species that being suspicious of a vaccine lands you the label of a "far-right extremist".

[Sinured]

It's pretty amazing to see how we devolved so far down as a species that being suspicious of a vaccine lands you the label of a "far-right extremist".

it´s hillarious seeing left wingers calling other leftwingers "far-right extremists".
Let people have their "left" and "right" oppinions.
the left is exactly doing what another "socialists" group did in germany in 1933.

OP, digimon is not for toddlers.
Funny how you "leftwinger" mock other people.

Made extra an account to write here, never saw anything cringier in mmo-c
and as a history teacher i´m crying how western education failed some people that they call everything "right wing extreme²"

No op, because someone else things differently doesnt mean he is a right winger.

[DarkAmbient]

Resetera is a dumpster full of anime pillow humping freaks whose definition of far right is not one recognised in the wider world. If they're all losing their shit over this then it's almost certainly not actually worth losing your shit over.

[Bloomer]

Digimon is based and I hope they go through with the script and make an episode or an entire show out of it honestly. No wonder I always preferred it over Pokemon.

[Romanthony]

people using there shows to promote these things are kinda bad, i hate when people shoe horn in there own political agendas and stuff into shows it kinda kills the pace

Also off topic but Toddler show? xD Did you know Digimon Tamers Dealt with harsh topics, things like Death, Depression, Guilt, Self loathing, Isolation, physical and mental abuse? yea great topics for toddlers xD

Not to mention the Horrifying Image of Jeris Nightmare

[YUPPIE]

people using there shows to promote these things are kinda bad, i hate when people shoe horn in there own political agendas and stuff into shows it kinda kills the pace

Also off topic but Toddler show? xD Did you know Digimon Tamers Dealt with

I very much specified how his creation of this show in particularly broke the norm for a G-Rated property and why it made people angry. It was definitely not for kids, but it should not have been that way

[Nnyco]

Listening to resetera about anime is like listening to kotaku about games. Also since when is digimon a toddler show?

[Daedius]

Saw this off some header on YouTube... and my takeaway is how fucking pathetic it is to begin with.

[Orby]

people using there shows to promote these things are kinda bad, i hate when people shoe horn in there own political agendas and stuff into shows it kinda kills the pace

Also off topic but Toddler show? xD Did you know Digimon Tamers Dealt with harsh topics, things like Death, Depression, Guilt, Self loathing, Isolation, physical and mental abuse? yea great topics for toddlers xD

Not to mention the Horrifying Image of Jeris Nightmare

So did David the Gnome, He literally dies at the end of the series, and that was for toddlers too :P



Although I am pretty sure the 80's kids shows were their to depress us to adult hood lol

[Skorpionss]

he is definitely on the spectrum of far right if one digs deeper (see the resetera link). And there's nothing entertaining about such conspiracy theories. On top of using a kid's show as a platform for these views, this guy seems pretty insane. It's trending on twitter as well for some reason.

I'd rather shoot my kids than read anything on resetera...

Also, great, any kind of pushback against the far left agenda pushing shows is welcome in my books

[dlld]

Gotta cancel this dude who talks about cancel culture.

[Santti]

So, what's the point of this thread, exactly?

I mean, you are very much far right yourself, Yuppie.

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I'd rather shoot my kids than read anything on resetera...

Also, great, any kind of pushback against the far left agenda pushing shows is welcome in my books

What kind of messaging are these far left shows pushing, and what examples do you have of these? I'm sure you have some in your mind, typing that.

[Moozart]

So did David the Gnome, He literally dies at the end of the series, and that was for toddlers too :P



Although I am pretty sure the 80's kids shows were their to depress us to adult hood lol

That poor fox

[Val the Moofia Boss]

News flash: Asian, South American, and Middle-Eastern countries are more to the right than North America and Europe. More news at 11.

[Skorpionss]

So, what's the point of this thread, exactly?

I mean, you are very much far right yourself, Yuppie.

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What kind of messaging are these far left shows pushing, and what examples do you have of these? I'm sure you have some in your mind, typing that.

Batwoman, Ghostbusters 2016, any show with an unlikeable and unrelatable female lead posed as a strong female character by the showrunners. Thinly veiled man-hating guised as progressivism and female empowerment.