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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Pikachu_konga_line_marching_to_Klepacki_hellmarch.avi

[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Would be great if there was actual context in this lede. The yasuguni shrine houses the remains of actual war criminals, generals that ordered the mass rape and murder in Nanjing. The far right in Japan go to that shrine to pray. It's like the Hitler did nothing wrong meme. So to host a pokemon event there is just using good pop culture to normalize extremely fascist ideas.

[–] homes@piefed.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want a Pokémon army

Pokémon Adventures manga, Kanto arc.

Adventures is cited by Satoshi Ken as being the closest adaptation to how he imagined Pokémon when he first came up with them. At the end of the Kanto arc, the OG Elite 4 try to take over the region with armies of their type Pokémon, and the gym leaders spearhead the resistance while Red and Blue (Ash and Gary, respectively) fight Lance.

[–] cannedtuna@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That sounds bad ass. Why couldn’t we’ve gotten a tv adaptation of that? I want a dark Pokémon cartoon

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It's less kid-friendly and less profitable. Pokemon has been printing money for Nintendo for decades.

[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's fucking intense! During the Fire Red/Leaf Green arcs, Red (Ash) uses Mewtwo in a showdown against Giovanni and Deoxis. I think I stopped reading around the end of the Diamond/Pearl arc, and Diamond (the boy I think) teaches his Torterra how to use Razor Leaf to shoot a single leaf as accurate as a sniper!

And in the Lavender Town ghost tower, they fight actual zombified dead Pokémon. Or maybe it was an illusion? Been a while, guess it's time for a reread.

[–] cannedtuna@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yup. Just ordered the set for the first 7. I’m stoked for this.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

That's awesome!

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My Spinda breeding continues apace.

[–] hoagecko@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The article introduced by OP overlooks a crucial fact regarding the description of the event held at Yasukuni Shrine.

According to an official statement from The Pokémon Company, the event in question was organized by "an individual certified for the Pokémon Trading Card Game," and the company stated that this was mistakenly posted on its official website due to insufficient verification.

イベント告知に関するお詫び|株式会社ポケモン|The Pokémon Company

This was therefore a prank perpetrated by a malicious individual. It is incorrect to assume this event was officially organized by The Pokémon Company.

[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China, and China simps, are the most laughably sensitive authoritarians I’ve ever seen.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The butthurt does flow heavily from their mouths.

Edit: Thanks for the laugh. I got two downvotes immediately. Its even funnier when you realize they are shilling for china for free.

[–] whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 0 points 1 day ago

Right? Can’t even get fifty cents.

[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Incidents mentioned:

The article referenced recent controversies around the popular anime series Pokemon, Detective Conan and My Hero Academia, saying that “the evil influence of Japanese militarism lives on in sports and culture.”

Last month, a Pokemon card game event that was scheduled at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo for Jan. 31 was canceled after Chinese backlash.

The shrine commemorates the 2.5 million Japanese soldiers who died in war, including 30,304 Taiwanese.

Countries that were targets of Japanese aggression, especially China and the Koreas, see visits to the shrine as a lack of remorse about Japan’s wartime past.

China condemned the Pokemon Co for holding an event at a shrine, with the People’s Daily saying that enterprises “must not make light of the heavy weight of history in the name of entertainment.”

The article also condemned table tennis player Tomokazu Harimoto for praying at the Togo Shrine, which is dedicated to Togo Heihachiro, an admiral in the First Sino-Japanese War who China sees as a pioneer of Japanese militarist expansionism.

It also referenced the Japanese boy band Rampage, whose choreography was previously criticized for resembling the Nazi salute.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's odd that Japan never came to terms with "being the bad guys" in the way Germany did

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They didn't really have to. Germany got split in half, completely lost it's civilian leadership, and got occupied by two of us adversaries and had a pretty robust war crimes tribunal.

Japan didn't have anything like that scale of post war disruption.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You’re right, but American occupation wasn’t great

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They did get 2 suns dropped on them. Not that I’m excusing the bombs or Japanese imperialism, Just saying

[–] remon@ani.social 13 points 1 day ago

Nobody tell them about GATE then ...

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

… so chimpokomon from southpark?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Detective Conan? I think Team Coco is taking the whole "branching out" thing TOO far now!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

AKA "Case Closed," here in the US.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would no lie watch the fuck out of that concept

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He's too tall for that.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Tell me you haven't watched all 1186 episodes of Detective Conan without telling me you haven't watched all 1186 episodes of Detective Conan.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

China has no ground to stand on when it comes to aggressive nationalism. They are trying to claim a whole ocean. Their fishing vessels attack florigen fishing vessels that are near their homes. What a load of manure.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

lolwat

Niether of those even have militaristic... Anything.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is modern Japan militaristic at at least some tiny extent?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you seen the Gundam they been printing

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No but they are getting scared of North Korea and a bit of China and they are talking about expanding their defensive military to be less defensive and they're learning that the US is a useless ally for that.

So yes they're voting full far right now.

South Park made an episode about this called Chinpokomon.