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Weird misunderstandings/racism aside, I appreciate the explanation of Ainu culture outside of Hokkaido and thought something was weird with her wearing Ainu stuff. It looks cool/cute at any rate.
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Apr 10, 2016 20:08
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I like bears in a comedic context so I'm on board for this.
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Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:To my knowledge America and Canada generally don't pretend that the Natives don't exist. It's more like having a Turkish movie about the Armenian Genocide or something. I'm not familiar with Golden Kamui or any of that, so it might be that younger people or popular culture aren't as bad as I thought the whole country is. What do you mean by younger generation? The first Ainu character I remember seeing is from the video game Samurai Showdown which came out over 20 years ago. And there's also Shaman King which was a fairly popular shounen series that's over a decade old that had an Ainu character introduced near the very beginning. I'm sure if I really cared to, I could find more examples, but that's all I can come up with off the top of my head. Ainu in anime is not a new thing.
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IIRC there's no legal recognition of Ainu status by the government, but that's a very different thing from the sort of cultural erasure Ding-Dong seems to think happens.
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All Japanese people know what the Ainu people are. The main thing is that they have no recognized rights as an aboriginal people. Like others have said the forced assimilation and racism also happened/happens in North America and we as a society have no issue with Native Americans appearing in media. We don't imagine that they don't exist and neither does Japan.
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And in a similar way to America and it's Natives, Japanese designers love ripping off traditional Ainu patterns for use in fantasy games/manga/anime/etc designs.
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Apr 11, 2016 00:46
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Apr 11, 2016 02:57
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RIP to those that died.   Frankly, i'm appalled by all this horrific and gratuitous violence.
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Apr 11, 2016 04:01
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if they show a baby baer and it doesnt make the BU BU BU noise im going to be upset, but then i would be happy again when i watched the ending for this show
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Apr 11, 2016 04:04
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a kitten posted:RIP to those that died. It was truly the most grisly of episodes.
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Apr 11, 2016 05:39
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The Sandman posted:It was truly the most grisly of episodes. We needn't make it such a polarizing issue, so please just bear with it.
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Apr 11, 2016 16:37
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all of those puns were made last page!! boo!!!
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Apr 11, 2016 19:20
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dogsicle posted:all of those puns were made last page!! boo!!! It's beary annoying! 
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Apr 11, 2016 19:25
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Don't pooh all the bear puns.
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dogsicle posted:all of those puns were made last page!! boo!!! I suppose it is a bit of a boar, isn't it?
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Apr 11, 2016 21:31
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Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear. Bear.
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Apr 12, 2016 06:29
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good ed good bear good show
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Apr 12, 2016 07:37
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in the second episode when miko showed off her HEATTECH shirt it still had the size sticker stuck on it. miko is never going to live in the city
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Apr 12, 2016 13:13
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I wonder how far into the manga this show will get - translations have stopped at chapter 14 but I've seen raws that I want animated.
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Apr 12, 2016 18:47
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Sharkopath posted:Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear Bear. BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEEEAAARRREEESSSSSS~ah! I'd link the version with the Yumi-Kuma footage but that has that shot and I don't feel like chancing it. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Apr 12, 2016 21:22
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Kuma Miko: The Bear Necessities of (Rural Japanese) Life
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Apr 12, 2016 21:26
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Apr 12, 2016 22:24
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Everything A Goddamn Ordeal For Area Miko
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Apr 13, 2016 02:38
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Actually, if you want a pretty apt comparison about what the Ainu are like, you can do worse than the Sami; where especially in Norway where I've read about them, they're visually indistinguishable in many cases from their 'host' nation, are arguably the original inhabitants, their religion has been persecuted at various times but is now tolerated and while there is some level of bigotry, it's certainly faded now as secularism has gotten more popular in general. I mean, hell, in Norway for instance, they only recognized them as an indigenous group (which entitled them to special protection) in 1990, so if you have a progressive nation like that loving things up with natives, what do you expect from Japan? That said, in this case you can deffo make the argument that while the Ainu people were very focused on bears, they certainly weren't the only people to do so; Shinto is an animistic religion as well, as far as I remember there was also some worship on their end towards bears. Though there was very little co-opting of Ainu beliefs, they just evolved naturally as an extension of the worship of nature spirits. Bears are pretty baller after all; you can see the same in the Sibearian and Finno-Ungric Shamanistic traditions.
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HellCopter posted:I wonder how far into the manga this show will get - translations have stopped at chapter 14 but I've seen raws that I want animated. Wait what? Kuma Miko is one of the series I really wanted to translate, but I thought another goon was doing it. If they've dropped it I'd be more than happy to do it.
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z0glin Warchief posted:Wait what? Kuma Miko is one of the series I really wanted to translate, but I thought another goon was doing it. If they've dropped it I'd be more than happy to do it. I didn't drop it. We've had trouble getting cleaners and typesetters, which is why things have been so slow. Although it's been licensed now so we are planning on dropping after the next chapter. Which is too bad because there are a lot of great chapters coming up I was looking forward to. If your morals are a little more flexible, feel free to pick it up.
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Joshlemagne posted:I didn't drop it. We've had trouble getting cleaners and typesetters, which is why things have been so slow. Although it's been licensed now so we are planning on dropping after the next chapter. Which is too bad because there are a lot of great chapters coming up I was looking forward to. If your morals are a little more flexible, feel free to pick it up. Ohh, okay. Naw if it's getting licensed I guess that's fine then. Thanks for the heads up.
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HellCopter posted:I can't find any info about it being licensed - who picked it up? Mangaupdates says One Peace Books. It's possible they haven't really announced it yet, but contacted the current fan translators about it first.
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episode 3 is amazing.  also there is a kyary pamyu pamyu joke
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https://a.pomf.cat/ioyszp.webm
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That was great. They're really making this a worthwhile watch for people who have read the manga already. They're, uh, intensifying some scenes that were originally shorter/tamer. I guess it's understandable. Last episode had a lot of still frames with no dialogue, which felt like filling airtime.
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Machi is strong, and will stand up for her right to not have to wear weird outfits.
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The Colonel posted:Machi is strong, and will stand up for her right to not have to wear weird outfits. The Ainu designs are the cool part of that outfit. She has good taste.
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