Watching Boku No Hero Academia. It's pretty good, but I can't help but find some of the themes behind it offputting. :/

@Angle what themes?

@ambyrb It seems... Very establishmentarian, if that makes any sense? The heroes are all important, official, respected, etc, while the villians are all clearly less established, less respected. Theres also bits like the part where they have a government database of everyones powers. And the part where they have the villians be vaguely mentally ill as a way of showing how evil they are. Though thats pretty standard for shonen anime. :/

@ambyrb Anime in general tends to have a lot of this - the Japanese are pretty conformist, and their works show it. :/

@Angle @ambyrb mmmmmmmm

please take a moment and think about what you're saying when you begin a sentence with "The Japanese are..." thanks

@amphetamine @ambyrb I mean yeah, obviously that doesn't apply to everyone. But on average, I'm pretty confident they'd score pretty high on that metric.

@hypolite Well, I don't think we would in America. Though whether thats a good thing or a bad thing is a whole different question. XD

@hypolite Mmm, but has Japan ever even had so much as their sports players kneeling during their anthem , or anything comparable? As for the words being taboo, I would count that as evidence against conformity, not for it. Those ideologies, correctly or incorrectly, have become heavily associated with conformity in American politics, which is one of the big reasons why they're so frowned upon. The free speech zones are bad, but again, does Japan even have their protests get so far that they would NEED to resort to that? The lack of gun laws, again, is a manifestation of our non-conformity. :/

@hypolite Eh, if you say so. I mean, sure, we have our own things to be conformist over. And a lot of it is up for interpretation - I'm sure you could say our distrust of government is, itself, conformist. But I don't think we're conformist (In aggregate) in the same way as Japan (In aggregate). :/