Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Burgeoning White Supremacy Anime Industry

Japanese Animation ("Anime") is one of Japan's most famous exports. For every award-winning family-friendly movie like Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away," there are a number of less savory titles that the Japanese animation houses wisely choose not to dub into English. For example, both "My Wife is a High School Girl" and "My Balls" show up on a Google search for "offensive anime title."

As Tiara and I discovered, in Japan both the nice anime and screwed up morally hazardous anime generate product spinoffs. Offerings range from children's sneakers to action figures to the ubiquitous cell-phone strap charms. It is the last two categories that has spawned some really inappropriate products. We were first unsettled by little plastic school girls garbed in skin-tight cat-suits and mini-skirts, but these proved comparatively mild once we found a store selling luridly posed stark naked and anatomically impossible figurines. Yet none of these items seemed quite so oblivious and/or downright offensive as a charm we found in the children's section. Behold:

Umm, Trick or Treat?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

trick, for sure. japanese: hit or MISS

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Unknown said...

That can't be the worst you've come across. You should hit us with your best shot.