Hey everyone! I have always wanted to do these types of video essays that cover broader topics instead of purely making video tutorials on a single game, and I do hope to make such a transition in the near future, with this video as an experiment. Please let me know what you think of this video and I will be sure to take every comment into consideration. Thanks for watching!
the majority of the fandom is just kids who aren't mature enough to play the game, not even talking about having twitter or tiktok... some cannot even write(type) and read properly so yeah... and they're most likely to get manipulated into "cancelling dramas". they're just got introduced into new culture (japanese in this case) too early while not understanding the concept of culture in general. for a kid, their culture is the most important, precious and real thing - the sentiment is what makes them respect it. the problem is, they respect only their own culture, and don't even notice others. in that case, you have to acknowledge the game is based on japanese culture, and that's it. if you're not from japan but keep being delusional that translation is enough to understand it, no it's not. i think older proseka players like this game because they like japan itself so they will also have more understanding for "controversies" that wouldn't be even considered as controversies in japan. personally ive read the story few times, saw the cards online and liked them - they remind me of princess mononoke! ah and of course, rui's character lore, i started liking him more thanks to that event. just like you said, he was misunderstood as well - his intentions got misunderstood, his finished script he was proud of (although he was scared ppl wont like it) got misunderstood, him playing the villian in the show got misunderstood the most. personally most concerning part for me was while emu almost fell of the tree, not the "promoting colonisation" drama. well at least we got the song, still the developers could change event details and release it edited. like they had over a year for that lol, they just didn't expect ppl will feel offended by the event and that's it.
@Loizsq Dude that's the whole point of the story The thing is that the city folk called the forest folk barbarians because that's generally what they thought of them The forest folk aren't actually barbarians, it's just the racist stereotype that the city folk had in their heads that later on was disproved in the story itself (city folk and forest folk finally got along together = city folk no longer thinking that forest folk are barbarians) also it was shown that the whole stereotype was an evil city man's plan to start in order to keep the beef between the 2 folks.
@robonene7611 When I finished reading the translated transcript, I literally went like "ain't no way they considered this problematic" Honestly, I'm not even Japanese, and my understanding of Japanese culture is extremely vague But I'm not stupid enough to take the story for face value and not understand the deeper message it has. Gosh, not even the straightforward message was "problematic" The story started with 2 folks hating eachother due to racist stereotypes and later on ended with them learning that the stereotypes arent, in fact, true. Esp when cf learned that ff weren't "barbarians" like they thought. It drives me insane what Twitter and tiktok addicts can do sometimes.
I don't think it was all aimed at humiliating certain groups of people. it is very sad that the event with the good development of rui was removed, but I think there would have been even more negativity in the community if this had not happened. I liked that the author kept a neutral opinion about this situation, simply explaining it
Event racism thing was ENTIRELY about a japenese story and had absolutely NO remarks on humiliation All of these happened because twitter is a place that should have never existed
Yeah and for some reason the global server decided to listen to these fans and removed a whole event & gacha but kept the song in it. They probably too scared to receive even more backlash from these fans that don’t really understand half what they’re saying and standing for
@@yuurina5092 RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong. Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.) Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place. That's painfully wrong as well. (I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...) I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it. A lot of people don't understand the core of the problem because of never reading the event + twitter misinfo though. That's true.
It's really quite refreshing to just see a content creator just giving facts and context instead of trying to shove their opinion down our throats. Keep up the good work! :)
I’m pretty sure the whole “blackface” thing was in actuality, a representation of the Japanese culture “gyaru” or “gal”. They tend to cake their faces in makeup, and you see them in quite a lot of anime. Take Komi san for example. There’s a girl named Manbagi, and she is clearly depicted with darker skin. It’s not mocking dark skin at all, it’s just a fashion choice. They weren’t mocking anything at all in Puchiseka. On the topic of Revival my Dream, it’s not trying to offend those of indigenous cultures at all. In fact, it’s the opposite. If you actually read the story (not talking to op), you’d realize the whole story revolves around the forest people and city people learning that they are capable of getting along, there is just the evil person (which can be correlated to corrupted politicians, the news media, etc) trying to separate them. It’s an actually good story. Some people just looove to ruin things for people and they want to be offended by everything for no reason.
I see where you're coming from, and I'm one to usually roll my eyes at controversies like this. But the outfits and makeup in the deleted l/n episode don't really look gyaru all that much? Seems more like something, uh... inspired? by indigenous clothing. It wasn't blackface, but it was a deeply confusing decision by the artists that came off as distasteful.
@@crossbowss I can get by that. I think in the end though, they didn't really seem to be mocking anything, it was just the girls having some fun with makeup. It was blown wayyy out of proportion, although the animators could have done better.
Why is there no comments 💀 Also the whole RMD thing from my view, is kinda stupid bc it has a lot of symbolism and is also about getting along DESPITE differences
yeah I totally agree, plus it played like a big role to rui’s story so😭😭 I feel like ensekai should of just kept the story but added like a warning for sensitive topics iykwim
I didn't even know there was a anime series, so Id have to check it out, also as a black person I roll my eyes at these things, it's getting to the point where "offensive" isn't even offensive anymore and it's just "my feelings are hurt because of something that I never experienced happened years ago" I just feel we should talk about these things and work to MOVE ON and IMPROVE our society, not censor and shut people up. But this is an amazing video, I'll be subbing!
FOR REAL IM BLACK AND I DONT THINK THE GYARU THING WAS RACIST AT ALL????? yes they could have been a bit less tanned but it wasn’t racist….i swear people get mad at anything these days and call things offensive that aren’t even offensive-
The "racist event" doesn't make any sense for me. Like, it's just a representation, no one who was alive then is still alive, who is going to get offended? I'm spanish and if project sekai had an event with my culture I would be happy. The worst part is that most of the people who say those kind of things aren't even from that place
I get what ur trying to say, but also indigenous people still exist 💀 I’m mestizo myself (white Irish/spanish ancestry + nawat) and though I certainly don’t identify as indigenous, the community is still alive and well.
I also don’t really think end really did “representation” well. I think it was more of a storytelling thing rather than appealing to the community with the inclusion of,,, non-native characters acting as native people in a play? it ain’t inherently bad but not really good at the whole representation aspect
@@pptenshi3900 And do you think the indigenous people from back then are still alive to get offended? Having indigenous ancestry doesn't mean they act or live like them. And 100% indigenous people are REALLY stange to see, almost everyone is mestizo right now. Btw, what do you mean "white irish"? It's just irish, imagine I say my parents are "white spanish" it sounds really stupid. Your nationality and skin tone don't need to be related.
@@nmrzj yeah you could say it but nowadays people are cancelling everything tbh and it doesn't even do anything really excluding the fact that the people that like the game get bullied People just cancel everything nowdays and it's just annoying really like now someone tried to cancel Spanish, yes the language,
Yes but u can play it. THEY STILL DIDN'T DO ANYTHING AND IT'S JUST THE FANDOM THAT IS TRYING TO CANCEL THEM SO DON'T GIVE UP AND SUPPORT THEM FOR THE BETTER OF OUR GEN
Even if the Leo/need is not a cultural thing. They are representing an actual African tribal that praises Lions. That the point of the joke Leo 🦁. Regarding the RMD event: ppl just will yell at u if you disagree with them. A "racist" event with a shitty sorry and compensation rewards. Ppl should know that culture is a mix of everything. Romans rip off Greek gods and some myths. Awesome video. I like it a lot is simply just logic and not biased. Thank you and keep the good work;3
Ye the devs tried to make something cool and representative but what the fans made... I feel so bad about them and about hoyoverse and about every company that is getting cancelled on tiktok
@@Yuki-yo5ou RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong. Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.) Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place. That's painfully wrong as well. (I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...) I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it. Most people didn't read the event and don't know why it's problematic, therefore the bunch of misunderstandings. But of you take some time to think about it it eventually clicks.
God im new in the game the first one it's understable, but the others one ¿¿¿¿ specially the event like tf it's to obvious its a reference about princess mononoke but twitter fandom decide just cancell for the clothes i know always koreans-japanese people always have problems, even to this day they continue to have problems between the two countries so it's like a delicate theme for them I am too surprised by the difference between jp fandom and western fandom, they're like two differents things, the good thing is that I never end up very involved in these and I only dedicate myself to following the fanartist
The first one is also explainable, they just wanted to make something enjoyable and silly for the fans but twitter and tiktok made such a problem from it💀
@@Romina-hc6dj RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong. Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.) Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place. That's painfully wrong as well. (I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...) I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it. Lot of people doesn't get it because lot of people didn't read the event, heard it was problematic and shared the wrong reasons' why. The girl's card ARE Mononoke inspired. The story... Isn't.
I personally believe that the “isolation” in the community is not looking down on a group of people but instead acknowledging what happened and the experiences from their point of view. Sure a lot of things could seem offensive but it’s just them expressing their take on certain things, just like we find some things offensive they find different things offensive too, the cultural aspect leads to unwanted and unintentional tension. This may not excuse their actions but keep in mind that none of this is meant to be as hurtful as it can be interpreted!
The more i hear about it, the more i think that those that call other racist's are actually racist's themselves driven by rage and history, giving others stereotypes like racist did before. If you think about it hard enough you will see similarity, even if you don't want to believe it.
It feels strange to me, that there would be a negative reaction to costume design purely based on the era it drew fashion inspiration from. People largely don't react that strongly when designs are based on past European or North American eras, although there's certainly discussion to be had about what was going on in those times... among historic fashion TH-camrs there is a saying that goes something like "historic fashion, not historic values". I would make the good faith assumption that the artist drew inspiration purely from the fashion of the time, not the rest?
@@God_Bones dont forget whats up pop? Bro they promised us that every chart can be full combo'd with 2 fingers. And that chart is IMPOSSIBLE for 2 fingers
I know that some people got all the rights to feel offended and call out the company to do something about it, but sometimes I think people just try to make everything seem like a big deal. I honestly don't see the problem with Nene card or the event itself, since - like the video shows - it was mainly inspired by Princess Mononoke and the nature x humanity conflict. I never heard of someone that complained about this movie, so why complain about the event? And I think there is a difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. There is dozens of channels of americans and various people from other countries that currently lives in Japan hanging out wearing kimonos, and no one bats an eye feeling offended - some of them even compliments those girls. But it is indeed wrong to draw a kimono wrongly and sexualize it trying to make a girl seem attractive sexually on it, for example. I really think that the internet and especially Twitter/Tiktok mess these two things up.
@@CamiCulan RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong. Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.) Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place. That's painfully wrong as well. (I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...) I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it. Most people never read the event, heard it was problematic, and ultimately doesn't know why. Yes, the girl's card are Mononoke inspired. No, the story isn't.
iirc the en twt posted a tweet about the release of unknown mother goose with the caption, "Who's the goose's mother" or something like that. People took that as disrespecting wowaka. That's the knowledge i have of it, idk if the tweet is still up or if it got that big.
This shows even more how people on the internet are sensitive, I think the Nene card wasn't racist if it wasn't culturaly innapropriate and I loved how you actually shared informations and facts and not just your opinions! thank you and I'm sorry for my english :D
Idc if y’all call me a sensitive western or whatever but the leo need blackface was racist If I remember correctly, Gyaru’s wear cutesy type clothes not tribe clothes and I don’t remember them wearing teeth necklaces either nor wearing their hair all messy like that. And it sooo clear of what they were doing. The team is full of grown men and women and they should know better. If they wanted to make their game global and add other cultures into their game or shows and anime they need to do research about it (not talking about the Revival my dream event)
I really liked the card though, it was super cute and I liked the setting very much, I didn't think of it being racist or anything of such. I thought it was just a cute card in a beautiful setting I loved how her outfit and stripes on her face it was cute! I wish I could've got it.
Jesus Christ the fact that the video creator hearted this comment really goes to show they aren’t actually trying to be unbiased. “Grrr dirty westerners get mad about racism Japanese people can’t be racist Japan is perfect there’s no blacks in it!!” That’s what you sound like when you say idiotic shit like this
I don't even feel that's blackface, but rather just a makeup equivalent of a lion. Like... look I'm as PC as the next liberal but it's context that matters here. Now if they were pretending to *be* black/ say the N word/ acting in a way that directly infrenced black people that would be different. But... personally I don't see it as racist 🤷♀️
(I'm only commenting about the "blackface" one.) It's totally intended to be similar to gyaru at least and their outfits are LION costumes. They look tribal, yes, but they're literally intended to be lions because of the "leo" is the band's name, it's not some racist thing being pointed at actual tribal people. This whole thing is an example of people just overreacting because they made an assumption. Also, can we acknowledge that blackface is probably hardly ever heard of in Japan? They probably didn't know how people could interpret this, and I don't blame them for it.
Project Sekai's Fandom is as toxic as the Genshin Fandom. Have a straight ship? you get attacked, Not using pronouns for Mizuki? you get attacked, Don't ship Ruikasa, Akitohya or AnHane? you get attacked. It's too much. Also those controversies are pointless, especially in a rhythm game where most of the songs are dark.
@@Miss_idk I'm sorry to hear about that, also can you explain a bit about the Toya x Minori ship? I'm not going to make fun of you for shipping Toya and Minori, I'm just interested to hear why you ship them.
but the "glorious japan" thing idk although it talks about te westernization and the big change, i never noticed that kind of tone or implication in senbonzakura-
From my point of perspective, you can do whatever you want. I don’t find it a big deal for 2 reasons 1) it’s a game. If we censor all content that might be sensitive, the world will lose crucial information. Now should we PROMOTE this? No. And that’s happened, so good on us 2) bro do what you want, your interest in the GAME or COSPLAY isn’t a direct reflection of the game itself or the character, AND you didn’t do it in malicious intent
What do you mean by "allowed"? If you want to play and cosplay go for it, it's up to you if you want to keep supporting the game or not. As long as nobody's harmed seriously, you don't need to ask permission from random stranger to like/dislike anything.
I don't think PuchiSeka meant any offense, but I guess I can understand if the people concerned didn't feel comfortable because of it. Like, it wasn't mocking any races explicitly, but you can say it was a bit awkward. Revival My Dream, though... EDIT : Nvm I disagree. I'd usually leave my stupidity out there for the archive, but that one truly was long. I'll keep three points, though: -The girls' card outfit are truly inspired from Mononoke Hime. -Rui's costume is his Alchemist persona and entirely unrelated to the story -Please read the event. So many people haven't read it and accuse the event of being problematic for the wrong reason that it cause more confusion than education in the end. Don't just hear it's problematic and brush it off. *Understand* the problem. Otherwise you've learned nothing. RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong. Compare the play to the current world event. You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.) To finish this, Senbonzakura and the costume were more about showing and defending japanese culture (especially from the western's one), than trying to offend Korean culture in any way, but I don't know much about it and I can understand that it makes people uncomfortable nonetheless (Especially for Senbonzakura.)
Does Pjsk deserve the hate they’re getting? I’m not sure. But I’m 100% hopeful they didn’t have that kind of intention Twitter should probably focus more on the very serious issues imo
I think the blackface and racism controversies were in the right? (idk how to word this, just that I think it’s fine that the devs got called out for it) As for the outfit and song controversies, I’m not well informed with either or and as to why it’s problematic so I don’t think I have an opinion
@@Kaitosmic_2-17 its 2023 dawg, theres a limit on how much u tan. 3 shades darker than ur skintone is like okay, they were not 3 shades darker. Yamamba and other gyaru styles of that style do not wear clothing resembling native clothes. 💀
@@saio2488 The native clothes were inspired by the Emishi tribe a Japanese native tribe similar to princess mononoke, also the gyaru style characters I've seen so far have a more intense tan, Aiura is actually way tanner in the anime than in the manga
@@Kaitosmic_2-17 just bc its common doesn’t mean its good, tanning over 2 shades darker than you is not only weird, its dangerous for ur skin. Now obviously these are characters so I’ll stick to how weird it is. These pale ass girls are suddenly that dark? Yall listen to everyone but people who look like them🤦🏿♀️
That was at best a tan, you've got to be kidding me. PSekai players being insufferable is nothing new, but at this point I'm convinced they don't even deserve the game they got after putting PDiva out of the map
Sabeis lo gracioso? Que lo del supuesto blackface de la miniserie ya paso con otra franquicia. En BanG Dream! (mas conocido como Bandori) hicieron el mismo gag hace unos años en una miniserie igual a esta (es mas, a lo mejor es algo que se copian entre estos juegos, pero esto ya son suposiciones mias) y pasó lo mismo xD
I love petit sekai series. They ar every funny. Look, as a black person im not even offended by this. Can people stop taking stuff too serious? Please, let it live. I dont want my favourite game gets cancelled just because stuff that doesnt even offends me.
as long as you dont support the developers (and i mean the higher ups and ceo because they are genuinely talented people working at colorful palette and i dont want to put them in a pile of being terrible when they truly dont deserve it) then its alright 👍- a native american
Whoops didn't mean to start an argument sorry. But I completely agree with both of you, plus the "blackface" I believe it is just the style "gyaru/gal" which I believe is Japanese culture? It's just tanning your skin from my understanding. As for the event, it's a nice story with no racism. Watch the story on yt or sum before posting about it. For the colonial outfit and senbozakura, it's their background and history, if they decide to use it we should have no say in it.
@@hornetfromhallownest what the hell are you even saying Isnt this so american lmao? "How dare they have their own cultures instead of fallow american ones!" Get off internet
@@iateuncookedchicken you cant agree with 2 people that are legitimately arguing And the one side is legit just saying that devs are at wrong for having their culture Cmon dude its not the time for being neutral
Fortunately, I only played in JP server where I don't need to interact with these wackos. Actually I did not pulling in this banner, but somehow in the future I got all 3 featured 4 stars card (Rui, Emu, Nene). So L for EN and W for JP.
I mean its the typical anime game directed towards fanservicing communities but sadly this game went directly to the american fanbase which always ruins up everything
I didn't care about the RMD cancellation on en so much but I remember the people in the discord who wanted it back were absolutely mad. One guy was like "I'm Irish and you can use leprechauns and stuff and I don't care and I give you my permission. I DEMAND a statement from SEGA or I'll boycott the game. The vast majority of players are devastated and you will lose money." At the time, Colorful Pallet had given multiple statements but he didn't think they were good enough. Also, using Irish culture is not comparable to what Proseka did and 99% of people don't give a sh!t you bellend. I was so ashamed to be a proseka fan when I read their messages that all I could do was react to it with the nerd emoji. Also don't just the official discord it sucks
Dude ur talking like its only people that wanted rmd removed If you saw people that cried about how the story rmd was based on was racist you wouldnt be saying these
Also colorful palette statements were stupid They suddenly rushed the apology for the event and didnt even listen to ACTUAL majority that wanted the event in
@@yuurina5092 Don't know wtf you're trying to say in your first comment bc your grammer is so shit but the official statements weren't rushed. They most likely planned the rmd cancellation months prior so how could it be rushed? And the vast majority of players didn't care because they aren't losers like you who sit in your white as hell discord/twitter bubbles thinking that people actually care. There's already fan-translations of the story, the cards are already on the other servers and exist, Showtime Ruler got added (the only thing that really mattered tbh). The only thing you couldn't do was tier which like boohoo whatever. Even my Rank 315 ass doesn't care. So stop complaining please.
Bro I’m Irish and what 💀 I get why rmd was cancelled idk why he had to act like that. If you have an actual good argument for the event inclusion I’ll listen but this guy is just butthyrt 💀
Another case of Westerners being offended over literally harmless material and Koreans still butthurt about something that happened almost 100 years ago and has basically nothing to do with them nowadays. Seems like it only gets worse with time, people just won't give up their pettiness.
I don’t really think I would put it up against Koreans though. It still affects their families, some of which are still alive. I do understand being annoyed with westerners kinda acting like a savior and only listening to themselves and their opinions with this kinda stuff and not acknowledging the people that were allegedly hurt tho
Okay ive been a vocaloid fan since like 2015 and i honestly think projct sekai is a disgrace of vocaloid, the fans are super toxic and its nothing how it used to be
Ik its bad but there fictional characters and America is not the only country on earth i dont think the creator of the series had bad intentions i also bet the people arguing on twitter dont even play project sekai
Hey everyone! I have always wanted to do these types of video essays that cover broader topics instead of purely making video tutorials on a single game, and I do hope to make such a transition in the near future, with this video as an experiment. Please let me know what you think of this video and I will be sure to take every comment into consideration. Thanks for watching!
It really makes me sad that revival my dreams, an event about being misunderstood, got completely misunderstood by the fandom
the majority of the fandom is just kids who aren't mature enough to play the game, not even talking about having twitter or tiktok... some cannot even write(type) and read properly so yeah... and they're most likely to get manipulated into "cancelling dramas". they're just got introduced into new culture (japanese in this case) too early while not understanding the concept of culture in general. for a kid, their culture is the most important, precious and real thing - the sentiment is what makes them respect it.
the problem is, they respect only their own culture, and don't even notice others.
in that case, you have to acknowledge the game is based on japanese culture, and that's it. if you're not from japan but keep being delusional that translation is enough to understand it, no it's not. i think older proseka players like this game because they like japan itself so they will also have more understanding for "controversies" that wouldn't be even considered as controversies in japan.
personally ive read the story few times, saw the cards online and liked them - they remind me of princess mononoke! ah and of course, rui's character lore, i started liking him more thanks to that event. just like you said, he was misunderstood as well - his intentions got misunderstood, his finished script he was proud of (although he was scared ppl wont like it) got misunderstood, him playing the villian in the show got misunderstood the most. personally most concerning part for me was while emu almost fell of the tree, not the "promoting colonisation" drama. well at least we got the song, still the developers could change event details and release it edited. like they had over a year for that lol, they just didn't expect ppl will feel offended by the event and that's it.
@@robonene7611 Bro wrote an entire essay
It was racist though, they said in the video the words ‘savage’ and ‘barbarians’ were used /nm
@Loizsq
Dude that's the whole point of the story
The thing is that the city folk called the forest folk barbarians because that's generally what they thought of them
The forest folk aren't actually barbarians, it's just the racist stereotype that the city folk had in their heads that later on was disproved in the story itself (city folk and forest folk finally got along together = city folk no longer thinking that forest folk are barbarians) also it was shown that the whole stereotype was an evil city man's plan to start in order to keep the beef between the 2 folks.
@robonene7611
When I finished reading the translated transcript, I literally went like "ain't no way they considered this problematic"
Honestly, I'm not even Japanese, and my understanding of Japanese culture is extremely vague
But I'm not stupid enough to take the story for face value and not understand the deeper message it has.
Gosh, not even the straightforward message was "problematic"
The story started with 2 folks hating eachother due to racist stereotypes and later on ended with them learning that the stereotypes arent, in fact, true. Esp when cf learned that ff weren't "barbarians" like they thought. It drives me insane what Twitter and tiktok addicts can do sometimes.
I don't think it was all aimed at humiliating certain groups of people. it is very sad that the event with the good development of rui was removed, but I think there would have been even more negativity in the community if this had not happened. I liked that the author kept a neutral opinion about this situation, simply explaining it
Not at all
Majority wanted the event
Minorities always sound louder you know?
@@yuurina5092 Yes, you're right. I guess I just ended up somewhere in the middle of all this hype
@@yuurina5092 The majority is not always right.
@@lavone5541 So is the minority. Also they're mostly just oversensitive over nothing.
Such as calling tan as blackface
@@ReigoVassal yeah but you have to take into account that they had darkened their skin WHILST wearing stereotypical tribal outfits
Event racism thing was ENTIRELY about a japenese story and had absolutely NO remarks on humiliation
All of these happened because twitter is a place that should have never existed
yeah, i agree.the only thing that should be cancelled is twitter :/
@Tudorfansrs For ever having existed, even!
Yeah and for some reason the global server decided to listen to these fans and removed a whole event & gacha but kept the song in it. They probably too scared to receive even more backlash from these fans that don’t really understand half what they’re saying and standing for
@@yuurina5092 RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong.
Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem.
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.)
Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place.
That's painfully wrong as well.
(I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...)
I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it.
A lot of people don't understand the core of the problem because of never reading the event + twitter misinfo though. That's true.
It's really quite refreshing to just see a content creator just giving facts and context instead of trying to shove their opinion down our throats. Keep up the good work! :)
Thanks!
@@nekoreviews Of course!
You said it.
I’m pretty sure the whole “blackface” thing was in actuality, a representation of the Japanese culture “gyaru” or “gal”. They tend to cake their faces in makeup, and you see them in quite a lot of anime. Take Komi san for example. There’s a girl named Manbagi, and she is clearly depicted with darker skin. It’s not mocking dark skin at all, it’s just a fashion choice. They weren’t mocking anything at all in Puchiseka.
On the topic of Revival my Dream, it’s not trying to offend those of indigenous cultures at all. In fact, it’s the opposite. If you actually read the story (not talking to op), you’d realize the whole story revolves around the forest people and city people learning that they are capable of getting along, there is just the evil person (which can be correlated to corrupted politicians, the news media, etc) trying to separate them. It’s an actually good story. Some people just looove to ruin things for people and they want to be offended by everything for no reason.
you're white
@@narcsisus im black and i agree with this also so what if their white its an opinion 😒
I see where you're coming from, and I'm one to usually roll my eyes at controversies like this. But the outfits and makeup in the deleted l/n episode don't really look gyaru all that much? Seems more like something, uh... inspired? by indigenous clothing. It wasn't blackface, but it was a deeply confusing decision by the artists that came off as distasteful.
@@narcsisus wow incredible argument 💀
@@crossbowss I can get by that. I think in the end though, they didn't really seem to be mocking anything, it was just the girls having some fun with makeup. It was blown wayyy out of proportion, although the animators could have done better.
Basically Leo/Need style: Can Be Interpreted as offensive but was not meant to be
RMD: Can not be interpreted as offensive unless you overthink it
Why is there no comments 💀
Also the whole RMD thing from my view, is kinda stupid bc it has a lot of symbolism and is also about getting along DESPITE differences
I agree with you. Like people are just overreacting about it.
although I’ll admit this is a bit late 😅
yeah I totally agree, plus it played like a big role to rui’s story so😭😭 I feel like ensekai should of just kept the story but added like a warning for sensitive topics iykwim
i agree with this completely! people are just sensitive
@@nenefubiyori ANOTHER REN?!?!?!
I didn't even know there was a anime series, so Id have to check it out, also as a black person I roll my eyes at these things, it's getting to the point where "offensive" isn't even offensive anymore and it's just "my feelings are hurt because of something that I never experienced happened years ago"
I just feel we should talk about these things and work to MOVE ON and IMPROVE our society, not censor and shut people up.
But this is an amazing video, I'll be subbing!
yea i couldnt agree more💀people who havent experienced this shit really need to learn how to cry themselves a river, build a bridge and get over it.
That's what i throught too , You cannot stop racism unless You stop talking about it 💀
Ugh, FINALLY someone with common sense.
100% agree, I feel like people need to educate a person rather than isolating them but if they're not willing to learn, is a problem for them
FOR REAL IM BLACK AND I DONT THINK THE GYARU THING WAS RACIST AT ALL????? yes they could have been a bit less tanned but it wasn’t racist….i swear people get mad at anything these days and call things offensive that aren’t even offensive-
to anyone worrying "can we still play the game???" yes you can. they literally removed the stuff
"the stuff" wasn't racist if u watched the vid💀 Just people who stay online for too long are trying to cancel everything
@@daniv7969 so many ppl cancel people for weird reasons, and these same people say white epopel cant experi racisim💀 (sorry this is badly types)
Twitter moment
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The "racist event" doesn't make any sense for me. Like, it's just a representation, no one who was alive then is still alive, who is going to get offended? I'm spanish and if project sekai had an event with my culture I would be happy. The worst part is that most of the people who say those kind of things aren't even from that place
Not to mention its about a REAL japenese story
Twitter people are idiots
I get what ur trying to say, but also indigenous people still exist 💀 I’m mestizo myself (white Irish/spanish ancestry + nawat) and though I certainly don’t identify as indigenous, the community is still alive and well.
I also don’t really think end really did “representation” well. I think it was more of a storytelling thing rather than appealing to the community with the inclusion of,,, non-native characters acting as native people in a play? it ain’t inherently bad but not really good at the whole representation aspect
@@pptenshi3900 And do you think the indigenous people from back then are still alive to get offended? Having indigenous ancestry doesn't mean they act or live like them. And 100% indigenous people are REALLY stange to see, almost everyone is mestizo right now.
Btw, what do you mean "white irish"? It's just irish, imagine I say my parents are "white spanish" it sounds really stupid. Your nationality and skin tone don't need to be related.
@@Harpae69 he mean like he's skin is white 😩😀
Ain't no way bro now not only my favourite youtoubers get cancelled but now my favourite games get cancelled too I can't do it anymore dawg 💀
i wouldn't call prsk cancelled bc ppl have been cancelling it for years and yet the same ppl still buy crystals and the paid costumes
@@nmrzj yeah you could say it but nowadays people are cancelling everything tbh and it doesn't even do anything really excluding the fact that the people that like the game get bullied
People just cancel everything nowdays and it's just annoying really like now someone tried to cancel Spanish, yes the language,
Yes but u can play it. THEY STILL DIDN'T DO ANYTHING AND IT'S JUST THE FANDOM THAT IS TRYING TO CANCEL THEM SO DON'T GIVE UP AND SUPPORT THEM FOR THE BETTER OF OUR GEN
Yea like let me just enjoy my favorite things.
I still want Revival My Dream back.
It is an interesting video. It helps to know more about what happened, and it's short enough to make it easy to watch. All the best
Even if the Leo/need is not a cultural thing. They are representing an actual African tribal that praises Lions. That the point of the joke Leo 🦁.
Regarding the RMD event: ppl just will yell at u if you disagree with them. A "racist" event with a shitty sorry and compensation rewards. Ppl should know that culture is a mix of everything. Romans rip off Greek gods and some myths.
Awesome video. I like it a lot is simply just logic and not biased. Thank you and keep the good work;3
Ye the devs tried to make something cool and representative but what the fans made... I feel so bad about them and about hoyoverse and about every company that is getting cancelled on tiktok
@@Yuki-yo5ou RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong.
Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem.
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.)
Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place.
That's painfully wrong as well.
(I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...)
I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it.
Most people didn't read the event and don't know why it's problematic, therefore the bunch of misunderstandings. But of you take some time to think about it it eventually clicks.
These controversies are ridiculous, it's just a Rhythm Game (and a cute mini anime series), not a movie.
So just because it’s a rhythm game we’ll just let them get away with blackface???
@@M3gur1n3luk4 lmao this sentence
@@M3gur1n3luk4 Aside from the blackface, all of these controversies are very dumb and shouldn't matter.
@@M3gur1n3luk4 are you black?
@@zevuu_ yes
God im new in the game the first one it's understable, but the others one ¿¿¿¿ specially the event like tf it's to obvious its a reference about princess mononoke but twitter fandom decide just cancell
for the clothes i know always koreans-japanese people always have problems, even to this day they continue to have problems between the two countries so it's like a delicate theme for them
I am too surprised by the difference between jp fandom and western fandom, they're like two differents things, the good thing is that I never end up very involved in these and I only dedicate myself to following the fanartist
The first one is also explainable, they just wanted to make something enjoyable and silly for the fans but twitter and tiktok made such a problem from it💀
And what do you mean about Koreans and japanese always have problems?
@@Romina-hc6dj RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong.
Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem.
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.)
Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place.
That's painfully wrong as well.
(I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...)
I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it.
Lot of people doesn't get it because lot of people didn't read the event, heard it was problematic and shared the wrong reasons' why. The girl's card ARE Mononoke inspired. The story... Isn't.
I personally believe that the “isolation” in the community is not looking down on a group of people but instead acknowledging what happened and the experiences from their point of view. Sure a lot of things could seem offensive but it’s just them expressing their take on certain things, just like we find some things offensive they find different things offensive too, the cultural aspect leads to unwanted and unintentional tension. This may not excuse their actions but keep in mind that none of this is meant to be as hurtful as it can be interpreted!
The more i hear about it, the more i think that those that call other racist's are actually racist's themselves driven by rage and history, giving others stereotypes like racist did before.
If you think about it hard enough you will see similarity, even if you don't want to believe it.
shame that the nene princess mononoke card was removed. princess mononoke is my all-time favorite movie.
the reasons are understandable, though.
It feels strange to me, that there would be a negative reaction to costume design purely based on the era it drew fashion inspiration from. People largely don't react that strongly when designs are based on past European or North American eras, although there's certainly discussion to be had about what was going on in those times... among historic fashion TH-camrs there is a saying that goes something like "historic fashion, not historic values". I would make the good faith assumption that the artist drew inspiration purely from the fashion of the time, not the rest?
Well, beside the “blackface” thing, Project Sekai is also launching a new song which players will get their fingers broken
Yaminabe. the bane of my existence.
at least what's up pop is consistent with the note speed 🧍
@@God_Bones dont forget whats up pop? Bro they promised us that every chart can be full combo'd with 2 fingers. And that chart is IMPOSSIBLE for 2 fingers
@@dadude8058How many times do I have to say this... They said Songs of LEVEL 32 OR LESS can be full combod with 2 fingers, then, they changed it.
@@dadude8058I'm here to tell that now Jensei is the new Finger breaking Back arching Song.(I am still traumatised.)
I know that some people got all the rights to feel offended and call out the company to do something about it, but sometimes I think people just try to make everything seem like a big deal. I honestly don't see the problem with Nene card or the event itself, since - like the video shows - it was mainly inspired by Princess Mononoke and the nature x humanity conflict. I never heard of someone that complained about this movie, so why complain about the event?
And I think there is a difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. There is dozens of channels of americans and various people from other countries that currently lives in Japan hanging out wearing kimonos, and no one bats an eye feeling offended - some of them even compliments those girls. But it is indeed wrong to draw a kimono wrongly and sexualize it trying to make a girl seem attractive sexually on it, for example.
I really think that the internet and especially Twitter/Tiktok mess these two things up.
@@CamiCulan RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong.
Compare the play to the current world event (Namely the Palestine oppression). You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem.
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.)
Rui has that habit of... Being too forgiving. He was never mad at people who ostracised him for... Being himself. In his mind, he was the problem. Because he was different. And it was okay to be different, but it's also why no one gets it. It's not their fault. In Rui's mind, it's up to Rui to prove them he's not a bad person. When Rui never did anything to harm a single soul in the first place.
That's painfully wrong as well.
(I don't mean to put school bullying and colonization on the same level, by the way. But the mindset behind the oppression is similar, and the parallel is intended by the story, so if it helps someone's mind to understand...)
I also just mean to share what I understood. I'm not concerned by the issues, but that's what I grasp about it.
Most people never read the event, heard it was problematic, and ultimately doesn't know why. Yes, the girl's card are Mononoke inspired. No, the story isn't.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY REVIVAL MY DREAM WAS CANCELED
Yes
honestly i was expecting the whole en unknown mother goose twitter post to be adding into here
can u explain what happened with that? i have never heard of this
@@nenefubiyori do you have twitter or any other social site? i'm so tired of yt getting rid of my explanation
post link pls?
iirc the en twt posted a tweet about the release of unknown mother goose with the caption, "Who's the goose's mother" or something like that. People took that as disrespecting wowaka. That's the knowledge i have of it, idk if the tweet is still up or if it got that big.
@Waterfell yt won't allow it
This shows even more how people on the internet are sensitive, I think the Nene card wasn't racist if it wasn't culturaly innapropriate and I loved how you actually shared informations and facts and not just your opinions! thank you and I'm sorry for my english :D
your english is amazing! keep it up! ❤
Idc if y’all call me a sensitive western or whatever but the leo need blackface was racist If I remember correctly, Gyaru’s wear cutesy type clothes not tribe clothes and I don’t remember them wearing teeth necklaces either nor wearing their hair all messy like that. And it sooo clear of what they were doing. The team is full of grown men and women and they should know better. If they wanted to make their game global and add other cultures into their game or shows and anime they need to do research about it (not talking about the Revival my dream event)
I’ve long accepted the apology but this thing should have never even happened
Thank you for having common sense
Unfortunately, nowadays people will always find something to be upset about :/
i dont think it was blackface, but instead a tan.
im rlly sad that revival my dream was canceled, isnt the story quite important in pjsk???
I really liked the card though, it was super cute and I liked the setting very much, I didn't think of it being racist or anything of such. I thought it was just a cute card in a beautiful setting I loved how her outfit and stripes on her face it was cute! I wish I could've got it.
Ah the Western strike again
Why do you people love calling people who are against racism “westerners” 😭
The way half of this drama ain't even from western audience 💀 the vip pass outfit and senbonzakura was yeeted from the korean server only
Jesus Christ the fact that the video creator hearted this comment really goes to show they aren’t actually trying to be unbiased. “Grrr dirty westerners get mad about racism Japanese people can’t be racist Japan is perfect there’s no blacks in it!!” That’s what you sound like when you say idiotic shit like this
I don't even feel that's blackface, but rather just a makeup equivalent of a lion. Like... look I'm as PC as the next liberal but it's context that matters here. Now if they were pretending to *be* black/ say the N word/ acting in a way that directly infrenced black people that would be different. But... personally I don't see it as racist 🤷♀️
(I'm only commenting about the "blackface" one.)
It's totally intended to be similar to gyaru at least and their outfits are LION costumes. They look tribal, yes, but they're literally intended to be lions because of the "leo" is the band's name, it's not some racist thing being pointed at actual tribal people. This whole thing is an example of people just overreacting because they made an assumption.
Also, can we acknowledge that blackface is probably hardly ever heard of in Japan? They probably didn't know how people could interpret this, and I don't blame them for it.
L/n just wanted to be lions bro😞
Project Sekai's Fandom is as toxic as the Genshin Fandom. Have a straight ship? you get attacked, Not using pronouns for Mizuki? you get attacked, Don't ship Ruikasa, Akitohya or AnHane? you get attacked. It's too much.
Also those controversies are pointless, especially in a rhythm game where most of the songs are dark.
@Closeted monster Um have you seen the fandom?
I got so attacked when i shipped ruinene and and a rare pair (toya and Minori)
@@Miss_idk I'm sorry to hear about that, also can you explain a bit about the Toya x Minori ship?
I'm not going to make fun of you for shipping Toya and Minori, I'm just interested to hear why you ship them.
@@Blue-Code its a fair pair. They just seem like grumpy x sunshine
@@Blue-Code Sorry Rare pare
I think they can just add the story for Revival my Dream but edited. So I don’t have to look on youtube for the story
but the "glorious japan" thing
idk although it talks about te westernization and the big change, i never noticed that kind of tone or implication in senbonzakura-
I like this informative type of videos!
for the most part, in puchiseka, tsukasa was actually scared to death abt the “race change thing”
I know this is a stupid question but am I still allowed to play the game and cosplay from it?
I’m pretty sure you can as long as you don’t support the creator
From my point of perspective, you can do whatever you want. I don’t find it a big deal for 2 reasons
1) it’s a game. If we censor all content that might be sensitive, the world will lose crucial information. Now should we PROMOTE this? No. And that’s happened, so good on us
2) bro do what you want, your interest in the GAME or COSPLAY isn’t a direct reflection of the game itself or the character, AND you didn’t do it in malicious intent
What do you mean by "allowed"? If you want to play and cosplay go for it, it's up to you if you want to keep supporting the game or not. As long as nobody's harmed seriously, you don't need to ask permission from random stranger to like/dislike anything.
Ignore the twitter haters, the base game itself is fine dude. It's just a game in the end
Yeah I was literally just playing Project Sekai 5 minutes ago 😭
I don't think PuchiSeka meant any offense, but I guess I can understand if the people concerned didn't feel comfortable because of it. Like, it wasn't mocking any races explicitly, but you can say it was a bit awkward.
Revival My Dream, though...
EDIT : Nvm I disagree. I'd usually leave my stupidity out there for the archive, but that one truly was long.
I'll keep three points, though:
-The girls' card outfit are truly inspired from Mononoke Hime.
-Rui's costume is his Alchemist persona and entirely unrelated to the story
-Please read the event. So many people haven't read it and accuse the event of being problematic for the wrong reason that it cause more confusion than education in the end. Don't just hear it's problematic and brush it off. *Understand* the problem. Otherwise you've learned nothing.
RMD problem is in its subtext. Because it implies colonizers cares about the feelings and humanity of whom they opress, when in truth they don't care a single bit. It's telling you to act kind to your aggressor because "if you prove them you're nice they'll change their mind" when it's everything but true. And if you don't act nice they're justified all of a sudden, I guess. Or that's the conclusion people's brain would reach. It reinforce the idea you need to be a 'perfect victim' for your pain to be valid. That's wrong.
Compare the play to the current world event. You should see the blatant difference, and therefore see the problem.
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, compare it to Rui's backstory, since the game is making a parallel between him and Emu's character (and that kid was totally self-projecting while writing the play.)
To finish this, Senbonzakura and the costume were more about showing and defending japanese culture (especially from the western's one), than trying to offend Korean culture in any way, but I don't know much about it and I can understand that it makes people uncomfortable nonetheless (Especially for Senbonzakura.)
Does Pjsk deserve the hate they’re getting? I’m not sure. But I’m 100% hopeful they didn’t have that kind of intention
Twitter should probably focus more on the very serious issues imo
cant believe this shit happened
I always had an ick with Senbonsakura.
I think the blackface and racism controversies were in the right? (idk how to word this, just that I think it’s fine that the devs got called out for it) As for the outfit and song controversies, I’m not well informed with either or and as to why it’s problematic so I don’t think I have an opinion
It's not blackface it's gyaru/Harajuku style makeup, like Aiura from saiki k
@@Kaitosmic_2-17 its 2023 dawg, theres a limit on how much u tan. 3 shades darker than ur skintone is like okay, they were not 3 shades darker. Yamamba and other gyaru styles of that style do not wear clothing resembling native clothes. 💀
@@saio2488 The native clothes were inspired by the Emishi tribe a Japanese native tribe similar to princess mononoke, also the gyaru style characters I've seen so far have a more intense tan, Aiura is actually way tanner in the anime than in the manga
@@saio2488 also other asian cultures have a history of native tribes to like mongolia
@@Kaitosmic_2-17 just bc its common doesn’t mean its good, tanning over 2 shades darker than you is not only weird, its dangerous for ur skin. Now obviously these are characters so I’ll stick to how weird it is. These pale ass girls are suddenly that dark? Yall listen to everyone but people who look like them🤦🏿♀️
Sekai fandom moment 😱
Real
Hold on, you mean WESTERN sekai fandom😭
@@Kirated Project Sekai in the west is just absolute chaos compared to the east
@@jen8427 ong
@@Kirated “it’s only those dirty westerners who care about racism, those chad Japanese people are racist all the time so based” 🤓
i just hope for the event coming in june (which has a nene card that people think is offensive) to not face the Revival My Dream fate
“Outrages! I can’t believe different countries have different cultures!” People who cancelled the anime on twitter.
i love how easily western player got offended so easily
People from Twitter just like to cry about the most little things
im just like pissed cuz why the fuck would they do that 😭
Signs that Twitter=is the Cause of All Problems
ur a few months too late
That was at best a tan, you've got to be kidding me. PSekai players being insufferable is nothing new, but at this point I'm convinced they don't even deserve the game they got after putting PDiva out of the map
i didnt know there was more than RMD and that leo/need episode in proseka drama history
I'm so lucky i didn't download Twitter
people burn for nothing.
Dude omfg imagine being this sensitive
This is a great video essay, good work !
yall getting all heated abt the gyaru makeup from the anime like ITS A GYARU LION CALM DOWN
Uh ik this is a stupid question but whats the name of the game on the intro?
The game is Project Sekai Colorful Stage
So I play pj sekai but idk if I should delete it ooorrr☹
the game is fine, the community is not that much
@@mynion24100 ooh
why do i have to learn that the prsk anime got canceled before i even learned that there's a prsk anime? TwT
Sabeis lo gracioso? Que lo del supuesto blackface de la miniserie ya paso con otra franquicia. En BanG Dream! (mas conocido como Bandori) hicieron el mismo gag hace unos años en una miniserie igual a esta (es mas, a lo mejor es algo que se copian entre estos juegos, pero esto ya son suposiciones mias) y pasó lo mismo xD
I love petit sekai series. They ar every funny. Look, as a black person im not even offended by this. Can people stop taking stuff too serious? Please, let it live. I dont want my favourite game gets cancelled just because stuff that doesnt even offends me.
some people are actually so sensitive that they misunderstood immediately like please read buddy.
And what are you saying and talking about? 🧐🤨🤔
man, I just hope some East game didn't get ruined by west
What is wrong with cancel culture
Games should just not reference anything that happened before Beatlemania unless it’s historical fiction
Is bad that I think that Leo/need actuylook very cute as brown lions? I really liked
Miku: aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
ok but is it still ok to play? are people still playing it? explain plzz plz plz
as long as you dont support the developers (and i mean the higher ups and ceo because they are genuinely talented people working at colorful palette and i dont want to put them in a pile of being terrible when they truly dont deserve it) then its alright 👍- a native american
there are not they are*
Whoops didn't mean to start an argument sorry. But I completely agree with both of you, plus the "blackface" I believe it is just the style "gyaru/gal" which I believe is Japanese culture? It's just tanning your skin from my understanding. As for the event, it's a nice story with no racism. Watch the story on yt or sum before posting about it. For the colonial outfit and senbozakura, it's their background and history, if they decide to use it we should have no say in it.
@@hornetfromhallownest what the hell are you even saying
Isnt this so american lmao? "How dare they have their own cultures instead of fallow american ones!"
Get off internet
@@iateuncookedchicken you cant agree with 2 people that are legitimately arguing
And the one side is legit just saying that devs are at wrong for having their culture
Cmon dude its not the time for being neutral
This is the reason i'm not in the prosekai fandom, well the western one i guess.
Fortunately, I only played in JP server where I don't need to interact with these wackos. Actually I did not pulling in this banner, but somehow in the future I got all 3 featured 4 stars card (Rui, Emu, Nene). So L for EN and W for JP.
I mean its the typical anime game directed towards fanservicing communities but sadly this game went directly to the american fanbase which always ruins up everything
I've noticed that it's usually the anime gacha games that have fandoms like this.... Overly "sensitive"...
Is project sekai really gone?
Naah
@@statically_me phew
No, just a goofy title.
I didn't care about the RMD cancellation on en so much but I remember the people in the discord who wanted it back were absolutely mad.
One guy was like "I'm Irish and you can use leprechauns and stuff and I don't care and I give you my permission. I DEMAND a statement from SEGA or I'll boycott the game. The vast majority of players are devastated and you will lose money."
At the time, Colorful Pallet had given multiple statements but he didn't think they were good enough. Also, using Irish culture is not comparable to what Proseka did and 99% of people don't give a sh!t you bellend.
I was so ashamed to be a proseka fan when I read their messages that all I could do was react to it with the nerd emoji.
Also don't just the official discord it sucks
Dude ur talking like its only people that wanted rmd removed
If you saw people that cried about how the story rmd was based on was racist you wouldnt be saying these
Also colorful palette statements were stupid
They suddenly rushed the apology for the event and didnt even listen to ACTUAL majority that wanted the event in
@@yuurina5092 Don't know wtf you're trying to say in your first comment bc your grammer is so shit but the official statements weren't rushed. They most likely planned the rmd cancellation months prior so how could it be rushed? And the vast majority of players didn't care because they aren't losers like you who sit in your white as hell discord/twitter bubbles thinking that people actually care.
There's already fan-translations of the story, the cards are already on the other servers and exist, Showtime Ruler got added (the only thing that really mattered tbh). The only thing you couldn't do was tier which like boohoo whatever. Even my Rank 315 ass doesn't care. So stop complaining please.
Bro I’m Irish and what 💀 I get why rmd was cancelled idk why he had to act like that. If you have an actual good argument for the event inclusion I’ll listen but this guy is just butthyrt 💀
Another case of Westerners being offended over literally harmless material and Koreans still butthurt about something that happened almost 100 years ago and has basically nothing to do with them nowadays. Seems like it only gets worse with time, people just won't give up their pettiness.
I don’t really think I would put it up against Koreans though. It still affects their families, some of which are still alive. I do understand being annoyed with westerners kinda acting like a savior and only listening to themselves and their opinions with this kinda stuff and not acknowledging the people that were allegedly hurt tho
@@KANISAMA. Yea.
Okay ive been a vocaloid fan since like 2015 and i honestly think projct sekai is a disgrace of vocaloid, the fans are super toxic and its nothing how it used to be
But I play prosekai
The west 💀
i am racism
Ik its bad but there fictional characters and America is not the only country on earth i dont think the creator of the series had bad intentions i also bet the people arguing on twitter dont even play project sekai
Oooookaaaayyy it's time to go back to Bang Dream..
Western problem :v
Never do videos talking about prsk controversies again
Why?
whats wrong with it bru😭
REAL
Why lol
Why though 😭