The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

Who the fuck are you, Sophie?  I know you're someone, but I can't figure out who.

It isn't polite to call out former names.

[Josquius]

I didn't know we could change our names.

Bosh.
Years of make do after random whimsy when the new board was setup...begone.

[Eddie Teach]

Who the fuck are you, Sophie?  I know you're someone, but I can't figure out who.

I think it's Judas.

[Sophie Scholl]

Who the fuck are you, Sophie?  I know you're someone, but I can't figure out who.

No one of consequence.

[HVC]

You could say he's a traitor to the American cause.

[Josquius]

My detective skills say Sophie=Benedict Arnold.

[Duque de Bragança]

Pls - can someone explain why anime has such a big hold on Chilean politicians
https://twitter.com/poirotes/status/1502382237903425548?s=20&t=H0I4wM2aHopfkUIIxhcEHg

You're just old Marie-Ségolène. 

[Josquius]

Pls - can someone explain why anime has such a big hold on Chilean politicians
https://twitter.com/poirotes/status/1502382237903425548?s=20&t=H0I4wM2aHopfkUIIxhcEHg

They had the constitutional convention attended be pikachu too. I know the country has a huge Japanese pop but still curious.

[Sheilbh]

They had the constitutional convention attended be pikachu too. I know the country has a huge Japanese pop but still curious.

Plus Pamela Jiles doing a Naruto run after she got her proposed pensions reform passed:


I'm not opposed, just curious

[celedhring]

My sister-in-law has been to Chile a lot, I just asked her and she says anime in Chile is a relatively new thing, and it has been adopted by younger generations as sort of a symbol of political/social renewal. You'd go to protests and there would be people cosplaying, etc...

[Agelastus]

My detective skills say Sophie=Benedict Arnold.

Yep, mine too.

[It's probably a bit of a pain for those who want to change their name that quoted posts in another poster's reply don't change the name of the poster and link back to the quoted post.]

[Sheilbh]

My sister-in-law has been to Chile a lot, I just asked her and she says anime in Chile is a relatively new thing, and it has been adopted by younger generations as sort of a symbol of political/social renewal. You'd go to protests and there would be people cosplaying, etc...

Interesting - that makes sense.

I've definitely seen some of the cosplay people on protests - up there with Chile's abundance of riot dogs as pretty distinctive/cool

Edit: Although maybe interesting because isn't it seen as almost the opposite in Japan - it's often dystopian and a bit of a trope of youths watching anime and not engaging (or having kids)? But it's just been totally repurposed in Chile.

[celedhring]

Well, Mono is/was the biggest anime fan in Languish 

[Josquius]

My sister-in-law has been to Chile a lot, I just asked her and she says anime in Chile is a relatively new thing, and it has been adopted by younger generations as sort of a symbol of political/social renewal. You'd go to protests and there would be people cosplaying, etc...

Interesting - that makes sense.

I've definitely seen some of the cosplay people on protests - up there with Chile's abundance of riot dogs as pretty distinctive/cool

Edit: Although maybe interesting because isn't it seen as almost the opposite in Japan - it's often dystopian and a bit of a trope of youths watching anime and not engaging (or having kids)? But it's just been totally repurposed in Chile.

The Japan comparison is curious in that it being present in Chilean politics shows how youthful it is... As opposed to gerontocratic rapidly aging Japan.

Though weird it'd be mainstream for the youth  in Chile where this is the stuff of losers in Japan.

Also odd it's new there considering the big Japanese population - Chile is the Latin American country that had the Japanese pm iirc.

[Sheilbh]

I think you mean Peru with the Fujimoris. There's also a big Japanese population in Brazil - not sure about Chile.