Olives @olives@qoto.org

Big concerns about Sony censoriousness. #anime #FreeSpeech

https://taroyamada.jp/cat-expression/43324/ A lawmaker meeting with the regulator to discuss / express concern about financial censorship. #anime #Japan #FreeSpeech

As far as anime are concerned now though, I think the model of putting content out every week is more or less dead at this point. If there's content, it gets adapted, otherwise it'll resume whenever there is content.

Bleach also winded up being a classic case of creator burnout where the creator was expected to keep putting content out (I think it was every week) and he just couldn't do it.

Bleach had *a lot of fillers*. The first filler arc wasn't that bad and they tried to fit it in more neatly.

And then, they kept catching up to the source material (despite the creator even conjuring up an arc or two to keep the anime going).

Instead of postponing the anime until there was new material (something they ended up doing anyway), they kept inserting inexplicable filler arcs set in parallel universes in the middle of major battles.

To be fair, Black Butler's fillers are not that bad (such as I think it's called 2 and part of the first season) *but they wreck the continuity of the story* and the succeeding seasons basically operate on the basis of the fillers never happening.

I see anime dubs are still awful. That's where subs come in.

Black Butler is always an entertaining anime to watch. As a warning though, one of the seasons is filler, it's not canonical.

Oh, cool, there is more Black Butler.

I don't think it was just Ga-Rei which had a prequel as an anime but not the actual story. .hack//sign was also a prequel anime but if you wanted to see the actual story, you'd have to play the games.

Who would have thought that a medical mask would become a political symbol.

When two sites have slightly different names but they are very different.

When someone invokes "the children", consider substituting it for something also bad like "murder". Would we violate someone's rights there? No.

Without proportionality, you get logic like "a crime happened in that city, let's shut the city down".

The reason we don't have "mask mandates" for things like the cold, or other common diseases, is that we don't think it's proportionate to interfere with people's lives like that. It doesn't mean someone couldn't wear a mask anyway in that situation.

And frankly, maybe people should consider wearing masks more, even when there isn't a pandemic.

Other people wearing masks doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is mandated to wear a mask. It's not an all of nothing.

And while someone might take issue with the mask mandates which were put in place during the pandemic, it's silly to prohibit masks in response to that.

There are people who see stupid ideas (which are certainly made for all the wrong reasons), then they try to "imagine" possible ways in which it might be "useful".

Prohibiting masks would lead to the spread of disease. It's that simple. There are people who have a greater concern for their own health. There are even countries where it's not unusual for someone to wear a mask when they get sick.

"banning masks in public" has nothing to do with any "legitimate purpose".

"Jaz" claims to speak for the fediverse, even though it seems that no one asked him to speak on their behalf.

He attends events as a self-proclaimed "representative".

He offers to "help", even though this is transparently an attempt to position himself as an "authority".