Meanwhile, the network the show is airing on-- KIDS STATION --seems to be shrugging off the complaints, even though the protest has garnered over 10,000 names. They do note, however, that the Korean character doesn't appear in the anime...which hasn't stopped the protesters anyway. Perhaps because the official anime website actually DOES list Korea amongst the characters?
I don't think a cancellation is likely to happen, though. And although I feel for them, I really want to see the show, so I hope it doesn't.
...Randomly speaking of South Korea, Japan Probe has an interesting piece in which South Koreans claim that the Japanese make for stingy tourists.
Isn't everyone a stingy tourist? Well I know many Asians who are in general...
My parents are both Korean (making me Korean too I suppose), and so I'm seriously getting sick of this Japanese-Korean conflict. My parents and grandparents never had the luxury of being born into a multicultural country, so their views are seriously skewed towards being anti-Japanese.
It pains me to still see this narrow-mindedness in today's world. If I ever have kids, I sure as hell ain't going to try to restrict their contact with Japanese culture like my parents tried to do.
And yeah, I agree people need to open their ways of thinking. We're in the freakin' 21st Century already.
Last time I check their are alot of animes out their that have people that are breast-grabbing goofballs. Most of those animes take place in Japan.