Illustrator Sadamoto Yoshiyuki (Evangelion, FLCL) made several controversial tweets regarding comfort women issue.

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Renowned illustrator Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, who has previously worked on many titles such as Evangelion, FLCl, .Hack, has made some very questionable tweets regarding Korea and the comfort women issue.

Here's the translation of the initial tweet

That dirty girl statue (statue of peace). That movie that burns and stomps a photo of the Emperor. It's the way of that country's (Korea's) propaganda.
All the elements that modern art needs: Fun! Beauty! Surprise! Comfort! Intellectual impact
are all gone, and is vulgar.

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When he posted this tweet, it got a lot of backlash from others, and to one of the complaints he had replied with this tweet.

I don't know what you are expecting of me but…
If the statue was of an extremely beautiful comfort woman and a lai dai han (half Korean, half Vietnamese) gathered around a boiling pot and eating a bunch of soliders' penises. While indecent, it might feel a bit conceptually stimulating.
I thought about this seriously.

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He later backpedaled the situation by saying he likes Kpop Idols and that he just personally thinks that he just dislikes the design of the statue, but the words had been said already. Really disappointing coming from one of my favorite illustrators in the business.

 

[Kemono]

I don't know what you are expecting of me but…
If the statue was of an extremely beautiful comfort woman and a lai dai han (half Korean, half Vietnamese) gathered around a boiling pot and eating a bunch of soliders' penises. While indecent, it might feel a bit conceptually stimulating.
I thought about this seriously.

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That doesn't help in any way or form. That makes it far worse and shows how much of a shitstain he really is deep inside.

As if him liking Kpop Idols changes anything about how deplorable this is.

 

[andymcc]

Man that fuckin' blows.

 

[Siggy-P]

Why is it so hard for people (not just in Japan but in this particular example, a significantly larger amount of people in Japan than there should be) to accept that people in your country did awful stuff way before you were born?

I'll happily talk for hours about how awful the British Empire was. Hell, I'll talk about how awful my country is now. I didn't do any of it, no skin off my back.

 

[Menx64]

what a weird thing to say. He has issue with the statue as is, and so he goes and spews a lot of weird things about a real act of horror committed by the Japanese...

 

[Hampig]

I'm not sure I get what he's saying?

 

[Deleted member 12790]

Can you explain this situation in more detail? I don't get what he means in either of those tweets. What are comfort women?

I mean, I recognize it's some gross shit he's spewing, but the words literally don't make sense to me.

 

[Ghos]

He later backpedaled the situation by saying he likes Kpop Idols

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what...

 

[demosthenes]

Can you explain this situation in more detail? I don't get what he means in either of those tweets. What are comfort women?

I mean, I recognize it's some gross shit he's spewing, but the words literally don't make sense to me.

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Imagine war, then imagine a conquering force wants to be comforted. They change words to make it sound like what they did wasn't awful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

 

[Deleted member 12790]

Imagine war, then imagine a conquering force wants to be comforted. They change words to make it sound like what they did wasn't awful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

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so it's a term the japanese use for Korean women they raped? Or am I misunderstanding you?

whats the shit about it being interesting to see a bunch of korean women eating boiled penises??

 

[Silvergun-Blue]

so it's a term the japanese use for Korean women they raped? Or am I misunderstanding you?

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Women forced to work in brothels by the invading Japanese force, it's an issue that's either not acknowledged or outright denied by parts of Japanese society.

 

[demosthenes]

so it's a term the japanese use for Korean women they raped? Or am I misunderstanding you?

whats the shit about it being interesting to see a bunch of korean women eating boiled penises??

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You are correct.

And idk, probably some dumb shit to rationalize what they did to them. Japan likes to forget how awful it was in ww2.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

Women forced to work in brothels by the invading Japanese force, it's an issue that's either not acknowledged or outright denied by parts of Japanese society.

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That makes sense, but I still don't understand his post about boiled soldier penis. Is he just being randomly grotesque? Do japanese people seriously claim Korean women are soldier penises? Why does he call it interesting?

Like, he isn't coming off to me as anything other than a pure lunatic in those posts to me.

 

[sinonobu]

so it's a term the japanese use for Korean women they raped? Or am I misunderstanding you?

whats the shit about it being interesting to see a bunch of korean women eating boiled penises??

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sorry for not providing full details, that was my bad.

as you can see from the wikipedia article, comfort women were women who were forcefully employed to provide "sexual services" to Japanese imperial military.

The statue of peace was made to honor these victims, and he is essentially saying that it would have been better if the statue was these victimes eating penises instead of what it is now.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

sorry for not providing full details, that was my bad.

as you can see from the wikipedia article, comfort women were women who were forcefully employed to provide "sexual services" to Japanese imperial military.

The statue of peace was made to honor these victims, and he is essentially saying that it would have been better if the statue was these victimes eating penises instead of what it is now.

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What triggered me was that he also thought it should be an 'extremely beautiful' woman.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

sorry for not providing full details, that was my bad.

as you can see from the wikipedia article, comfort women were women who were forcefully employed to provide "sexual services" to Japanese imperial military.

The statue of peace was made to honor these victims, and he is essentially saying that it would have been better if the statue was these victimes eating penises instead of what it is now.

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what a fucking asshole. One last question, what movie is he talking about re: stomping on the emperor. And also, japanese people still reminisce about their WWII emperor??

 

[Ghos]

That makes sense, but I still don't understand his post about boiled soldier penis. Is he just being randomly grotesque? Do japanese people seriously claim Korean women are soldier penises? Why does he call it interesting?

Like, he isn't coming off to me as anything other than a pure lunatic in those posts to me.

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Prominent anime artist says statue dedicated to victimized women isn't to his horny artistic tastes. he also likes kpop idols.

 

[Deleted member 18966]

what a dusgusting person

 

[sinonobu]

what a fucking asshole. One last question, what movie is he talking about re: stomping on the emperor. And also, japanese people still reminisce about their WWII emperor??

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I don't know what movie he's talking specifically, but he's prob talking about korean movies about Japanese imperialism as a whole, because the movies tend to be very anti-Japan for obvious reasons.

And yes, there are still right wing imperialists in Japan.

 

[nded]

"Comfort women" is a bullshit term coined by imperial Japan to sugarcoat the fact that they were engaging in sex slavery.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

So after reading the wikipedia article on the statue, this is even more disgusting. Holy fuck Japan.

 

[NeonZ]

what a fucking asshole. One last question, what movie is he talking about re: stomping on the emperor. And also, japanese people still reminisce about their WWII emperor??

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Emperor Hirohito (Showa) ruled from 1926 to 89. Most people alive today only personally remember him from his post-war "rule" where he was just a (popular) figurehead participating in many public events during the rise and golden years of Japan's economy. So, he is a popular figure which is why you get people caring about him like that. He isn't just forgotten history at this point due to his reign technically continuing for decades after the war.

 

[somerandomweirdguy]

This makes it even easier for me to hate Evangelion 3.0.

But WTF man. Why is it so hard for so much of Japan to acknowledge that they fucked up hard?

 

[shnurgleton]

japanese nationalism and war crimes denial is a fucking scourge

 

[SteelBeast6Beets]

This makes it even easier for me to hate Evangelion 3.0.

But WTF man. Why is it so hard for so much of Japan to acknowledge that they fucked up hard?

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To me, it seems they think they have acknowledged and apologized enough for past trangressions and really wish that everybody would just shut up about it.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Is "I like K-Pop Idols" the Japanese Right Wing equivalent of "I have a black friend"?

 

[shnurgleton]

Is "I like K-Pop Idols" the Japanese Right Wing equivalent of "I have a black friend"?

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it's probably worse since we're talking about korean sex slaves. saying its ok because he likes kpop idols is even more disgusting

 

[Thrill_house]

Damn japan your about as bad as us when it comes to recognizing the horrific shit we have done. Your fucking soldiers raped ungodly amounts of women years ago. Nothing changes that, no matter how much you get all bent out of shape, it happened.

 

[Zero-ELEC]

Can you explain this situation in more detail? I don't get what he means in either of those tweets. What are comfort women?

I mean, I recognize it's some gross shit he's spewing, but the words literally don't make sense to me.

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"Comfort women" were women from conquered areas (read Korea, China) that Imperialist Japan forced into sexual slavery. It's fucking disgusting, but there's an unfortunately mainstream Nationalist current in Japan that denies or downplays their war crimes.

 

[Yukari]

I'm not surprised by this.
After WW2 end.
Jap Gov want bury their action under the rug not to mention or remember again.

 

[DragonSJG]

Ooooof

 

[Dark Knight]

As much as I love FLCL/Eva this doesn't surprise me in the least. Much of Japan probably agrees with him.

And his "attempts" to "clean it up" are shockingly pathetic.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

"Comfort women" were women from conquered areas (read Korea, China) that Imperialist Japan forced into sexual slavery. It's fucking disgusting, but there's an unfortunately mainstream Nationalist current in Japan that denies or downplays their war crimes.

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Yeah reading up on the statue itself is fucking insane. It's built to literally try and shame the japanese into finally admitting their sins, but they, without shame, demand it's removal and call it a "dirty woman." Fucking gross as hell.

I actually think the statue itself is badass now. Sitting right outside the japanese Embassy. It's like an eternal silent protest, she's staring the embassy down.

 

[Arkanim94]

"I can't be racist guys, I love jax and blues!"

 

[Deleted member 12790]

"I can't be racist guys, I love jax and blues!"

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"I have a korean friend!"

 

[SneerfulOwl]

But WTF man. Why is it so hard for so much of Japan to acknowledge that they fucked up hard?

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Because contrary to what they are selling to other tourists and foreigners about the whole honor thing about their people, they are anything but. And I'm so tired of people keep throwing excuse that "japanese people dont know this part of their history because they weren't taught". Bullshit. They are aware of this because of how much stink it causes internationally. They just don't bother to care or won't care about it.

 

[munchie64]

Jesus, I've loved his artwork for ages.

What a disgustingly ignorant denial of truth.

 

[hjort]

Disgusting. Isn't Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest games, one of these assholes as well, except possibly even worse?

 

[mael]

Yeah fuck that guy and anything he ever worked on.

 

[SteelBeast6Beets]

Disgusting. Isn't Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest games, one of these assholes as well, except possibly even worse?

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Guy ran a paid advertisement in the Washington Post trying to paint the subject of comfort woman and the Rape of Nankin as anti-Japanese propaganda by the Chinese.

https://studyofenglish.wordpress.co...g-“comfort-women”-run-in-the-washington-post/

 

[Darkspellmaster]

Historically this sort of rhetoric has been going on since 1965. Japan appolgised and gave a lump sum to be given out to the victims. They claim Korea basically stole the money from the victims. Smh

A lot of this anti Korea is coming up because Japans company's dont want to pay for the forced labor that the Korean court ruled for. So now basically Abe's government, who is deep into revisionist history, is waging a trade war with Korea, and Korea in turn is boycotting Japan and protests in Korea.

There are people in Japan that want the government to acknowledge the truth. Historians in this camp have been trying for years.

 

[hjort]

Guy ran a paid advertisement in the Washington Post trying to paint the subject of comfort woman and the Rape of Nankin as anti-Japanese propaganda by the Chinese.

https://studyofenglish.wordpress.co...g-“comfort-women”-run-in-the-washington-post/

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Ah, yeah, that's the fucker right there. Seem to remember him being very anti-LGBTQ as well. Would love to buy Dragon Quest XI for my Switch, but with assholes like this behind the game I don't exactly feel like I'm in a hurry to do so.

 

[Deleted member 2474]

It's a bit hard to make out with the translation provided, but it mostly just reads like he thinks the statue is boring and plain rather than denying what happened or excusing it, at least on the surface (though you could certainly read into his "propaganda" comment as such). Is there any other history of this sort of thing with Sadamoto?

(To be clear, this was an incredibly insensitive and shitty thing to say regardless.)

 

[Quinton]

"We need to talk about" why "soldier" is so commonly misspelled as "solider"

 

[DVCY201]

It's a bit hard to make out with the translation provided, but it mostly just reads like he thinks the statue is boring and plain rather than denying what happened or excusing it, at least on the surface (though you could certainly read into his "propaganda" comment as such). Is there any other history of this sort of thing with Sadamoto?

(To be clear, this was an incredibly insensitive and shitty thing to say regardless.)

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How I interpreted it too, he makes the comment about modern art lacking intellect in the first tweet. With that said, he sure picked the wrong topic to make a comment.

 

[kvetcha]

That makes sense, but I still don't understand his post about boiled soldier penis. Is he just being randomly grotesque? Do japanese people seriously claim Korean women are soldier penises? Why does he call it interesting?

Like, he isn't coming off to me as anything other than a pure lunatic in those posts to me.

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I interpreted the main thrust of his complaint being that the art itself is boring.

 

[andymcc]

I interpreted the main thrust of his complaint being that the art itself is boring.

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same but it's still a stupid, tasteless thing to say and it makes it very easy to interpret him as one of the deniers.

Is there any other history of this sort of thing with Sadamoto?

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Not that I'm aware of.

 

[kvetcha]

same but it's still a stupid, tasteless thing to say and it makes it very easy to interpret him as one of the deniers.

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no disagreement here.

 

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"This statue honoring the memories of women forced into sexual slavery by Japan is boring. I'd rather she'd be sucking a bag of dicks. And be hot."

It's a bit hard to make out with the translation provided, but it mostly just reads like he thinks the statue is boring and plain rather than denying what happened or excusing it, at least on the surface (though you could certainly read into his "propaganda" comment as such). Is there any other history of this sort of thing with Sadamoto?

(To be clear, this was an incredibly insensitive and shitty thing to say regardless.)

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How I interpreted it too, he makes the comment about modern art lacking intellect in the first tweet. With that said, he sure picked the wrong topic to make a comment.

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I interpreted the main thrust of his complaint being that the art itself is boring.

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Some of y'all are really going out of your way to defend this shitstain. When someone shits on a statue like this, they know exactly what the fuck they're doing.

 

[kvetcha]

Some of y'all are really going out of your way to defend this shitstain. When someone shits on a statue like this, they know exactly what the fuck they're doing.

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Having a different interpretation of someone's words does not constitute a defense, thanks.