This is a response to @moon-channel's "Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda, and Soft Power Politics."
0:00 Preamble Before The Big Ramble
3:25 Who is Moon Channel?
5:20 We Have Problems.. Our Abridged History Section
8:58 Not So Cool Japan
10:47 But Before We Start..
13:11 The Problem With How He's Defined Propaganda
17:51 Osamu Tezuka and Momotaro: The War Time Propaganda Nobody Saw
29:42 The Hayao Miyazaki PROBLEM
36:58 The Influences of Japanese Animators in the 1960's
38:40 Japan's Private Company PROBLEM (With Graphs!)
43:43 Cultural Diplomacy and the Whitewashing of Anime
1:03:37 Are Weebs Conservative? (Moral Panic)
A big thank you to our friends @Stevem and @StudyofSwords for coming on!
Check out the full video here:
• Kawaii: Anime, Propaganda, and Soft Power ...
Sources we used:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G...