Otaku Fury at “Korean Meddling” with Sakura-sou
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2013 06:33 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Censorship, Korea, Light Novels, Marketing, Sakura-sou no Pet-na-Kanojo
Fans of useless heroine anime Sakura-sou no Pet-na-Kanojo have been enraged by a series of suspect changes made to the original light novel, which most seem to ascribe to nationalist meddling by Korean interests.
The anime first caught the attention of viewers in November when it featured a curious change – the original light novel features a nursing scene in which a “simple rice gruel” (okayu) is served.
In the anime this became “samgyetang,” a Korean chicken soup dish traditionally widely believed to prevent illness due to its ginseng content, along with some praise of healing powers:
Samgyetang is not widely known in Japan, and the fact that cooking spots on at least 5 channels suddenly began featuring it during October and November soon had many speculating that the change was far from coincidental:
It was also observed that the second half of 2012 saw over 120 blog posts on Ameba extolling the merits of the soup – after a grand total of 3 in the 3 years previously.
With the considerable overlap between creepy late night anime fans and crazed Korea-hating online right-wingers, a scandal soon ensued, culminating in calls for a boycott, although whether the addition really was a crude attempt at stealth marketing by the media keiretsu involved was never conclusively established.
The next episode of the show to inspire a similar controversy was even more overtly political, and all the more incendiary to nationalists: a graduation ceremony, which in the novel featured references to the (normal for Japan) national anthem and flag, had both elements excised completely:
There has been a fair amount of relatively thoughtful speculation as to what is going on – although few are left who doubt that such changes are intentional:
“A repeat of the Samgye episode?”
“With them going this far you can’t help but think it deliberate.”
“Both the people doing this and the people noticing it are pretty crazy…”
“Is this because they want to sell DVDs overseas?”
“It’s being sold in Japan so why would a flag be a problem?”
“Even K-ON! had the flag so I don’t see why this would be a problem.”
“It is pretty jarring to have no flag at the ceremony like that!”
“The poor creator, having his work hijacked for propaganda purposes, and now the whole thing is hated because of what they did.”
“The production committee just got taken over by filthy Koreans, end of story.”
“If it is being produced in Korea they probably won’t let them include the Japanese national anthem. Though in any case the anime is still rubbish either way.”
“Maybe this is an attempt to market it with controversy?”
“Most works disappear into obscurity… perhaps manufacturing some controversy like this is a good marketing strategy for them?”
“I hope the studio responsible stops doing any more adaptations.”
“They must have thought nobody would notice – considering the Korea allergy afflicting anime otaku and the fuss they made over the soup, you’d have thought they’d have learned their lesson.”
“The poor author getting his work kimcheesed like this!”
“Why couldn’t they learn from what happened the first time.”
“The one I really feel sorry for in all this is the poor author…”
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Samgaetang is pretty disgusting anyway, unless the chicken is cut up beforehand and gristle removed.
anything with ginseng is dirty tbh
ginseng is good for u bro...
ginseng = cobra oil..
u know what i mean :)
I wonder how many of these 'furious' japanese otaku actually even have the balls to go up to a korean and talk shit?
Cowardly little shits with mouthy, petulant attitudes.
As fearless as a black person going into a Korean supermarket.
Frankly, they got good groceries in the Korean supermarket.
it's the same over priced bullshit u get from the Chinese super market.
Duh. Imported foodstuff and exploitation of stupid.
So long as the owner doesn't have a gun or the guy's packing one himself.
Everyone knows the Japanese are the best passive aggressive people at being prejudice. It's all about face. But once they get home (that is if they ever take one step out their own room), it's all "hate!hate!hate!" online.
Eating live frog is even better then? Or maybe served human penis.
shad ap you korean !
at least, it not looks more disgusting than that
Really? I think its delicious. Not to mention its good for your "Well being".
it's just personal tastes.
Not many people outside of korea likes it cuz the ginseng flavor is really strong. (ginseng tastes weird)
Ah yes, ginseng might be too strong/weird for some Westerners. I know what you mean.
Half my coffee has ginseng powder added into it. I'm doing fine.
Personally I find it delicious (albeit expensive here in Japan). And the gristle is quite easy to remove, since the chicken was boiled. Quite easier to eat than, say, KFC.
what is this KFC you speak of?
fuck you ! kfc is better than sam-gye-suck (samsung)
“Both the people doing this and the people noticing it are pretty crazy…”
Nothing more to add, really.
Rice gruel for the sick is limited to Asia, including Korea. Chicken soup for the sick is omnipresent, from Russia to Texas. So it's suddenly patented by Korea now that right wingers sees it?
Japanese flag and anthem were common... 40 years ago. Now, they're more likely to be absent than present.
Both points simply increases international appeal. The same old geezers trying to kill anime now sprouts this.
For a lot of european countries it would be porridge (oatmeal and other variants on it).
Rice gruel for the sick is limited to Asia, including Korea. Chicken soup for the sick is omnipresent, from Russia to Texas. So it's suddenly patented by Korea now that right wingers sees it?
Japanese flag and anthem were common... 40 years ago. Now, they're more likely to be absent than present.
Both points simply increases international appeal. The same old geezers trying to kill anime now sprout this.
Those who make anime pictures do take care on slight expression, so I do think there was an political intention by Korean on those meal and graduation scene.
Also Koreans tend to delete Japanese-style scene when they on-air anime anyway...
Don't ask why...
i guess they are inspired by european media.
When all else fails, resort to racism.
brain dead ?
Not unless it's the norm. Then it's just another day of Mr. Racism Antics. Tune in for the next episode. What will they do next?
Ok, seriously? WHO THE FUCK CARES!?
Those otaku's who obviously are looking for an "authentic" adaption but seeing intentional changes to the original work?
If you are not capable that small changes towards culture of foreign original is a bad thing then you probably don't even know what's going on in your own country. And that is a pity.
Wait.. looking for an authentic adaptation of a middling (at best) light novel? Pretty lame..
Oh c'mon! Yes, changing certain cultural customs and aspects of society in favour of foreign ones CAN be bad (btw, I pay attention to what's going on in my own country, thank you very much) when done in real life, if they threaten the national identity of a nation, but we're talking about a food dish in a light novel and anime here. Small changes like this in an adaptation of a work are normal and to be expected, and they DO NOT MATTER! -_- Talk about getting hung up on every little insignificant detail.
Ehh. Nationalists are the worst kinds anyway. Honestly, even if I look real hard and close I can't tell them apart from the religious zealots, crazed eco-activists, feminist maniacs and racist lowlifes.
They're all the same.
They aren't the same dumbass. Go live in Japan and witness the propaganda yourself.
Go bitch at 2ch little cunt.
Go fuck yourself, jap.
Wait.. who isn't the same dumbass? Who are you comparing to whom?
The right wingers with banners and loudspeakers plowing the streets atop Nazi-esque minibuses, I assume.
Yeah, I'd rank them lower than eco-activists and feminists too. Most ppl unfortunate enough to come across them will.
lol.
Japanese calling koreans filthy is like pig calling monkey an animal.
Doesn't change the fact koreans are still pigs.
Lol a american trying to get involved in something they don't understand is so typical.
13:41 lol bitching and moaning about 'a american' when he doesn't stand a chance in a straight up confrontation of any sort against him.
dude, you just named pretty much everyone
Patriots love their country, Nationalists simply hate all of the others
I have been wondering why must neighboring countries always hate each others?
Japanese hate Koreans,Indonesians hate Malaysians, Americans hate Mexicans, Iraqi hate Turkish and vice verse.
Maybe this world is still in puberty age, raging with boners to fuck each other.
cuz we cannot fuck each other after the world ends
Not always. Norwegians and Swedes are good pals. :D
WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!
No studio is owned by Japanese it's all USA owned. They DO GIVE to Korea some of it for favors!
JAPAN IS FINISHED! IT WILL SINK AND BE KILLED OFF BY KOREA IN THE WAR! IF NOT THEN THE EARTHQUAKES OF THAT WAR WILL KILL THEM!
YOU ARE ALL FUCKING STUPID! I TOLD YOU! I WILL KILL JAPAN BY ALL MEANS! LOOK AT IT NOW! THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY SIGNS!
THE KNIGHTS OF THE APOCALYPSE NEVER FAIL! THEY ROB AND DESTROY THE COUNTRY FOR GOD! NO KNOWS HIM WELL ENOUGH!
Good for you! Now, back to your cave.
Calm your tiny ass deluded brain down
lol thanks for the entertainment bro.
DEATH TO MAN KIND. BWHAHAHA.
...
hmm, it does feel good. time to setup my bridge. visit me sometime, will ya?
US doesn't give a shit about gooks. They also have a great time knocking down those uppity slanty eyes whenever they get too mouthy.
Japan has been prostituting itself to outsiders for its entire history, whether it is in culture, technology, philosophy, or anything else. It just likes to pretend authenticity by changing it a little, distorting the original, and trying very hard to convince itself it's the original.
It is very fitting that japanese women are seen as easy cumdumps by the entire world, just like anything else that comes out of their sinking island.
Without the gooks, who would have shown them how to design and build a decent automobile that people want to buy for non-braindead reasons?
You mean those automobiles that were chiefly pioneered by foreigners and foreign-educated people who brought the know-how and techniques from outside japan to japan itself because it was more profitable to build and manufacture products there for the global market?
The japanese automobile boom was a success not by the virtue of being better at building products, but rather rest of the world was too busy about cold-war security issues and geopolitical maneuvering, political upheavals, and other non-economic issues, not to mention they started off with foreign brought, foreign-educated technologies and know hows, in addition to massive American investment that sought to create a well-off industrialized state as a bulwark against communist influence. Once United States and other countries could afford to take a few fingers off the trigger and focus on economics, japan's own paper tiger economy tanked in the 90s and is now being eclipsed by other asian and foreign nations.
Japan prospered when rest of the world was too busy or asleep. They have only deluded themselves into thinking they somehow built all their borrowed prosperity by themselves. Now that such soft, comfortable support has been taken away, japan will sink into 3rd level nation that it always has been, and being an island nation won't save them from foreign domination in this day and age.
China and Korea will fuck japan to pieces. Even in tokyo, korean and chinese gangs are pushing out the yakuza in a turf war. Only thing holding back absolute foreign and chinese control is the security treaty with US, and seeing as US is getting tired of self-comforting delusions of japs, it won't be long before America decides to let japs have a taste of their own medicine.
All that, after America was gracious enough to give the japanese a second chance instead of raping the shit out of it and leaving the rest to the chinese, as it should have happened after ww2.
Germans? Danes? Americans?
The only reason japanese were capable of building those things were due to global climate of political upheaval that took the attention away from economics and RD. Now they are all on the defensive and retreating, being overshadowed by re-energized US auto industry not to mention east asian companies that are just out for blood against japanese companies.
YOU STILL PROVED OF WHO A WHORE SHIT NATIONS JAPAN IS! THANK YOU AND PLEASE DIE WITH THEM IF YOU SUPPORT THEM! THEY WILL SINK SOON!
korean cars are garbage bro.
learn english if you want to be taken seriously here.
I'm pretty sure everything you just described matches the Koreans.
gooks = koreans dumbass.
gook means south east asian, you fucking stupid son of a whore japenis
shut up gook.
too bad, stupidity doesn't kill instantly people :/