Changes

On December 16, 2021, Akamatsu announced a candidacy in the 2022 election for the national proportional representation block of the House of Councillors, the upper house of the Diet, under the Japanese LDP banner ([[Liberal Democratic Party of Japan|Liberal Democratic Party]], not to be confused with American/Western liberals and liberal parties) to protect artistic and creative freedom in entertainment industry and arts (citing specifically [[manga]], [[anime]] and video games), freedom of expression and creators' rights in [[Japan]], from [[politically correct]]/[[woke]] and neo-puritanical censorship, standards, regulations, and influences outside Japan (mainly from the West, liberal-marxist [[globalist]], "anti-imperialist" imperialist and anti-West West) but also at domestic level, with other veteran Japanese artists intent on following suit.<ref>https://www.crunchyroll.com/it/anime-news/2022/01/03-1/ken-akamatsu-ends-uq-holder-manga-in-february-to-run-for-upper-house-seat-in-japans-parliament</ref><ref>https://www.crunchyroll.com/it/anime-news/2020/06/29/love-hina-manga-creator-discusses-mangas-freedom-of-expression-with-japanese-government</ref><ref>https://anime.astronerdboy.com/2020/08/akamatsu-sensei-worried-about-foreign-regulation.html</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/06/04/love-hina-mangaka-warns-of-rising-pressure-from-foreign-markets-to-introduce-political-correctness-into-manga/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/07/07/love-hina-mangaka-warns-about-a-future-where-japanese-works-are-regulated-by-foreign-standards/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/tokyo-gender-equality-proposal-draws-concerns-from-love-hina-author-over-international-perspective/</ref><ref>https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/ken-akamatsu-once-again-expresses-concerns-over-western-influence-in-manga/</ref><ref>https://andyarttv.com/why-anime-girls-get-censored-so-much-in-the-west/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/08/06/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken-mangaka-responds-to-critics-after-hes-attacked-for-following-loli-art-account/</ref><ref>https://comicbook.com/anime/news/manga-harem-creator-politician-censorship/</ref><ref>https://animemotivation.com/anime-woke-culture/</ref><ref>https://soranews24.com/2021/12/17/popular-harem-comedy-manga-artist-is-running-for-parliament-to-protect-freedom-of-expression/</ref><ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53428863</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/03/20/attacked-artist-provides-japanese-artists-advice-on-avoiding-cancel-culture/</ref><ref>https://animemotivation.com/the-rising-of-the-shield-hero-controversy/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/mature-content-disclaimer?then=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sankakucomplex.com%2F2018%2F12%2F28%2Ffalse-rape-accusation-anime-tate-no-yuusha-no-nariagari-already-controversial%2F</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2019/01/09/tate-no-yuusha-no-nariagari-very-problematic-women-never-fake-rape-accusations/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/07/29/interview-japanese-video-game-developer-discusses-the-rise-of-loli-censorship-in-anime-and-video-games/</ref> In fact, said such artists and creators do not want to conform or "submit" to Western-style woke and politically correct ideology, concerned that embracing such ideology would lead to a rapid and destructive degradation and decline of Japanese culture and society and freedom of expression in Japan (being themselves attacked, harassed and bullied online by hypocritical and virtue signalling woke and [[liberal]]/[[leftist]] anti-Japanese racists, neo-puritans and imperialists, all of them [[Social justice warrior|SJWs]], [[feminists]] and [[misandry|misandrists]], [[ageists]], and bot/fake accounts, mainly on [[Twitter]]), taking as examples the [[racial segregation]] of voice actors in America since 2020 based on the skin-color of the characters to be voiced (with exceptions concerning non-white actors and voice actors voicing white characters),<ref>https://otakuusamagazine.com/love-hina-creator-ken-akamatsu-wants-to-run-for-office-to-protect-creative-expression/</ref><ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-07-01/ken-akamatsu-comments-on-casting-poc-voice-actors-in-american-cartoons-japanese-anime/.161275</ref> the [[double standard]] regarding the desexualization and covering of female characters (including those designed and created by female artists) and not male characters,<ref>https://bai-gaming.com/pocky-and-rocky-censorship/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/04/24/pocky-rocky-reshrined-confirmed-censored-on-both-ps4-switch-for-the-west/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/05/22/amazing-princess-sarah-ps4-trailer-censors-the-heroines-cleavage/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/11/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-censors-panty-shots-and-suggestive-dialogue/</ref><ref>https://andyarttv.com/why-anime-girls-get-censored-so-much-in-the-west/</ref><ref>https://thesplintering.com/2019/06/20/final-fantasy-vii-remake-censored-by-square-enix-ethics-department/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/06/19/final-fantasy-vii-remake-director-tetsuya-nomura-confirms-edits-to-tifa-and-the-honey-bee-inn-due-to-ethics-department/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/08/09/tower-of-fantasy-censors-anything-even-remotely-sexy/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/07/29/interview-japanese-video-game-developer-discusses-the-rise-of-loli-censorship-in-anime-and-video-games/</ref> the Western localization of Japanese video games and [[anime]] with altered phrases and dialogue to include [[SJW]], [[feminist]], gender and anti-capitalist propaganda,<ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/05/01/netflixs-english-dub-of-tiger-bunny-2-changes-dialogue-to-have-golden-ryan-criticize-outdated-gender-norms-declare-himself-a-feminist/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2019/10/19/funimation-dub-of-yu-no-a-girl-who-chants-love-at-the-bound-of-this-world-changes-dialogue-to-reference-misogyny/</ref><ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-10-03/funimation-addresses-prison-school-dub-comments-over-gamergate-line/.93736</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/07/08/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-localization-changes-script-to-insert-anti-capitalism-dialogue-line/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/07/05/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-changes-translation-to-bash-capitalism/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/11/28/neo-the-world-ends-with-you-underperforms-welcome-to-capitalism-square-enix/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/08/07/twewy-neo-translation-worse-than-feared-full-of-slang-memes/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/05/07/sakura-succubus-5-censors-cgs-dialogue-on-ps4-ps5/</ref><ref>https://doujins.com/blog/will-miss-kobayashi-s-dragon-maid-season-2-english-dub-get-political-again-1138</ref><ref>https://unnecessaryexclamationmark.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/dear-anime-fans-funimation-is-not-your-friend/</ref><ref>https://www.animefeminist.com/discourse-arent-problematic-translations-fixed/</ref><ref>https://nichegamer.com/cross-dressing-13-sentinels-aegis-rim-character-re-written-as-non-binary-in-english-localization/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/09/25/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-localization-allegedly-changes-character-dialogue-to-make-character-non-binary/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2020/09/25/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-english-translation-rewrites-character-as-non-binary/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/11/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-censors-panty-shots-and-suggestive-dialogue/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/04/11/chrono-cross-remaster-allegedly-changes-more-dialogue-removes-speech-quirk/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/04/14/old-interview-reveals-skies-of-arcadia-dialogue-was-completely-rewritten/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/08/17/eroge-publisher-nekonyan-pushing-out-manspreading-translations/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/04/capcom-heavily-censors-dialogue-in-resident-evil-4-vr/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/10/22/facebook-confirms-resident-evil-4-vr-censorship-was-done-in-effort-to-update-the-game-for-a-modern-audience/</ref><ref>https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-20-resident-evil-4-vr-version-includes-several-dialogue-cuts</ref><ref>https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/resident-evil-4-vr-remake-censored/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/28/triangle-strategy-english-localization-adds-removes-and-dramatically-alters-some-original-japanese-dialogue/</ref><ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/04/07/ghostwire-tokyo-english-localization-adds-property-is-theft-line-not-found-in-original-japanese/</ref><ref>https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2022/03/31/ghostwire-tokyo-english-translation-predictably-contains-propaganda/</ref> and the attack on the Japanese sub-culture of the female fashion style ''[[gyaru]]'' (particularly ''[[ganguro]]'') by comparing it to the [[blackface]] of US' minstrel shows originated in the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] South.<ref>https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/02/20/sega-shelves-petit-sekai-episode-indefinitely-following-accusations-of-blackface-from-western-audiences/</ref><ref>https://www.kakuchopurei.com/2022/02/project-sekai-anime-short-pulled-by-sega-for-blackface-from-western-fandom/</ref><ref>https://www.animesenpai.net/my-dress-up-darling-accused-of-promoting-blackface/</ref><ref>https://animemotivation.com/my-dress-up-darling-blackface-controversy/</ref><ref>https://gamerant.com/my-dress-up-darling-ganguro-character/</ref><ref>https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17066860/trivia?ref_=m_cn_add_cncl</ref>