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INTEREST: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Author Talks About His Disability, Gender Identity, and PC C

I don't like the view that cute things are only for girls. Anybody can like anything no matter what other people say.

I think it's a matter of character and personality, but growing up he should have understood that what that girl told him made no sense.

Sort of a long way from Chiaki Konaka, no?

I'd say the thing with Konaka is way more complicated than people think. I don't want to derail the thread but I don't see their work as fundamentally opposed at all, particularly since Konaka has been out of the industry for decades and then wrote one shitty thing, but it's not like his previous works were anti-diversity at all. He's not involved in right-wing activities, he just read some shitty stuff online and thought "I guess I can use this for my story".

Having a diverse cast is not 'political correctness'. Owara still goes out of his way to clarify he does not side with "political correctness", he's just saying he's writing what he knows. No surprise he wants to make that distinction very clear since he experienced it himself first hand. I remember when English speakers attacked Owara for liking loli artwork and basically threw him under the bus.

“I choose to do this not because society demands politically correct expression but because of my own origins. And at the same time, I feel that I am of a generation for whom such [inclusive] expressions are a 'normal thing.' […] What we humans, who seek political correctness in expression, are ultimately aiming for is a stable state where people naturally respect each other without political considerations. I believe that my generation is naturally developing in this way.

I am not denying [the need for] political correctness with this statement.”

“The criticism I received was probably misreading what I wrote as, 'I don't need political correctness. I know enough about diversity,' and what I wanted to say is the exact opposite.

Having a diverse cast is not 'political correctness'. Owara still goes out of his way to clarify he does not side with "political correctness", he's just saying he's writing what he knows. No surprise he wants to make that distinction very clear since he experienced it himself first hand. I remember when English speakers attacked Owara for liking loli artwork and basically threw him under the bus.

Political correctness, in the sense of what Japanese creators like Mamoru Oshii, Chiaki J. Konaka, Eiichiro Oda, Atsushi Ohkubo, Ken Akamatasu, and many others tend to criticize and talk bad about is about forcing people to adhere to your moral guidelines and censoring yourself.

It cannot be more clear from him that he absolutely supports political correctness. He isn't acting out of it like an obligation like others treat it as, but is already living according to the principles and values people associate with it. That's what he's clarifying. He sees the need for it for others that don't understand like he does because of his circumstances. To try to twist his words to be about lolicon rights or pretending that others raging against a made-up definition of political correctness in order to argue against inclusivity is missing the point so incredibly hard. Especially when he is being as direct as possible that he supports inclusivity and the need for empathy and communication, which is the entire reason he divulged all of this.