https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-isnt-the-emperor-ever-featured-in-anime/ Anime News & More! Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-isnt-the-emperor-ever-featured-in-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-22211 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:00:12 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=32926#comment-22211 Depicting Emperor is still highly risky in Japan. This problem is sometimes called “Chrysanthemum Taboo” (Kiku tabuu) . Article of Kiku Tabuu exists in JP wikipedia.
As long as I can remember, Russian film director Sokurov’s masterpiece, “The Sun”, which depicts “slice of life” of Showa Tenno (aka. Emperor Hirohito) under the time of WWII, had to try hard to find theaters which can bear the risk of rightists’ attack.
By the way, princesses Masako and Kiko became member of Imperial Family only after they married with princes. So it seems that the Taboo works less for them. These ladies’ “scandals” seem favorite subject for yellow journalism indeed…

]]> https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-isnt-the-emperor-ever-featured-in-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-21849 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:15:43 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=32926#comment-21849 Well, allegedly banned, anyway.

]]> https://www.animenation.net/blog/ask-john-why-isnt-the-emperor-ever-featured-in-anime/comment-page-1/#comment-21846 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:19:39 +0000 https://www.animenation.net/blog/?p=32926#comment-21846 According to what I read on the JP Wikipedia, though, the Emperor is still held in high regard in Japan, and that South Park Pokemon parody was banned over there, because it made fun of him.

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