A transportation supervisor has blamed anime for cultivating a detrimental public notion of vehicles.
As reported by Weekly Logistics News and translated by Automaton, a transportation supervisor in Shizuoka, Japan mentioned the logistics trade’s fame is being ruined by anime that makes use of the frequent trope of foremost characters being killed by vehicles.
An anime style known as isekai is especially responsible, they mentioned. These reveals see the principle character killed in the true world early and transported to a magical location the place they embark on a brand new journey.
So they gave an in-universe clarification for Truck-kun. I’m offered on this present simply from that lol pic.twitter.com/8wnQuGDuLl
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It’s quite common for that preliminary reason for loss of life to come back through a truck, a lot so {that a} meme often known as Truck-kun has emerged which mocks the trope. Anime together with Wise Man’s Grandchild, Knight’s & Magic, Zombie Land Saga, and plenty of extra all use it, and No Longer Allowed in Another World even explains the truck as an entity which chooses and brings folks to a brand new world (as seen within the X/Twitter submit above).
The transportation supervisor mentioned these anime have subliminal messaging which results in an intrinsic dislike of vehicles and transportation corporations. Despite their understanding that freedom of expression in storytelling is vital, they’d quite vehicles weren’t responsible so typically.
Plenty of anime do not use such a trope, in fact, together with most of the hottest ones reminiscent of One Piece and Demon Slayer.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
