How to Deal with Racial Slurs... Otaku Style

Taken from the Sankaku Complex Article

Okay, so we know that the whole Racist War that exploded across the internet between Japan and China that increased rapidly via the incident involving the Chinese Fisherman and the Japanese Coast Guards.

Ever since then, it seems all there were between Japan and China were Racist articles by activists protesting in their respective countries or going on a rampage. Frankly speaking, it's rather demotivating and tiresome for the eyes to say the least, seeing such blatant stupidity being plastered everywhere in cyber space.

Then finally something awesome came out of it! ♪(ﾉ´∀｀*)ﾉ Using the Chinese propoganda, 日本鬼子 / rìběn guǐzi (read as “nihon onigo” in Japanese),

Japanese otaku have fought back against Chinese propaganda by turning the favourite anti-Japanese insult of the Chinese into a moe character.– “Japanese devils” (literally, “Japanese devil children”) which is a traditional Chinese racist insult towards the Japanese, having come into common currency during WWII and been maintained by anti-Japanese propaganda -- with something that only the Otaku can do;

Moe Art

Japanese artists on 2ch decided to use moe to appropriate the term and “turn the Chinese into moetards,” creating “Hi-no-Moto Oniko” based on an alternative reading of the 日本鬼子 characters – the characters for Japan, 日本, mean “origin of the sun” (Hi no Moto) and 鬼子 can be rendered into a female name, “Oniko.”

Frankly speaking, this etched a smile on my face. Finally there are people who can take something so negative like as a racial slur into something we all come to know and love; Art. And I had so much fun reading some of the response from the opposing side. 2ch really can do something positive when they put their minds to it (￣▽￣)ノ＿彡☆バンバン！!

This is way more effective than any nuclear bomb you can drop on any attack haha. Read and view the rest of the awesome collection of the moe art in the actual article HERE.

Keep up the awesome work moe artists!!