Hate seeing people be like “dont play enstars because of (shock factor)” bc of the prsk collab because behind that, there is imperialist propaganda the game continues to push and the majority of the fandom chooses to ignore
Like you guys need to quit it. The story is riddled with dogwhistles. Everything about it was malice. You can't afford to give the writers or management any grace, because ibuki's indigenous background was explicitly acknowledged in the same breath as his intention to assimilate.
You can care about both the racist implications of an indigenous kid joining a japanese unit AND the way this development tramples on keito’s and akatsuki’s entire development btw. The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact they’re extremely intertwined