lexie

let’s talk about Otherside Picnic’s depiction of the IDF and Palestine

we’re shown an American soldier who completely dehumanizes Palestinians and praises the IDF. he basically admits to their evil yet the girls’ reaction to it is disproportionate to the gravity of it 

they do have a negative opinion but i really feel like it was brushed off too quickly, there is no mention of it afterwards. they save the soldiers as planned and that’s it. 

the LN is more explicit about sorawo’s disdain yet she wonders if she should’ve complimented him more?! 

overall, i don’t think it’s right to talk about Israel’s colonisation in such a lighthearted way. it spreads misinformation without debunking it.

it’s clearly shown the mc doesn’t know anything about it and doesn’t care to explore it further.

i am pretty shocked that i’ve never seen anyone talk about this before, we can’t ignore manga’s wrongdoings. i even looked up a lot of keyword combinations of it and only one tweet denounced it which is not okay honestly

these are the creator’s other stories 

i forgot to mention the manga panels come from chapter 27

the light novel excerpt comes from volume 2, chapter 5 of file 5 

they are both official translations