Hey everyone! I have always wanted to do these types of video essays that cover broader topics instead of purely making video tutorials on a single game, and I do hope to make such a transition in the near future, with this video as an experiment. Please let me know what you think of this video and I will be sure to take every comment into consideration. Thanks for watching!

It really makes me sad that revival my dreams, an event about being misunderstood, got completely misunderstood by the fandom

I don't think it was all aimed at humiliating certain groups of people. it is very sad that the event with the good development of rui was removed, but I think there would have been even more negativity in the community if this had not happened. I liked that the author kept a neutral opinion about this situation, simply explaining it

Event racism thing was ENTIRELY about a japenese story and had absolutely NO remarks on humiliation All of these happened because twitter is a place that should have never existed

I’m pretty sure the whole “blackface” thing was in actuality, a representation of the Japanese culture “gyaru” or “gal”. They tend to cake their faces in makeup, and you see them in quite a lot of anime. Take Komi san for example. There’s a girl named Manbagi, and she is clearly depicted with darker skin. It’s not mocking dark skin at all, it’s just a fashion choice. They weren’t mocking anything at all in Puchiseka. On the topic of Revival my Dream, it’s not trying to offend those of indigenous cultures at all. In fact, it’s the opposite. If you actually read the story (not talking to op), you’d realize the whole story revolves around the forest people and city people learning that they are capable of getting along, there is just the evil person (which can be correlated to corrupted politicians, the news media, etc) trying to separate them. It’s an actually good story. Some people just looove to ruin things for people and they want to be offended by everything for no reason.

It's really quite refreshing to just see a content creator just giving facts and context instead of trying to shove their opinion down our throats. Keep up the good work! :)

Basically Leo/Need style: Can Be Interpreted as offensive but was not meant to be RMD: Can not be interpreted as offensive unless you overthink it

Why is there no comments 💀 Also the whole RMD thing from my view, is kinda stupid bc it has a lot of symbolism and is also about getting along DESPITE differences

to anyone worrying "can we still play the game???" yes you can. they literally removed the stuff

I didn't even know there was a anime series, so Id have to check it out, also as a black person I roll my eyes at these things, it's getting to the point where "offensive" isn't even offensive anymore and it's just "my feelings are hurt because of something that I never experienced happened years ago" I just feel we should talk about these things and work to MOVE ON and IMPROVE our society, not censor and shut people up. But this is an amazing video, I'll be subbing!

Twitter moment

The "racist event" doesn't make any sense for me. Like, it's just a representation, no one who was alive then is still alive, who is going to get offended? I'm spanish and if project sekai had an event with my culture I would be happy. The worst part is that most of the people who say those kind of things aren't even from that place

Ain't no way bro now not only my favourite youtoubers get cancelled but now my favourite games get cancelled too I can't do it anymore dawg 💀

I still want Revival My Dream back.

I personally believe that the “isolation” in the community is not looking down on a group of people but instead acknowledging what happened and the experiences from their point of view. Sure a lot of things could seem offensive but it’s just them expressing their take on certain things, just like we find some things offensive they find different things offensive too, the cultural aspect leads to unwanted and unintentional tension. This may not excuse their actions but keep in mind that none of this is meant to be as hurtful as it can be interpreted!

God im new in the game the first one it's understable, but the others one ¿¿¿¿ specially the event like tf it's to obvious its a reference about princess mononoke but twitter fandom decide just cancell for the clothes i know always koreans-japanese people always have problems, even to this day they continue to have problems between the two countries so it's like a delicate theme for them I am too surprised by the difference between jp fandom and western fandom, they're like two differents things, the good thing is that I never end up very involved in these and I only dedicate myself to following the fanartist

These controversies are ridiculous, it's just a Rhythm Game (and a cute mini anime series), not a movie.

shame that the nene princess mononoke card was removed. princess mononoke is my all-time favorite movie. the reasons are understandable, though.

It feels strange to me, that there would be a negative reaction to costume design purely based on the era it drew fashion inspiration from. People largely don't react that strongly when designs are based on past European or North American eras, although there's certainly discussion to be had about what was going on in those times... among historic fashion KZfaqrs there is a saying that goes something like "historic fashion, not historic values". I would make the good faith assumption that the artist drew inspiration purely from the fashion of the time, not the rest?

The more i hear about it, the more i think that those that call other racist's are actually racist's themselves driven by rage and history, giving others stereotypes like racist did before. If you think about it hard enough you will see similarity, even if you don't want to believe it.

It is an interesting video. It helps to know more about what happened, and it's short enough to make it easy to watch. All the best

Even if the Leo/need is not a cultural thing. They are representing an actual African tribal that praises Lions. That the point of the joke Leo 🦁. Regarding the RMD event: ppl just will yell at u if you disagree with them. A "racist" event with a shitty sorry and compensation rewards. Ppl should know that culture is a mix of everything. Romans rip off Greek gods and some myths. Awesome video. I like it a lot is simply just logic and not biased. Thank you and keep the good work;3

I know that some people got all the rights to feel offended and call out the company to do something about it, but sometimes I think people just try to make everything seem like a big deal. I honestly don't see the problem with Nene card or the event itself, since - like the video shows - it was mainly inspired by Princess Mononoke and the nature x humanity conflict. I never heard of someone that complained about this movie, so why complain about the event? And I think there is a difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. There is dozens of channels of americans and various people from other countries that currently lives in Japan hanging out wearing kimonos, and no one bats an eye feeling offended - some of them even compliments those girls. But it is indeed wrong to draw a kimono wrongly and sexualize it trying to make a girl seem attractive sexually on it, for example. I really think that the internet and especially Twitter/Tiktok mess these two things up.

Well, beside the “blackface” thing, Project Sekai is also launching a new song which players will get their fingers broken

THIS IS THE REASON WHY REVIVAL MY DREAM WAS CANCELED

Idc if y’all call me a sensitive western or whatever but the leo need blackface was racist If I remember correctly, Gyaru’s wear cutesy type clothes not tribe clothes and I don’t remember them wearing teeth necklaces either nor wearing their hair all messy like that. And it sooo clear of what they were doing. The team is full of grown men and women and they should know better. If they wanted to make their game global and add other cultures into their game or shows and anime they need to do research about it (not talking about the Revival my dream event)

This shows even more how people on the internet are sensitive, I think the Nene card wasn't racist if it wasn't culturaly innapropriate and I loved how you actually shared informations and facts and not just your opinions! thank you and I'm sorry for my english :D

Unfortunately, nowadays people will always find something to be upset about :/

honestly i was expecting the whole en unknown mother goose twitter post to be adding into here

Ah the Western strike again

i dont think it was blackface, but instead a tan.

I really liked the card though, it was super cute and I liked the setting very much, I didn't think of it being racist or anything of such. I thought it was just a cute card in a beautiful setting I loved how her outfit and stripes on her face it was cute! I wish I could've got it.

(I'm only commenting about the "blackface" one.) It's totally intended to be similar to gyaru at least and their outfits are LION costumes. They look tribal, yes, but they're literally intended to be lions because of the "leo" is the band's name, it's not some racist thing being pointed at actual tribal people. This whole thing is an example of people just overreacting because they made an assumption. Also, can we acknowledge that blackface is probably hardly ever heard of in Japan? They probably didn't know how people could interpret this, and I don't blame them for it.

I like this informative type of videos!

but the "glorious japan" thing idk although it talks about te westernization and the big change, i never noticed that kind of tone or implication in senbonzakura-

I don't even feel that's blackface, but rather just a makeup equivalent of a lion. Like... look I'm as PC as the next liberal but it's context that matters here. Now if they were pretending to *be* black/ say the N word/ acting in a way that directly infrenced black people that would be different. But... personally I don't see it as racist 🤷‍♀️

L/n just wanted to be lions bro😞

im rlly sad that revival my dream was canceled, isnt the story quite important in pjsk???

I don't think PuchiSeka meant any offense, but I guess I can understand if people concerned didn't feel comfortable because of it. Like, it wasn't mocking any races explicitly, but you can say it was a bit awkward. Revival My Dream, though... It's really sad how people don't understand what denonciation through media is, or don't take the time to care about it. The Forest dweller were never depicted in a bad light; the officer (Tsukasa's character) called them savages and barbarics at first yeah. But the whole plot was about him changing his mind once he met "Emu". The piece only set a context at first, a quite realistic one actually, since those kinds of things happened and keeps happening in differents forms, that's even why people are offended in the first place. But that context wasn't reinforce and encouraged, it was totally discredited instead. (Btw the Forest dweller wasn't really open towards the town dweller at first. It's a normal reaction since they were judged at first, but it just show how both side were misunderstanding each other, and how people will answer hate with hate and worsen the situation, so it's important to point. -No one blames them to do so though, don't worry- ) The whole piece showed how wrong was that behavior at the first place, and the whole message was about not judging someone you don't know on something like appearance or a difference of culture and mindset, first try to understand them. (A nice parrallel to Rui's life, since he was never understood, but always really careful and understanding himself. He would never write a show to belittle soemone or a category of people, and the developpers won't ever make him write somehting like that either) Rui himself was a Town dweller, and the actual antagonist. Some dumb politician wanting the conflict between the two people to last for the sake of black oil exploitation, so he tried to stop The Officer and The Girl's plan to reconciliate their respective people... Therefore he locked up the officer. Yeah that's what Tsukasa's card was about, and by the way I can add Rui's Alchemist costume has nothing to do with the piece, it was only his Alchemist persona y'all know from the main story, as clearly shown on the said Tsukasa's card. The girls card and costume... I can't tell what wrong with it, to be honest ? I can't sayd if it's okay either. There's nothing offensive about it in itself, from what I see. If the only problem is that it's a tribal costume... then excuse me but I don't see how is that a problem, with what I state above in mind. (Keep in minds the girls costume was also made for the theater piece, it's a bit fancy on purpose and therefore not 100% realistic. Also bcz it's for the game, obviously.) If there's a problem I don't see, please enlighten me, because I'm honestly just confused here... Otherwise... The whole event was about misunderstanding, and that if you just tried to know a bit more before judging, you could understand in the end, but it was cancelled by twitter for a misunderstanding based on two screenshots... This is so ironic I don't know if I should laugh or cry. In the end, the people who blamed the event are acting exactly in that way : They're just ignorantly blaming something they don't know about out of a misunderstanding. And the developpers just choose to kept the misunderstanding as it is instead of clarifying the situation, by taking the event down. (If MMJ had as much resilience than the devs I don't know where they would be today, I swear...) I guess I can understand both the devs and those people at some point, but I still disagree with both. The worst ones though, are the one saying that the event was racist, and using japan's difference of culture as an excuse for it. I mean, yes. There is a difference of culture and education, I don't doubt that. But that dosen't mean they're stupid ? It can leads to some awkward things like PuchiSeka, without direct offense or mockery towards anyone (except Leo/Need themselves, in an harmless way) But it won't lead to them writing a whole theater piece to belittle a category of people, just like that ? They have a different culture history and educations, but they know what insults/pejoratives words are, and they won't use them ignorantly ? (Btw before writing somehting you're doing research about it, so if the piece was about American's colonisation they would know about it anyway, internet is here for that. But as the video said, it was about Mononoke Hime and their own culture... That they know better than you, probably.) You're justifying a racism that doesn't exist... With an actual form of racism. I can forgive the people who've been offended by the screenshot without context (But go read a fan translation of the event and think about it a bit, please, if you don't mind) I can forgive the devs for choosing the safer solution for them, as wrong as it was But this... This is honestly... urg. This is just too much. (I don't blame the one who make the video though, you just stated things in a neutral way, you didn't try to justify anything, so it's fine) With this said... Please go read a fan translation before setting your mind about that event. If you didn't I won't try to chnage your mind any further, you feel how you feel, in the end. But at least give it a chance and try to understand, you'll see it means no harm. Thanks if you've read all of this. To finish, I think Senbonzakura and the costume were more about showing and defending japanese culture (especially from the western's one), than trying to offend Korean culture in any way, but I don't know much about it and I can understand that it makes people umconfortable nonethless (Especially for Senbonzakura)

Sekai fandom moment 😱

I think they can just add the story for Revival my Dream but edited. So I don’t have to look on youtube for the story

cant believe this shit happened

I always had an ick with Senbonsakura.

for the most part, in puchiseka, tsukasa was actually scared to death abt the “race change thing”

Project Sekai's Fandom is as toxic as the Genshin Fandom. Have a straight ship? you get attacked, Not using pronouns for Mizuki? you get attacked, Don't ship Ruikasa, Akitohya or AnHane? you get attacked. It's too much. Also those controversies are pointless, especially in a rhythm game where most of the songs are dark.

I know this is a stupid question but am I still allowed to play the game and cosplay from it?

i didnt know there was more than RMD and that leo/need episode in proseka drama history

i just hope for the event coming in june (which has a nene card that people think is offensive) to not face the Revival My Dream fate

Uh ik this is a stupid question but whats the name of the game on the intro?

I think the blackface and racism controversies were in the right? (idk how to word this, just that I think it’s fine that the devs got called out for it) As for the outfit and song controversies, I’m not well informed with either or and as to why it’s problematic so I don’t think I have an opinion

“Outrages! I can’t believe different countries have different cultures!” People who cancelled the anime on twitter.

Does Pjsk deserve the hate they’re getting? I’m not sure. But I’m 100% hopeful they didn’t have that kind of intention Twitter should probably focus more on the very serious issues imo

i love how easily western player got offended so easily

This is a great video essay, good work !

Signs that Twitter=is the Cause of All Problems

ur a few months too late

people burn for nothing.

That was at best a tan, you've got to be kidding me. PSekai players being insufferable is nothing new, but at this point I'm convinced they don't even deserve the game they got after putting PDiva out of the map

Sabeis lo gracioso? Que lo del supuesto blackface de la miniserie ya paso con otra franquicia. En BanG Dream! (mas conocido como Bandori) hicieron el mismo gag hace unos años en una miniserie igual a esta (es mas, a lo mejor es algo que se copian entre estos juegos, pero esto ya son suposiciones mias) y pasó lo mismo xD

im just like pissed cuz why the fuck would they do that 😭

Dude omfg imagine being this sensitive

So I play pj sekai but idk if I should delete it ooorrr☹

why do i have to learn that the prsk anime got canceled before i even learned that there's a prsk anime? TwT

Miku: aaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

ok but is it still ok to play? are people still playing it? explain plzz plz plz

I'm so lucky i didn't download Twitter

I love petit sekai series. They ar every funny. Look, as a black person im not even offended by this. Can people stop taking stuff too serious? Please, let it live. I dont want my favourite game gets cancelled just because stuff that doesnt even offends me.

People from Twitter just like to cry about the most little things

Is bad that I think that Leo/need actuylook very cute as brown lions? I really liked

Games should just not reference anything that happened before Beatlemania unless it’s historical fiction

yall getting all heated abt the gyaru makeup from the anime like ITS A GYARU LION CALM DOWN

man, I just hope some East game didn't get ruined by west

What is wrong with cancel culture

Fortunately, I only played in JP server where I don't need to interact with these wackos. Actually I did not pulling in this banner, but somehow in the future I got all 3 featured 4 stars card (Rui, Emu, Nene). So L for EN and W for JP.

I didn't care about the RMD cancellation on en so much but I remember the people in the discord who wanted it back were absolutely mad. One guy was like "I'm Irish and you can use leprechauns and stuff and I don't care and I give you my permission. I DEMAND a statement from SEGA or I'll boycott the game. The vast majority of players are devastated and you will lose money." At the time, Colorful Pallet had given multiple statements but he didn't think they were good enough. Also, using Irish culture is not comparable to what Proseka did and 99% of people don't give a sh!t you bellend. I was so ashamed to be a proseka fan when I read their messages that all I could do was react to it with the nerd emoji. Also don't just the official discord it sucks

This is the reason i'm not in the prosekai fandom, well the western one i guess.

Is project sekai really gone?

Okay ive been a vocaloid fan since like 2015 and i honestly think projct sekai is a disgrace of vocaloid, the fans are super toxic and its nothing how it used to be

some people are actually so sensitive that they misunderstood immediately like please read buddy.

But I play prosekai

i am racism

I mean its the typical anime game directed towards fanservicing communities but sadly this game went directly to the american fanbase which always ruins up everything

Ik its bad but there fictional characters and America is not the only country on earth i dont think the creator of the series had bad intentions i also bet the people arguing on twitter dont even play project sekai

The west 💀

Western problem :v

Another case of Westerners being offended over literally harmless material and Koreans still butthurt about something that happened almost 100 years ago and has basically nothing to do with them nowadays. Seems like it only gets worse with time, people just won't give up their pettiness.

Oooookaaaayyy it's time to go back to Bang Dream..

Never do videos talking about prsk controversies again