A certified teacher with a degree is now working part time at a konbini...

Good job, you fucks >_>

Mean, Kashima, mean.

*shots fired*

As mean as it is, I can't get enough of Ellen Baker abuse. Even Lawson Kashima is going after her. Its going to be really crummy if the schools actually pull the textbooks because of this though. I don't know how PC Japan is but I hope it is better than here in the US.

You've combined the memes.

BUT SHE LOOKS SO SINCERE.

79248cm/s said:

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The artist merely asked fans to show some restraint to avoid parents associations backlash, mainly to prevent that from happening. Nothing more.

Shebadotfr said:

The artist merely asked fans to show some restraint to avoid parents associations backlash, mainly to prevent that from happening. Nothing more.

Hopefully they listen and that's all that happens.

Considering that the PTA of Japanese schools are very, very heavy handed on anything they deem troubling to students or school education... this meme could very well result in some unfortunate effects if this actually gets attention outside of otakus.

And this is why the internet can't have nice things.

I uh, I don't quite get this one. Is Ms. Ellen a Giants fan?

I think Ms. Ellen and Kashima are cute though!

Ms. Ellen is a fan of the Boston Red Sox, and says so in the textbook; thus Kashima already knows about her.

/explaining the joke

Going along with Paracite since I got ninja'd, [Image.]

Goodness me, Kashima even mimicked Baker mimicking a baseball player.

Farran said:

Considering that the PTA of Japanese schools are very, very heavy handed on anything they deem troubling to students or school education... this meme could very well result in some unfortunate effects if this actually gets attention outside of otakus.

And this is why the internet can't have nice things.

I think that future textbooks will avoid moe, due to the Internet and what they did to Ellen Baker.

And that's a damn shame, because even I want that textbook, to see what they're teaching middle school students - and to read the adventures of Ellen Baker.

Jarlath said:

I think that future textbooks will avoid moe, due to the Internet and what they did to Ellen Baker.

And that's a damn shame, because even I want that textbook, to see what they're teaching middle school students - and to read the adventures of Ellen Baker.

It's just a shame that this became the default response to any given trends in this internet age. You just can't use any sort of female character to act as mascot of anything anymore.

This could've worked out better if they started off with some other sort of mascot, like a kid-friendly animal mascot or maybe even something like Pikachu or Korosensei if they want the extra exposure if they could get some contracts. I mean those characters are appropriate to act as teaching mascots and it'd also help advertise their original medias, so if anything those would've been a win-win situation.

Mascots don't work as well when the characters are used for real-life dialogues that the students (and teachers) are expected to play out, and modify, themselves. Remember, it's not just Ellen, but a whole host of characters that need to cover 3 years of English education.

azurelorochi said:

It's just a shame that this became the default response to any given trends in this internet age. You just can't use any sort of female character to act as mascot of anything anymore.

This could've worked out better if they started off with some other sort of mascot, like a kid-friendly animal mascot or maybe even something like Pikachu or Korosensei if they want the extra exposure if they could get some contracts. I mean those characters are appropriate to act as teaching mascots and it'd also help advertise their original medias, so if anything those would've been a win-win situation.

It's also bothersome for those artists who may have wanted to work outside of industries such as the light novels one, which have become quite prone at recycling the Raildex/IS/OreImo/Isekai/SAO formula in hope of hitting as big as those mentioned works and may have become saturated as a result. IIRC, otakus in 2ch have joked in a sarcastic manner that it's alright to recycle all that shit as long as an illustrator like Buriki is doing the artwork for your light novel. Leaving that aside, yes, it may be one less potential source of outcome for japanese moe artists.

Shebadotfr said:

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Well, the history of art is just the history of plagiarism. As long as there's demand for it, as long as they're not losing money, then no one's going to force the authors from changing the clichefests they're writing. It's why there's an oversaturated harem, VRMMO, magical school trend in the industry.

This goes double for LNs which hardly can cause the publishers to lose money since they're not published on magazines like mangas, where everyone are constantly fighting for the serialization slot. That's why LNs can keep coming out even without much profit to the title, and most doesn't need any creativity as long as there's boobs and lolis to satisfy the otaku targets. Though I'd say you can say the exact same thing for trends Twilight and so set in the west.

But that said though, it's not really related to the case with Ellen-Sensei, is it?