{"id":49793,"date":"2025-07-07T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49793"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:17:52","slug":"kill-la-kill-promare-animator-faces-backlash-over-supporting-openly-racist-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/kill-la-kill-promare-animator-faces-backlash-over-supporting-openly-racist-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill la Kill, Promare animator faces backlash over supporting openly racist politician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sushio, longtime Studio TRIGGER animator most famous for his character design work in<strong> Kill La Kill <\/strong>and animation work in <strong>Promare<\/strong>, has recently expressed his support for an openly racist far-right wing politician on his social media account, causing backlash from Japanese fans of the studio. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.esuteru.com\/archives\/10398017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of now deleted X posts<\/a>, Sushio stated that his favorite candidate for the upcoming July elections in Japan was Uryu Hirano, a non-affiliated politician currently campaigning for a seat in the House of Councillors. Sushio called Hirano\u2019s attitude to life inspiring, sharing one of her speeches on his X account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250707-497930001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250707-497930001.jpg 936w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250707-497930001-380x175.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250707-497930001-768x353.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of his fans reacted negatively to the posts, pointing out the racist beliefs Hirano has endorsed over the past few years \u2013 and an excerpt from one of her speeches shows how extreme they actually were. As part of her campaign, she lets one of her major supporters talk about how \u201cequality between races is impossible,\u201d claiming Japanese superiority over white and black people, and calling black people \u201con the same level of intelligence as dolphins or orca whales.\u201d Furthermore, Hirano has an aggressive anti-Chinese ideology, with some of her key policies including visas and naturalization restrictions for Chinese nationals, abolishment of the business management visa for Chinese nationals and banning of selling Chinese products in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30c8\u30ea\u30ac\u30fc\u3055\u3093\u3001\u30a8\u30c3\u30b8\u30e9\u30f3\u30ca\u30fc2\u767a\u8868\u3057\u305f\u3070\u304b\u308a\u306a\u306e\u306b\u3001\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u653f\u6cbb\u5bb6\u652f\u6301\u3092\u516c\u8a00\u3057\u3066\u3057\u307e\u3063\u305f\u3002\u3053\u3093\u306a\u30ec\u30d9\u30eb\u306e\u5dee\u5225\u767a\u8a00\u306f\u30c8\u30e9\u30f3\u30d7\u3067\u3082\u3084\u3089\u304b\u3055\u306a\u3044\u3067\u3059\u3002\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u62e1\u6563\u3055\u308c\u554f\u984c\u306b\u306a\u308b\u306e\u3082\u6642\u9593\u306e\u554f\u984c\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7omVzyPwPv\">https:\/\/t.co\/7omVzyPwPv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfMx4Yv4Lp\">pic.twitter.com\/WfMx4Yv4Lp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Obsolete Games (@sakugability) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sakugability\/status\/1941472828966285433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Users on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sho_jo_ji\/status\/1941531656814461084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also suggest<\/a> Sushio may be a supporter of the Sanseito, a right-wing populist political party, often referred to as \u201cextremist\u201d and involved in controversies regarding denial of Japanese war crimes. Note that many supporters of Hirano\u2019s policies are also sympathizers of the Sanseito party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another post, Sushio likened the political scene of Japan to an anime, referring to the protagonists as a \u201csmall team who finally came to save Japan from a state of crisis\u201d \u2013 prompting many to believe that he is likening the small team of protagonists to the sympathizers of Hirano and the Sanseito, with the \u201ccrisis\u201d being the presence of foreign nationals in Japan. Many Japanese TRIGGER fans voiced their concern over Sushio\u2019s endorsement of far-right politicians on his official profile, expressing that his post could reflect badly on the studio\u2019s reputation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 | Official Teaser | Netflix\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjhRSNkquOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst announcing a sequel to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, an anime which was notably created in cooperation with a Western studio, the implication that one of their more influential staff supports xenophobic and racist policies does not give the already internationally popular studio a good image. Furthermore, given that Sushio has participated in many major overseas anime conventions, there\u2019s no doubt that, alongside Japanese fans, many western fans would be disappointed that an artist who went overseas for work multiple times would endorse racist politicians or associate himself with anti-foreigner ultranationalist policies. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio TRIGGER animator Sushio was confronted by Japanese fans due to endorsing an openly racist far-right politician. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":49796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-49793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-non-gaming-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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