{"id":54793,"date":"2025-12-11T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=54793"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:54:19","slug":"japanese-minister-asks-people-to-stop-glazing-her-over-her-gaming-tastes-liking-the-same-things-is-completely-different-from-agreeing-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japanese-minister-asks-people-to-stop-glazing-her-over-her-gaming-tastes-liking-the-same-things-is-completely-different-from-agreeing-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese minister asks people to stop glazing her over her gaming tastes. \u201cLiking the same things is completely different from agreeing about politics\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kimi Onoda, a politician of Japan\u2019s conservative Liberal Democratic Party who came into the spotlight in 2025 after being appointed to multiple key government roles, recently made an unusual appeal to X users and web news outlets. In the aftermath of an unassuming post she made while playing mobile RPG <strong>Fate\/Grand Order<\/strong>, she published a lengthy post asking people to stop tying her gaming and anime-related hobbies to her political positions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onoda carries <a href=\"https:\/\/japan.kantei.go.jp\/104\/meibo\/daijin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a total of eight minister titles<\/a>, overseeing everything from Japan\u2019s economic security and foreign-resident coexistence to science, space, AI, intellectual property, and the \u201cCool Japan\u201d cultural strategy. It\u2019s this last part in particular that\u2019s given her a lot of attention in online circles: considering the Cool Japan initiative is meant to develop and popularize Japanese content like anime, games and manga, many people have had strong reactions (positive and negative) to the new person in charge being very openly &#8220;otaku.&#8221; Onoda is known to talk about her passion for anime and games in non-official settings, and netizens have even dug up details like her participation in the domestic doujinshi event Comiket and previous job as a producer of Hetalia series CD dramas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent uproar originates from a post made by Onoda on her personal X account. In the late hours of December 7, she celebrated clearing the latest chapter of Fate\/Grand Order in time and thanked fellow players of the game for helping her out when she got stuck. The post immediately blew up, and local web news outlets started <a href=\"https:\/\/news.livedoor.com\/article\/detail\/30154663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">running pieces<\/a> pointing out that Japan\u2019s economic security minister was grinding FGO at odd hours and had a long history of tweeting about the game.&nbsp;<\/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\">\u3044\u3084\u3053\u3093\u306a\u3093\u30cb\u30e5\u30fc\u30b9\u306b\u3059\u308b\u306e\u3084\u3081\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3088\u3002\u5185\u8f2a\u306e\u30d5\u30a9\u30ed\u30ef\u30fc\u5411\u3051\u306b\u975e\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8\u3067\u545f\u3044\u3066\u3044\u308b\u306e\u306b\u545f\u304d\u3084\u5199\u771f\u3092\u7121\u65ad\u8ee2\u8f09\u3057\u3066\u516c\u306b\u6652\u3057\u3042\u3052\u308b\u3063\u3066\u3069\u3046\u3044\u3046\u795e\u7d4c\u3057\u3066\u308b\u3093\u3067\u3059\u304b\u3002<\/p>&mdash; \u5c0f\u91ce\u7530\u7d00\u7f8e@\u5ca1\u5c71 (@onoda_kimi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onoda_kimi\/status\/1997684617093218533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not thrilled to see this, Onoda posted a harshly worded reply <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/onoda_kimi\/status\/1997684617093218533?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly under one of the articles on X, commenting<\/a>, \u201cCome on, stop turning this into news. This is an unofficial personal account for my followers. What are you thinking taking my posts and photos without permission and blasting them publicly?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/onoda_kimi\/status\/1997649720034889835?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">followed up with a long explanation<\/a> about how she draws a distinct line between her hobbies and politics, commenting that liking the same games or anime as someone has nothing to do with sharing their political beliefs. As an example, she jokes about being able to passionately talk about the games she loves with lawmakers from totally different parties whose policies she disagrees with.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Onoda also says she gets why some people can\u2019t separate the two. Because of that, she apparently tries not to gush about her hobbies during official occasions, anticipating that people who dislike her politically will feel irked if she endorses titles they personally hold dear. At the same time, she denounces people who suggest she can\u2019t be a \u201creal\u201d fan of certain works because her policies are (perceived as) contradictory to the themes or messages of those stories.&nbsp;<\/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\">\u8da3\u5473\u306b\u95a2\u3057\u3066\u3061\u3087\u3063\u3068\u771f\u9762\u76ee\u306a\u8a71\u3002\u2026<\/p>&mdash; \u5c0f\u91ce\u7530\u7d00\u7f8e@\u5ca1\u5c71 (@onoda_kimi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onoda_kimi\/status\/1997649720034889835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m just saying I like what I like, and I have no desire for people who like the same things to also like me as an individual. I believe hobbies and work are separate, so I wish people would stop with this weird line of thinking like <em>Let&#8217;s support Onoda because she&#8217;s an otaku<\/em>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In closing, the minister asked people who are unhappy about her non-work-related ramblings to block her on X \u201cfor their own peace of mind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese minister Kimi Onoda has made an unusual appeal to fans and media following an uproar over her Fate\/Grand Order tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":54796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-54793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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