Comments on: Japanese Movie Tag or Riaru Onigokko Unpacked

By: ping

ping — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:28:52 +0000

Great analysis—as always, Taylor! This kind of deep, playful deconstruction of genre and form is exactly why I keep coming back. It also reminded me of how much anticipation and real-world wonder surrounds natural phenomena—like the aurora borealis—where timing, location, and conditions converge in near-cinematic unpredictability.

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:36:37 +0000

In reply to Rai.

Hey there Rai,
I’ll tweak what I wrote – wasn’t trying to put you down. At all. And I apologize if it sounded like I was. Definitely not my intent.

Hear me out. The all female world, was 100% a product of the male sexualized mind and desires. What sells in video games? Sex, and Blood. Throw cute girls in (how many shots were there in this movie of girls in underwear? “Accidentally” caught?) there with glimpses of their legs, underwear, etc… all playing and being coy together… SELL VIDEO GAMES. Throw tons of scenes will eviscerating blood-letting?!? SELL VIDEO GAMES. Even if the protagonist of the game was gay, I would still argue that it was because it would sell video games. That was the message I saw Sono telling us.

That you are identifying in this world of all women is really confusing to me. No offense. And I am not talking specifically about your being gay… I’m just talking about your being a woman. These three worlds were fantasies, male sexualized fantasies, specifically generated for the sole purpose of selling video games. And we see this all the more when we head to Man’s World and see the carnage that is happening in this futuristic horror caused by men getting what they want for so many years. Sono is telling us that this is ruinous behaviour. To allow this to continue will take us to places that we as a collective society shouldn’t want to go.

But yeah, I’ll tweak what I said about your piece. Thanks for explaining your viewpoint a little better to me.

Taylor

By: Rai

Rai — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:43:29 +0000

Hello, I am the author of the article you cited. I think you misread my piece. I am not saying the movie is against homosexuality. I am literally saying what you said “then the story would actually be FOR the defense of homosexuality. The support of gay people, specifically gay women within the Asian communities.”

I am a queer woman. I liked the supportive message it gave about women fighting against gender stereotypes. I was saying that society can, at times, be against homosexuality, not the movie itself. The movie suppprts the opposite, in my opinion.

You can disagree that the movie’s message is about homosexuality, but please reword your piece so people do not get the wrong idea about my personal interpretation of the movie.

Thank you.