{"id":8979,"date":"2026-11-04T06:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:24:40","slug":"make-believe-bonus-lessons-from-two-major-japanese-entertainment-online-firestorms-newspicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"Make Believe Bonus: Lessons From Two Major Japanese Entertainment \u201cOnline Firestorms\u201d (NewsPicks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!4Zn-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf14e899-afb4-4c44-bebf-95b28cfed4f8_1462x1456.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\">\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!4Zn-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf14e899-afb4-4c44-bebf-95b28cfed4f8_1462x1456.png\" width=\"538\" height=\"535.782967032967\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/df14e899-afb4-4c44-bebf-95b28cfed4f8_1462x1456.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1450,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:538,&quot;bytes&quot;:1833078,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mbmelodies.substack.com\/i\/223464552?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf14e899-afb4-4c44-bebf-95b28cfed4f8_1462x1456.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" class=\"sizing-normal\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<div class=\"image-link-expand\">\n<div class=\"pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset\"><button tabindex=\"0\" type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><button tabindex=\"0\" type=\"button\" class=\"pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Smooth sailing for Japanese entertainment abroad in the 2020s, right? Two recent controversies, though, reminded that Japanese performers\u2026and the companies representing them\u2026simply can\u2019t wedge themselves into other spaces and expect to be embraced. It can actually backfire big time when those running the show don\u2019t understand the context of media itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I <a href=\"https:\/\/newspicks.com\/news\/17680214\/body\/?ref=index&amp;utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawVYApZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR-mvKE5BjmJvGReKhD9ILCR4_Nm0v8Hd1XR7POhYWUVVw2hFH37hc5VPtHUvA_aem_AETaSP-AGAYAuLWiYNwOCQ\">wrote about this for NewsPicks<\/a>, and below is my English draft of the same story. As is always the case with NewsPicks stories, I put them behind a paywall here because they also happen to be behind one on the main site. But you can read them and more special bonus writing by becoming a paid subscriber to Make Believe Melodies!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mbmelodies.substack.com\/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/mbmelodies.substack.com\/subscribe?\"><span>Subscribe now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/mbmelodies.substack.com\/p\/make-believe-bonus-lessons-from-two\"><br \/>\n              Read more<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n      <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smooth sailing for Japanese entertainment abroad in the 2020s, right? Two recent controversies, though, reminded that Japanese performers\u2026and the companies representing them\u2026simply can\u2019t wedge themselves into other spaces and expect&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}