Trusting Sankaku Complex

Seriously, any reason why the site can't be trusted aside from being full of porn adds? I mean, they translate news pertaining to anime and manga, so why they can't be trusted?

Their bias may not be...for most people's consumption. Bias as in not what they exactly say (because they're quite objective with the ecchi and more LOL), but the topics they cover to begin with (i.e. the ecchi and more).

Regardless, they're a great source of gifs of scenes in the anime that they DO talk about.

edited 4th Nov '14 8:24:40 AM by entropy13

They have a nearly ridiculous anti-China bias, so any news about China they have are not to be trusted. Also, they like going for sensationalist titles that exaggerate the contents of their news.

I'll give them they are mostly good at revealing info about the authors most other sites don't want to reveal, like when they slack for petty reasons or when they have clashes with their editorials the more serious sites prefer sweeping under the rug (despite being important to understand why mny series turn out the way they do).

I assumed it was a porn site when I first discovered them years ago. I was shocked when I saw it was a news sight. I was less shocked to see that most of their news was related to ecchi.

I once listed Sankaku in my list of links in my personal blog, but eventually removed it. I just can't stand the yellow journalism the site employs. Yes, this is a man who has trudged the path of actual journalism speaking.

They seem mostly to be factually correct, but they always package the news in the most attention-grabbing way. And they often take things someone said on a message board or blog and present it as if it were significant. And with so little regards for journalistic practice, I wouldn't trust their fact-checking. Basically, it can be useful, but it would be folly to believe everything it says.

Any 'real' story takes them week to actually pick up on it.

Not really, especially if 2ch picks up on it (considering Artefact is a regular there anyway).

What about stuff like the issue about some demented otaku trying to make the Japanese government pass a law where voice actors/actresses are not allowed to be married until they retire?

edited 5th Nov '14 8:23:33 AM by HallowHawk

Actually I think the rule is you can't post it at all if it's NSFW, warning or not.

Probably true, but not actually an issue.

My bad. Sorry.

EDIT: NSFW link omitted.

edited 5th Nov '14 8:23:51 AM by HallowHawk

The Japanese society is very wary of letting shameful news about their ranks spread, so most of the truly facepalm inducing in the Japanese Otaku subculture isn't vented out through most 'serious' and sanitized sites.

edited 5th Nov '14 9:22:11 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

However, they pick up lone nutty statements on anonymous image boards (where Poe's Law is, well, law) and never offer any analysis or proper context. That is why I don't use them.

i think they can't be trusted because the way they write their non-ecchi stuff comes off as some otaku-centric version of your typical Strawman News Media. the funny thing is that i like reading this type of stuff since it's not "politically correct" on other anime websites, or hell, news sites in general. that's why i kinda wish San Con had a SFW version of the site. basically all the barbarian gaijin comments, anti China, creepy otaku that break merch when their waifu seiyuu gets married - all that stuff, without the porn, basically.

Their most serious articles are those when males are arrested for "glancing at a school girl" or the police issues a "circular" or something similar, warning about "a man in a bike following a young girl also in a bike for 10 meters or so, and then going in a different direction".

Their sources for those are the "blog" sections of major news sites in Japan.

edited 5th Nov '14 7:28:22 PM by entropy13

So, we all agree that Sankaku is basically a tabloid?

They are slightly better than the Daily Fail and the like because well, they have anime gifs!!! LOL

They're basically to news what Tenka Seiha is to reviews, just far ecchier. Seventh Style sits more or less at midway between both.

edited 5th Nov '14 8:16:50 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

If linking Sankaku is bad, then why did generaltiu get away with it here?

Because sometimes the mods miss stuff. And it seems like the site was less antiporn back than. I've noticed a fair bit of explicit material while archiving binging. Either that or they just didn't have enough mods.

Half right on both counts. TV Tropes was indeed less anti-porn (this was before the whole "no porn or pedophilic tropes or examples" thing, although posting porn for porn's sake on the forums would likely be punished), and the mods just saw the rest as too much to bother policing at the time.

Mhm. Once upon a time, we didn't have any mods who were animanga fans, so the only time anything that happened in this subforum was punished was if somebody actually reported it, which generally only happened with particularly heated arguments. That's obviously no longer the case, but it's why older posts get away with things that would be thumped now.