I could sit here and bellyache about how bad the show is, the characters are, or something like that, but to be honest, I cannot be bothered to do that and I was not even bothered to check out this show. What bothers me about this anime is the fact that this is propaganda. BRB cultural lessons 101 with Honey’s Anime! It’s not news that as of recent Japanese people as a whole are eating less and less rice. Seriously. English language Japanese news sites like the Japan Times and Japan Today have the results of some national poll from Japan at least once or twice a year talking about how rice consumption is down. There are many reasons as to why this is, the main fact being that Newsflash! white rice, because most Japanese people abhor wild rice and brown rice, and suggesting anything other than white rice is unacceptable, is not healthy. Japanese people are eating bread more and more and rice is becoming something of a novelty that you have with your family on certain occasions or if you do have rice, it is in very small portions and infrequently. However that is not true across the board as there are many people who do enjoy rice a lot in Japan, but there are plenty of surveys and news articles coming out how the sales of rice are down and people are not eating as much.

This anime is just pure propaganda to get Japanese people to find rice endearing again and be presented with shiny male characters. The main antagonists are known as the Yeast Kings and they all have foreign sounding names because bread=foreign and bad. While I cannot prove it because the entities part of the production committee are hidden from the public, my money is that some government organization kicked in some money to have this anime made. Subtle, but not subtle enough! I don’t mind propaganda, and no one really should because everything we consume in society is propaganda, but at least make it less obvious and about something that public attitudes have already started to shift on. #Bye