The new Dorohedoro OVA is causing quite a stir online, particularly among the Muslim community.
In the OVA, there's a scene where two characters attend a cult to do some devil worshipping, and the music chosen to soundtrack this scene is the popular Islamic chant "Allah Hoo". I've attempted to include a sound-webm excerpt of this scene in the OP, which will hopefully work. If not, I'll directly link to the scene in the proceeding post. Various people online have expressed their distaste with this music choice and how they feel it discredits Islam. One post that's gotten a bit of traction is written as follows: "idk who thought it would be a good idea to include a piece of islamic music in a scene about honouring devils. this is extremely disrespectful to muslims and our religion, our religion has been repeatedly mocked and this is yet another example of this". Similar thoughts can be found in the replies to this post.
Some people believe this to be simple ignorance on the studio's part, others believe it to be a lack of care. A few even say this is an act of outright malice towards Islam.. What are your thoughts? Is this song an acceptable soundtrack to a scene of devil worshipping, or is it in bad taste? Should MAPPA put out a statement regarding this?
Oh, and my apologies for the video quality of the webm not being particularly good; I didn't realize the max was lowered to 3mb.
Nolan Butler
Definitely a retarded choice.
Daniel Mitchell
Probably simple ignorance, the music got chosen because of the vibe, not the lyrics. The studio should change the music.
Aaron Phillips
My thoughts are that who gives a shit?
Robert Stewart
uh oh heads are going to roll
Samuel Rodriguez
Pretty sure the nips don't give a fuck about that. When you talk about 'causing quite a stir online', I believe you must be speaking about western twitter, since they just go apeshit whenever there's any minority involved.
Ryder Baker
The Dorohedoro ova is out? Sweet.
Chase Bailey
>Dorohedoro OVA I thought this had been out for awhile
Anthony Bailey
>OP doesn't even know webms on Zig Forums have no sound
It seems like some grifter is trying to start some shit on Zig Forums without knowing any better. You might have more luck on ANN and other retarded sites seeking boogeymen.
just seems like another piece of unintentional racism it's not like japan suddenly got worldly after the 80's or anything. Changing it would be to wipe away the truth about that. dumb user
>our religion has been repeatedly mocked It should be. Even christfucks are not delusional about current status of religion and adapt.
Grayson Adams
shit stirring, twitter outrage has no place on Zig Forums
Nolan Roberts
Didn't this already happen with Noragami and "Push Buttons"?
Samuel Cook
Ignorance and lack of care are the same thing. They should have known better.
Thomas Miller
>this is extremely disrespectful to muslims and our religion, our religion has been repeatedly mocked and this is yet another example of this Islam is an outdated barbaric religion that deserves to be mocked.
>just seems like another piece of unintentional racism Islam is not a race.
Julian Jenkins
probably an accident. nothing will happen but I hope they have good security just to be on the safe side lol
Bentley King
This happened to Rihanna too, some weeks ago, is kinda weird certain type of music is being sampled and creating some controversy just right now.
Eli Reyes
Any reddit links?
Ian Green
Most ranging people complaining are not even Muslims but entitled sjw desperate to cancel anything after their fiasco with the Fenty event.
Dylan Hernandez
They have an ova? I can't find anything about this
Hopefully we won't have another Hitoshi Igarashi case on our hands because of this.
Cameron Barnes
Someone's gonna be beheaded again
Bentley Brooks
Well, this is going to sell shit now
Gabriel Campbell
Wasn't islam illegal in Japan?
Ryan Campbell
Link?
Jacob Stewart
They gonna behead the soundtrack people arent they ?
Colton Bailey
The exact same thing happened with Noragami when one of the songs in the soundtrack was based on some religious Muslim chant. They ended up removing that song from their soundtrack and replacing it with something else.
Mason Reyes
not surprised they did this. They probably just thought it sounded cool. Japan tends to lift aesthetics from religions without understanding the significance or context
Liam Reyes
Do you know anything about the number of Muslims and anime fans in Indonesia and SEA?
FUCK THE MOHAMMAD WORSHIPPERS. FUCK THEM ALL! EAT PIG MEAT BITCHES!
I'm full with them.
Jackson Howard
Lurk more, newfag.
Wyatt Foster
>Some people believe this to be simple ignorance on the studio's part, others believe it to be a lack of care I dont see a difference between these two things. If you're gonna put a funny foreign language song into your anime you better research wtf that funny foreign language song IS first.
Ryan Miller
>Ignorance and lack of care are the same thing. based fuck mohammeds
Michael Rogers
*tips*
Asher Clark
Fuck sensitive faggots dorohedoro is based
Grayson Cruz
This isn't the right place for this discussion, but it's interesting that fundamentalist Islam (like fundamentalist Christianity) IS an adaptation for the modern day. It's a deliberate and extreme rejection of "modern Islam" and "the west". In many places it's much more popular than milquetoast conventional Islam, which is seen in those places as being a weak and outmoded form of Islam which needed to be righted.
Similar to how fundamentalist Christianity is a Victorian thing.
Anthony Hall
Religion is a disease. And anyone who adheres to one, is a certified retard.
The christcucks are just as cancerous, the only reason is that they have infected their part of the world so it is seen as more acceptable. Just like it happens in India and Japan, coincidentally, and their approach reflects the scars left by their cancerous religions. There's no statement necessary, they just need to tell any faggot follower to fuck off.
Landon Jones
Maybe they should feel less offended? Imagine how much CHURCH BAD we have to endure from Japan, if I got offended every time we'd need a crusade.
Daniel Hill
There's a loads of Christian imagery and iconography in devil worship, why not islamic stuff too?
Honestly, they are all about the old testament.
Sounds like some assholes with a victim complex trying to start shit. So just like every abrahamic faggot.
Muslim shits and Western enabling cucks have no saying on Japanese stuff.
William Diaz
IMO if a work of art is deliberately commenting on a religion and uses their iconography as a deliberate choice, then it makes sense. But if you accidentally picked a religious song because it sounded cool then it's just an embarrassing mistake and you should fix it.
