Ever since I was a little kid, I've been a massive G1 Transformers fan. Not least because the TV series represented the absolute pinnacle of my Saturday morning cartoon viewing when I was young - and this at a time when terrestrial programming included classics such as He-Man, Thundercats, Battle of the Planets, Dungeons & Dragons, Ulysses 31 and The Mysterious Cities of Gold. It was a good time to be a kid in the 80's - before the neutering effects of political correctness would result in cartoons becoming increasingly pussified. And now with a distinct lack of archetypal male role-models enjoying mainstream success, where their actions would inspire youth to step up and raise their game, Western society is seeing a greater prominence of effeminate social justice warriors who act like spoilt whiners and who bitch about their self-entitled first world lifestyles whilst Anita Sarkeesian pushes her gender-communist demasculinising agenda.
In this day and age therefore, and especially in an ever-connected globalised world, it's almost a miracle then that Japan hasn't had its otaku culture adversely affected. With respected auteurs such as Hideo Kojima and Suda 51 being widely lambasted by popular media for their portrayal of fema...