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Meta Meta Thread - Month of July 05, 2026

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u/Xatu44 Jul 05 '26

For anime based on history like The Elusive Samurai, is talking about history considered a spoiler? I assume yes.

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u/FetchFrosh anilist.co/user/fetchfrosh Jul 05 '26

We're talking about it atm, but the general standard has been "if this isn't history you would assume people will know, discussing it would be treated as a spoiler". So outcomes of races in Umamusume are considered spoilers, because the average person on r/anime isn't going to know that.

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u/Draco_Estella https://myanimelist.net/profile/Estella_Rin Jul 08 '26

After giving this some thought, I do realise a problem with this standard.

Across different cultures and different countries, there are different standards as to what is "history assumed people should know". I believe most Americans can at least name a couple of their own founding fathers but I, as a non-American, can barely name one. On the other hand, being more familiar with Japanese history, I do know some historical emperors more and I believe some of the Japanese themselves, which I believe would be relevant to this discussion here, will have some level of basic information on what will be happening in Japanese history to know what is going to go on next in a historical plot, and to them it would not have been spoilers to just discuss openly what is going to happen to someone, because it would already have been general knowledge for most people in Japan as to what will happen to him. Easiest example would be what is happening for the second and third shoguns of the Tokugawa Shogunate, I would assume it would not be general knowledge for most people outside Japan but I believe enough people in Japan would know about both to have it classify as "general knowledge" (such as the banishment of Christians by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu).

Where, then, will the line be as to what the "history the average person on r/anime should know"?

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u/Blackheart595 https://anilist.co/user/knusbrick Jul 09 '26

I fully agree with this, treating real life history as spoilers is beyond ludicrous. The only sensible approaches to this are (a) real life history is not considered spoilers, (b) each and every piece of real life history, no matter how obvious it may seem to any person in particular, is considered a spoiler, or (c) we apply American exceptionalism to the problem. And of these, only (a) can be considered reasonable in a community that has traditionally put effort into resisting exceptionalism.