How come there aren't any anime or manga that involve the Imperial family...

How come there aren't any anime or manga that involve the Imperial family? The English Royal Family is involved in the plot of countless fictional stories in the West, in novels, movies, tv shows and comics. (ie: stop the assassin trying to kill the Queen etc)

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Maybe its a crime to make fun of the royal family

Not all of them are fictional. look at her pedo son...

because dishonor

Emperor is a sore subject in japan

Man, they look really inbred.

I don't know how royalty/imperial families ever thought it was a good idea to inbreed...

You may notice that even ancient emperors are excluded from anime and manga. It's always Shoguns and the like.

It's about keeping the bloodline pure.

The emperor was parodied in the most recent legend of koizumi spinoff.
A manga about Hirohito actually does exist but pretty much is a dead as far as translation goes, if at all.

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Because it's outright banned to portray the imperial family in works of fiction in Japan.

Because they love their royal family. Keeping them was among the only things they asked the Allies on the WW2 Peace Treaty, and the feeling is just as strong today.

I mean it isn't like a lot of the drama surrounding the family is due to the Emperor having married a commoner instead of a raised-for-the-purpose daughter of an old noble family or anything like that.

Oh, wait.

Next up: man that Sussex couple's kids have got the Hapsburg look.

Can't fix an inbred bloodline in one generation I guess.

Is this an old pic? Why everybody looks like they are living in the 80s.

You actually can for the most part.

inbreeding concentrates power and land ownership.

Nobody has yet figured out a good setting involving a member of the Imperial family and the Truck-kun.
As soon as they figure it out well get some.

Technically Japan has freedom of speech but the nation is ruled by a culture of shame and many people still see the emperor as a symbol and even a living god, not including the right-wing nationalism is increasing to levels not seen since before the war. Also many weeaboos don't get that Japan isn't the last remain of creator's freedom because nips are genuinely worried of not offending anyone but Yea Forums favorite mangas and animes are niche titles aimed to a niche audience. And to make it worse, Japanese otakus tend to be right-wing nationalists with nostalgia toward Imperial Japan and they don't deny Nanking and the comfort women but celebrate them instead

The comfort women thing is kind of a weird issue.

Living god?
Really?

It's part of the Japanese culture.

Fun fact: Arguably, the first emperors were actually empresses and they were female shamans in charge of fertility rituals. Apparently, it was common for the shaman's brother to take care of the mortal affairs like administrating the land. Later Japan adopted the Chinese model of a male emperor after they were mocked in the Chinese court for having an empress and the introduction of Confucianism to the country. Nevertheless the duality of a divine ruler and a mortal ruler remained through all Japanese history (Emperor/Shogun, Emperor/PM). The tricky part of living gods is you don't care that much about what he says because it's more about the symbol and getting what he really want to say

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Isn't Chōyaku Hyakunin isshu: Uta Koi also talking about them?