Like what you like, but don’t be an asshole about it
Whoah, I don’t know about the one on the left, but sword art online deserves all the criticism it gets. We don’t suddenly get defensive when people point out the flaws in star trek fan fiction, why should we with .//hacksign fanfiction?
even shorter:
CX, wait, I misread OP.
Yakuza_Wolf_ReRise is quite literally the picture.Go back.
^^what he said.
Tourists suck, man.
TBH the whole normalizing pedophilia thing is why I don’t suggest anime to people, despite my love of the media as a whole despite its flaws.
Yeah, a huge amount of anime has cringe loli moments, it’s insane. I actually think that most anime fans develop a kind of “loli blindness”, where their brains dissociate and they are able to fully ignore it, like how you get used to bad smells.
90% of anime will never be a “living room TV” activity due to this. Of course there’s exceptions, but people below are pretending like it’s not the norm.
I can guarantee if you showed your mum all your top ten favourite animes, they would be concerned or horrified. Not “top ten but except these ones because they’re inappropriate.” No cheating. Actually review your top ten anime, and imagine someone else watching it with you, without fast forwarding the scenes where children are sexualised for an uncomfortably long duration as a half-joke.
As a reminder, the age of consent in Japan was only 13, and they had problematic sexual assault laws, until recently (2023).
Ignoring that it factually doesn’t do that, most anime isn’t loli bait. There is a lot of pure art that even the most boring, milquetoast drone of a person (edit: that wasn’t meant to be in reference to loli, but to all the quirks of anime to do need some getting used to) could enjoy.
Reverence for good art is no excuse of ignorance of the dogshit permanently associated with the genre.
I mean, this kind of argument is a bit stupid. Are we supposed to not recommend any books because garbage like Mein Kampf exists (and is infact still printed today)? That’s some certified Grade A trash that is permanently associated with books (or more specifically, the book genre Autobiography or Philosophy).
Mein Kampf is a book in a WWII historical autobiography genre, and I can tell you with extreme confidence that enthusiests of that genre are reluctant to say so on the first date exactly because of the Mein Kampf association.
It’s not a genre, it’s a medium. And most of the bad stereotypes of anime are only universal in a certain awful genre or two.
Although the worst is the most popular, I’ll give you that.
Oh boy, let’s play the comment section semantics game!
Genre doesn’t just mean “action” / “adventure” / etc. The definition is broad enough to encompass anime.
a style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics - Cambridge dictionary
a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content - Merriam Webster
In this case, anime has a particular set of tropes, art style, animation style, themes, and content. Yes, there’s sub-genres, but anime is definitely a genre, as is “cartoon” and “soap opera”.
It’s a genre, the medium is 2d animation either cel animation or digital.
The manga was bettwr anyways.
I haven’t watched any anime since I started reading manga online, while not always better definitely not inferior and there is a lot more of it to choose from.
The meta is: hype up a manga of an upcoming anime. Watch the first episode and drop it. Whenever someone talks about the anime in your presence, explain how much better the manga is and how you could only bear watching 1 episode of the anime. Even if you liked the anime; but no one can know that. That’s the only way to consume manga properly.
Pick a side, centrist
I march to the beat of my own drummer.
