I was boredly looking around YouTube on this Sunday morning and in the mood to watch some bozo talk about anime, maybe get some insights, discover some obscure hidden gem and the like.
However, I found it surprisingly hard to find quality in that scene, beyond niche video-makers like Kenny Lauerdale. Thus I was wondering if you have any recommendations of some people you like making videos about anime.
For real. The only shows I’ve seen that meet those criteria are things I intentionally hate watched like Cross Ange lol
I feel like most mainstream stuff. Think about the trope of the fall into chest stuff. That is like ever classic anime you know?
here’s some great anime that neither enjoy sexual violence nor fascism. there’s plenty more out there, sex pest stuff is hardly “every classic anime”. some of these may have some in it but they certainly aren’t enjoying it
also it’s real fucking gross to say “a poor taste joke is exactly the same as on screen sexual assault with deeply fash vibes” there’s a big difference between urusei yatsura and goblin slayer
Goku does some unfortune things but because it is always played for comedy people don’t think about it.
you’ll notice i didn’t include dragon ball on the list of anime that didn’t have sex pest stuff or fascism! and again, there’s a big difference between dragon ball and goblin slayer
you’re basically saying “all 80s movies love sexual assault, so it’s fine that i like revenge of the nerds,” and when i respond with a list of 80s movies that don’t have any sexual assault or harrassment in them you say “well have you seen how han treats leia in star wars?” those are two very different things! both are bad, but they are at very different levels of it
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wait you think people dislike goblin slayer BECAUSE it shows sexual violence as bad? you think the people who dislike goblin slayer are sitting around going “oh if only there were more wacky sexual harassment i might like this show”?
the problem with goblin slayer is that it shows the sexual violence in a way where it clearly expects the audience to be jacking off and there is no amount of arcs where characters process trauma that will undo that. your standard anime shittiness simply does not compare
Ehh, the first scene of the first episode is questionable. It is 50/50 among reviews if it is done well. Clearly not perfect or the discourse wouldn’t exist. SAO was contemporary had more violence of that nature. It was clearly ment to be fun in that show and people do not give it the same level of hate. There is a charitable reading of the work that sees the author ment to say sexual violence was bad. Which is far enough from mainstream anime opinion that I think people have trouble processing it.
i have to ask again, you think the problem people have with it is that it says sexual violence is bad? you think that’s why people dislike it?
the sexual violence in sao is also supposed to be bad! they kill the guy who does it! that doesn’t excuse the framing, it’s still a bad show that handles its sexual assault poorly, but framing sexual violence for titillation is so often combined with setting up a villain and showing just how evil he is. it shows up all the fuckign time, including in series i otherwise love. goblin slayer is worse than most in that it spends more time on it and it’s way more explicit than it usually is, and it’s the first impression the show gives you
Hold on, it’s been a long time since I watched the SAO anime and I never watched past the first two arcs. But I’ve read every SAO light novel that is translated to English, and I’m pretty sure there are like maybe 3 or 4 total instances of attempted sexual violence in the entire thing, and none of them actually get anywhere.