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There's a lot of terrible anime, but there's also a lot of fantastic anime. There's a lot of anime.
Just like with books. Or movies. Or videogames. It's a medium, not a genre.
Not at all “just like.” You don’t have to wade through 90% of literary fiction or Hollywood films in order to find a handful of titles that don’t sexualize children or are otherwise fucking gross.
You do have to do that to find a handful of titles that aren't displaying blatant racism, misogyny, homophobia and/or transphobia. So, yeah, 90% of Hollywood films are in fact fucking gross.
How does it feel to intentionally make a dishonest false equivalence that you, I, and everyone reading knows is bullshit? I’d feel weird about it, even if I didn’t have a ton of self-respect.
I don't know, you tell me how it feels.
Nah, it's not BS. Hollywood just doesn't glorify the same exact types of tripe, but they are just as hit and miss on moral purity. Especially if a vapid, brainless, and underdeveloped plot are considered bad. Then Hollywood might have anime beat on shit vs gold with its mountains of brainless executive-driven scripts...
Vast majority of anime have sexualization of minors tho
mainstream amine maybe, but there is A LOT of anime out there.
your comment is like saying that Hollywood only ever made super hero movies.
Nah... Maybe the vast majority of what you watch but there's so many out there spanning decades.
Astro Boy. Samurai Pizza Cats. Ergo Proxy. Ninja Scroll. Akira. Ghost in the Shell. Cowboy Bebop. Battle Angel Alita. Yowamushi Pedal.
On and on it goes...
Vast majority? Eh, maybe. I watch a crazy amount of anime, and I've only had a few of the shows I'm interested in pull that, and typically I just don't continue watching. The one trope that I really dislike that gets shoehorned into almost any anime is the over-infatuation of a sibling. I'm not talking incest or anything, but for some reason there's almost always a character who is obsessed with their sister/brother, and it weirds me out. Not enough to stop watching if the anime is otherwise good, but definitely enough to stop watching if the anime is just soso.
Now, oversexualization of adult characters? That's almost unavoidable. I tend to just ignore it, until I show an anime to someone who hasn't seen anime before and then I'm hyper aware of it. That's why when introducing people to anime I usually pick Death Note or Fullmetal Alchemist. These anime have a good dose of the anime goofiness, but very little fanservice, almost none.
If you've been keeping count, I'm curious to see your data.
Only if you go explicitly looking for it, yeah.