Me trying to explain that yes, beastars probably does appeal to the furry community, and yes, the animals fuck, but that it's not "furry shit" and has a beautiful romance storyline and a compelling mystery and intriguing moral code between the omnivores and herbivores!
"no you see these repeated shots of prominent cameltoe and barely-covered nipples are really deep because they're challenging societal norms about conformance and body image ! And the forced incest scenes are probably meaningful and necessary too because reasons."
Not an anime SPECIFICALLY cuz it got wildly horny out of left field, I always remember Karate Shoukoushi, a martial arts manga with some pretty good art completely derailed after it's first real arc by a Brazilian homosexual rapist on campus. Which is bad enough on its own but he JOINS THE CAST
for a surprising number of series: "They frontloaded the worst, most objectionable horniness into the first episode for some reason, it's mostly uphill from here"
Watching the first episode of You are Miss Servant and the maid went to take a bath ... I knew that the next scene would set the tone for the rest of the anime! You can always tell where an anime is heading by how they handle the bath scene!
Skill issue. I love horny anime, but i also have a good stockpile of shows i love w/ nothing to complain abt. Then again reccing a horny show to a normal friend is certainly a way to feel something
A Certain Scientific Railgun is a really really good show that deals with what makes a person worth caring about, what makes a person have value and power, and the bond between friends, but it's also sometimes really obsessed with the boob size of middle school girls.
"no trans girl, trust me! the show where every woman is either a bowling-ball-boobed supermodel with no internal organs or the ugliest woman ever conceived is actually PEAK CINEMA and its implied message about womanhood and a woman's worth isn't a reason to not watch it!!!"
During the pandemic when we had nothing better to do and my mom was housebound due to cancer treatments. I decided it was a great idea to try and get her to watch evangelion with me.
Watching evangelion with your mom is a diagnostic criterion for a whole host of disorders the DSM.
Everytime I see a horny anime about friendship, I always ask myself « what does it have that Kingdom Hearts doesn’t have ? » because if all you have is a compelling narrative about friendship, then I’ll just go back to Kingdom Hearts which also has that (and more) without the horniness.
Well, that depends. Do you think most people in the world find titillation in depictions of very young children experiencing the feeling of sexual titillation? Like in that one dragon lady show?
Yes? Well... you do you. No? Then it's not just us, and anime is super horny.
Japan still has laws against real abuse. But taboo porn has and will always exist and youre living in a fairy tale if you really think theres a line between fantasy incest or cnc and loli/shota. Also i like that dragon show cause of her. Clucth them pearls bro.
Maybe not *uniquely* horny. There are creepy bastards everywhere, after all, and a lot of them go into animation and art. It's at least one case where stuff like that can go fairly mainstream, tho. But hey, I wouldn't know if other countries do it too. I'm just glad I'm here and not there.
That's slightly bigoted of you bro japans just another place. The last mangaka to get in trouble for that kinda crime didnt draw loli/shota. Something tells me they can tell their fantasy taboo porn isnt realistic cause they bother drawing it. Why would ya draw it if ya thought it was ok to do it?
Its not apologism ,youre just a reactionary. Hoping no one will notice that yall just pedojacket any one not falling for that pedopanic schtick. Its old and not working anymore. A preist/cop/coach is more likely to molest your kid than some weeb, thats the society you live in. Eat your veggies.
People keep mentioning the really popular ones like Kill la Kill but y'all gotta hop on the less known stuff like Betterman or Aquarion or you're missing out
A lot of Western cartoons are bizarrely horny too. I did not remember Rocko's Modern Life being quite so... big butts. Whole lot of big ol' butts. The big butts aren't even close to the horniest it gets but there's a lot of very big butts.
The one that always stuck out for me was the episode where Rocko was job-hunting, and at one point he was working for what was *obviously* meant to be a phone sex line...and yes, Nick ran this uncensored back in 1993.
It's fun to figurde oout who exactly is making fanservice. Like depending on the medium, the ranking system in magazines might incentivize the editorial staff to focus on popular things. So fanservice can get more attention.
Meanwhile, things like Manabi straight gets used as a metric for CD sales.
Seriously, I love the manga and the anime adaptation is an animation landmark but it is extremely hard to push past an attempted alien rape in the first episode while telling people it’s actually a romantic-action-comedy.
Yeah, it's one of those things where it's awesome when you're a teenager but then you're in your mid-30's and think, 'Can we just get on with the will-they/won't-they romance story? I don't care about scantily-clad high schoolers.'
exactly this. pretty much every series notorious for this is almost always directed at the shounen/seinen demographic. it's only fun to watch as a teenager in part because it's actually geared towards teenagers.
**in general**, josei and shoujo series are tamer in comparison.
It's hard to recommend Mushoku Tensei to just anyone, but it's actually a very good story about second chances, with incredible world building, amazing art and soundtrack.
But yeah, the protagonist starts out as a horrible sex-addicted manchild and he relapses a few times (like addicts tend to do)
"No trust me! This show is a really good exploration of the human psyche and religion as well as the indomitable human need for exploration and it's consequences!"
*blatant pedohpilia on screen*
Yeah no. Someone gotta bonk these manga authors on the head
*stretches arms, cracks hands* “Now let’s talk about Lone Wolf and Cub…a masterpiece of philosophical narrative, fatherhood, and logalry, and you only have to look past every 5th page of horrible misogyny…”
I remember my friend wanted to watch kill la kill with me, and I asked him if it would be ok to weird for my sister to watch with me, and he was like "oh no it's fine". It was not fine.
Indeed that's how I felt. I hated that I couldn't enjoy the animes I found with my brothers. Or the constant sexualization (of girls and guys too). I also had trouble growing up and trying to befriend 'otakus'. A lot would straight up tell me about adult cartoons when I was a minor...
I did come to realize it's partially due to my sexuality. I didn't have as much of a hard time watching a lesbian anime that did the same. I'm also completely fine with non-sexual nudity. (Sexual too but it depends). (2/2)
Oh I'm aware. That's why I said I'm selective now. And yeah, sex sells...
Oh forgive me, I didn't mean to come off as puritanical or defensor of purity culture. I despise that.
I simply get uncomfortable watching that sort of thing. (1/2)
horny people have rights and deserve love and respect too and I'm not afraid to say it but sometimes I get distracted sometimes so I'm sorry I drifted off there I was thinking about...somthing
I tried to get my friend to justify Food Wars to me, and I was still not convinced that "clothes exploding off of them to reveal boobs" isn't actually just hentai for cowards
No, really. If you ignore all the breasts, and the constant random nakedness (and I mean from both, males and females), its a compelling story about friendship.
I'm watching Symphogear and it's very good and also for no reason there's a scene of like two 13yos having a difficult conversation in the communal shower.
Now is the moment when I ask you what good anime are you talking about and you give me the most mid, mainstream, generic list of shonen ever regurgitated.
Tell you what, you tell me what you think that list is and I'll be able to tell how long you've been watching anime and why you are so shallow in what you know.
I don't need need you to say anything else to know that chances are I'm older than you, and almost certainly been watching it for longer than you. Lesson is don't say to strangers on the internet that "you haven't seen enough" shit.
"You're feeling unmotivated? You should watch Gurren Laggan, it'll give you the kick up the arse you need...just don't watch episode 6, or if you do, watch the Netflix version."
It ain’t just anime. I showed my girlfriend a musical recently and she genuinely asked “so was the choreographer just trying to see how many panty shots they could fit in a single dance number?”
"You should watch Dandadan! It's gonna look like one of Those Animes but I promise it's not. Well, it kind of is. But it's good! wait where are you going"
The baddies try, they fail utterly, they get killed for it.
It probably wasn't necessary as a form of danger for the protagonist but the anime didn't treat it as SA spank material like, say, Goblin Slayer or even Game of Thrones did.
I promise that it's weird but there is no real fanservice in the series (other than Seiko's existence) and none of that is meant to be a good thing + it gets toned down as it goes on
i feel like the alien almost-r*pe scene in the first episode was weird in a bad way to me. i cant look past that sort of thing UNLESS it's somehow used to say something meaningful
I understand
It's a very low bar but at least it's not portrayed in any positive light
Unfortunately I think the author backpedaled to keep it relatively light because she doesn't really seem to have any trauma from that and it never comes up again really
I still say give it a chance, but I get it
When I get guests for Dohmance Dawn I give them a heads up and how horny One Piece will be and if it is because of filler writers or just Oda being Oda.
There are lots of extremely popular anime that are simply not horny in the slightest. Haikyuu doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of sex (there are like 3 scenes where some boys express some kind of interest in girls but if you didn’t already know about sex you wouldn’t find out about it)
The scene gives me the chills in ALL the wrong ways. I hated that scene so much. Even if it was to drive a point that the bitch was evil, they kinda already hammered it in that she was bad news for being part of a crazy organization as is. Crazy ass story telling either way.
We have to face facts, those are the ones distributors bring over and the ones they think will sell.
Back when fan subbing and tape trading was a thing, there was a much better selection, and the ones that finally came to video tape were mainly violence porn and fan service.
Me whenever I try telling people about how Gurren Lagann is the ultimate story of the indomitable human spirit vs the uncaring expanse of the universe but when they Google it they immediately see Yoko is 14 and smart acting like I recommendex porn.
the lore is also batshit insane dude gose super sayian but touching girls tits but the lore is suprising good best if you go in blind tho. also issei is one of the most likable perverts in all of anime right up there with jiraya which honestly you can't ask for better company to be in
Tbh it'd prob be great with another 12 eps minimum, & I read it as more anti-assimilation. However my wild take is that Revue Starlight is basically the same show with better pacing and less horny lol
The fetishization discussion can be part of the bigger whole imo. & Mostly I just find it funny how beat for beat every plot point in yurikuma has a parallel in revstar lol. Including the judgy man animal
One of the reasons I like Naruto and Hunter X Hunter is there is a really very low level of horny nonsense. There's SOME but compared to the average show, in Japan and America, it's so little.
Don't ever, EVER watch an anime called Boku. Man this sht is so wrong in so many mfking levels yo. I was talking to 1 of my white friends and he sent me 3 videos with the name only labeled "Boku" I said to this dude, What's this sht? He just giggled just watch them and make SURE NOBODY IS AROUND YOU
you know there's a lot of folks being uncomfortable with the horny, but I gotta tell y'all I'm way more comfortable with horny than I am horrific violence that's more mainstream here
Yeah it's interesting thinking abt the cultural divide here. Americans are disgusted by horny fanservice in anime, most other folks are horrified by the pornographic love US military fiction has for torture
Tbh a lot of media is typically horny, ppl are often just weirded out by anime cuz they're not used to animation being used in more than either "cartoon for kids" or "grotesque comedy for adults"
It's more than a little weird how much anime has the horny where the main characters are all 16 or younger. I have no problem with it when the characters are all clearly stated to be adults, but it's just kinda grody when they aren't.
And then I'll watch some Wholesome 80s Comedy and it's full of SA jokes, and then I'll watch a Fun Family 2000s comedy and the jokes are also all Sex, Boobs, Panties, and then an action movie– Oh look that woman is being stripped for Plot Relevant Reasons™!
A lot of media typically features horny people of the same or similar consenting age. Anime has issues figuring those concepts out.
And then you have weird horny stuff put into kids' animated shows here in the West (and elsewhere, but shown here), which gets the same reaction as typical anime.
I remember recommending highschool of the dead to people forgetting how very into 'physics' it was....the looks i got from them after they watched it....
I was literally just talking about this with my roommate, and how I just can't watch anime about teenagers anymore because I'm no longer a teenager and therefore kind of put off by all the sexualized teenagers.
I think i could recommend Grisaia no Kajitsu this way; If you will be able to survive through 3 starting episodes of fluff, the next 10 could become your most memorable ones
explainers btw: 'shounen' means stuff that they traditionally targeted towards teenage boys. 'seinen' is the same, but for adult men. 'shoujo' for teenage girls, and 'josei' for adult women.
i say "traditionally" because these books and shows have never fit clean-cut demographics, like, ever.
Unironically I've come to find that the horny is kinda culturally relevant. People tend to think that Japan is a very prude country cuz pda is highly frowned upon and birth rates are tanked thus sex isnt happening. But in reality Japan might be the most horny and sexually repressed places on earth.
it's no wonder that japan is so weird when the children are being served up all this freaky horndog content. as a westerner i was raised on more wholesome material, like totally spies
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Oda is horny, One Piece is not , One Piece is actually quite sterile
I wish One Piece was really horny, One Piece with a little of Paru Itagaki would be perfect
ME: CHAINSAWMAN IS ABOUT LOVE
Stay for the stories.
Watching evangelion with your mom is a diagnostic criterion for a whole host of disorders the DSM.
Yes? Well... you do you. No? Then it's not just us, and anime is super horny.
Meanwhile, things like Manabi straight gets used as a metric for CD sales.
https://youtu.be/nzIPdYMlHVw?si=uxqj-lCSEy0FyqWK
**in general**, josei and shoujo series are tamer in comparison.
But yeah, the protagonist starts out as a horrible sex-addicted manchild and he relapses a few times (like addicts tend to do)
*blatant pedohpilia on screen*
Yeah no. Someone gotta bonk these manga authors on the head
It's also kinda normal for teens to be sexual. Our society is far too puritanical about sex and nudity.
Oh forgive me, I didn't mean to come off as puritanical or defensor of purity culture. I despise that.
I simply get uncomfortable watching that sort of thing. (1/2)
Fan service can be so annoying
we found out quick
...not asking for any reason in particular.
"....they're.... they're not REALLY gonna do a rape scene, are they???"
It probably wasn't necessary as a form of danger for the protagonist but the anime didn't treat it as SA spank material like, say, Goblin Slayer or even Game of Thrones did.
At the time it came out I didn't know that a mainstream anime could do that lol
My favorite most wholesome candidate is Spy X Family.
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
and
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Note on the second one, there is a lot of less than wholesome fan art and fan-fiction out there. Weebs always make dirty fan fic about elves.
I know it sure doesn't sound wholesome.
It's a very low bar but at least it's not portrayed in any positive light
Unfortunately I think the author backpedaled to keep it relatively light because she doesn't really seem to have any trauma from that and it never comes up again really
I still say give it a chance, but I get it
And that’s because Haikyuu characters are extremely horny (for volleyball)
The sub is a trip.
Hah. Hahaha.
Back when fan subbing and tape trading was a thing, there was a much better selection, and the ones that finally came to video tape were mainly violence porn and fan service.
i haven’t watched the theater lesbians but i’m sure it’s better
yurikuma is so much fun but it’s a mess lmao
https://bsky.app/profile/tfae.bsky.social/post/3l7monra5v52n
after all, the yuri approval judges are all male. and, uh,
HOWEVER
She hates unnecessarily horny. She hates school based anime.
The more I watched, the more I was like...
And then you have weird horny stuff put into kids' animated shows here in the West (and elsewhere, but shown here), which gets the same reaction as typical anime.
(granted, the deeper story behind the horniness was never that good either... so I guess it doesn't count)
her: "so he's... a vending machine?"
some josei anime, and i think most shoujo anime, tend to not do that stuff. case in point is this shoujo series: Natsume's Book of Friends.
i say "traditionally" because these books and shows have never fit clean-cut demographics, like, ever.