So I've been watching the new currently airing seasonal "Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru", which is a fairly standard romcom, with the SoL setting centering around tailoring and especially cosplay. The characters are from your fairly average High School setting. The energetic otaku-fantasy girlfriend, who is energetic, bubbly, into weeb stuff and of course quickly starts getting attracted to the very introverted deuteragonist.
Sounds pretty average, right? And it is, it's no masterpiece or even good, but it's a decent enough anime when taking into consideration these elements.
Unfortunately, it is extremely horny. The third episode is basically 20 minutes of uninterrupted fanservice with the character of Marin Kitagawa (fem MC) being half-naked for purposes of Wakana Gojo (the Masc MC) taking measuring. That awful episode which didn't even have much plot relevance and could have been skipped or glanced over in one scene. The show has various of the usual horny elements, like sus camera angles, panty shots etc.. Nothing right of the ordinary, just as if you read like 5 pages into the manga, you get reminded about how the characters there are 15 years old... :yea:
Then as if it couldn't get worse, their relationship progresses and after an event they attend in Episode 5, a new character (which cameo-d in that one, which Marin identified as "young [...] probably in middle school or even grade school") is is introduced, as she wants to seek Gojo's aid in making a cosplay outfit. Of course, she's introduced to him in a scene where she is completely naked because of [generic ecchi anime excuse], and her genitalia is what he sees first. The episode also features several of the other horny techniques on the new character like panty shots etc.
And guess which anime is booming in popularity among mainstream weebs? :desolate:
I guess the lesson is don't watch anime shows, OVAs, Movies unless they're from 1999 or earlier and have at least a dozen reviews? I'm only half joking as well.
When it comes to anime, I'm super old-fuck in my tastes both because there's less creepy pedo shit, but also I feel like the old stuff was more imaginative and varied in the settings and specifically not having so much shit focus on high-schoolers.
Somewhat, yes, but unfortunately it can still rear its ugly head. Fortunately, it tends to be in the shows that have been forgotten as mediocre or outright bad (and 80s OVAs).
True, the seasonal anime format which started in the early 2000s and became entrenched by the end of that decade + the decline of episodic formats tends to favor underdeveloped and/or rushed stories. Thus, companies go for safe bets like simple high school pseudo-Slice of Life plots, generic isekai/action slop and/or horny stuff. Lots of horny stuff.