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.
Japan having very lax laws on CP until very recently (2014, iirc?), them establishing a foothold in the industry since the early 1980s "Lolicon Boom", which eventually broke into the anime mainstream around the year 2000 thanks to Eroge VN, the Moe character archetypes, harem anime, etc.?
Though tbf these are all my assumptions, but in the end it all boils down to the Miyazaki quote: "Almost all Japanese Animation is produced by Humans who can't stand looking at other Humans. And that's why the industry is full of Otakus [note: obsessive, weeb-brained fans]"
It's actually one of the first anime shows I watched. It's very good indeed and despite knowing what happens from reading the manga, Season 3 is likely gonna be a good watch.
It's considerably less horny the more the manga goes on. Today's episode is the most icky in what's out atm. IIRC the coming stuff is all pretty tame.
That's good at least. Perhaps I won't drop it then, but the sheer amount of horniness did make me pretty unenthusiastic about the new episodes
Yeah it's a bit of an eye roll sometimes. The show doesn't need it at all. I don't get why they insist on inserting this crap all the time.
The otaku-fantasy gf is a big red flag tbh. Also, yeah, I don't watch seasonals until they're done airing partially for this reason.
The otaku-fantasy gf is a big red flag tbh
You're right of course. Though the lack of an ecchi tag on MAL and some people saying the manga is decent made me ignore that
The otaku-fantasy gf is a big red flag tbh
Is the issue that it is a fantasy gf for otakus specifically?
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.
less creepy pedo shit
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).
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
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.
I don't like the vast amount of anime. There are a couple of good things coming out every now and then, but at this point I'm interested in roughly one series per season.
I'm not sure if it is my preferences that have changed or that the pre-streaming infrastructure acted as a filter when I was younger.
Rising popularity of anime and profit potential makes companies concentrate on quantity/profit over quality and thus you have seasonals, lots of ecchi and isekai, self-referential shows by weebs for weebs, etc.
I'm at the point where I'm so unfazed by this stuff (not a good thing lol). Probably not the effect the anime industry should be going for, but I don't see this changing any time soon
I do think shows could be creepy in the 90s too. I haven't watched anything before that
Ok, so, I'm old and have never watched any anime. I decided to watch this show to confirm to myself that I indeed do not like anime..... and now I'm at episode 6 which I can't watch because its behind a premium paywall... granted I do think its really funny for this to be the only anime I've seen so I'm not even mad.
