seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
Oh yeah don't get me wrong, there's some really fucked up shit in the anime medium. The problem is that most Western discourse about anime treats it like one coherent body of work when it's really just a medium.
Everyone can understand that My Little Pony and Rick and Morty aren't the same kind of media, or that the latest family friendly Marvel movie isn't the same as Cannibal Holocaust, so I think people need to put more effort into not always lumping all anime together.
Also, I think the definition of Weeb has changed a lot. Same as how Star Wars and comic book movies used to be "nerd shit" not too long ago, Anime has gone mainstream.
The fact that there are anime fans when it isn't a genre may speak more about anime fans.
One of the most normie gym bro I've worked with has a full back tattoo of Ashoka Tano and owned a storm trooper armour. And he is a father of two pushing 40. The way that it has become normalised is kind of nuts.