I was boredly looking around YouTube on this Sunday morning and in the mood to watch some bozo talk about anime, maybe get some insights, discover some obscure hidden gem and the like.

However, I found it surprisingly hard to find quality in that scene, beyond niche video-makers like Kenny Lauerdale. Thus I was wondering if you have any recommendations of some people you like making videos about anime.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    I feel like being fash and enjoying sexual violence is the background radiation of anime in general though.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        For real. The only shows I've seen that meet those criteria are things I intentionally hate watched like Cross Ange lol

        • StalinStan [none/use name]
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          6 months ago

          I feel like most mainstream stuff. Think about the trope of the fall into chest stuff. That is like ever classic anime you know?

          • Cromalin [she/her]
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            6 months ago

            here's some great anime that neither enjoy sexual violence nor fascism. there's plenty more out there, sex pest stuff is hardly "every classic anime". some of these may have some in it but they certainly aren't enjoying it

            • revolutionary girl utena
            • serial experiments lain
            • turn a gundam
            • millennium actress
            • showa genroku rakugo shinju
            • inu-oh
            • madoka magica
            • keep your hands off eizouken
            • liz and the blue bird

            also it's real fucking gross to say "a poor taste joke is exactly the same as on screen sexual assault with deeply fash vibes" there's a big difference between urusei yatsura and goblin slayer

            • StalinStan [none/use name]
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              6 months ago

              Goku does some unfortune things but because it is always played for comedy people don't think about it.

              • Cromalin [she/her]
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                6 months ago

                you'll notice i didn't include dragon ball on the list of anime that didn't have sex pest stuff or fascism! and again, there's a big difference between dragon ball and goblin slayer

                you're basically saying "all 80s movies love sexual assault, so it's fine that i like revenge of the nerds," and when i respond with a list of 80s movies that don't have any sexual assault or harrassment in them you say "well have you seen how han treats leia in star wars?" those are two very different things! both are bad, but they are at very different levels of it

                  • Cromalin [she/her]
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                    6 months ago

                    wait you think people dislike goblin slayer BECAUSE it shows sexual violence as bad? you think the people who dislike goblin slayer are sitting around going "oh if only there were more wacky sexual harassment i might like this show"?

                    the problem with goblin slayer is that it shows the sexual violence in a way where it clearly expects the audience to be jacking off and there is no amount of arcs where characters process trauma that will undo that. your standard anime shittiness simply does not compare

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      Certainly for a certain strain of anime.