It's not like there's isn't good ecchi anime being produced now days, but they all look constreined inside the same genre, "Yuri light CGDCT, with some pervert shots", usually made by Doga Kobo. In the past panty shots were a natural occurrence, every place had this twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Same thing with games and manga, now days if you want something with a hot bishie or a cute Bishoujo you have to search for a Gacha or some manga published in a small magazine, like the big ones still have some ecchi, but it feels limited to Shonen Magazine
Like, in the past you had this in Shonen Jump, it was on the cover. But now days just having a tame JK bathing scene in a chapter of a Jump manga is enough to get your work censored and blacklisted
In the time of our grandparents, a time we see as more conservative, Go Nagai was able to keep publishing a panty shot manga, because he was backed up by youngster who saw the prudishness and censor of the older generation as wrong and antiquate. Now the prudes are the youngster
Sexy series are massively attacked by young people, who see sexiness as dirty and wrong, who believe that fiction should be demure and want to ban anything they see as being "Pervert"
We live in a world full of Yui Kotegawas. They will see anything that doesn't aligns perfectly with the rules of society or the chaste public morals and scream "Pervert", but Yui was cute and se- *coof coof* I mean, Yui learned to accept her and others perversions
Youngster don't seem to be learning or evolving, they're getting worse, with each passing day they align more and more with the parents association of old and their conservative ways. The new generation is two steps away from establishing a worldwide Comic Code
I want to have hope, but the situation is worrisome, society and what's produced by it gets more and more tedious, it feels like at some point we will lose all media and just get extended ads, who do nothing but fuel culture wars and promote the name of brands
Maybe what we need is someone with the Lucky Lecher ability in the real world
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Let's say what I really wanted to say: Otakus are really gay. I was rewatching Promore, bad story good movie, and thinking about how many male Otakus enjoy Lio and his homoerotic bond with Galo.
To us it's weird for het men to show interest in interacting with homoeroticism
However, to japanese nerds this is not only normal, but something that doesn't warrant much discussion. Their relationship with homosexuality is very interesting, be it in real life or fiction. There's a sense of acceptance without needing for out loud support
In the East, putting male characters in "female" situations or to explore their image in sexual and erotic ways wasn't something that came from political discussions or social movements, it's a style of expression that got accepted with time.
You guys are the worst marketing any manga could ask for. None of you talk about the story, art, or characters in the series, but just how much better it's when compared to other works, thanks to that the work is thrown into irrelevance and grows to be rejected by readers.
No series that fall into yours hands ever get popular or finds a place to themselves, and the reason for that is because you all are unable to actually consume or engage with fiction in an earnest way, your emotions are always directed at the discourse, and not in the work
The reason as to why pervert series keep getting made and find a space, is because thee people who consume it actually made the effort to engage and consume what they like.
Also Atelier of Witch Hat is Seinen, the same demography as the works you all dislike
There's a lot of anime focused on girls being released, the thing is that they don't pick the attention of anime commenters or fit the nice image that the "Shoujo girls" want to spread. They don't want you to know about the Isekai with the girl trying to slave the demon lordl
They don't want to talk abou Re-main, Dive!, Bakuten or Enstars, not only because they can't sit through various episodes of Bishounens, but also because those shows filled with conventional feminity and appealing to the straight desire of women don't help push their ideas. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That's why they prefer to talk about how Witch from Mercury and Virgin Road brought girls to anime, because those shows full of Bishoujo are easier for them to sit through and they fit inside their narrative, but don't think they care too much about those things, they don't
The Moral panic surrounding pedophilia is fueled not by care for kids or desire to protect them, but a desire to protect the body and image of young girls, to many when those girls are raped what's affect isn't their minds and body, but their maidenhood, virginity and purity
The pedophile is a monster, not for exploiting a girl, but because he took away her ability to be a "Woman", boys don't have maidenhood, in the view of society they're dirty from birth, that's why it's okay to exploit them.
"Male wife", "Girlboss", "boy failure" are all stupid internet terms used by people to make them look more progressive in matters of taste, the people use that don't like it. That's why they use this terms with characters like Dante from Devil May Cry
No one here likes cute boys who're dedicated to their significant other or appreciate the idea of male characters who are more feminine and cute. I mean, twitter is annoyed by the fact that some Gacha games have male characters who don't weight 200kg and aren't muscle houses
The thing is that saying that Macho guys are associated with dudebors, so people can't just come and say "I like manly guys", they have to create stupid terms to disassociate their tastes from their enemies and make themselves look good, which is just pathetic
I don't even disagree with the point the thread is trying to make, but it's ironic considering the person who's making those points. Yeah, Otaku stuff is much more liberated and daring when it comes to sexuality, this has to do with how Otaku authors deal with sexuality
They're more willing to play and add elements of fantasy to it. They don't care about labels or real life, as much as they care about exploring and having fun with certain ideas and concepts