FFS Japan can you make one anime where you don’t sexualise underage people.
They exist, the problem is nobody seems to care about positive reinforcement but rather focus on negative reinforcement to justify their bias.
I mean if you ask this question literaly then there are dozens of good anime in the past 5 years, but its some edgy bad shit that represents the industry.
i think it can start to get into racism when people act like those things are exclusive to anime or somehow much worse in anime than in anglo/american media too. like anglo kids media has plenty of fucked up and objectionable aspects too in the same vein. Japanese culture is far from uniquely fucked in this way. also people ignore that japans culture was essentially westernized by the US when they complain about this stuff and how that’s a not trivial factor in the prevalence of these attitudes and tropes in media.
i think that there’s a difference between nudity (not that these scenes are limited to nudity) and actual sexualization, and the “awooga sexy sexy lady!!” aspect isn’t really played up. Like the episode today, at the very beginning there’s a bit of a fight where they could have easily done 100 panty shots and really focused on it, but they didn’t. Everybody ended up naked or in their underwear but it wasn’t really a focus of any of the scenes? idk.
While I totally get it’s not going to be for everybody, I really don’t think that’s fair either. As someone who has read a lot of YA and paranormal romance slop over the years I don’t see Dandadan breaking any ecchi ground that hasn’t been trod over countless times before. If anything I’d say it’s uniqueness is in how it’s using it (so far!🤞) to reframe the audience’s feelings towards things like violence against women and relationship issues. For example, in the past two episodes because of a typical misunderstanding trope, the boy mc has been lamenting his poor communication towards girl mc and in the middle of this latest episode’s battle starts doing therapy shit blurting out to her how important her perception of him is to him and how he wants to work to avoid future miscommunications.
Again, it’s not for everybody, but there is a demographic shows like this are targeted towards and it is saying interesting things to them.
Since the show came out, and with the manga’s latest arc, I’ve been meaning to make a “In Defense of Dan Da Dan” post. Because the manga is actually very progressive. It’s been such a crazy ride catching up to the current arc.
I’m not advocating that you should, it’s very likely not going to be for you if the first episode is a turn off. Just that it shouldn’t be discounted because it’s not for you.
Honestly, it’s rather tame compared to both Japanese and non-japanese stuff (I just read Cuckoo last month😅) I’ve read, but as anime’s general audience grows, it’s reputation is always going to lower the tolerance people have for the ecchi stuff.
FFS Japan can you make one anime where you don’t sexualise underage people.
It annoys me that everyone is praising this show, as if it’s ok to sexually assult teens as long as the anime is stylish and well animated.
They exist, the problem is nobody seems to care about positive reinforcement but rather focus on negative reinforcement to justify their bias.
I mean if you ask this question literaly then there are dozens of good anime in the past 5 years, but its some edgy bad shit that represents the industry.
i think it can start to get into racism when people act like those things are exclusive to anime or somehow much worse in anime than in anglo/american media too. like anglo kids media has plenty of fucked up and objectionable aspects too in the same vein. Japanese culture is far from uniquely fucked in this way. also people ignore that japans culture was essentially westernized by the US when they complain about this stuff and how that’s a not trivial factor in the prevalence of these attitudes and tropes in media.
i think that there’s a difference between nudity (not that these scenes are limited to nudity) and actual sexualization, and the “awooga
sexy sexy lady!!” aspect isn’t really played up. Like the episode today, at the very beginning there’s a bit of a fight where they could have easily done 100 panty shots and really focused on it, but they didn’t. Everybody ended up naked or in their underwear but it wasn’t really a focus of any of the scenes? idk.
While I totally get it’s not going to be for everybody, I really don’t think that’s fair either. As someone who has read a lot of YA and paranormal romance slop over the years I don’t see Dandadan breaking any ecchi ground that hasn’t been trod over countless times before. If anything I’d say it’s uniqueness is in how it’s using it (so far!🤞) to reframe the audience’s feelings towards things like violence against women and relationship issues. For example, in the past two episodes because of a typical misunderstanding trope, the boy mc has been lamenting his poor communication towards girl mc and in the middle of this latest episode’s battle starts doing therapy shit blurting out to her how important her perception of him is to him and how he wants to work to avoid future miscommunications.
Again, it’s not for everybody, but there is a demographic shows like this are targeted towards and it is saying interesting things to them.
Since the show came out, and with the manga’s latest arc, I’ve been meaning to make a “In Defense of Dan Da Dan” post. Because the manga is actually very progressive. It’s been such a crazy ride catching up to the current arc.
I’m gonna hit the manga after this season.
Oh my god the manga art is so good. It’s legitimately one of my favorite reads right now.
Cool. Looking forward to it!
I’ll give it a chance. But the older the get, the less tolerance I have for that kind of thing.
I’m not advocating that you should, it’s very likely not going to be for you if the first episode is a turn off. Just that it shouldn’t be discounted because it’s not for you.
Honestly, it’s rather tame compared to both Japanese and non-japanese stuff (I just read Cuckoo last month😅) I’ve read, but as anime’s general audience grows, it’s reputation is always going to lower the tolerance people have for the ecchi stuff.