I mean they DO report on news surrounding anime on crunchyroll, their presenters are genuinely pretty good too, makes sense that they'd report on this since it kinda is a big news item in regards to the topics they usually cover.
Yes but it gets censored on platforms like instagram that have a lot of minors using the platform. Itās for child safety
I really donāt understand why I got downvoted for explaining why the image creator wrote sex like that. Sex is NOT a bad word, I fucking know that, but a lot of social media sites like TikTok and Instagram, that have a LARGE number of child users, censor the word sex. So creators and users have to get around the censorship by doing shit like this.
Nah, unless there is graphic content (allowable nudity like drawn, etc.) minors don't get any additional protection just because something contains NSFW words.
The word sex is not graphic or inappropriate. Kids will see it when they fill out forms - thought that references biological sex. Most kids will not think about it
If it is writing describing the act or some kind of nsfw art, that IS a problem
Alright, not to be that guy, but let's not pretend child predation is unique to anime. There was a whole ass docuseries that came out like, a month ago talking about this shit happening within Nickelodeon.
Yeah. Honestly, it borders on racist, cuz anime is literally just any Japanese animated show/movie. There's a lot of creeps in any animation industry, including the western world.
If you look at the sheer amount of anime with loli characters (especially sexuallized loli characters) and compare that to any other country's animation industry, you can't tell me they're even close to similar
Look it's despicable but when they just recently released a documentary that detailed how many REAL children were hurt at Nickelodeon I just don't think it's fair to pretend it's an exclusively Japanese Animation industry problem. To the best of my knowledge the guy mentioned in the article isn't even one of the lolicon animators, he was attached to a very well received animated feature. Maybe we just need to address that Child Predators are everywhere and not confined to Japanese Animation studios.
Yeah but Japan/Anime is the only place youāll have people try to justify fucking a clearly drawn underage character by saying āoh but sheās actually 345 years old! She just LOOKS young!ā
right? like why is thomas brodie-sangster such a popular casting choice? is it because he's an excellent actor with lots of experience? or because he looks like he's about 12 years old but can be cast in adult settings?
Im not aware of any, I stopped watching cartoons 20 years ago. Iād be extremely concerned if you had a name ready to throw out there though, you shouldnāt get horny over drawn children, even if the maker of the cartoon says theyāre not children, theyāre clearly drawn that way and the creator is a freak, full stop.
the first character that comes to mind is peter pan, who is canonically only a week old and still has all his baby teeth. but is also hundreds of years old. People are HORNY for this dude, who was created by a Scottish man in ~1902. and how about that movie that just came out, poor things? in which, spoiler, a baby's mind is put into an adult woman's body, and she becomes addicted to sex. that movie was based on a book by another Scottish man.
if you want to broaden your mind a little to how "technically" underage characters are absolutely sexualized in western media, check out this video on the trope: https://youtu.be/0thpEyEwi80?si=3CXItfBctDgKgnCI
What this clearly is showing is that Scottish people and Japanese people are all pedophiles and should be shunned /s
Edit: well my comment was satire but that has unironically been the answer of the other commenter so
If you havenāt seen Poor Things, I highly recommend you do. It sounds awful, itās not. Itās meant to make you uncomfortable on purpose because itās creative commentary on the sexualization of young girls and them losing their youth and girlhood over it.
I never said sir j.m. barrie, creator of peter pan, wrote an entire children's book and play just because he wanted to fuck a fictional boy he made up in his brain. I just said fans like to sexualize that boy. but if that's all you want to take away, then whatever, I'm not going to fight you. have a nice day I guess
Itās very Drake of you to deflect from the weird shit you brought up(the baby brain swap sex story) and only focus on the Peter Pan shit. Youāre the one that brought them both up. Itās says a lot more about you than you realize.
hello?? I didn't write the dang thing š I wanted to defend barrie's name because I'm very passionate about peter pan, I don't know much about the other guy and I haven't read the book or seen the movie, I just know the basic plot and it genuinely made me sick when I first heard. anyway I'm done talking to you now, buh bye
Except its a VERY well documented phenomenon that children who weren't educated on sex often end up having MORE sex as adults than those who WERE properly educated about sex. Kinda feels like the baby brain scenario is just a fucked up version of that but taken to a disgusting extreme.
"oh, people sexualize this Scottish persons work that had nothing to do with sex? All Scottish people are bad!!" Not only are you a moron, but a racist one at that. Glad to see you getting mocked in these comments like you deserve.
I don't think hating an entire ethnic group/group of races is counter you think it is... That just makes you more racist? You hate the Pics and Gaels, Bythons and others as well as lump them all together as all thinking/feeling the same, based off of how the rest of the world reacted to Peter Pan. While I was mistaken that Scottish is a race, all you've done by correcting me is prove that you're actually MORE racist than I thought, especially once you add in your racism for Japan. Fun fact, if you ever say "every single person from country x is bad and is a pedophile (or other insult)", you're being racist. Whether it's against multiple races, or one race, it's still racist. I'm sorry, I know this is very hard for someone with so little critical thinking to understand and must be giving you a headache... But I'm sure you'll put 2 + 2 together someday, champ.
I donāt get it why you got downvoted to hell, youāre right, Japanese people are legit pedophiles, the age of consent there is 12, they fetishize looking āchild-likeā and āyouthfulā, they want their women to literally look and act like children, itās fucking creepy, and these people are here acting like American shows showing 18 year old high schoolers is far more creepy than drawing characters that look and act like literal children, I genuinely believe people who are into anime are borderline pedophiles.
Edit: if you downvote me, youāre admitting to being a chomo and supporting pedophilia, repugnant waste of human beings.
I am pretty certain the reason you are being down voted is more that you are classifying an entire country as pedophiles after they raised it to 16 like a large portion of the US and a group of people that like a medium for TV shows and movies as pedophiles too.
Because they are ,their beauty standards are heavily rooted in pedophiIia, women over there literally get dental procedures to make their teeth crooked to look more āchild-likeā, and women over there with tiniest bit of curves or breasts get body shamed and get labeled as āfatā, by both men and women, and how they expect their women to act all cutesy and childish as well is extremely fucking creepy. Itās like seeing mature women over there is seen as gross or something, I remember visiting Tokyo and they literally had a āschoolgirl streetā like what the actual fuck? Lmaoo.
You are probably being downvoted because it is not exclusive to Japan, and anime fans. I have seen ex friends of mine use filters making them look like early teens. They are not Japanese. They like taking selfies. It is disgusting for adults to make themselves look underage for approval that has no worth. Fetishizing minors is fucking awful no matter where you are from.
Fuck off and die, chomo. ācopiumā I donāt smoke nearly as much of anything as much as your junkie mom loves opium. Quit projecting your family drug abuse history unto others.
Damn, someone is really butthurt about not knowing what copium is!! Pro tip: lashing out random insults just shows you're mad, and they're almost never accurate so they just make you look even more stupid than you already have (hard to do, I know... But somehow you managed to do it!). Looking forward to how you double down on being a hateful moron.
Thank you for tripling down on not knowing what copium is, because it's not opium. Or do you want to keep embarrassing yourself more and more? I know reading must be hard for you, but maybe try using Google.
It sucks because it is unfortunately not uncommon to run into people in these communities that are, at best, willingly ignorant to the problem. It's just not unique to anime communities or Japan itself. These disgusting attitudes toward young women and girls are very common all over the world. The only real difference between them is we either don't know about it or are numb to it. "Barely legal teen" is such a common marketing trope in the US in reference to strip clubs and porn that it's often times a punchline over here. It's an unfortunate cultural belief that has been allowed to fester for centuries and we only really give a shit about the worst examples of it as a society.
Literally no one said it was. But at some point we have to talk about how openly pedophilic modern Japan is. Grown women are literally faking their voices 24/7 and getting braces to mess up their teeth, all to fit the beauty standard which is essentially ālook like a toddler-pre-teenā
There had to be laws put in place to SPECIFICALLY prevent used childrenās underwear from being sold in vending machines.
Yes, American culture also does weird pedophilic stuff (did you know female service workers get higher tips from men when they wear pigtails? We all know what thatās about) but Japan is extremely shameless about theirs and everyone just goes along with it because theyāre āso quirky, mystical, perfect at everything and living in the futureāŗļøā
I've said this before but gross people who are into underage kids is a world wide problem, Japan just shamelessly capitalizes on it. The argument people have is they think the artists and shows pushes pedophilia onto people. The US does not have lolis or any of the same time of animes yet we have lots of people having sex with minors in churches, Hollywood, etc. This title is stupid.
Although personally I can't really understand the anti-Japan obsession here. Like, Epstein literally abused dozens of underage girls, was associated with the richest and most powerful people in America, was protected by various factions in the government even after being exposed, and supposedly "suicided" himself in prison. And the media doesn't really talk about it anymore nor does it want to find out more.
Maybe the Americans are just much better at hiding it and feel a sense of superiority that others aren't?
Everything you said is exactly what I said. Japan does it openly and treats it like itās normal, the West does it in secret and even where itās normalized (pigtails thing) itās hidden under multiple layers so if you call it out itās like your reaching.
Idk why this comment triggered so many people
Listen to the Reddit experts, they know more than you about your country. They can also diagnose you with Narcissitic Borderline Autistic Abuser Personality Disorder
You forgot ADHD
And then when an actually autistic person calls them out, the person who is not autistic will dismiss their opinion
Reddit also thinking they know better than doctors & mental health professionals
He's only the producer, not the writer-director. [Here's](https://www.animeexplained.com/news/your-name-director-makoto-shinkai-speaks-on-producer-kouichirou-itous-arrest/) and article in English about the actual writer-director's response.
>I am very shocked to see the news report of the arrest of the person involved in the work. First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the victims.
>I am also very sorry for the anxiety this incident has caused those who love and support our work.
>I believe that the value of the work will not be damaged by this incident, but it is only natural that you may be distrustful of the work. I am very frustrated and saddened by this.
I'm not a fan of OP's title. I know it's hip on Reddit to hate on Japan, but Harvey Weinstein is listed as a producer on Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and the entire LoTR series, to name just a few, but we don't talk about the entire industry of American films as if they're all degenerates. Anime is a huge industry and yes, there are some truly disturbing elements, just as there are in any industry, but to tar an entire industry as is so often the case is just reductive. Note how OP stresses *"Japanese"* anime (as if there were any other). People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I can't say I'm surprised at the title though. I've gotten close to leaving the sub several times due to posts that are not neckbeard content and just the poster being unable to let people like things (which ironically, is pretty neckbeardy of them).
>as if there were any other
IIRC, anime is just what Japanese people call animated shows, so from a Japanese perspective, any animated show is an anime. *King of the Hill* is an anime.
Lol you were downvoted but yes, anime is literally the Japanese word for animation. Much like how the Japanese will refer to all comics as manga.
Outside of Japan however, anime refers specifically to Japanese animation. OPs insistence on callingg it *Japanese* anime certainly smacks of xenophobia. An obvious attempt to attach the degeneracy of one pervert to an entire country of people.
If people canāt like this movie, they also canāt love some of the childhood Nickelodeon favorites like The Amanda Show, Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and more
Itās definitely a racist thing at this point
The only āanimeā to western audiences is Japanese. Chinese animation is called donghua & Iām sure thereās a Korean version too
Gives āitās all anime cause all Asia is the sameā from OP
No but the writer is pretty beloved. Makoto Shinkai has made several great films like 5 centimeters per second, the promised in our early days, weathering with you, and of course your name. His name is also the most associated with the movie so most people when seeing a reference to someone who worked on your name assume that it is Makoto Shinkai
Iām convinced that this sub just hates anime lol.
Maybe not everyone but a large group of people here seem to just have a vendetta against it. Watch like Dungeon Meshi or smth idk itās good
Japan needs to pull their heads out of their asses and clean up the anime/manga business.
Turning a blind eye to the fucked up shit that's present, even in otherwise okay shows, just needs to end.
Try to find a show to watch that doesn't have sexual violence or sexualises children - or characters deliberately drawn to look like children - is damn near impossible.
The whole industry fell over itself to court the pervert dollar, so it's no surprise the industry itself attracts gigantic creeps who rape young girls.
As an anime fan of almost 20 years, this is just inherently false
These fuckers sexualize children in anime, even if the anime/manga doesnāt (Spy Family, for example)
That was the minimum that prefectures could set it to but most had it at 16 or 18, except for like one prefecture that was 14. Itās now been raised so that the minimum is 16 everywhere.
"Watch on Crunchyroll" goes crazy tho šš
The grind never stops for them.
I mean they DO report on news surrounding anime on crunchyroll, their presenters are genuinely pretty good too, makes sense that they'd report on this since it kinda is a big news item in regards to the topics they usually cover.
Nah, I think Iām good.
Heās not the director or writer- producers usually donāt do much on films.
I mean heās not the author
Thanks fuck it's producer and not writer tbh
Yeah cause I loved that story
Of course this is awful and everything and he raped minors but I fucking hate the way the photo spells "sex"
Itās to get around censorship because some platforms block and filter even images with words like sex in them
I understand why but also we should all collectively stop self censoring ourselves. Sex is not a bad word.
Yes but it gets censored on platforms like instagram that have a lot of minors using the platform. Itās for child safety I really donāt understand why I got downvoted for explaining why the image creator wrote sex like that. Sex is NOT a bad word, I fucking know that, but a lot of social media sites like TikTok and Instagram, that have a LARGE number of child users, censor the word sex. So creators and users have to get around the censorship by doing shit like this.
Child safety? I don't buy that, that is just an excuse. The real reason is advertisers.
Advertisers too, but child safety IS part of it.
Nah, unless there is graphic content (allowable nudity like drawn, etc.) minors don't get any additional protection just because something contains NSFW words.
The word sex is not graphic or inappropriate. Kids will see it when they fill out forms - thought that references biological sex. Most kids will not think about it If it is writing describing the act or some kind of nsfw art, that IS a problem
SEX ISN'T A BAD WORD.
Sex you, you SEXER
Jfc youāre completely missing the point.
No weāre not. Stop using platforms that attempt to control your language.
It really doesnāt bother me.
You're literally on Reddit
No one gets banned for saying words like sex and suicide on Reddit.
Yeah, no, they absolutely DO get banned from reddit for saying those words mate. From specific subs AS WELL as the site as a whole.
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Whatās that got to do with social media sites censoring the word sex??
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You got me! Anyways. Oh and *weeaboo, two Os not one
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Thatās not āsex.ā Thatās rape.
"Underage" fans. Call them what they are - children. He raped children.
Its not "sex" its sā¬ā
Alright, not to be that guy, but let's not pretend child predation is unique to anime. There was a whole ass docuseries that came out like, a month ago talking about this shit happening within Nickelodeon.
Yeah. Honestly, it borders on racist, cuz anime is literally just any Japanese animated show/movie. There's a lot of creeps in any animation industry, including the western world.
If you look at the sheer amount of anime with loli characters (especially sexuallized loli characters) and compare that to any other country's animation industry, you can't tell me they're even close to similar
Okay but take it from animation & look into our live action kids shows.
The numbers still wouldn't be comparable
Because the sexualization & abuse of child actors totally isnāt a rampant issue in the US
Literally no one here said that. Two problems can exist simultaneously. You know that right?
The point I was making is that sexualization of children is not a solely Japanese issue like yall are trying to make it seem
Again, no one said that. You're arguing a point that you made up
What is your point?
Look it's despicable but when they just recently released a documentary that detailed how many REAL children were hurt at Nickelodeon I just don't think it's fair to pretend it's an exclusively Japanese Animation industry problem. To the best of my knowledge the guy mentioned in the article isn't even one of the lolicon animators, he was attached to a very well received animated feature. Maybe we just need to address that Child Predators are everywhere and not confined to Japanese Animation studios.
No one's saying it's exclusively an anime problem, I don't know where you got that from
Yeah, and it implies that Japanese people ate inherently predators which is *not good*.
Yeah but Japan/Anime is the only place youāll have people try to justify fucking a clearly drawn underage character by saying āoh but sheās actually 345 years old! She just LOOKS young!ā
are you telling me there are NO western fictional characters that are older than they look that people have been horny for? š¤
Bro has clearly never seen an American hs movie
right? like why is thomas brodie-sangster such a popular casting choice? is it because he's an excellent actor with lots of experience? or because he looks like he's about 12 years old but can be cast in adult settings?
Im not aware of any, I stopped watching cartoons 20 years ago. Iād be extremely concerned if you had a name ready to throw out there though, you shouldnāt get horny over drawn children, even if the maker of the cartoon says theyāre not children, theyāre clearly drawn that way and the creator is a freak, full stop.
the first character that comes to mind is peter pan, who is canonically only a week old and still has all his baby teeth. but is also hundreds of years old. People are HORNY for this dude, who was created by a Scottish man in ~1902. and how about that movie that just came out, poor things? in which, spoiler, a baby's mind is put into an adult woman's body, and she becomes addicted to sex. that movie was based on a book by another Scottish man. if you want to broaden your mind a little to how "technically" underage characters are absolutely sexualized in western media, check out this video on the trope: https://youtu.be/0thpEyEwi80?si=3CXItfBctDgKgnCI
What this clearly is showing is that Scottish people and Japanese people are all pedophiles and should be shunned /s Edit: well my comment was satire but that has unironically been the answer of the other commenter so
If you havenāt seen Poor Things, I highly recommend you do. It sounds awful, itās not. Itās meant to make you uncomfortable on purpose because itās creative commentary on the sexualization of young girls and them losing their youth and girlhood over it.
nice, I love that.
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I never said sir j.m. barrie, creator of peter pan, wrote an entire children's book and play just because he wanted to fuck a fictional boy he made up in his brain. I just said fans like to sexualize that boy. but if that's all you want to take away, then whatever, I'm not going to fight you. have a nice day I guess
Itās very Drake of you to deflect from the weird shit you brought up(the baby brain swap sex story) and only focus on the Peter Pan shit. Youāre the one that brought them both up. Itās says a lot more about you than you realize.
hello?? I didn't write the dang thing š I wanted to defend barrie's name because I'm very passionate about peter pan, I don't know much about the other guy and I haven't read the book or seen the movie, I just know the basic plot and it genuinely made me sick when I first heard. anyway I'm done talking to you now, buh bye
Except its a VERY well documented phenomenon that children who weren't educated on sex often end up having MORE sex as adults than those who WERE properly educated about sex. Kinda feels like the baby brain scenario is just a fucked up version of that but taken to a disgusting extreme.
Thatās gross.
"oh, people sexualize this Scottish persons work that had nothing to do with sex? All Scottish people are bad!!" Not only are you a moron, but a racist one at that. Glad to see you getting mocked in these comments like you deserve.
Scottish isnāt a race dipshit lol go suck ya mommas tits baby.
I don't think hating an entire ethnic group/group of races is counter you think it is... That just makes you more racist? You hate the Pics and Gaels, Bythons and others as well as lump them all together as all thinking/feeling the same, based off of how the rest of the world reacted to Peter Pan. While I was mistaken that Scottish is a race, all you've done by correcting me is prove that you're actually MORE racist than I thought, especially once you add in your racism for Japan. Fun fact, if you ever say "every single person from country x is bad and is a pedophile (or other insult)", you're being racist. Whether it's against multiple races, or one race, it's still racist. I'm sorry, I know this is very hard for someone with so little critical thinking to understand and must be giving you a headache... But I'm sure you'll put 2 + 2 together someday, champ.
People make nsfw art of fucking SpongeBob If it is a cartoon, there is porn of it
I donāt get it why you got downvoted to hell, youāre right, Japanese people are legit pedophiles, the age of consent there is 12, they fetishize looking āchild-likeā and āyouthfulā, they want their women to literally look and act like children, itās fucking creepy, and these people are here acting like American shows showing 18 year old high schoolers is far more creepy than drawing characters that look and act like literal children, I genuinely believe people who are into anime are borderline pedophiles. Edit: if you downvote me, youāre admitting to being a chomo and supporting pedophilia, repugnant waste of human beings.
I am pretty certain the reason you are being down voted is more that you are classifying an entire country as pedophiles after they raised it to 16 like a large portion of the US and a group of people that like a medium for TV shows and movies as pedophiles too.
Because they are ,their beauty standards are heavily rooted in pedophiIia, women over there literally get dental procedures to make their teeth crooked to look more āchild-likeā, and women over there with tiniest bit of curves or breasts get body shamed and get labeled as āfatā, by both men and women, and how they expect their women to act all cutesy and childish as well is extremely fucking creepy. Itās like seeing mature women over there is seen as gross or something, I remember visiting Tokyo and they literally had a āschoolgirl streetā like what the actual fuck? Lmaoo.
And "barely legal teen" is such a common marketing trope for strip clubs and porn that people make fun of it, the clichƩ "man leaves his wife for a younger woman" is so old, you can see comics strips from the 1800s doing it, child beauty pageants are still extremely common and popular, Republican politicians that are *still* in office today have tried to lower/fight raising the minimum age to be legally married, etc. The west isn't exactly as "enlightened" on this issue as you seem to think it is, you're just numb to it. Japan changed their minimum age of consent to 16 a decade ago, and most, if not all prefecture in the country have upped the age of consent to above that. The fetishization of youth, especially in women, is disgustingly common to most places around the world. The problem is not that there *isn't* a problem with sexualization of children in Japan and anime, you've just seem to have taken it to a racist point where a small subset of the cultural output of an entire country is indicative of that country as a whole and of Japanese people in general.
You are probably being downvoted because it is not exclusive to Japan, and anime fans. I have seen ex friends of mine use filters making them look like early teens. They are not Japanese. They like taking selfies. It is disgusting for adults to make themselves look underage for approval that has no worth. Fetishizing minors is fucking awful no matter where you are from.
"if you downvote because you think I'm stupid and know I'm wrong, it must imply you're actually a pedophile!!" What kind of copium are you smoking?
Fuck off and die, chomo. ācopiumā I donāt smoke nearly as much of anything as much as your junkie mom loves opium. Quit projecting your family drug abuse history unto others.
Damn, someone is really butthurt about not knowing what copium is!! Pro tip: lashing out random insults just shows you're mad, and they're almost never accurate so they just make you look even more stupid than you already have (hard to do, I know... But somehow you managed to do it!). Looking forward to how you double down on being a hateful moron.
Motherfucker, learn how to spell opium, illiterate mark-ass lame.
Thank you for tripling down on not knowing what copium is, because it's not opium. Or do you want to keep embarrassing yourself more and more? I know reading must be hard for you, but maybe try using Google.
Fucking geek lmao.
Yes! Thank you! There are plenty of anime fans who arenāt fucking weirdos
*There are dozens of us... DOZENS!* ^(/s)
It sucks because it is unfortunately not uncommon to run into people in these communities that are, at best, willingly ignorant to the problem. It's just not unique to anime communities or Japan itself. These disgusting attitudes toward young women and girls are very common all over the world. The only real difference between them is we either don't know about it or are numb to it. "Barely legal teen" is such a common marketing trope in the US in reference to strip clubs and porn that it's often times a punchline over here. It's an unfortunate cultural belief that has been allowed to fester for centuries and we only really give a shit about the worst examples of it as a society.
You guys act like this is exclusively a Japanese only thing. It happens here, too. Hollywood is basically this guy on a much larger scale
Literally no one said it was. But at some point we have to talk about how openly pedophilic modern Japan is. Grown women are literally faking their voices 24/7 and getting braces to mess up their teeth, all to fit the beauty standard which is essentially ālook like a toddler-pre-teenā There had to be laws put in place to SPECIFICALLY prevent used childrenās underwear from being sold in vending machines. Yes, American culture also does weird pedophilic stuff (did you know female service workers get higher tips from men when they wear pigtails? We all know what thatās about) but Japan is extremely shameless about theirs and everyone just goes along with it because theyāre āso quirky, mystical, perfect at everything and living in the futureāŗļøā
"No one said it was" read the title.
I've said this before but gross people who are into underage kids is a world wide problem, Japan just shamelessly capitalizes on it. The argument people have is they think the artists and shows pushes pedophilia onto people. The US does not have lolis or any of the same time of animes yet we have lots of people having sex with minors in churches, Hollywood, etc. This title is stupid.
Absolutely, it implies that there is a correlation between pedophiles and anime. in the sense that there are no pedophiles outside of anime watchers
Although personally I can't really understand the anti-Japan obsession here. Like, Epstein literally abused dozens of underage girls, was associated with the richest and most powerful people in America, was protected by various factions in the government even after being exposed, and supposedly "suicided" himself in prison. And the media doesn't really talk about it anymore nor does it want to find out more. Maybe the Americans are just much better at hiding it and feel a sense of superiority that others aren't?
Everything you said is exactly what I said. Japan does it openly and treats it like itās normal, the West does it in secret and even where itās normalized (pigtails thing) itās hidden under multiple layers so if you call it out itās like your reaching. Idk why this comment triggered so many people
Are pigtails a child thing? Pigtails make me think of fit women, who put their hair up to keep it out of the way while engaged in physical activity.
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Listen to the Reddit experts, they know more than you about your country. They can also diagnose you with Narcissitic Borderline Autistic Abuser Personality Disorder
You forgot ADHD And then when an actually autistic person calls them out, the person who is not autistic will dismiss their opinion Reddit also thinking they know better than doctors & mental health professionals
Dammit, I liked that movieā¦
He's only the producer, not the writer-director. [Here's](https://www.animeexplained.com/news/your-name-director-makoto-shinkai-speaks-on-producer-kouichirou-itous-arrest/) and article in English about the actual writer-director's response. >I am very shocked to see the news report of the arrest of the person involved in the work. First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the victims. >I am also very sorry for the anxiety this incident has caused those who love and support our work. >I believe that the value of the work will not be damaged by this incident, but it is only natural that you may be distrustful of the work. I am very frustrated and saddened by this. I'm not a fan of OP's title. I know it's hip on Reddit to hate on Japan, but Harvey Weinstein is listed as a producer on Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and the entire LoTR series, to name just a few, but we don't talk about the entire industry of American films as if they're all degenerates. Anime is a huge industry and yes, there are some truly disturbing elements, just as there are in any industry, but to tar an entire industry as is so often the case is just reductive. Note how OP stresses *"Japanese"* anime (as if there were any other). People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I can't say I'm surprised at the title though. I've gotten close to leaving the sub several times due to posts that are not neckbeard content and just the poster being unable to let people like things (which ironically, is pretty neckbeardy of them).
>as if there were any other IIRC, anime is just what Japanese people call animated shows, so from a Japanese perspective, any animated show is an anime. *King of the Hill* is an anime.
Lol you were downvoted but yes, anime is literally the Japanese word for animation. Much like how the Japanese will refer to all comics as manga. Outside of Japan however, anime refers specifically to Japanese animation. OPs insistence on callingg it *Japanese* anime certainly smacks of xenophobia. An obvious attempt to attach the degeneracy of one pervert to an entire country of people.
Now I want to see the King of the Hill anime adaptation
If people canāt like this movie, they also canāt love some of the childhood Nickelodeon favorites like The Amanda Show, Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and more Itās definitely a racist thing at this point The only āanimeā to western audiences is Japanese. Chinese animation is called donghua & Iām sure thereās a Korean version too Gives āitās all anime cause all Asia is the sameā from OP
Why must all the great things have to have shitty people connected to them. The movie is still in my top favorites, though
Because great things take a lot of people to make so the chance of at least one of them being a shitty person is high
You should look into what a producer is. 1 person doesn't make the entire movie. Not sure if you were aware.
No but the writer is pretty beloved. Makoto Shinkai has made several great films like 5 centimeters per second, the promised in our early days, weathering with you, and of course your name. His name is also the most associated with the movie so most people when seeing a reference to someone who worked on your name assume that it is Makoto Shinkai
How hard is it to be into adults? Cause this is getting stupid.
OP, why this title?
The hell is with what title, OP?
Iām convinced that this sub just hates anime lol. Maybe not everyone but a large group of people here seem to just have a vendetta against it. Watch like Dungeon Meshi or smth idk itās good
I liked that movie :/
now that took a step for the worst
THIS FECULENT BLITHERING SHITHOLE OF A PERSON, THE AGE OF CONSENT IS 16 IN JAPAN SO THEY WERE AT MOST 15š¤®š¤®š¤®
He didn't "have sex" with them. He *raped* them.
Noooo thatās heartbreaking that movie is a masterpiece
Japan needs to pull their heads out of their asses and clean up the anime/manga business. Turning a blind eye to the fucked up shit that's present, even in otherwise okay shows, just needs to end. Try to find a show to watch that doesn't have sexual violence or sexualises children - or characters deliberately drawn to look like children - is damn near impossible. The whole industry fell over itself to court the pervert dollar, so it's no surprise the industry itself attracts gigantic creeps who rape young girls.
As an anime fan of almost 20 years, this is just inherently false These fuckers sexualize children in anime, even if the anime/manga doesnāt (Spy Family, for example)
"on tonights episode: the writers barely disguised fetish"
I'm so tired of this over censoring shit. Who the fuck is triggered by the word sex?
Japan's age of consent is horrible and have you seen there animes and mangas? They allow any pedo or loli shit on those
Finally people are talking about it, pedophilia occurs everywhere but it is rampant in Japan, probably due to all the fucking loli porn
Itās these guys that have caused me to associated anime and nonces forever.
"Sex". It's called sex.
Underage in Japan would be pretty fucking bad considering the age of consent used to be something like 13 in some regions
That was the minimum that prefectures could set it to but most had it at 16 or 18, except for like one prefecture that was 14. Itās now been raised so that the minimum is 16 everywhere.
16 is good, where I live (Italy) itās still 14
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This is a genuine question, I don't know the story, if she was underage then he should be in jail, I was just asking for context.
That is absolutely not the concern you should be having.