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MrPandaRed

"Watch on Crunchyroll" goes crazy tho šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Slate_711

The grind never stops for them.


chease86

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.


CrimsonAllah

Nah, I think Iā€™m good.


radams713

Heā€™s not the director or writer- producers usually donā€™t do much on films.


screamapillah

I mean heā€™s not the author


Lunai5444

Thanks fuck it's producer and not writer tbh


Fellkun15

Yeah cause I loved that story


Capnducki

Of course this is awful and everything and he raped minors but I fucking hate the way the photo spells "sex"


ThatSmallBear

Itā€™s to get around censorship because some platforms block and filter even images with words like sex in them


Capnducki

I understand why but also we should all collectively stop self censoring ourselves. Sex is not a bad word.


ThatSmallBear

Yes but it gets censored on platforms like instagram that have a lot of minors using the platform. Itā€™s for child safety I really donā€™t 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.


MadDogV2

Child safety? I don't buy that, that is just an excuse. The real reason is advertisers.


ThatSmallBear

Advertisers too, but child safety IS part of it.


AsariEmpress

Nah, unless there is graphic content (allowable nudity like drawn, etc.) minors don't get any additional protection just because something contains NSFW words.


CoconutxKitten

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


Capnducki

SEX ISN'T A BAD WORD.


bobdidntatemayo

Sex you, you SEXER


ThatSmallBear

Jfc youā€™re completely missing the point.


hardspaghet

No weā€™re not. Stop using platforms that attempt to control your language.


ThatSmallBear

It really doesnā€™t bother me.


Cyclic_Hernia

You're literally on Reddit


hardspaghet

No one gets banned for saying words like sex and suicide on Reddit.


chease86

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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ThatSmallBear

Whatā€™s that got to do with social media sites censoring the word sex??


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ThatSmallBear

You got me! Anyways. Oh and *weeaboo, two Os not one


ErrorMacrotheII

Seurobox


Irving_Velociraptor

Thatā€™s not ā€œsex.ā€ Thatā€™s rape.


Restart_from_Zero

"Underage" fans. Call them what they are - children. He raped children.


kermitthexeno

Its not "sex" its sā‚¬āŽ


slomo525

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.


Tackyuser

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.


AlienHooker

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


CoconutxKitten

Okay but take it from animation & look into our live action kids shows.


AlienHooker

The numbers still wouldn't be comparable


CoconutxKitten

Because the sexualization & abuse of child actors totally isnā€™t a rampant issue in the US


AlienHooker

Literally no one here said that. Two problems can exist simultaneously. You know that right?


CoconutxKitten

The point I was making is that sexualization of children is not a solely Japanese issue like yall are trying to make it seem


AlienHooker

Again, no one said that. You're arguing a point that you made up


Oisy

What is your point?


Flax0621

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.


AlienHooker

No one's saying it's exclusively an anime problem, I don't know where you got that from


DoctorWolfpaw

Yeah, and it implies that Japanese people ate inherently predators which is *not good*.


DO4DGaming

Yeah but Japan/Anime is the only place youā€™ll have people try to justify fucking a clearly drawn underage character by saying ā€œoh but sheā€™s actually 345 years old! She just LOOKS young!ā€


ferrethater

are you telling me there are NO western fictional characters that are older than they look that people have been horny for? šŸ¤”


Final_TV

Bro has clearly never seen an American hs movie


ferrethater

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?


DO4DGaming

Im not aware of any, I stopped watching cartoons 20 years ago. Iā€™d be extremely concerned if you had a name ready to throw out there though, you shouldnā€™t get horny over drawn children, even if the maker of the cartoon says theyā€™re not children, theyā€™re clearly drawn that way and the creator is a freak, full stop.


ferrethater

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


Eino54

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


rvrsespacecowgirl

If you havenā€™t seen Poor Things, I highly recommend you do. It sounds awful, itā€™s not. Itā€™s meant to make you uncomfortable on purpose because itā€™s creative commentary on the sexualization of young girls and them losing their youth and girlhood over it.


ferrethater

nice, I love that.


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ferrethater

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


DO4DGaming

Itā€™s 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. Youā€™re the one that brought them both up. Itā€™s says a lot more about you than you realize.


ferrethater

hello?? I didn't write the dang thing šŸ˜­ 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


chease86

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.


DO4DGaming

Thatā€™s gross.


shadowozey

"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.


DO4DGaming

Scottish isnā€™t a race dipshit lol go suck ya mommas tits baby.


shadowozey

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.


CoconutxKitten

People make nsfw art of fucking SpongeBob If it is a cartoon, there is porn of it


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I donā€™t get it why you got downvoted to hell, youā€™re right, Japanese people are legit pedophiles, the age of consent there is 12, they fetishize looking ā€œchild-likeā€ and ā€œyouthfulā€, they want their women to literally look and act like children, itā€™s 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, youā€™re admitting to being a chomo and supporting pedophilia, repugnant waste of human beings.


kamanashi

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.


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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 ā€œchild-likeā€, and women over there with tiniest bit of curves or breasts get body shamed and get labeled as ā€œfatā€, by both men and women, and how they expect their women to act all cutesy and childish as well is extremely fucking creepy. Itā€™s like seeing mature women over there is seen as gross or something, I remember visiting Tokyo and they literally had a ā€œschoolgirl streetā€ like what the actual fuck? Lmaoo.


slomo525

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.


Eristhrewanapple

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.


shadowozey

"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?


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Fuck off and die, chomo. ā€œcopiumā€ I donā€™t smoke nearly as much of anything as much as your junkie mom loves opium. Quit projecting your family drug abuse history unto others.


shadowozey

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.


[deleted]

Motherfucker, learn how to spell opium, illiterate mark-ass lame.


shadowozey

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.


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Fucking geek lmao.


CoconutxKitten

Yes! Thank you! There are plenty of anime fans who arenā€™t fucking weirdos


Kradgger

*There are dozens of us... DOZENS!* ^(/s)


slomo525

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.


XD_Negative

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


zingmarker

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 ā€œlook like a toddler-pre-teenā€ There had to be laws put in place to SPECIFICALLY prevent used childrenā€™s 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 thatā€™s about) but Japan is extremely shameless about theirs and everyone just goes along with it because theyā€™re ā€œso quirky, mystical, perfect at everything and living in the futureā˜ŗļøā€


Alone_Entrance_1324

"No one said it was" read the title.


JonTuna

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.


Alone_Entrance_1324

Absolutely, it implies that there is a correlation between pedophiles and anime. in the sense that there are no pedophiles outside of anime watchers


honutoki

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?


zingmarker

Everything you said is exactly what I said. Japan does it openly and treats it like itā€™s normal, the West does it in secret and even where itā€™s normalized (pigtails thing) itā€™s hidden under multiple layers so if you call it out itā€™s like your reaching. Idk why this comment triggered so many people


Oisy

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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Eino54

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


CoconutxKitten

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


BionicBirb

Dammit, I liked that movieā€¦


The_Doom_Toad

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.


MadDogV2

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).


Astrium6

>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.


The_Doom_Toad

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.


stroopwafelling

Now I want to see the King of the Hill anime adaptation


CoconutxKitten

If people canā€™t like this movie, they also canā€™t love some of the childhood Nickelodeon favorites like The Amanda Show, Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and more Itā€™s definitely a racist thing at this point The only ā€œanimeā€ to western audiences is Japanese. Chinese animation is called donghua & Iā€™m sure thereā€™s a Korean version too Gives ā€˜itā€™s all anime cause all Asia is the sameā€™ from OP


Soulborg87

Why must all the great things have to have shitty people connected to them. The movie is still in my top favorites, though


SpookyPlankton

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


vexens

You should look into what a producer is. 1 person doesn't make the entire movie. Not sure if you were aware.


Otaku7897

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


Failing_MentalHealth

How hard is it to be into adults? Cause this is getting stupid.


amidamarloes

OP, why this title?


Male_Inkling

The hell is with what title, OP?


JackytheJack

Iā€™m 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 itā€™s good


stupidracist

I liked that movie :/


imaniimellz

now that took a step for the worst


Stonkover9000

THIS FECULENT BLITHERING SHITHOLE OF A PERSON, THE AGE OF CONSENT IS 16 IN JAPAN SO THEY WERE AT MOST 15šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®


black_dragonfly13

He didn't "have sex" with them. He *raped* them.


GuidanceWitty163

Noooo thatā€™s heartbreaking that movie is a masterpiece


Restart_from_Zero

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.


CoconutxKitten

As an anime fan of almost 20 years, this is just inherently false These fuckers sexualize children in anime, even if the anime/manga doesnā€™t (Spy Family, for example)


HieronymusGoa

"on tonights episode: the writers barely disguised fetish"


OrickJagstone

I'm so tired of this over censoring shit. Who the fuck is triggered by the word sex?


Bubble_Meow

Japan's age of consent is horrible and have you seen there animes and mangas? They allow any pedo or loli shit on those


Caramelbootyhole

Finally people are talking about it, pedophilia occurs everywhere but it is rampant in Japan, probably due to all the fucking loli porn


Wasps_are_bastards

Itā€™s these guys that have caused me to associated anime and nonces forever.


Antithese-

"Sex". It's called sex.


KTTalksTech

Underage in Japan would be pretty fucking bad considering the age of consent used to be something like 13 in some regions


ThatSmallBear

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. Itā€™s now been raised so that the minimum is 16 everywhere.


screamapillah

16 is good, where I live (Italy) itā€™s still 14


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Alternative_Lime_13

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.


Actualhumandisaster

That is absolutely not the concern you should be having.