I love anime and have done since I was a teenager, but even then I always said 95% of anime was trash. Now I say 70% of anime is trash, 25% is straight up paedophile fantasy and the other 5% is the greatest entertainment ever made.

Are Japanese men just … problematic, or what’s going on?

I stuck on an anime called Dance with the Vampire Bund (something like that) and it had a scene that was LITERALLY animed child pornography. And it was on fuckin Netflix of all places.

Its incredibly disturbing how many animes ive had to stop watching because of troublesome content.

Always wondered what the origin of this meme is.

ITT: a bunch of lemmings out themselves as pedos.

I almost got kicked out of college. Because I said people have the freedom to draw this garbage because we protect free speech. And it really upset some people. I simply said you can’t police thought and art. But there is a limit depending on what they are doing with the characters.

Yeah, it is.

An unnamed 34-year-old NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) is kicked out after his brother beats him up for peeping and video taping his niece in the bathroom.

The first sentence of the plot description on Wikipedia is that the protagonist is a pedo.

haha, I know exactly what you mean about Shield Hero. What is so jolting is how seemingly random and unnecessary it is. Even if those themes aren’t present, there might still be the random lewd viewing angles. Like, nah, I’m good, I don’t need to be all upskirt peeping that literal child, wtf.

I kinda enjoy it too, but Rudeus is just such a pos, and the writer probably is as well. I was so happy that we were getting nice, non-fetishistic Eris-focused episodes for the new season, but as of episode 3 we’re back to square one with this person 🤦‍♀️.

Edit:

…but that show I probably fast forward scenes more than any other…

Glad I’m not alone in this :D

I remember hearing that the real protagonists of the world are Rudeus’s children and this is more of a prequel.

Are you Australian?

I’d recommend checking out the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund when it comes to the dangers of restricting certain topics in fiction (including child abuse or child sexual abuse), and the dangers of censorship in general.

The US went over this before in the Aughts with Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition and the PROTECT act passed in 2003 (with certain parts of it later declared unconstitutional), and later with SESTA and FOSTA, which had a chilling effect, forcing closed online resources that sex workers used to protect themselves. The more recent bills like KOSA and the KIDS act are modeled similarly to close the internet as a vector of free speech under the premise of protecting kids from porn, with the intention to also silence subjects that are ideologically controversial, such as LGBT+ content, ( trans ideology ), sexual education material, women’s health information and political speech that criticizes the Trump administration.

I still submit that media should be restricted as little as possible. Yes, we should restrict CSAM that creates actual child victims (such as filmed CSA and deepfakes of real kids), in order to protect the victims. And yet, when we criminalize fictional depictions of CSA, it not only starts cutting into legitimate artistic content (such as A Game of Thrones, or The Sandman comic series, Superman 1978 is an edge case), but it then becomes very easy for conservative moral guardians to creep the mission and expand the list of restricted content.

I’m someone else! I actually keep a running list of shows that don’t include the typical anime turnoffs. No sexualization of minors, and no incest.

Bolded titles are my top recs. Series listed in chronological order of my seeing them: