Japan is uncomfortably comfortable with loli shit, and it’s reflected in anime… Which is why anime will never be a family living room activity for me, unless I’ve vetted it to be clean. For example, Death Note is ok, but Dragon Maid is not.
To be an anime fan you have to learn this specific skill where you disassociate during cringe “fan-service” moments and come back to Earth once it’s over.
Or just don’t watch anything that sexualizes children. Pretty well cuts off half or more of the anime out there but I’m not a pedo or interested in watching pedo shit.
My favorite personal example of this is Langrisser Mobile. Easily my favorite mobile game ever made with tons of depth to character building and strategy with a genuinely engrossing story full of political intrigue in a fantasy setting. And I can never recommend it to anyone.
This is because certain female characters allow you to perform love confessions to them if you max them out. Almost all female characters (for the first few years) are under 16. You can confess your love to the 10 year old girl and she will promise to keep it a secret till she’s old enough. You can also buy a skin for her where her skin is glistening wet, she shakes her ass at the camera, and wears white, see-through-because-they’re-wet stockings. Why.
It’s wild just how pervasive it is in 2D/3DCG Japanese/Chinese media (Langrisser Mobile is a Chinese gacha spinoff of a Japanese game series). Basically every gacha game ever made has you hunting underage girls for sport. And the players are just totally fine with this. Meanwhile, just off of the top of my head there’s almost literally every single anime ever set in a high school, about half of isekai fantasy, almost every modern shonen battle anime – all giving creepshots or sexual harassment scenes about underage girls. It’s genuinely unavoidable.
The thing is that anime is usually really good for the themes and story and art, but they occasionally sprinkle turds into it, so you kind of metaphorically eat around them. It’s still worth watching as long as you can compartmentalize and ignore the bad parts.
You just reminded me, years ago, I used to burn custom handmade censored versions of anime and tv shows for my family. I’d sit there after school for hours in a video editor cutting out every sex scene in Game of Thrones, every loli scene in anime. Then I’d burn that to a DVD-RW and recreate the disc art using a sharpie. Finally I watched it with everyone on the DVD player.
In retrospect it was a lot of work just to share my favourite shows with my family, but I don’t regret it.
Part of the job of a translator is to translate cultural nuance, which would be lost here. That’s what makes the translation inaccurate in some contexts.
So small-minded? Let me remind you that “cannibal” is originally an ethnonym coined by Columbus for the native Caribbean people, whose culture certainly had a lot more nuance than just eating people.
That just sounds to me that pedophilia is not frowned upon in Japan, not that the translation is inaccurate.
Japan is uncomfortably comfortable with loli shit, and it’s reflected in anime… Which is why anime will never be a family living room activity for me, unless I’ve vetted it to be clean. For example, Death Note is ok, but Dragon Maid is not.
To be an anime fan you have to learn this specific skill where you disassociate during cringe “fan-service” moments and come back to Earth once it’s over.
Or just don’t watch anything that sexualizes children. Pretty well cuts off half or more of the anime out there but I’m not a pedo or interested in watching pedo shit.
My favorite personal example of this is Langrisser Mobile. Easily my favorite mobile game ever made with tons of depth to character building and strategy with a genuinely engrossing story full of political intrigue in a fantasy setting. And I can never recommend it to anyone.
This is because certain female characters allow you to perform love confessions to them if you max them out. Almost all female characters (for the first few years) are under 16. You can confess your love to the 10 year old girl and she will promise to keep it a secret till she’s old enough. You can also buy a skin for her where her skin is glistening wet, she shakes her ass at the camera, and wears white, see-through-because-they’re-wet stockings. Why.
It’s wild just how pervasive it is in 2D/3DCG Japanese/Chinese media (Langrisser Mobile is a Chinese gacha spinoff of a Japanese game series). Basically every gacha game ever made has you hunting underage girls for sport. And the players are just totally fine with this. Meanwhile, just off of the top of my head there’s almost literally every single anime ever set in a high school, about half of isekai fantasy, almost every modern shonen battle anime – all giving creepshots or sexual harassment scenes about underage girls. It’s genuinely unavoidable.
i wonder whether there’s a filtered anime streaming platform for western audiences specifically.
also at that point why would you bother with anime at all? just watch western cartoons / animations, there’s many of them too.
The thing is that anime is usually really good for the themes and story and art, but they occasionally sprinkle turds into it, so you kind of metaphorically eat around them. It’s still worth watching as long as you can compartmentalize and ignore the bad parts.
You just reminded me, years ago, I used to burn custom handmade censored versions of anime and tv shows for my family. I’d sit there after school for hours in a video editor cutting out every sex scene in Game of Thrones, every loli scene in anime. Then I’d burn that to a DVD-RW and recreate the disc art using a sharpie. Finally I watched it with everyone on the DVD player.
In retrospect it was a lot of work just to share my favourite shows with my family, but I don’t regret it.
Part of the job of a translator is to translate cultural nuance, which would be lost here. That’s what makes the translation inaccurate in some contexts.
That sounds like not calling a cannibal a cannibal because of the negative connotation which the word doesn’t have in cannibal culture
So small-minded? Let me remind you that “cannibal” is originally an ethnonym coined by Columbus for the native Caribbean people, whose culture certainly had a lot more nuance than just eating people.
So we need to translate it so the audience undertands there’s a level of implied cultural acceptance of pedos. How’s this?
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