Whether it be censorship or censureship (I know it’s not a word, but shut up, it’s good wordplay! Heheheh), the end result is fairly similar: a stigma becomes attached to a type of media that falls outside what is considered socially acceptable.

Fine, if you really want me to just start naming things, I will. Like I said, I don’t know many shows from the last 5-10 years particularly well, but as long as you don’t mind a slight time gap, here are just a few excellent anime off the top of my head that feature progressive/artful depictions of women with…

Hey, this discussion is no skin off my back. I don’t mind entertaining trolls, if that’s what things come to. ;)

I’ve always hated the statement, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Because... it isn’t. At all. Good intentions are pretty much everything, as far as I’m concerned. They are, more or less, a get out of jail free card.

“Can you not pull a Donald and actually name a few?”

That is indeed what disparity means, and that is exactly the word I intended to use there.

That’s a fair point. But I do feel like we, as a society, have kind of devolved into a state of “outrage culture” these past few years. People get offended at absolutely everything these days — more than they ever have before — despite media, on the whole, being more progressive than it ever has been before. For every…

There... are actually a LOT of anime that break the status quo. There always have been. Yeah, the ratio isn’t as good as it could be, but it does seem to be getting better all the time.

We will have to agree to disagree on this. I feel it is not the art that shapes individuals, but the artists. Art is merely a medium. Change the artists, and you will change the art; but change the art without changing the artist, and you’ll create disparity, which will (on a subconscious level, if not a conscious…

“Why? Once you change superhero movies from save the world to tackle social issues. Why do you wanna go back to save the world?”

Good points all around, and great post. I appreciate you taking the time to discuss this with me!

I agree with that, but I guess it’s just a... personal philosophy, maybe? Not sure what to call it. I just feel that as long as even one person is made happy, or touched, by a work of art, then that work of art is worthwhile and deserving of respect. That’s why, whenever possible, I refrain from calling anything…

Oh, I totally agree.

The problem is, sex positive versus “calling out slut shaming” is entirely subjective. I keep going back to Senran Kagura — often criticized for its oversexualization of women, I actually see the majority of the Senran Kagura girls as extremely strong, independent female characters who really feel like they own their…

Well, like I said, I haven’t seen this show, so I’m not able to specifically comment on the quality of its writing or character development. But I read the OP’s critiques a bit differently, it would seem, as I definitely interpreted them to suggest that they are, at the very least, above average.

“You can’t have an actual narrative show (as opposed to something pornographic) without characterization though.”

I suppose it is extrapolating to say that Cecilia (or anyone else) is claiming this anime has no right to exist. But she is, at the very least, condemning it unfairly for simply being what the original creators intended it to be. And that, I believe, is unfair criticism. It would be like dismissing a pornographic…

“A work most certainly IS judged based on other works, that is WHY movies like X-Men Apocalypse and Batman vs Superman did not do well compared to Captain America: Civil War.”

I actually disagree on a fundamental level. Art in particular, I believe, is a mirror of society: it reflects the way people feel, rather than shaping the way they feel. I believe that the only way to cure “bad art” is to cure society. As long as societal dysfunction exists, the art produced by that society will…

If so, then it has value.