Pandering pays the bills, and that’s the truth.

As a avid fan of TV and a producer of content, I could not agree less. You’re free to mindlessly enjoy something as much as you want but improvement is impossible if the audience are all made out of Yes-men. I love Doctor Who but the show shits the bed at times. Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of my all-time…

No, they didn’t. Blizzard changed the pose themselves, and the creators even said as much.

Anime is an art form

And when US had that too much reality t.v. , too little quality scripted shows, writers took note. And we got “The Sopranos,” and “The Wire,” out of it. And that paved the way for higher production values on other shows. We wouldn’t have Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc without that discussion.

You’re right, but if the genre wants to succeed as a medium, it needs to grow up with its audience. I’m so glad the people commenting so far in the same vein as you seem to be in the minority. I’m not promoting censorship. I’m promoting anime with better story telling than trying to get a 15 year old’s dick hard.

“D’Anastasio: What’s wrong with catering to the so-called “hypothetical male boner”? That’s an audience.”

I’m sorry you can’t say “I’m not asking” and then ask for just that

I feel like this is the entire point of this article, and I for one applaud the site for what it’s trying to do. Imagine if conventional western shows did something similar, where upon starting a new show you don’t know if in the middle of a plot-line you’re enjoying something sexual assault like is just.. shoved in…

“The older siblings often have a bigger part in the life of the younger siblings than even the parents so incest sometimes happens. Just remember what is weird to you is normal to others.”

I think it’s more, “I want to enjoy your art, but you continue to insert sexual harassment of minors that’s not only disgusting, but also completely out of place from the rich story that’s developed so far. Please stop insulting my intelligence so i can enjoy your medium.”

See, I knew something like this would be brought up. The point of my comment, and the article as a whole, is that some of the things that are taken for granted or considered normal in anime are keeping it from getting a wider audience. Not just with women in general, but with international viewers like me.

I totally agree with this. Non-contextual fan service, especially involving minors, is incredibly off-putting to me. It puts me in this weird situation in which I know what the creators are trying to do to me; I’m supposed to be turned on; and it just makes me feel embarrassed.

I have a dream, that one day, people on the Internet can disagree about things without resorting to murder threats and suicide requests.

Faye is on my Mount Rushmore of anime characters, partially because she never loses her agency. She does whatever she wants and his beholden to nobody. She’s allowed to have her flaws (chronic gambler, habitual liar) without being perceived as weak. She dresses sexy because she uses her sexuality to accomplish her…

And the sad thing is, that scene isn’t even that bad compared to a lot of fanservice in other shows.

Don’t you find anime that have properly treated or written women actually have significantly better stories anyway?

Yeah, but the point of the way they’re both being portrayed that way is to service the male viewers. We see it time and time again in anime where the girls are hot and the men/boy protagonist is, under most circumstances, ineffectual- and the girls still want them. That basically sums up the perfect fantasy for the…

As a more conventional sci-fi fan who only occasionally dips a toe into anime, I have to say that I find the sexualization of children incredibly off-putting. I watch something like Sword Art Online, which I’m told is fairly casual and mainstream as anime goes, and a few episodes in a 12 or 13-year-old girl gets…

hey now, leave bebop outta this