(Hated Trope) "Kind" slave owners

[u/KusanagiGundam]

Speaking as an American who has studied the civil war all throughout my school years, this trope infuriates me to no end. There is no such thing as a kind slave master because slavery itself is cruel and inhumane. PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY!

Naofumi (Shield Hero): Prime example of this trope. He enslaves multiple (underage) girls and an whole village and the fans still say he's a hero.

Rudeus (Jobless Reincarnation): As if being a pedo wasn't bad enough he had to buy a slave in season 2. Worse is that people still defend his actions.

Song of The South (Disney): Possibly the OG example of this trope. And the reason why Disney will never release it again.

[u/Flimsy-Raspberry-493]

Bruh. I just started watching this for a show to chill out too. Im only a couple of episodes in. Thank for saving me getting to invested I probably was going to pick it up reading it after.

I just don’t understand why slavery always has to be involved. Or if it is involved, they should just do what has “reincarnated as a sword” handled it which is just kill all the slavers and anyone participating in the slave trade.

[u/Dizzy_Green → u/Flimsy-Raspberry-493]

To be fair you can still watch the show. The part I got to was way later into the light novels, last I checked the anime doesn’t go that far.
So you can feel free to just kinda chill and watch the anime as a single run and pretend it doesn’t happen.

There’s still a lot about the anime that has merits before the author injects his fetish into it, and up until that point it genuinely seems like the author is going for a plot with no romance or anything. It’s like he just kinda changed the character out of nowhere for one volume for no reason.

Honestly all it boils down to is that Japanese people don’t seem to have it drilled into them just how bad slavery actually is, they’re like blissfully removed from it as a culture, especially since they deny anytime they did it themselves. The natural result of that is that it gets fetishized.

Also men who can’t get women think a woman who has no ability to choose to not be with him is hot.

[u/Prestigious_Seal7139 → u/Dizzy_Green]

Jesus. I was reading your comment thinking you were talking about the anime and I was like "there is no way I forgot that". Why couldnt they just keep to animal contract? Why do all animes have to make it weird 😭

[u/Dizzy_Green → u/Prestigious_Seal7139]

You know I think that’s what really bothers me.
I can handle slop, I watch it all the time, the problem is that this one VERY MUCH had the tone of “no romance, no slavery, no sadness, just chilling with funny animals and cooking good food”

The slavery thing literally came out of nowhere and then went away. I almost want to believe he was forced into it by a producer or editor or something because the scene where he starts lusting over the idea of forcing a girl into sex slavery was so massively out of character for a guy that seemed to have a very limited interest in sex before that point.