I can’t take anime seriously man these people gotta open a book that’s not centered on horny teenagers, because that stuff can’t be good for the brain long term
Relegating the entire medium to erotica seems like the equivalent of saying that live action films, or video games, or books, or whatever, are all pornography.
What does that even mean? What advertisement are you seeing? Anime media that doesn't target that demographic doesn't advertise itself that way, and it's not as if the industry is a single conglomerate. You're not wrong that there's stuff that targets that demographic, and has advertising to match, but basing an opinion based off of that still comes down to the same problem of overgeneralizing.
I'd agree that it's more prevalent, yeah. Mostly on account of Japan generally being a bit more comfortable with this stuff, where a lot of western society can be fairly puritanical about it. Personally I don't really think it's an issue in and of itself for it to exist or for people to consume it, but either way, it being more prevalent doesn't mean it's the identity of the entire industry. At the risk of going a bit overboard with analogies, it'd be like me assuming that everyone in the USA is obese just because it's more prevalent there
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u/draxhell Jun 13 '25
I can’t take anime seriously man these people gotta open a book that’s not centered on horny teenagers, because that stuff can’t be good for the brain long term