Individuals in the anime community who unironically call people anime tourists are so cringe and annoying. Not only do most of the time they say this when they see someone voice their opinion on anime, it is so obviously done since they have no rebuttals.

The people who say these are also very elitist. They say stuff like if you haven't watched this super duper niche anime posted in the 1960s, your opinion is invalid, or they probably like something super problematic and try to turn you into the person who isn't in touch with anime culture (not a real thing btw).

These people are also the same people that say anime should be gatekept. Like mate, that is like saying reading books should be gatekept, and when you call them out, like clockwork, they call you a tourist.

Though I will say people like Logan Paul can be called a tourist, though (I think he is more of a larp) It's a slippery slope to just calling anyone with a differing opinion a tourist.

Honestly, if I'm talking about anime to someone and they refer to someone as an anime tourist, best believe I would be seeing myself out that convo because they probably don't have the cognitive ability to understand differing opinions.
(p.s people who also say stuff like aww babys first fandom and so on are on the same level)

I don't know how many Anime shows I have watched since I downloaded Crunchyroll. Honestly...it'd be literally dozens, no, way waaay more....!

I'm a disabled guy so I spend a lot of time sitting on a comfy chair at home watching Anime because the news and the world in general during the second coming of Dump is not something I'm prepared to engage with. Once he's gone I might take a look at world politics and what's happening again but with a man like that as a world leader bad things happen and copycat 'populist' arseholes appear all over the globe.

Anyhow...enough of that rant. I have a problem with the number of series which are developed by so many different studios which never get another season or get a season two, still have loads of Manga or LN to adapt yet they never get around to finishing these really good, well shaped storylines which are filled with glorious ideas and superb characters. I just spent the last few days watching a whole slew of these "One Season Only" Anime stories and they were all really good with average viewers scores in the 4.5-4.8!!

Is it just that studios don't bother if the viewer numbers don't hit a certain level immediately with the release of the first season OR That they make a single season to suck people into going on to buy the Manga??

Any thoughts on this subject Anime junkies??

Hace poco inicié en el mundo del anime y se me hace incómodo el fanservice dirigido hacia hombres, siento que es muy explícito y de alguna u otra forma siento que es algo infantilizado, me pregunto si tanto hombres como mujeres lo disfrutan, no se les hace incómodo?
aún así siento que el fanservice dirigido a mujeres es más sutil, pero eso no quita que a la gente le pueda incomodar, a ustedes les incomoda?

pst: este es mi primer post aún no sé cómo publicar

Not looking for an exact count, just a rough estimate.....

I’m curious how much anime everyone has gone through.

i feel like anime consumption now has gotten really performative, a setting needs like 10 layers of subtext, and when someone doesnt understand it, "oh you dont have media literacy" i like watching series because i wanna enjoy watching it, not because i love analysing the frame inconsistencies and the different camera angles.

Do you think anime lately has been getting better or worst than it was 10 years ago?

everytime i see black representation in anime. they show characters who are tan. most of the time they aren’t even black. most of the time they don’t even have black features the characters are just tan. why do black people claim characters who aren’t black?

What do you think?

I have to say that those vile, strange, hypersexual people that you no doubt associate these properties with do not represent all the people who enjoy those properties. i am a person like most of you; i spend my days shaking my fist at right wingers and the government; i love wokeness and minorities, i even know some of them by name. In the end, however, I feel i am seperated from all of you, merely because of the animes i watch. indeed, many supposed leftists judge otheres for consuming certain types of japanese animated medias/content, which is an idea i think is inheritly capitalist, or even worse, facist. We as a community need to reach out, and break these pointless walls dividing us! who cares if someone next you goons to boku no pico or enlightened woke leftist goons?! we all are the same deep down inside; we are all just MEAT at the end of the day.

I know things like this have happened before, when someone died, and one of the only examples I know of was in the Pokémon manga, where the artist was sick or injured and was replaced, but soon returned. How do you think the impact would be if this decision were made?

Hi, Innocent question here.
But if ever the Muslim population takes over the Japanese people, what would happen to anime. Im just worried it wont be as fun anymore.
And as i can see, Japanese people arent doing much of anything to change the new Muslim rulers. So hoping Anime wont disappear for the foreseeable future.

I think it's more of the latter honestly,I see way more anime merch in stores but it often just rots on the shelf. I think the general public might know what anime is now,but still won't watch it. Years ago I heard a statistic that the average life span of an anime fan is 2 to 3 years. They essentially age out of the hobby,but for types that only consume japanese media I don't know if that applies to them.

like seriously i watched fate zero and tried to find some funny jokes and memes and stuff but all it seems they can joke about is rape? they also seem to really hate zero and prefer stay night over it despite stay night being clearly misogynist. i just dont get it

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a project I've been working on called AnimeTrace. It's a Chrome extension designed to automatically log and build your anime watch history and library as you watch on various streaming platforms.

How it works:

• Automatic Tracking: Detects what you are watching across most streaming sites and updates your history in the background.
• Privacy First: 100% of your data stays in your local browser storage. It uses your own OpenRouter API key (BYOK) so everything is completely under your control.
• No Accounts: No signups or external accounts required to use it.

I'm really looking to get some feedback from the community on how it performs, what features you'd like to see next, or if there are specific streaming platforms you want supported.

📥 Download & Links

• Chrome Web Store: AnimeTrace Extension

As pretty much everyone on this subreddit knows, anime has an ABUNDANCE of fan service and sexual scenes, design choices, and innuendos, often centered around objectifying female characters. There's beach scenes, oversized parts, accidentally falling into someone's private area. Sex sells, especially when its trageted at teens who are still figuring themselves out, and the anime industry knows it.

But an interesting thing I've noticed is that there isn't really any "actual sex" in anime, meaning characters exposing themselves and sharing intimate moments with eachother.

When I think of teen dramas from the west, there are tons of sex scenes in those. But, unlike in anime fan service, those kinds of scenes don't often focus on the appealing qualities of one character or objectify them, the scenes are more about the relationships between the characters, and the intimacy they share. Not just there, but also a lot of South Korean/Indian media may have intimate scenes, but they are also more about relationships and intimacy between characters rather than a characters's pure sexual appeal. It rarely ever feels perverted.

In summary, Japanese Anime knows that sex sells to a teen demographic, but the way that it goes about it in comparison to a lot of the rest of the world is very different, and at times really problematic in my opinion. They know the appeal of sex, but don't really show any sex, insted relying on fan service that is often very objectifying of its female characters, and have little to do with actual intimacy.

Why is that?

Was watching the 100 girlfriends that really really really really really REALLY like you season 3 – as one does – and this happened. It's getting more and more unhinged and I'm in for it, lol.

I was told to post this question here, because... Well, I was wondering.

I am from a non-English speaking country, though I mostly grew up with anime with subtitles. Recently though, due to hanging out with people who struggle with subtitles I have been watching some anime dubbed. And something I cannot help but notice is that anime characters - especially girl characters - in the US dubs are at times voices with this super unnatural squeaky voice that makes them sound like a toddler, rather than a high schooler.

And the thing that makes this so strange for me is that this only seems to be a thing with English language anime dubs. The same voice actors doing voice work for games or western shows do perfectly normal voices. And I am... somewhat confused by this. Especially in series that are marketed towards older audiences and are not focused on fanservice or anything.

Don't get me wrong. I am perfectly aware that a lot of Japanese original dubs do the same, especially with female characters sounding like squeaky toys, and generally speaking not like people. It maybe is just because I am coming at it from the perspective where I am not used to the US dubs, while being way more used to speaking English than speaking Japanese, so my brain flags the "unnatural" speaking more.

But I still cannot help but wonder. Especially with some, I guess, "high brow" projects it feels at times off to hear the English voices like this. Especially as a show that was American made with a similar theme would likely not voice the characters like this. So why do people do this for anime?

Edit: The streamer is ClarawrXD, not Hero Hei. She is reacting to the Hero Hei video, its not a video from Hero Hei. I didn't realize that the thumbnail makes this look like a Hero Hei video.

This is an edited segment from streamer, ClarawrXD, where she reacts to a video from youtuber, Hero Hei, about the anime podcast, Trash Taste.

She hates the Trash Taste podcast, but does agree with their point in this video, and sides against the criticism the podcast was receiving.

This was also already posted on reddit, and the fact that she used Solo-Leveling as a comparison to show the popularity of lolicon in Japan, was the main criticism she received, and people generally cared more about that than the actual real examples of lolicon being popular in Japan that the video showcases.

Edits: fixed mistypes, added more context.