Ignoring that it factually doesn’t do that, most anime isn’t loli bait. There is a lot of pure art that even the most boring, milquetoast drone of a person (edit: that wasn’t meant to be in reference to loli, but to all the quirks of anime to do need some getting used to) could enjoy.
Oh boy, let’s play the comment section semantics game!
Genre doesn’t just mean “action” / “adventure” / etc. The definition is broad enough to encompass anime.
a style, especially in the arts, that involves a particular set of characteristics - Cambridge dictionary
a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content - Merriam Webster
In this case, anime has a particular set of tropes, art style, animation style, themes, and content. Yes, there’s sub-genres, but anime is definitely a genre, as is “cartoon” and “soap opera”.
Yeah, a huge amount of anime has cringe loli moments, it’s insane. I actually think that most anime fans develop a kind of “loli blindness”, where their brains dissociate and they are able to fully ignore it, like how you get used to bad smells.
90% of anime will never be a “living room TV” activity due to this. Of course there’s exceptions, but people below are pretending like it’s not the norm.
I can guarantee if you showed your mum all your top ten favourite animes, they would be concerned or horrified. Not “top ten but except these ones because they’re inappropriate.” No cheating. Actually review your top ten anime, and imagine someone else watching it with you, without fast forwarding the scenes where children are sexualised for an uncomfortably long duration as a half-joke.
As a reminder, the age of consent in Japan was only 13, and they had problematic sexual assault laws, until recently (2023).
TBH the whole normalizing pedophilia thing is why I don’t suggest anime to people, despite my love of the media as a whole despite its flaws.
Ignoring that it factually doesn’t do that, most anime isn’t loli bait. There is a lot of pure art that even the most boring, milquetoast drone of a person (edit: that wasn’t meant to be in reference to loli, but to all the quirks of anime to do need some getting used to) could enjoy.
Reverence for good art is no excuse of ignorance of the dogshit permanently associated with the genre.
It’s not a genre, it’s a medium. And most of the bad stereotypes of anime are only universal in a certain awful genre or two.
Although the worst is the most popular, I’ll give you that.
Oh boy, let’s play the comment section semantics game!
Genre doesn’t just mean “action” / “adventure” / etc. The definition is broad enough to encompass anime.
In this case, anime has a particular set of tropes, art style, animation style, themes, and content. Yes, there’s sub-genres, but anime is definitely a genre, as is “cartoon” and “soap opera”.
It’s a genre, the medium is 2d animation either cel animation or digital.
Yeah, a huge amount of anime has cringe loli moments, it’s insane. I actually think that most anime fans develop a kind of “loli blindness”, where their brains dissociate and they are able to fully ignore it, like how you get used to bad smells.
90% of anime will never be a “living room TV” activity due to this. Of course there’s exceptions, but people below are pretending like it’s not the norm.
I can guarantee if you showed your mum all your top ten favourite animes, they would be concerned or horrified. Not “top ten but except these ones because they’re inappropriate.” No cheating. Actually review your top ten anime, and imagine someone else watching it with you, without fast forwarding the scenes where children are sexualised for an uncomfortably long duration as a half-joke.
As a reminder, the age of consent in Japan was only 13, and they had problematic sexual assault laws, until recently (2023).