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Sunday Silence
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You forgot Sankaku Complex. |
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amagee
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I'm surprised that nothing much has been said in regards to the innate cultural difference between those of us here engaged in the discussions and the Japanese culture which produced the material that instigated this entire debate (unless I missed it in the 5 full pages of stuff in which case...whoops! ).
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dtm42
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I don't even want to know about Sankaku Complex, except what this hilarious and scathing review of the site tells me. |
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Chagen46
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Wow, that was hilarious. The British accent just makes it even funnier. |
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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. anime fans are like scifi nerds or Trekkie's. Even if something does go right for 90% of the fan-base there will always be that 10% that bitches about every little thing and never be happy no matter what happens. We are amongst the hardest fan-base in any form of media to appease on decent levels that doesn't cause bickering amongst us. " oh ano-hana was licensed but it's sub only so nisa should burn" or I don't like the offical subs for my series etc.. It's 2am and I'm beginning to question my own state of mind at this point. |
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dtm42
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You're only just questioning your state of mind now? I've been questioning my sanity since way back when I was paying NZ$130.00 (US$103.50) for a one-cour series. Heck, it's strange enough that I'm watching Japanese cartoons in the first place, but here I am. |
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enurtsol
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OK! Anime is sexist! |
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Bob from Accounting
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On the subject of equal sexism that Cecilthedarkknight raised, while it is true that a single, isolated case of sexism against a man is equally as bad as a single, isolated case of sexism of the same degree against a woman, the simple fact is that the shit that women have had to and still do have to deal with all over the world is on a mind-boggling scale that sexism towards men and sexism towards women simply cannot be truly compared.
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dtm42
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I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. In fact, your point has already been covered in this thread, by myself and by others. I'll reiterate what I said earlier. Misandry exists and is a concern, even if it is not anywhere near as widespread, as savage or as deeply-rooted as misogyny is. |
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Sunday Silence
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Hentai is sexist to all women, Yaoi is sexist towards submissive males? |
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TitanXL
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Women get their Tyrant Falls in Love and Gravitation, men get their High School DxD and Sekirei.
Anime is an equal opportunity medium. |
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zensunni
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Or the Luke and Laura storyline on General Hospital back in the 80's. The most watched episodes of daytime television in history, at the time, was the wedding of a rapist and his victim who fell in love with him, and we (myself included as a high school kid) eat it up! I look back on that story line and the popularity of the show and wonder what kind of sick country I live in! |
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rheiders
Posts: 1137 Location: Colorful Colorado :) |
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No it's not. Let's look at this season. For fanservice shows: Boys get: Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate, Ebiten, Nakaimo, So I Can't Play H, Oda Nobuna no Yabou Girls get: La storia della Arcana Famiglia, Hakuouki Reimei-roku And then there are plenty of other shows that are not fanservice shows, but will probably feature more fanservice aimed at male viewers than female viewers. For example, Yuruyuri 2, Joshiraku, Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere 2, and Kokoro Connect, just to name a few. Even more typical shounen shows like Sword Art Online will likely include male-oriented fanservice but little to no female-oriented fanservice. (I seem to recall the interviewer saying that they did everything they could to make sure the lead girl was "cute".) It makes sense- that show is aimed at the shounen demographic. In fact, the only shows this season that are explicitly aimed at girls (in other words, shows that are aimed at a shoujo or josei demographic) are Arcana Famiglia, the new Hakuouki, Utakoi, and Natsuyuki Rendezvous. So no, anime is not "equal opportunity". Fanservicey trash exists for both genders, but not in nearly equal amounts. And, of course, there is a lot more female-oriented manga out there than female-oriented anime, but since you only mention anime, that's what I'm discussing. Apparently fujoshi don't like to buy DVDs or something. (And as a note: I'm not including hentai in this, which includes yaoi and yuri. I admittedly don't know enough about it to discuss it.) I'll stop running this topic into the mud now, but this argument is a really big pet peeve of mine. ^^; |
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Fencedude5609
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There are precisely three Yuri-only H anime works produced in the last decade or so. Just for the record. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Yes, fujoshi don't buy discs. At least not BluRay discs, they still sold more DVDs for that basketball show than BDs, I guess they haven't moved onto HD yet. So that male otaku buy the more expensive products, and do it more often, they'll naturally dominate the market. Even with the female fans buying all the manga, you'd need about 13-15 volumes to equal one BD.
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