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It's less a problem with sexuality in anime and more a problem with Japan thinking that it's somehow more acceptable or attractive to have someone unknowingly or unwillingly be sexually provocative. Pluto always comes across as a grown man with some type of developmental disability, not a cute dog in a human body. There's no reason he couldn't have just been an actual dog.

louis6578 wrote:

It's less a problem with sexuality in anime and more a problem with Japan thinking that it's somehow more acceptable or attractive to have someone unknowingly or unwillingly be sexually provocative. Pluto always comes across as a grown man with some type of developmental disability, not a cute dog in a human body. There's no reason he couldn't have just been an actual dog.

I see. I think that thing is due to their culture of cuteness. Young Japanese society has developed a cult of childish behavior as a way of rebelling against social norms and so they think characters who act like babbling babies are cool and sexy.

More of an unpopular anime industry opinion: I honestly prefer Anime Strike to Crunchyroll/Funimation. There's more shows (and especially movies) on AS that I actually want to watch, and they're snagging the exclusives I'm most excited about.

I personally feel like Rurouni Kenshin is not the best Samurai anime and manga and I do think it's overrated. I do think Rurouni Kenshin is a pretty good series, but I do feel like that there is better Samurai titles out there. I still say that Lone Wolf and Cub is the best Samurai manga ever and one of the best live action Samurai film not from Akira Kurosawa. Lone Wolf and Cub is a good example that comics/manga can be view as literature and high art.

Not to mention I like other Samurai titles like Lady Snowblood, Dororo, Vagabond, Shigurui, Blade of the Immortal, Samurai Executioner, Path of the Assassin and Sword of the Stranger over Kenshin. I like those titles better because they have more darker and mature themes compare to Rurouni Kenshin in my opinion.

Jose Cruz wrote:

louis6578 wrote: It's less a problem with sexuality in anime and more a problem with Japan thinking that it's somehow more acceptable or attractive to have someone unknowingly or unwillingly be sexually provocative. Pluto always comes across as a grown man with some type of developmental disability, not a cute dog in a human body. There's no reason he couldn't have just been an actual dog. I see. I think that thing is due to their culture of cuteness. Young Japanese society has developed a cult of childish behavior as a way of rebelling against social norms and so they think characters who act like babbling babies are cool and sexy.

Lord, please tell me this isn't the case.

Frankly, fanservice itself doesn't upset me. The whole thing where a woman being exposed for fanservice has to be accidental and embarrassing gets me. I think the idea is to have your cake and eat it too. The girl gets to be sexualized, but because it wasn't intentional, she retains her virginal purity.

I feel like there's a huge difference between an 8 and an 8.5. It's kind of annoying when people see my anime list and say "WHAT!? You thought Spice and Wolf was as good as Death Note!?" Of course, my opinion is my own and people shouldn't get so butthurt when it doesn't match their's, but I have to admit that it's kind of annoying to not make the distinction clearer than a 1-10 scale. Maybe 1-20 would give me the amount of wiggle room I need.

Hah. Wow, I'm extra happy that T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews was a site that I haven't ever been to in my life. And life had a pretty good reason.

I will admit, my focus is on video games, but anime heavily intertwines with my kinds of video games and I like anime as a whole in turn. And even then, I am an author and an artist. I have this disclaimer written because for what it's worth, because I probably live in another world far from the general consumer.

Regarding T.H.E.M., I'm dead laughing. I'm not going to lie. Yes, anime has standards and so does entertainment. Then again, that doesn't include one's sense of appreciation and refinement to know what one wants out of one's entertainment. That's entirely on the viewers.

T.H.E.M. has proven to me to be the example of what happens when you don't get constructive with your interests and get lost in a specific timeframe as a consumer with unpleasable demands. I admit, I have issues with the reviewing scores here on ANN but then again I have issues with everyone, and T.H.E.M. is an example to me to why I shouldn't trust viewers of entertainment from another nation to be reviewers and critics of it in the first place. Life is too short for bad anime? More like life is too short for bad advice.

I do find the voice acting them in to be really good in the Japanese version and it's too bad the dub over shadow them.