Forum - View topicINTEREST: BPO's Latest Viewer Complaint Criticizes Depictions of Anime Boy's Genitals
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Ashen Phoenix
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Well said. I'm strongly against sexual portrayals of children, but there is a world of difference in how the characters and their bodies are presented. Nothing about this scene sounds sexual to me, and the original "NSFW" screenshot is so tame it's almost laughable. We have to draw a better distinction between sexual and nonsexual nudity; they are not the same, and I think BPO is treating the Jojo's episode as if they were. 
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EricJ2
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Because they're the Frederick Wertham of Japan-- Determined to prove to a frustrated mainstream Japanese society that watching anime will turn all of its promising young people into work-shunning Internet-addicted NEETs...But FIRST, luring them into an immoral underground of perverted pedophiles, by making them fantasize about underage 2D moe girls, and maybe yaoi boys, too! And to prove that valuable point to society, they want all the evidence that they can make.
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Lemonchest
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I like these BPO threads. People nailing their colours to a little boys penis is the laugh I needed to start the day.
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Hameyadea
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I know what it meant to represent, but it still seems to me like what it is, 2 half-circles.
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MarshalBanana
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I don't agree, but I am happy. Just because if this was the exact same scene, only different gender, EVERYBODY would be upset and angry.
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HueyLion
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Everyone of each age group watches JoJo?! That had me more surpised and please at the same time.
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Tenbyakugon
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They're arguing over a child's barely existent D when they really should be complaining about them not showing the older character's.
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Afezeria
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BadNewsBlues
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You'd be wrong on the second account though since nothing in the manga or anime hinted at this.
The last one he didn't assault he just straight out murdered him after castrating him pre or post mortem.
Which actually didn't happen in some of the examples you mentioned including the above spoiler[as Kira murdered Hayato anyway.] Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:30 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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doomydoomdoom
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^^ Spoilers, especially that last line.
It's funny just how conservative Japanese parents have gotten about anime within the past decade. Not that nobody bitched during the golden years of the 70s - 90s, but now all the sudden they're finding fault with Detective Conan, Jojo, Dragon Ball, Osomatsu-kun (well, Osomatsu-san is for adult viewers anyway; do today's Japanese kids even know about Osomatsu-kun? Would they be interested enough to try to watch San?), etc. Should have said something 30 years ago when you and your brother were reading this stuff in Jump and Sunday. Good God, the very first chapter of Conan had a fountain-of-blood decapitation. Jojo had all sorts of grindhouse-movie gore from the get-go. Did everyone rally to get this trash out of our kids' magazines? No. I guess the good old days of getting a healthy dose of culture shock from TV anime filled with blood, penises and female nipples are over, what with Dragon Ball Kai edited to remove blood and nudity 20 years after the fact, rather than the complete opposite happening, Fight! Iczer-One having a giant black block over a SHOWER SCENE?!, and Japanese parents bitching about a kid's penis on last week's Jojo. P.S. OH, and that "suggestive banana-eating" as well! Can't forget that evil crap! |
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Afezeria
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Ashen Phoenix
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I respectfully disagree. If the scene featured an adult male villain or adult female villain trying to kill a young girl, and all parties were naked in the same context as the original, I wouldn't be any more offended by it than I am the original. The child character in question is not portrayed sexually. That's the main point to me. |
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TarsTarkas
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Think the bigger question, is why they are watching late night anime, because there is a reason it is airing late at night.
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Kutsu
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Interestingly enough, a new adaptation of the fountain-of-blood of Conan's first chapter re-aired about a week ago and here's what it looked liked : https://twitter.com/ShroomMeister/status/807844119334752256 I wonder how Japanese parents reacted. I guess older series get a pass when it comes to violence. 
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Stuart Smith
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Blood isnt exactly banned from modern anime, so I'm not seeing the big deal. Just because you read some parent complaints doesn't mean anything.
-Stuart Smith |
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