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The Summer 2014 Anime Preview Guide

You could read it that way. Or you could interpret it as Hope and I both find fantasy violence less unsettling than realistic violence. I can't speak for her, but that is absolutely the case for me.

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Except airsoft is not violent by any reasonable criteria, whereas ghouls ripping and biting chunks of flesh off their human victims is almost as extreme as it gets.

Princess_Irene wrote:

You could read it that way. Or you could interpret it as Hope and I both find fantasy violence less unsettling than realistic violence. I can't speak for her, but that is absolutely the case for me.

Sabagebu is a very silly comedy where girls play airsoft but imagine it's real, and the "deaths" and blood effects are goofy. Tokyo Ghoul is dead serious with very graphic violence, and disturbing content like cannibalizing corpses. Sabagebu's violence is far more fantastical than Tokyo Ghoul's.

Those Sabagebu previews have been up for days now. If you wanted to launch some kind of attack on those two for having extremely mild negative opinions of the comedy violence in the show, you probably should've done it then.

Doing it this late smacks of "I'm bored, let's find something to attack the writers for".

I'm not a big fan of Tokyo Ghoul, but I think you're reaching here. There are blatantly obvious reasons to be put off by the violence in Sabagebu, especially if it is being done in a totally irreverent manner. School shootings...

Doing it this late smacks of "I'm bored, let's find something to attack the writers for".

Zac wrote:

Those Sabagebu previews have been up for days now. If you wanted to launch some kind of attack on those two for having extremely mild negative opinions of the comedy violence in the show, you probably should've done it then. Doing it this late smacks of "I'm bored, let's find something to attack the writers for".

I wasn't aware that there was a time limit. Can you expand upon this rule cause you know, discussion forums typically don't have them.

I know ANN is special.

Riiight, because students in an airsoft club engaging in a consensual and fun game of airsoft after school is totally like some deranged person bursting into a school (or home) with real weapons and live ammo and then proceeding to injure and kill their fellow students, none of which knew what was happening until it was too late.

Had the show been about an airsoft club who take pleasure at shooting unsuspecting students and/or members of the public, then you would have a point. But they don't, so you don't. Saying that the show treats airsoft violence irreverently is frankly ludicrous. It isn't violent in the first place (with respect to the guns) because you're not intending to hurt anyone but rather win a game. And there's nothing wrong with treating a game irreverently because hey, it's just a game. It's not like anyone is going to get shot for real.

The real problem is the girls' lack of eye protection. What is not a problem (because it straight-up doesn't exist) is some sort of message that the Japanese are sending to American kids that it is okay to shoot up your classroom in real life. That's just absurd.

ChibiKangaroo, if anyone is reaching here it is you.

I thought it was pretty obvious that we were talking about the imaginary portions where the violence appears real. Your above commentary seems completely divorced from that. You are discussing a completely different subject matter than I am.

ChibiKangaroo wrote:

I thought it was pretty obvious that we were talking about the imaginary portions where the violence appears real. Your above commentary seems completely divorced from that. You are discussing a completely different subject matter than I am.

And here I was thinking that we were talking about gun violence in general. Specifically, how the mere fact that the girls were shooting at one another with airsoft pellets made some people watching it uncomfortable and reminded them of school shootings and other acts of gun violence (like in Chicago recently). And don't forget, C3-bu also was savaged for having girls play airsoft and glofification of guns and it didn't even have the imaginary "violence" that Sabagebu! has. The issue that gets people's hackles up is not the violence on-screen but the mere fact that high-school-age teens are wielding realistic-looking weapons and pointing them at one another. Well, that and making guns cool.