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Angel Investor wrote:

In what reality was Mirai Nikki controversial? The only upsetting thing about that series was how stupid and unrealistic the characters were.

The controversy with Mirai Nikki was because of the extreme graphic violence and gore.
Many people were turn off by that and complained that was too much.

ninjamitsuki wrote:

I'm more curious about people that animate hentai... I wouldn't doubt some of them have families. Imagine going home to your spouse and kids after animating a scene in Boku no Pico...

Peter Payne from jlist wrote a short blog post wrote something similar in this regard: https://www.jlist.com/blog/your-friend-in-japan/japan-doesnt-worry-about-hentai/

Simply put. It's work, be professional. That said, it's kind of baffling how I've seen some smaller companies on our side of the market take stances or make objections midway through a contract because they later found out there was objectionable content that they weren't comfortable with. While I would understand this for works that are still in production but works that have already been published for a while and are being localized make a bit less sense to me.

I'm more curious about people that animate hentai... I wouldn't doubt some of them have families.

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Perhaps the ones that animate gainaxing boobs are those that never interacted with women in real life, let alone seeing their revealing assets?

Remember everyone! Stereotyping and mass reductionism is always how you should live life! /sarcasm

A lot of seiyuu use pseudonyms for adult roles.

And many are married and have kids. Even loli and shota manga artists that is so controversial in the west. are married and have kids. Sometimes even work as teams of husband/wife drawing loli and shota manga. Many of those artist are female.

Plus, it depends on the nature of the "controversy"... Western fandom is social media oriented, which tends to amplify controversy and minority opinions. (And there's more than a few tastemakers that deliberately and with malice aforethought court controversy for the attention it brings.) It's also embedded in a culture that has an unfortunate tendency to seek out offense.

Thus many things which loom large in the West aren't noticeably controversial in Japan.

Ojamajo LimePie wrote:

A lot of seiyuu use pseudonyms for adult roles.

And a lot don't. The cast list for Boku no Sexual Harassment is astonishing. Jūrōta Kosugi (Asuma Sarutobi, Arlong), Houchu Ohtsuka (Jiraiya, Ajin's Satō), Akira Ishida (Gaara, Katsura, Rakugo's Kikuhiko), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Griffith, 4th Hokage), and Takehito Koyasu (everything ever made), among others with respectable resumes of their own.

Morikawa and Koyasu were also the leads in Legend of the Blue Wolves, another notoriously explicit yaoi ova. Doesn't seem to have hurt any of these people's careers. Is there more of a stigma for female seiyū in straight hentai?

People who balk at doing jobs they're hired to do, or being a big pain in the butt for their co-workers and superiors because they don't like the content, often damages your career. That's true of nearly every aspect of the media business. This isn't exclusive to Japan or Japanese people working on anime. I certainly don't enjoy every title I've worked on, and I REALLY wish I didn't have to work on some of the more disturbing hentai that was so prominent in my early career. But I kept my head down and I did my best, which is what most creative professionals do in these situations.

Yes. Nobody expects male seiyuu to be "pure."

Ojamajo LimePie wrote:

Yes. Nobody expects male seiyuu to be "pure."

Poppycock. Just ask Miyano Mamoru who's wife was sent death threats and wishes that she would miscarry their child when fujos found out.

I'm more curious about people that animate hentai... I wouldn't doubt some of them have families. Imagine going home to your spouse and kids after animating a scene in Boku no Pico...

Voice actors, especially junior ones, especially have to take what they can get. This can sometimes lead to regrets about it later, particularly when it comes to adult material. Kikuko Inoue famously asked a licensor not to allow the original Japanese voice track to the softcore hentai OVA Ogenki Clinic to be re-released, out of embarrassment over her participation in that title. But such favors are big asks, and it's very rare for a voice actor to ask for something like that.