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Sam Murai
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It wasn't that extreme, but there was still enough messed-up content in it (violent/sexual, and not) that generated some kind of buzz. It's definitely no BLOOD-C, however. This Answerman installment reminded me a lot of what I've heard about Fox News Channel, where some of the journalists and those that work behind the scenes don't necessarily agree with everything the network says and does, but view their respective occupations as simply "their job" and/or divorce their employer's machinations from what they do. |
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CatSword
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The only anime I can think of where the controversy really got serious enough someone might consider quitting is B Gata H Kei, in which there were death threats. Even then, we never heard about anyone quitting.
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configspace
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Yeah, most ero anime staff don't use pseudonyms, and the mainstream mangaka that have done and still often are creating ero-doujinshi are very well known. You can add Shouji Satou (Triage X, HotD) and Hiromitsu Takeda (Maken-Ki) and female mangaka Sakurako Gokurakuin (Sekirei) as very prolific big ero mangaka. Before Sekirei most of Gokurakuin's were yaoi and shotacon. A couple of the yaoi smut were licensed here by DMP like Sensitive Pornograph under their adult 801 media label, though none of her shotacon. I get the feeling that maybe most would rather concentrate on their ero works than the mainstream works, except they gotta pay the bills. Few can afford the luuxry Shirow Masamune now has from constant income via GiTs royalties and just focus on ero artbooks and doujinshi fulltime like Shirow has done |
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Cutiebunny
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Not the ones that animate breasts as if they were balloons and are subject to the same physics. I always have a good laugh when hentai shows boobs floating in the water as if they were just fleshy balloons. |
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Jose Cruz
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Specially because anime is fantasy and so they are not trying to do anything realistic in the first place. Or do you think real women have eyes as big as in Clannad? People who make fun of anime for lack of realism are just showing their own ignorance regarding such material. |
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Gina Szanboti
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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? |
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Kadmos1
Posts: 13566 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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While Kentaro Yabuki was drawing "To-Love-Ru Darkness", he was also raising a young daughter (from my understanding, she would be a 5th or 6th grader by now). Let that sink in. |
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melmouth
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Thank you! I'm an old man who reads manga and watches anime as a hobby in my retirement. The number folks of more standard anime-consuming age who can find something to be upset or scandalized about in material from Japan amazes me! It's like being back in the 1950s, when the "Decency" crusaders were always willing to raise a stink about some book or movie, even though self-censorship was practically universal in all media. |
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enurtsol
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Japanese tend to separate work life and personal life - what you do for work can be separated from the kind of person you are. Ex: Japanese spouses of hentai artists separate what's for work and what's for home.
It's somewhat delved upon in the renowned Urotsukidoji creator Toshio Maeda segment of Anthony Bourdain's (may he rest in peace) Parts Unknown TV series on CNN: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5871v6?start=2080 |
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Ojamajo LimePie
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Yes. Nobody expects male seiyuu to be "pure." |
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#HayamiLover
Posts: 799 Location: Eastern Europe |
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Well, these are the right words, but sometimes when I see a portfolio of some seiyu, it seems to me that they deliberately avoid any controversial and uncomfortable roles / shows. For example, my favorite Inori Minase, which is very difficult to meet in the ecchi show or some very silly anime. Yes, she had Bad Guy roles in anime like Mahou Shoujo Rising Progect and Symphogear, or frankly caricature lesbian side characters in Gabriel DropOut, but it never went any further. It is possible that it is because of this that she doesn't appear so often in anime, like other seiyu, but this is only my guess. |
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Lord Oink
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Poppycock. Just ask Miyano Mamoru who's wife was sent death threats and wishes that she would miscarry their child when fujos found out. |
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#HayamiLover
Posts: 799 Location: Eastern Europe |
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I can believe it, if you remember that even an light joke about Ritsu and Yui's "boyfriends" in K-ON! caused a great flame war and accusations that the "author made girls sluts". But for the first time I hear that this has happened with male seiyuu. |
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jr240483
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too late. the VAs for that OVA as well as those from others like otokonoko delivery and natsuyasumi period have already made regrets on being in those roles in a recent con in japan a while back. its more or less why there haven't been any new ones since. NO ONE WANTS TO DO IT and to be frank i really cant blame them! otherwise there would be more of them, including an adaptation of some of the digital g power ero games!
not surprising. unless that person is an uber otaku & that would have ZERO issue with voicing in a hentai role years later, they would be steeming with regrets and embarrassment. even some of the most well known western VAs that got their start from a hentai role in the 80's or 90's WILL NEVER want to talk about it at all! personally i don't see the issue really. i mean when i made an attempt to audition for a role for fuzzy lips when MB announced an open audition on their facebook page back in 2017 for NY/NJ residents, i jumped at the chance, ero role or not! though i am more surprise that answerman is only talking about ero series and not any non ero series that are as just as controversial like angel sanctuary and koi kaze where to this day some of the cast still have regrets being in those series! |
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