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rizuchan
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This made me actually lol. I feel the same way about Ui. The weird "mature little sister imature big sister" trope in Anime is starting to get really stale to me. The panties thing with Mio never really bothered me because I thought it was rather tastefully done in the anime. (The manga, not as much...) It also helps that it's really about the only obviously fanservice scene in the show, aside from the obligatory beach episodes and such. |
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enurtsol
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The Japanese make more of it because they don't have any pretense about it: it is for sexual purposes - and proud of it!** And that's why anime fans love 'em for it, and that's why there's no need to defend it when they're not even defending it themselves. 
[** Told to us from their animators. The animators know it; they know we know it, hint hint wink wink  ]
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Blood-
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Being skevved out by the sexualization of child characters in anime isn't prudish - it's a sign of mental health. |
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neocloud9
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Amen, sister! No idea why Bandai didn't release this in a box set to begin with... I may have to check out GE999 now! I just recently watched Interstella 5555 and loved it~ |
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PetrifiedJello
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-Taxes -Erin Finnegan will rate a "loli" series as "Perishable" -Death I doubt I'm the only one who knew of the rating before opening the article in regard to DitVB. It's good to know the comments didn't disappoint, either. Not that I'm complaining, so move the mouse away from the submit button, please. As for the K-ON BD, it's pathetic such visual anomalies are easily seen on a product which should be perfect. Considering this is Bandai, the same company who hires subtitling companies with 2 months of English experience [citation needed], it's not surprising to see the business model of Money over Customer Satisfaction in play again (not against profit making, but there is such a thing called Fair Exchange Value). To do this to a market that's shrinking is insulting to me. No matter. It's $30 I'm saving. As for GE999.... I decided to leave this one at the station. Nostalgia and I are bitter enemies. Now, about those pictures. Someone works in a clean room or hospital. They look so sterile, I feel I've been vaccinated just looking at them. Jesting aside, I have to admit I love how the collection stands out against the white. |
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ArsenicSteel
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Looks prudish to me but then again that's considering there are works both in and outside of anime that do just that and the fans' mental abilities don't get called into question. Telling this to a guy with a Blood+ avatar seems a bit ironic.
I haven't seen the movie but my comment about the general feelings toward the series predate the movie. |
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lelliel
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Depends on exactly what you mean by child. Do you mean someone who's strictly under 18 or do you mean someone who's prepubescent? |
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Blood-
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No, being skeeved out by the sexualization of child characters isn't prudish. Just as believing stealing is wrong doesn't make you a materialistic money-grubber or believing murder is wrong doesn't make you a moralistic goody-two shoes. These are simply the common sense positions of a normally functioning mind. Where the argument can come is deciding what is sexualization of child characters. For example, I find Moonphase pretty innocent, but I suppose somebody else might consider it rife with loli-pandering. |
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ArsenicSteel
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Please stop with the logical fail. I am not going to argue what sexualization is. I will say virtual child nudity is pretty common in modern art and that sexual innuendo, intended or accident, around those cases are not obscene, pornographic, or skevvy. I say it's prudish because it is typical prudish reaction to argue imaginary without context or to make the context seem irrelevant. |
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So according to you, any intended sexual innuendo that accompanies virtual child nudity is not skeevy, eh? Glad you settled that thorny question for us.
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Maigraith
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Then please explain the context to me since I don't get it. I understand she has to be prepubescent because of the child birthing thing, but why does she have to be scantily clad as well? And using the fact that she's "really an adult" doesn't fly, adult women only hang out in their undies in porn videos. |
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ArsenicSteel
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It's not according to me. That was just my very short and loose interpretation of US Code Title 18 Section 2256 if we applied it to the drawings in DiTVB. @Maigraith, If you exclude the most important factor of context and answer own question with such factual reasoning that only pornstars openly appear in their underwear. I have no way of answering you seriously. |
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Ah, so US Code Title 18 Section 2256 determines what is skeevy or not, eh? I'll give you a hint: "skeevy" is not actually an official legal term. And according to you, any "intended" sexual innuendo surrounding virtual child nudity is not "skeevy." Yeah, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on that one because, as far as I'm concerned, any "intended" sexual innuendo on the part of the creators of virtual child nudity is skeevy as hell.
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ArsenicSteel
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As far as I'm concerned, saying something is skeevy comes across as being a prude, imo(In my opinion). If I were to say so myself, IMHO.
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darkchibi07
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Considering the surprise immense popularity of the series in Japan, I'd imagine the Japanese licensors in one way or another forced this on Bandai. |
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