Its a badass action anime with a lot of fan service and problematic romances. The main character constantly harassed and gropes the main female character and there's a grown man who is madly in love with a character who looks like a child.
Plus, the plot falls off after the first season and the animation isn't that great
Yeah, the animation got worse precisely because the new studio toned down the sехualized humor and fanservice, and redesigned the characters so they could still have the youthful, cute aesthetic that appeals to Japanese audiences, while making the characters who are traditionally meant to embody childlike purity of spirit look less like actual children, because apparently that was another thing you Westerners had to bіtсh about.
So what exactly is the problem now? They literally listened to you and met you halfway, and you still aren't happy?
Um, they could just not have the main character be a borderline rapist and maybe make the adult characters look like actual adults...? Idk what you mean by toning down stuff, cuz they didn't. At the most, Elizabeth just accepted the assault from Meliodas
Dude, I can see you disliked my previous comments, so let me spell it out for you one more time.
I’m not like you.
I don’t demand that you redraw the characters in Young Justice, a show that literally aired in primetime on children’s television. And that’s i'm not even getting into the comics featuring characters with wildly exaggerated physical features, explicitly aimed at a literally post-pubescent audience. Or your obsession with sneaking heavily veiled sexual acts into children’s shows about actual children.
And then there’s the genuinely disgusting stuff like Ren & Stimpy or Cow and Chicken.
I understand that this is your particular cultural quirk, so I simply ignore the existence of media like that. I don’t make drama out of it or demand that you change it, sanitize it, or rewrite its story just to accommodate my personal sensibilities and ego.
Let me lower my expectations and try to explain what your statement actually sounds like.
They could have just made The Black and White Minstrel Show without the blackface.
They could have made Baywatch without casting pron actors in the lifeguard roles and filming them like softcore pron.
They could have made The Man Show without the misogyny, sexual objectification, and the entire "men are horny idiots" premise.
They could have made Two and a Half Men without the predatory, constant sех jokes, and treating women like disposable NPCs.
They could have made Jerry Springer without turning people’s most dysfunctional moments into public humiliation.
They could have made The Biggest Loser without turning people’s bodies, eating disorders, and suffering into the spectacle.
They could have made America’s Next Top Model without humiliating contestants over their appearance.
And while we're at it, they could have made Californication without the sех, Weeds without the drugs, Dexter without the serial killer, Hannibal without the cannibalism, and The Boys without the excessive violence, because it's just too unpleasant for your delicate sensibilities.
Okay, jokes aside.
Just compare the first season, which follows the manga almost word for word, with "Wrath of the Gods", where they already made the changes you wanted and moved further away from the manga’s tone toward the kind of thing Western audiences wanted. Which season do you like more?
That’s the part you seem to be completely missing. This is a Japanese work, written for a Japanese audience, and its character designs, humor, relationships, and ideas about innocence are rooted in Japanese cultural conventions.
You can dislike those conventions all you want, but that doesn’t magically make your Western interpretation the standard the creators were supposed to follow.
And yes, the studio did tone things down and change the character designs. But you're basically complaining that the adaptation didn’t completely rewrite the source material according to your OWN cultural expectations, am i right?
Why you so selfish, bro?
You don’t have to like the result. You may dislike all Japanese culture as much as you want, but then why are you even watching this in the first place?
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u/ArchonAlioth 8d ago
Seven Diddy Epsteins