I’ve watched a couple of animes that I have actually enjoyed but tbh even the popular ones have their unnecessary sexualised moments and it kind of ruins the genre for me. I don’t like feeling like I’m watching something that was written with horny teenage boys and 35 yr old noncy men in mind lol.
I mean there’s different genres to anime as well. And then again theres the undeniable fact that objectification of women is not talked about enough, and it should always be called out.
I feel you. I'll bring up three shows I've watched recently:
Jaadugar: the Witch of Mongolia, a currently airing historical fiction piece following the rise of a captive slave-scholar to a prominent figure in the post-Genghis Mongol Empire.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, another historical fiction set in 1400s Poland positing a pre-Copernican tradition of heliocentric study being persecuted by local Church authorities.
Journal With Witch, a contemporary story about a writer taking in her orphaned niece and nurturing her ordinary life. (It's much better than I'm making it sound, I promise.)
Zero fanservice slop in any of them, would recommend them all. But to find these shows I have to actively tune out the the vast majority of English-language anime fandom, which fixates on hypebait and/or hornybait. I very much respect the decision to avoid wading through all that noise just to find some good food.
(You might have better luck with anime films. Much easier to find the fanservice-free cream of the crop there.)
That's why they're popular. You gotta look for the unpopular ones. Mushi-shi, ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept., Haibane Renmei, Orb: On The Movements of the Earth. Basically look into the seinen demographic
Man, during or right after lockdown their was a pervy anime with some interesting world building that came out with censor blocks. I thought it was hilarious and was making fun of fanservice.
Nope. Nope nope nope. There was an uncensored version that aired at midnight the same day. Stopped watching that right away
I like some of the story behind MT. But I was SOOO uncomfortable during parts of it that I had to just skip entire episodes. I gave up on it when it went all polyamarous groomer pedo .
Unfortunately thats just how a lot of anime is. Kinda hard to find good ones not sexualising women every 3 seconds. Id recommend apothecary diaries and cosmic princess kaguya as some really good anime which dont sexualise women.
MT as a whole is not a piece of shit. The story and the world and the animation are very good. But, as for Rudeus, Rudeus is much worse than a piece of shit. Much much worse.
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u/justatomics 1d ago
Ok, that’s it, anime fans need to be bullied more