Women, Men, Sexuality and other bull

[Syntax]

Glad the sexuality and religion discussion didn't escalate into personal attacks. Score one for MR. Anywhere else on the net and you're doomed.

Personally, I hate overly sexualized characters who clearly only exist to appeal to a certain group of people. Girls with huge breasts, bishounen men, lolis; they all have unsettling amounts of sexualization that bothers me. Focus on making me feel something for the character other than a desire to get with them. Really, if you watch anime solely for fanservice, may the universe have mercy on your soul.

[everlastin01]

Glad the sexuality and religion discussion didn't escalate into personal attacks. Score one for MR. Anywhere else on the net and you're doomed.

Personally, I hate overly sexualized characters who clearly only exist to appeal to a certain group of people. Girls with huge breasts, bishounen men, lolis; they all have unsettling amounts of sexualization that bothers me. Focus on making me feel something for the character other than a desire to get with them. Really, if you watch anime solely for fanservice, may the universe have mercy on your soul.

Black Butler (and they are coming out with a season 3)

[MissChurro]

Personally, I hate overly sexualized characters who clearly only exist to appeal to a certain group of people. Girls with huge breasts, bishounen men, lolis; they all have unsettling amounts of sexualization that bothers me. Focus on making me feel something for the character other than a desire to get with them. Really, if you watch anime solely for fanservice, may the universe have mercy on your soul.

^Gotta agree with that one. The sexualitzation (is that a word??) can make the characters seem very fake as well. You can't connect with a fake character.

[Vacant]

Surely there can't be people who watch anime solely for fanservice out there, they must know that Porn exists if they're that desperate to see some nip or schlong?

[Syntax]

Black Butler (and they are coming out with a season 3)

I've avoid it like the plague. But I suppose I should watch it just to be able to talk about it.

[Syntax]

Surely there can't be people who watch anime solely for fanservice out there, they must know that Porn exists if they're that desperate to see some nip or schlong?

You don't know some Otaku then. My word there are some sad, pathetic people out there. Harsh, I know, but I don't mince words.

[Syntax]

^Gotta agree with that one. The sexualitzation (is that a word??) can make the characters seem very fake as well. You can't connect with a fake character.

It's a word. Spellcheck just hates it.

[MissChurro]

You don't know some Otaku then. My word there are some sad, pathetic people out there. Harsh, I know, but I don't mince words.

I've seen people like that. The problem is, thanks to people like that, a lot of people get the wrong idea about anime...

[Syntax]

I've seen people like that. The problem is, thanks to people like that, a lot of people get the wrong idea about anime...

You're so right. I don't know how many people I've had to explain to that anime is not all like that. The struggle of being out of the anime closet is real.

[MissChurro]

I know. I'm the only person in my family who really watches anime, and I'm the only one that draws manga. Plus my family has always been weary of anime because of this image they have of anime... It really is a struggle trying to explain these things, and I'm still judged by several family members who don't understand.

[Syntax]

My family accepts it, but doesn't really get my obsession. My dad loves Miyazaki films, but he's never seen a series. It's just hard to get people to give it a chance.

[50 Words for Paipis]

Black Butler (and they are coming out with a season 3)

I've avoid it like the plague. But I suppose I should watch it just to be able to talk about it.

Bad, bad writing, at least in the first series (the only one I watched). But it's worth watching just for the soundtrack. *feels*

[MissChurro]

My family accepts it, but doesn't really get my obsession. My dad loves Miyazaki films, but he's never seen a series. It's just hard to get people to give it a chance.

Mmhmm. My mom and sisters are accepting of it, they are supportive of my art, and will watch the Miyazaki films with me. They all like Totoro.
But the rest... Are just pretty closed-minded. Even the ones who don't voice it, I can see they don't like what I'm doing... I wish I could explain it to them, but again, they're closed-minded.

[50 Words for Paipis]

^Same for me, pretty much. My family likes Miyazaki and that's about it (my sister watches some other anime, though, and draws some). I can count the number of my anime-liking friends on two hands and the ones that watch more than shonen, on one. Not that shonen is bad, but I don't encounter a general love for the artform itself in very many people.

[Syntax]

Sometimes I feel like I'm doing something a little rebellious, like smoking pot or something. And I always pause and go to another tab when someone comes by while I'm watching. It's just annoying. But I'm fully out of the closet when the topic is brought up.