I think most claims of "cultural appropriation" are silly. I like all sorts of foods, clothes, holidays....which are from other ethnic groups. I don't do so out of any disrespect, like nearly 100% of people who also don't----we all simply think these are wonderful ideas and want part of them. No one for example disses the Japanese for cultural appropriation....and they do it brilliantly.
My point is there's a difference between malice and admiration, and some folks who object to anyone using anything from their culture.
Something I’m surprised is actually controversial is how much to pay comic book artists. They’re kind of the crux of the whole thing, but it seems as though they don’t even get royalties and a very low base pay.
Japanese culture is way to comfortable sexualizing minors. And the incessant presence of sexualized minors in their media is one of manga/ Anime’s biggest problems.
I know the age of consent laws work differently in Japan. I don't know all the details but I think depending on where you go it's as low as 13 in some places. I'm aware that in the American version of Gunsmith Cats they changed the dialogue so that one of the main characters who was originally a teen is said to be an adult. Pretty much because her boyfriend is an adult man.
No…it’s irrevocably true. One of the biggest problems with stuff coming out of Japan is a good story that always gets dragged down by its nonsense. Literally sometimes characters will have their entire personality trait be how much of a pervert they are. It’s like if every character was Quagmire but nobody ever calls them out on their crap.
There was no oversexualization in this manga.
or in others I have read.
And still have not addressed the falsehood of too much oversexualization in all indies. I read mostly indies, and compared to how women are portrayed in the big two...you are barking up the wrong tree.
Your naming Hellboy was patently false.
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Ive not see a lot of overly sexual things in the indy's I have read. More manga yes, but not really the indys. I couldnt see any over sexualization in Hellboy that I have read.
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I'm not going to deny that such characters exist in anime and manga. They have their problematic material but we've got ours. I'm not sure how much we're allowed to talk about it but this very website was rebooted several years ago in part due to controversy about oversexualized characters in American mainstream comics. And we could be here all day and name Japanese media that's devoid of oversexualized content.
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Our culture is seen as prudish about sexuality in many ways by other nations, but we're also a lot more comfortable with violence (especially gun violence) than others. It's why you can have hundreds of gun deaths and get a PG-13 rating, but show a nipple or say the "F" word too many times and you're looking at an R.
Also while I can agree some independent comics lean on fan service/objectification of women (sex sells, after all) it's usually a crutch to overcome a lack of talent or just to get someone to pick up a book and glance beyond the cover. However, I'd say you picked two of the least sexualized indy comics in my lifetime in Hellboy and Spawn. Spawn you may make an argument on the occasional female character and perhaps Angela when she was part of the lore (it was the '90s and "Bad Girls" were in), but compared to WildC.A.T.S., Youngblood, or especially Savage Dragon it was probably the least T&A/objectifying comic of the early Image run.
I'll agree with the manga/anime portraying underage women as looking 8-12 with double-D cup sizes being at best problematic. It's not super common, but it's common enough to be a problem.
I am told my my big brother that old fashioned TV dinners that came wrapped in foil and had to be heated in the oven were far superior to the ones we have today, despite taking a long time, is this true? And if so, how?