Anonymous #1 33w

It literally does by definition of growing up with different social norms. I’m half white half Japanese and I stand out like crazy in Japan and Korea because I look clearly mixed white. In America it’s no big deal because you guys are used to different races mixing. If you see a white girl and black guy here most people won’t think anything. In Japan and Korea a lot of families would disown you for dating out of the race especially if the other person was black. To you guys that’s crazy over

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Anonymous OP 33w

There it’s pretty normalized. Whiteness is the standard. Skin whitening creams and lotions double eyelid surges are pretty normal. Over here they’d be looked at like what are you doing love yourself. Because you guys grew up that way. Just like they grew up knowing oh the age of consent is 13 and now 16 ok well a lot of Shonen characters are high school aged anyways before time skips no big deal but now that anime is popular in America it has become more of an issue

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Anonymous OP 33w

By your logic, the discrimination against black people was fine in the Jim Crow era because it was normalized at the time. Time period and area do not negate criticism

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Japan doesn’t want foreigners they want to keep it Japanese. Even though a lot of the media will worship white beauty standards there’s some businesses that won’t serve foreigners. Idk why Americans outside of the obvious anime reason glamorize Japan and Korea ( I get the KPop stuff but still) so much. If you’re not East Asian, good looking white, or Wasian there’s a good chance they’ll ignore or don’t want you there

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Anonymous OP 33w

And? How does that help your case at all? That just sounds like more things to criticize?

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Anonymous #1 33w

Shonen anime is geared towards young boys. Mostly around 8-10 years to high school aged. That’s why beyond the age of consent a lot of the characters are high school aged. I know Japan is beyond happy with how popular anime has become since its does so much for the economy but because in America now a lot of the newer fans are in their early 20s because they thought it was weird or uncool 6+ years ago they’re getting a different experience then if you’ve been watching it forever. Those Shonen

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Anonymous OP 33w

Yeah and I’ve been watching since I was around 12 years old, so for the past 12 years. That shit desensitized me so much to oversexualization of women and girls in media and I only realized it when I took a roughly 2 year break from anime about 6 or 7 years ago. It’s Not A Good Thing to desensitize kids to that

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Anonymous OP 33w

Characters were older than all of who have been watching. I can see how if people in their early 20s are watching see some of the girl characters and say why are they dressed like that or have bodies like that but it’s always been that way mostly because sex sells. In American high schools the girls wear tight and or revealing clothes all the time anyways especially in college so it’s not coming out for nowhere since the mangaka look at western beauty standards a lot of the time

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Anonymous OP 33w

I don’t get how you don’t understand that it’s a bad thing for teenagers to be depicted wearing barely fucking anything in a clearly sexual way with adult proportions all the time. Not only is it creepy as fuck for adults to be producing that, but it sets really unrealistic expectations for kids that age, both boys and girls, regardless of who it’s targeted at. Girls choosing to wear tight fitting clothes is one thing, adults depicting young girls wearing that but hyper sexualized is another

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