Tails are a thing that regenerates only during a saiyan's youth, so if he loses it past a certain age then his body forgets how to regrow it so at that point they can't get a tail any more. Also you can't be an SSJ with a tail and after becoming one it also won't grow back, so Trunks and Goten who were born SSJ never had one. Though presumably future Trunks did.
There is something called "burikko", which is a woman trying to act cute by speaking in a fake, childlike voice. You'll see this in anime, idols, vloggers, and unfortunately people irl.
I though grand narratives aka meta-narratives were wrong therefore bad. The choice here is deluding yourself with a mass lie, or deluding yourself with your own personal fantasy. Pick your poison.
This sounds like the "otaku are killing anime" meme, which is usually comes with the ulterior motive of trying to sanitize anime. Pandering to otaku is more like a survival strategy for the anime industry in a 30 year recession. Without otaku, the industry would shrink into nothing but the money makers, daytime television and children's toys. I'll take borderline hentai with some good shows mixed in, rather than none of it at all.
There are limitations. Senzu beans do not reverse aging. Senzu beans were said exactly not to work on the heart virus that Goku had. Senzu beans have rejuvenation prosperities, but not miracle fix everything powers.
Nah I am not even saying that, I honestly kinda welcome the debate if it's in good faith because I feel I am fully defensible in my position even if others vigorously disagree, and I think that having these discussions helps push that message further.
The senzu basically speeds up the rate at which your body heals by itself and presumably your body would heal brain damage if given enough time. A disease you have no antibodies for or something the body forgot to heal (or simply aging) are outside that spectrum.
We've had the debate so many times though. The hypocrisy kind of pisses me off. When anime was still considered a niche interest no one cared, even if they still thought the same things, it's only now that it's far bigger that their "principles" come up and they want to change it. And it's not even things like the tentacle rape hentai or vaginas with teeth, or super gorey anime where people get their heads lopped off in graphic detail, no, it's a slice of life romcom.
Anime generally functions on exploitation cinema rules, so things that don't pander to a particular audience's sensibilities don't tend to do very well, but conversely you can stick well known crowdpleasers like cute girls or hyperkinetic action or giant robots into your weird art film and this will give it a much better chance of landing an audience. Monogatari and Fate are both pretty good examples of this, as are Madoka Magica and FLCL, but the ultimate instance is, of course, Evangelion.
You are thinking about this too hard and also not thinking bigger. Goku apparently didn't know what kissing was last I checked. The joke being the Goku has never kissed Chi Chi despite them having 2 kids together. I don't it meant Goku didn't what sex is but to me its funnier that Goku has never kissed Chi Chi but got her to bare him 2 kids in my very fucked up sense of humor.
Yeah, same reason I have Fegor as my avatar. A fairly lazy character that doesn't want to get involved unless it's a "someone has to" kind of situation. Just wants to ultimately be left alone so long as everything's working and people aren't in danger and cares about her family and stand up in righteous indignation when they put themselves in harms way.
So, while I accept that you're trying to be critical with a good motive in your heart, you have to acknowledge that what we have to contend with often is people who are clicking their tongues in disgust while being all Karen-like in their pearl clutching and entitlement of another country's cultural and artistic expression, because it personally bothers them.
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Things started to shift a bit with the newest isekai craze, a lot of the more trashier works that isn't outright hentai have more carnal male leads with implied or outright sex as far as the publisher would allow it.
I love how you're describing being loyal to your fanbase and not some random external body that you owe nothing to and not compromising your vision to be "presentable" (see, this is the Karen thing, see, see, do you see @Izanagi009 XD) with a tone that makes it sound like it's supposed to be a bad thing.
So what about the Japanese women who vent about it in their own groups and to other women, but are afraid to do so due to being afraid of being attacked publicly or condemned for speaking up in the first place? From what I understand is that most Japanese women do not like the sexism in Anime but due to the way " speaking up" in their culture is viewed, they are afraid to address it publicly. " Telling another culture" isn't quite right, it isn't like everyone in Japan likes Anime. I have heard people tell me they like their " old anime" better or what western anime fans refer to as "cartoons" because westerners are the only ones who seem to think Anime are not cartoons or something. The reality is their preferences are as varied as everyone else. Women in Japan often feel the same way about it as women elsewhere, women in Japan can also profit from it as well as women elsewhere as well, when there is money to be made people are often willing to put whatever other issues they may have aside to profit as well. What about the pedophiles who have told people they were introduced to this through Anime and what do you think should be done to address that?
You hit the nail on the head. The genre depends on a handful of tropes, which are, themselves, typically just fetishes inserted into various anime series. The result is a medium of creators that only take inspiration from other anime creators. The medium becomes incestuous and, artistically, dies.
It's funny that everyone here thinks that I hate anime. In truth, I probably like anime more then anyone here. What I don't like is fetishistic anime that tells weebs and otaku that it's okay not to grow, and improve, and live. That they should live in darkness, given over to their basist instincts, their one source of serotonin. Until even that dries up, and ceases to make them happy. I'll stand with the people who are, or were, masters in their industry. Who elevated the entire medium to a higher art form.
That's an overbroad generalization. I've read and watched tons of shows/manga drawn and animated and aimed at a primarily female audience (I adore Clamp), they're just as raunchy too. Also a lot more of their raunchy themes revolve around incest or age gaps (with the girl being the young party, and this is something by women for women).
You know, being called "woke" because they would rather focus on positive forms of marketing rather than relying on cheap pandering that has consumed the industry in a nihilistic approach to marketing.
Not just pedophiles, but a fanbase that the creative heads over here intentionally alienates the fanbase in hopes of aiming for better things and hope the audience embraces it. Even as the peanut gallery cries of "go woke, go broke"
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