Sexy Characters

[Shjade]

Watch any anime for 5 minutes and you'll be overwhelmed by sexualized yet insecure characters.

Oh, ignorant generalizations. Don't ever change.

Tell you what, I'd like you point out the sexualized yet insecure characters present in anything made by Studio Ghibli for me.

I'll wait.

OT: just curious, am I the only one surprised that Tomb Raider didn't come up in this? By which I mean the series in general, not the latest entry specifically.

Studio Ghibli doesn't make anime series, they make movies. Plus they often have children as the characters where this property isn't exactly going to apply.

I can make those "ignorant generalizations" as someone who watches a LOT of anime and sees this over and over and over....

You said "any anime," not "any anime series."

You can make roughly similar generalizations about pretty much any genre of entertainment television. Which is why generalizations like that aren't really helpful and don't mean much.

 

[Norithics]

Tell you what, I'd like you point out the sexualized yet insecure characters present in anything made by Studio Ghibli for me.

If you're not going to acknowledge that Totoro is roiling, smouldering temptation made manifest, then I just don't see how we can have a serious conversation about this subject. Elephant in the room.

 

[Thanatos2k]

Watch any anime for 5 minutes and you'll be overwhelmed by sexualized yet insecure characters.

Oh, ignorant generalizations. Don't ever change.

Tell you what, I'd like you point out the sexualized yet insecure characters present in anything made by Studio Ghibli for me.

I'll wait.

OT: just curious, am I the only one surprised that Tomb Raider didn't come up in this? By which I mean the series in general, not the latest entry specifically.

Studio Ghibli doesn't make anime series, they make movies. Plus they often have children as the characters where this property isn't exactly going to apply.

I can make those "ignorant generalizations" as someone who watches a LOT of anime and sees this over and over and over....

You said "any anime," not "any anime series."

You can make roughly similar generalizations about pretty much any genre of entertainment television. Which is why generalizations like that aren't really helpful and don't mean much.

You know what I'm referring to. Sounds like you're just arguing semantics just to argue.

 

[Piorn]

Might be a bit off-topic, but in my experience, Sex as a secondary topic in videogames doesn't work.
Sure, some innuendo is alright if it comes from actual characters, but I'd say if you want to make a game about sex, then fine, make it about sex, do an M-rating and go all the way so we can play it in privacy.
You can make great porn games, but I have yet to see a case where including porn into a regular game has actually raised the overall quality of the product.
Don't just throw in one awkward sex scene in so all the sweaty teens have a reason to buy this.

 

[Shjade]

Tell you what, I'd like you point out the sexualized yet insecure characters present in anything made by Studio Ghibli for me.

If you're not going to acknowledge that Totoro is roiling, smouldering temptation made manifest, then I just don't see how we can have a serious conversation about this subject. Elephant in the room.

Oh, of course he is, but insecure? Hell no. Totoro oozes confidence.

@Thanatos: I do indeed know what you're referring to: anime-style UST, as opposed to the UST found in any other genre which is essentially the same thing. In other words, ignorant generalizations, as first stated, aaand now we've gone full circle hooray~

 

[Requia]

Sigmund Freud did a massive disservice to psychology. Now you have people like Yahtzee saying crazy things like that knights who want to avenge their slain loved one are doing because they are "sexually insecure" (<-- what does that even mean) or some shit... *sigh*

Edit: Also, when I was fourteen, I can say unequivocally that when I was a 14 boy, I would have taken up an offer of sex faster than Sonic the Hedgehog can run with power sneakers on.

I always think of psychology and Freud like this, teaching freud in psychology is like teaching roman/greek surgery in medical school. Its outdated and outmoded and barely relevant.

Outside of explanations for how Freud got more or less everything wrong it isn't covered (except, supposedly, in France, god help you if you need psychological care there).