109 said:
EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW THEY'RE BROTHER AND SISTER MERGING THAT'S SO GROOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSS!
I've really had it up to here with prude americans and their culture.
The thought that these people are at the helm of mainstream international culture is just sickening.
In other news: the idea of live action monster-puppets, toy vehicles and animated characters appearing onscreen at once is pretty darn genious.
Of all the things Americans are prudish about, you choose to pick on us for reactions to Japanese media? A culture which, for some reason or another, is keenly fascinated with brother/sister incestuous relationships? I mean I understand we're a bit more prudish than the rest of the world, but in this case I think it's a bit more justified than usual.
It's not even like they're trying to make a narrative point with it--I explained Aquarion earlier so I'll copy and paste it again for your enjoyment. Brother and little sister are pilots of huge mechs, and the mechs become more powerful when they "merge" with each other and become a bigger robot Power Rangers style. Big brother is known as the best pilot in the land (of course) and little sister is sort of second-best, but she gets insanely jealous of anybody else who wants to "merge" with her brother. She goes on and on about how she wants to be the first to "merge" with him.
And to drive it all home, when they do merge it's apparently a very...stimulating experience, and every time the people merge in the show they moan in ecstasy and shout "So good!" And IIRC their clothes disappear for a moment while in transition.
They aren't trying to make a sophisticated narrative point with this sort of thing--they just want to see how close they can get to erotica without crossing the line completely. And this is how a lot of Japanese media is. There's not much of a point to it, just fanservice and pushing the envelope as far as it will go. It's just incredibly awkward to me how much sexuality they cram into things that don't really have to be sexual. Like, yeah, everybody likes sex and it's important to being a human and all that, but does it really need to be all over our media? It's certainly not the
only aspect of being human, and I wouldn't exactly call putting innuendo all over the place a poignant exploration of sexuality.
