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It is tiring see people disrespect the JRPG genre just because they hate anime and act like a turn based game cant be mature. Nobody who says shit like this should be taken seriously. (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/games@hexbear.net
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[–] 12 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

I actually think a lot of it is simply that many adult Westerners just bounce right off anything anime or anything overtly Japanese-styled in general. They just don't vibe with it and they find it annoying, melodramatic and cringy, reacting kind of the same way an average Western moviegoer would react to a Bollywood movie

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    I mean I could go into any anime themed shop and within milliseconds I could find images of schoolgirls flashing their underwear. I've been to Akihabara in Tokyo a bunch of times and the weird horny aspects of the scene comingle everywhere. Like to the point I would not go to Akihabara if I took family to Japan. And I mean it's definitely gotten more mainstream in the past 15 years like with Persona being massively popular, anime like MHA and Demon Slayer. But to people who are still outside to the scene they're still gonna see weird sexualized stuff very quickly.

    That's something very endemic to anime/manga and it's a massive barrier for a lot of very reasonable people. And yeah there's probably a lot of unfounded sentiment where they unfairly dismiss the entire aesthetic as cringe and childish, but there's a lot of reasonable people who are turned away by the frankly weird horny vibes and I simply can't blame them.

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