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Manga Publisher Shogakukan Says It Won’t Hire Sex Offenders Or Major Human Rights Violators Going Ahead (townflex.com)

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[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 52 points 1 day ago

I'm so glad the newer generation of anime are turning their back on perv shit. There will still be the occasional anime where the "10yo girl is a 1000 yo dragon so it's totally okay" BS. But a lot of modern more popular anime is toning that shit down.

And a part of it makes me believe because the other countries are doing anime (Korea/China) and gaining more international recognition.

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 23 points 1 day ago

I'm so ready for the death of the "man or boy does sexual harassment as core feature of their character, its super funny"

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Same, but for me it's the "Useless loser gets isekai'd to a fantasy world where he's somehow not a deadbeat loser and gains a harem" trope.

[-] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago

also "useless loser goes back in time, gets a cheat ability, and gets a harem while getting revenge/dominating the competition"

[-] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 5 points 22 hours ago

The thing is there's always been anime that wasn't creepy.

Like slavery: no, it wasn't okay then either. People did great work without it.

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yea! My family didn't have slaves! My family were poor! Do you have any idea how much a slave cost back then?

https://youtube.com/shorts/2DehCxVeVBw

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

There will still be the occasional anime where the “10yo girl is a 1000 yo dragon so it’s totally okay” BS.

I mean, people like voyager and the main character pairing is between Jar Jar Binks and his "3 year old, but it's cool man, their species only live to be 7 and the actress is of age" girlfriend.

[-] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago

I love startrek and this is a completely valid description of Nelix and Kess

[-] tomkatt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is good news, and maybe there can be more quality anime and manga in the future.

Still very disturbing that this wasn’t their policy already though…

I’ve been an anime fan since the 1980s, but have fallen off hard since 2012 or so. There are so few good series these days and a lot of it just seems like embarrassing juvenile pervy crap nowadays. There’s not much to like about it

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Mushoku Tensei is still the most popular anime series airing at the moment, so I wouldn't say that is the case. It feels more like the line is moving in the other direction, to be honest.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Seriously?? So, I might be able to startup anime again? I had to stop. It grossed tf out.

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