Not everyone wants suicide on their feed

I think this maybe should be nsfw-tagged and content-warned?

Seefu is safe in English in Japanese

I sent this to my danmei-reading friend and they told me that example is real ???

Exactly. ML folks act like voting for someone means supporting them, but in our system of minimal democracy, voting is harm reduction. Primary, protest, call your reps, etc, but when it comes time to vote, pick the candidate that’s across the board merely bad instead of deranged.

Painting every homophobe as gay only serves to frame the issue as gay folk oppressing themselves. Straight homophobes have always been the core problem and it’s not reasonable to push that responsibility back onto queer folks by baselessly speculating about people’s sexualities.

I also suggest you take a close look at how much your conclusions about the frequency of this happening are based in confirmation bias. The human brain loves patterns and will see them even when they don’t exist.

I recommend the movie Promare, in which homophobia is the root cause of global warming

Way back when google’s rss feed shut down I switched to Newsblur. I haven’t really checked in on the competition in a long time, but newsblur has been chugging along just fine with no major updates or overhauls (which makes it unlikely to enshittify itself).

Gender dysphoria is not the same as being trans. Not all trans people have gender dysphoria and plenty of cis people do. Cis men who do steroids and cis women who get boob jobs typically do so to ease some level of gender dysphoria they feel. The only reason trans people get diagnosed and cis people don’t is the continuing view of transness as itself a disorder.

It might be a countable/uncountable noun thing, lol. Like, I wouldn’t consider Dan Da Dan s2 to be “a new show” but i would consider it to be “some new animation”, if that makes sense. “Anime” can be used in either sense and since it doesn’t change when pluralized it can be hard to tell which someone means. At the same time, I stand by what I said that “[x show] is returning and it’s still very good” and “[y show] is new and it’s very good” are statements with fairly different target audiences.

Hype!!

IMO it’s a little weird to fill a “best new anime” list almost half with returning anime. Like, they’re not wrong picks, but people are either already planning to watch them or they’re not caught up.

It’s very good, but for anyone planning on watching it: take the content warnings EXTREMELY seriously. The show does not mess around.

I’ve also heard there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, so it’s not 100% suffering. But golly gee wiz is there still a lot of suffering.

I’m pretty sure the people complaining about child sexualization in anime are not the same people supporting child beauty pageants and child marriage…

If it were a series of strategies to attempt to reduce the number of pedo/incest anime (not just outlawing them, but influencing the market with regulation of advertising and/or broadcast content), I might be tentatively on board, but something tells me it’s going to be more about censoring blood and gore, queerness, and maybe even themes of fighting against authority, depending on how ambitious they get.

I get really salty when people point at patterns in anime that are sort of objectively bad and claim that they’re fine because that’s “just Japanese culture”. Like, I’m really tired of being told I’m overreacting when I say maybe anime shouldn’t glamorize pedo shit or make characters that are racist or homophobic stereotypes. Save “it’s just Japanese culture” for when I’m complaining about the cute mascot character’s annoying verbal tic, lol.

Also, this isn’t specifically an anime thing, nor is it specifically a western thing, but I get a little frustrated with “it’s just fiction”. Fiction is constructed out of the worldview of the creator(s) and will always contain at least some of their ways of thinking. All art contains some meaning to it, and teasing apart exactly what a piece of art is trying to say is typically both useful and fulfilling.

There’s an episode of Eminence in Shadow where one of the girls has a little plushie of Shadow-sama and I was APPALLED to learn that I could not buy such a thing. Every bit of merch for that show seems to be of the girls and all i want is my own little Shadow-sama!

It’s fun, but I still don’t know where this show is going lol.

I’m with Clevatess on this one. Humanity probably should be destroyed.