[Discussion of the prominence of incest and pedophilia in anime, and some homophobia] I've been watching Cardcaptor Sakura for the first time is very cute and I'm enjoying it a lot but it sure does make me go "oh yeah so much anime is just casually Like That"
Some of the cultural stuff that seeps into a lot of anime regardless of target audience manages to just fuckin slap me in the face every time
haaaaaaa....yeah
especially with CLAMP
reading about how much the anime toned down some of the weird romance stuff its like??? Hey Japanese writers and comic artists why the hell is this SUCH a common thing
Like slapping a warning on right here and now I think the whole anti/proshipper discourse and everyone who takes is seriously is fucking stupid and people are allowed to both do whatever they want and be yucked out by whatever
in fiction
but like a broad variety of tropes that I have thankfully generally seen kind of being eased out of cultural acceptance have been SO prominent for SO long in Japanese media is so ???
there put a warning up top
Like why is teacher/student or cousin/sibling romance SO MASSIVELY COMMON??
As something that is so Not acceptable in so many other cultures for Reasons That Make Sense
also I know Cardcaptor has a lot of canonically queer characters good for them but that + the other casually presented content (what do you MEAN the main characters mom was 16 when she got married to the dad, her 25 year old math teacher, and pregnant by 17 and thats Romantic and Fine???) reminded me of another recent frustrating Encounter with an anime
Which was in "I'm in Love with the Villainess" if anyone knows it, a lesbian isekai that for the most part is trying very hard to go on about how gay people are normal
and then casually drops a comparison that a pait of incestuous siblings should be just as acceptable as a gay couple???
Idk man its just. Something