So I’m housesitting/dogsitting and the first channel on the TV when I turned it on is a channel that streams old anime, I guess. I never bothered to change it since I always just airplay videos from my phone, but today I left it playing normally for background noise. The current anime playing is City Hunter and I noticed the main character is a HUGE pervert. In the beginning of an episode he literally steals and revels in a pile of girls bras and underwear.
I’ve grown up seeing these types of characters in every anime I’ve watched but I guess I’m a little put off by the fact that it goes farther back than my era. Pervert characters have always bothered me, even when I was younger and less aware, and I know they’re supposed to be comedic relief but I have a hard time finding the comedy in sexual harassment. Some even go as far as sexual assault. They are so common and also happen to be part of the main cast which, for me, makes it so much worse. One Piece is a show I had to stop watching because of Sanji, I had other issues too but he was a big contributor.
Does anyone know why these characters are so prevalent?
When it comes to Japan’s views of sexuality, gender, porn, etc the only way to really describe it is… “Incel the country.”
Keep thinking about how to describe their very weird conservative but openly sexual society where you can’t have unblurred images of genitals but also have people just browsing porn shops openly in markets like it’s no big deal but also how so much of their porn is hugely derogatory towards women. One of their most popular genres is NTR which I won’t go into but it’s like, pretty derogatory stuff and often includes black mail, rape, etc.
It really just boils down to “Incel the country.”
A thought; IIRC Some batteries operate on a principal of keeping 2 complimentary forces which are driven towards each other separated with a divider but connected in a solution. The result is a field of energy is created. Neoliberal capitalist society also operates on this idea via it’s consumerist populist function (everyone has to have the best watch, car, house, lawn, etc…or else you’re worthless), keeping commodities in stock and advertised but too expensive and ever changing for satisfaction to ever be acquired. The result is a constant flow of economic liquidity and of course a steadily aggravated hyper-concentrated economic power structure which funnels any semblance of “freedom” into the hands of fewer and fewer. Perhaps this concept is similar to how Japanese society has either naturally developed or has been crafted?
Japan is a horny incel battery?
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Isn’t what you’re describing a base principle of dialectic materialism? Struggle of opposing forces? (I am not sure about the specific terminology in English, apologies)
Yes of course, but I use other examples because I assume modern Japanese society wasn’t crafted using such theory. This is very atypical of western societies AFAIK so I sought further documentation within history.
It’s not about being crafted to the theory, it’s about the laws of societal development being universal. Marxism is a scientific theory after all. Japan may not like it, but they are subject to the same universal forces as the rest of us
Of course, my comment was to portray the ambitions and viewpoint of the Japanese authorities of whom I do not believe have studied Marxism. That was my main point is all. Similar to how we called chemistry alchemy or even magic before we had a proper understanding of the phenomena.
Perfectly fair
This comment reminded me that some of the worst sex crimes I’ve ever heard of happened in Japan.