You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, “Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.” If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!

:miyazaki-laugh:

To take things even further I think that the objectification, flanderization, comodification and "othering "of female characters in anime has resulted in it almost exclusively catering incels and otaku that see women (and disturbingly, underage girls) as dolls to fetishise.

Which is frustrating because there is good anime out there that isn't like this, but I can't really say I'm an anime fan without people thinking I'm into moe crap or otakus gatekeeping me because I don't like their moe crap.

I just wanna talk about how cool Full Metal Alchemist is...

  • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    I think one of the things I hate most is how many ostensibly strong female characters are completely undermined by the fact that their ultimate worth is only in how they can act as a tradwife. Like, having literally super powerful women suddenly reduced to learning how to cook so that they can prove that they can be wifey is so unbelievably lame. It feels nearly inescapable, too, like there's virtually no strong female leads who do not inevitably truly want to live in traditional gender roles.

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This happened in Rebuild of Evangelion 2, where Asuka and Rei both start cooking for and looking after Shinji. Then Shinji literally can't imagine a world without Rei, not because the pair have such a deep human connection, but because she is the epitome of "that girl was nice to me once so now I am projecting all of my hopes and my need for happiness on to her". Then he destroys the world lol