Fucknag posted:

op if you want to watch japan cartoons but dont want any of those pesky "girls" ruining your experience, theres a show called Yaoi that you should check out. im too lazy to post any good stills but just google it, you wont be disappointed.

Gaunab posted:

I don't know if you meant it this way, but this post comes across as you being bitter about people acknowledging the fact that anime has a lot of sexualized children.

Gamma Nerd posted:

Nah it was specifically about the nightmare that is having a job in Japan. No idea what thread I found it in though. I think it could have been Senran Kagura but that thread is loving long so I don't want to search it all.

vibratingsheep posted:

Why are the Japanese so obsessed with high school, anyway?

To understand why so much Japanese media obsesses over high school life, you have to understand how Japanese society worked in the '90s. In general, Japanese companies used a "membership-based" model of employment, which was (and is) unique to Japan. The membership model of employment means that Japanese companies don't hire people to fill specific positions, instead hiring people based on how dedicated to the company they will be. To quote a fascinating article: "Instead of recruiting and hiring workers with specific skills to perform particular work when needed, Japanese companies have generally hired young people en masse immediately upon their graduation from college (or, especially in earlier days, from high school) by taking applications from students before they graduate and attempting to select ones with the latent ability to do any sort of work that the company may assign them."

This means that for most people about to enter the workforce, their actual college education was essentially meaningless unless they went to a trade school; they couldn't really train for a specific field of work because they had no idea what field of work they were going into, they just knew what kind of company they wanted to be hired by. The moment students were accepted into college, their quality of life for the rest of their lives had essentially been decided for them based on the prestige level of the school.

Let that sink in for a moment; imagine a world where your entire working life has already been laid out for you based on your college acceptance letters. Got into UC Berkeley or Oxford? Congratulations, you are guaranteed to be a hot commodity before you've even graduated. Forced to settle for community college? Good luck getting the third-rate jobs, loser.

This meant that for most people, high school was the last time in their lives where they felt like they had any freedom and control over their destinies. This is a big reason why high school life was so romanticized by Japanese culture. Today, while college educations have become a little more specialized to working life, high school still represents the last time in many Japanese people's lives where they can be carefree.

Catalina posted:

I'm pretty sure it's from the Tokimeki Memorial Let's Play thread!

Cracked_Gear posted:

Wolfs Rain.

It doesn't have much sexualization at all, some iffy moments but nothing really memorable.

No what it is, is really loving depressing. if you're a dog lover that just makes things worse. Seriously, things start getting really dark as early as episode 3. If you can make it through all 30 episodes without getting depressed, something is wrong with you.

nutranurse posted:

Japan's a really hosed up country.

Budohead posted:

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It's a matter of perspective. Honey Boo Boo got four seasons after all.

Catalina posted:

I'm pretty sure it's from the Tokimeki Memorial Let's Play thread!

Catalina posted:

I'm pretty sure it's from the Tokimeki Memorial Let's Play thread!

SmokaDustbowl posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWJM25FwU0

SmokaDustbowl posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWJM25FwU0

McKilligan posted:

Well, here's a thing that takes the weird anime sex obsession thing then just keeps on going and alright ok let's see where they're going with this was that a tit missile barrage? alright let's just...

Edit - youtube took it down due to tits. Found an alt.

http://vimeo.com/112545426

Say Nothing posted:

I Love Annie May posted:

Boku no Pico is a great experience, and no sexualized little girls to boot.

I Love Annie May posted:

Boku no Pico is a great experience, and no sexualized little girls to boot.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It's a matter of perspective. Honey Boo Boo got four seasons after all.


This is also my answer to the OP.

Here's my sales pitch for Cromartie High School.

FirstAidKite posted:

JoJo is a really cool anime that is not about sexualizing children

The Repo Man posted:

But naw, really, watch Gankutsuou. Even if you've read The Count of Monte Cristo, it's worth it.

The White Dragon posted:

Four pages and no Samurai Champloo? It's twenty-something episodes just of samurais killing the poo poo out of each other, talking about butt stuff, being illiterate, and smoking entire fields of weed. It also features a good soundtrack by a dead guy

achillesforever6 posted:

I was going to say Black Lagoon, but then I forgot the Hansel and Gretel arc

FLCL is pretty cool

Cardinal Ximenez posted:

...the whole show has this puberty metaphor thing going on which is barely even subtext. And all the phallic symbols. And Episode 3.

Which probably disqualifies it from the thread's criteria.

Is it ?

J.A.B.C. posted:

Azumanga Daioh

HMS Boromir posted:

well except for that one episode full of 10 year old girl rear end that made me not recommend jojos to people anymore

that was really good, thank you david production, purveyors of fine neptunias

Catalina posted:

Honestly, the female characters are treated with a lot of respect and are a lot of fun to read/watch, but that one teacher character's entire comedy concept is "High School teacher who sexualizes schoolgirls!"

Super Waffle posted:

Paranoia Agent was awesome but a major plot point was a father setting up a spy camera in her teenage daughters room, so I guess even this fails the OP's test

Spuckuk posted:

Monster, if you liked Hannibal and wished it had more lingering shots of central europe.

Catalina posted:

Honestly, the female characters are treated with a lot of respect and are a lot of fun to read/watch, but that one teacher character's entire comedy concept is "High School teacher who sexualizes schoolgirls!"

Robot Randy posted:

StrangersInTheNight posted:

Jojo massively fails the thread title because it has an episode about an ape trying to rape a little girl.

Spuckuk posted:

Tokyo Godfathers had this, except its portrayed as horrible as it should be.

Catalina posted:

Honestly, the female characters are treated with a lot of respect and are a lot of fun to read/watch, but that one teacher character's entire comedy concept is "High School teacher who sexualizes schoolgirls!"

HMS Boromir posted:

well except for that one episode full of 10 year old girl rear end that made me not recommend jojos to people anymore

Super Waffle posted:

Paranoia Agent was awesome but a major plot point was a father setting up a spy camera in her teenage daughters room, so I guess even this fails the OP's test