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It’s possible I just mean yuri, and also possible that I failed to notice how bad it was in general when I was a kid because I was just so thrilled to see lesbians in anything. I mean, the female character design is horrid, but we really can’t say American comics are not just as unrealistic in portrayal of women’s bodies, in the mainstream either.

It’s also possible that since there is a demand for more anime/manga here, we have been getting to see how creepy a wider variety is.

I think the tropes in anime and manga are way grosser in terms of children and the portrayal of women and girls being constantly “shy and embarrassed, and non-consenting but no means yes” bullshit. Also the average age of female characters is like 12-18. So so creepy.

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It’s also possible that since there is a demand for more anime/manga here, we have been getting to see how creepy a wider variety is.

I think MezozoicGay is japanese and speaking from such a perspective. There is plenty of sordidity in japanese geekdom that westerners seem ignorant of, for example 1986's Gundam ZZ has an 11 year old character named after a cartoon child porn magazine (Elpeo Ple) and one of Enix' (now Square-Enix) first games was violent child erotica (Lolita Syndrome).

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Yuuuuuuck