The joke that is r/ActualLesbians

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[–]pancakewaffle 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

"Why are all MtF TiMs into anime?"

I don't know about all but you could partially link it to the idea that since anime (and in turn drawing) is such an accessible medium, people who seek validation and want to live out fantasies they can't physically have, would flock to something like anime where they can indulge and even create their own aspect of it. This touches on so many parts of philosophy and psychology though and I don't want to detract from your main post haha.

[–]FuckTheHypocrites[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

No, I think it has to do actually with misogyny. In the old days, anime was good wholesome storytelling. Now it is largely incel-driven sexual misogyny. It's all weird, pedophilic cutesy shit. And the types of anime they view portray women in this hypersexualized pedophilic way, so its no surprise many of them (like the reddit mods) start employing to slightly pedophilic, rapey sexist tropes. Like mod drewiepoodle, trying to get a 13 year old TIM to his house to shoot him up with "girl juice" ie estrogen. They literally go from anime to trans, like a straight line. You can even see it in their post/comment progression.

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Always been there either through costumes or characterisations, but if they had a good story, they normally didn't focus too much on the sex sells:

  • Sailor Moon (tiny skirts, and there is a 14 year old girl who had a relationship with an adult male who is a demon)

  • Gurren Lagaan: Look up "Yoko Littner", she's 14.

  • Tokyo Mew Mew (Mint has a really short mini dress)

  • Higurashi no naku koro ni: One of the special episodes features a scene where one of the highschool aged characters are naked on the table with sushi all over her body (nyotaimori), the context was everyone was discussing penalties to losing an innocent game I think and they were imagining.

  • Clannad visual novel game (love interest looks like a little kid and acts like a little kid, she's older than the protagonist and is repeating her final year in highschool)

  • Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai light novel series (2008): Older brother loves little sister

I watched the anime adaptation of some of these and read the manga originals or adaptation. I remember they were very popular or popular enough to recieve an anime adaptation and to be exported to English speaking countries. It probably increased these days, it's getting harder to earn more as a mangaka (manga author) or an animator. Almost all of the time, it's fanservice. I read somewhere that the "little sister" trope is popular because majority of Japanese males are only-child and they like the whole "being dependable" thing. Also Japanese culture as a whole is really misogynistic and also does not foster socialisation that well (I think mainly in the city areas, I'm not so sure about the rural areas) so many people, from child to adult don't really socialise and feel confident about approaching another person because they spend all of their time studying. I could be wrong though, it's based from what I read up.

Your post does make me question if there's a link between trans people and gsming (specifically, the Sonic series), but really it boils down to them enjoying an attractive accessible medium. Manga style is attractive compared to other styles because of the level of semi-realism a person is often drawn in that format, comlared to American cartoon styles (e.g. Simpsons) and have softer lines and colouration compared to American comics (e.g. DC). The style looks easier to draw compared to American comics. That's my theory though. Part of it is why I like manga drawings over American style comic drawings.