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ZetsubouKaiji said:
Oh boy, it's like he's got no will power of his own. It's possible to say no and keep it in your pants.
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I mean, Makoto is very, very passive, both in the visual novel and anime. He's easy to pressure. So saying he has little willpower is correct (plus he's like 14-15, so it's understandable). And since Sekai knows him very well, it makes her even more scummy since she took advantage of that. If I had the divide the blame between them, Sekai gets an easy 85%.
 
Ruinous said:
I mean, Makoto is very, very passive, both in the visual novel and anime. He's easy to pressure. So saying he has little willpower is correct (plus he's like 14-15, so it's understandable). And since Sekai knows him very well, it makes her even more scummy since she took advantage of that. If I had the divide the blame between them, Sekai gets an easy 85%.
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I wouldn't infantilize him that much. He's shown he's capable of extreme levels of scumminess, he just needed permission to be one.
 
Zed said:
I wouldn't infantilize him that much. He's shown he's capable of extreme levels of scumminess, he just needed permission to be one.
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Not really infantilizing, I wouldn't say. He has fault of course, around 15%, but like I said, the girls made the first move, and Sekai ultimately took advantage of his passivity and killed him when she couldn't get her way. Therefore, Sekai is far more scummy than Makoto, and everything was her fault. If she didn't kiss Makoto at the train stop, or even help him get Kotonoha, School Days would not exist.
 
RascaI said:
I don't know, that's kind of a different issue than the one caused me a lot of trouble here. The main thing was a comment I made on the NANA thread a few weeks ago. And I did take back those comments. With the word trap, you could either take it for its historically hurtful meaning to the trans community (the meaning that isn't used in current day) and not use it, or just use it in the context it's almost exclusively currently used these days, for feminine self-identifying fictional males. Changing how you use it isn't strictly necessary. You shouldn't HAVE to change that.
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This is the last comment I'm going to make on this because this thread has been derailed too long as it is. If you want to keep talking about this, feel free to send me a private message. I don't generally get to have debates like this with my real life friends so this is somewhat refreshing.

To me, this issue boils down to common courtesy. Whether you're right or not is besides the point. Say an old lady asks you to hold the door for her so she can enter a store. You might have many different opinions about whether her request is valid. You might think that she's fit enough to open the door herself, that you have no moral obligation to hold the door for her, that her request imposes on your freedom etc... But are you going to get into an argument with this lady about holding open the door, or reject her request? I hope not. I would just hold the door because it's the polite thing to do and it requires no personal sacrifice or significant effort to do so.

This whole thing around the use of the word "trap" is the same. In this case, people from the LGBT community or people advocating on their behalf are asking people to stop using this word because it's offensive to some people. They've even suggested alternative words to use. You might not think the word trap is offensive. You might think it's ridiculous for these people to be offended by this word. You might think their definition of the word trap is stupid and that they have no right to ask you to use a different word. Even so, in my view, it isn't right to argue about or refuse to make such an insignificant change. That reflects more poorly on you than on the person making the request. It's not like the word "trap" is essential to your identity and wellbeing. It's not like it costs you anything to use a different word. So why not do it? Why argue about it? Just be courteous and make the change. It's not a big deal.

In regards to the NANA thread, I'm not sure what the issue is here, unless you're trying to say that you took back those comments but still feel like your comments were correct or something.
 
I think I have a new favorite spambot. It posted in the Kaiji thread criticizing the show for being about gambling in a medium watched by children. It then waited 15 fuckin days to add in a link to an online casino.

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It's half past one, hot as hell, and I can't sleep, so here's my DAT: Would it really be so hard to design Japanese characters actually looking Japanese in anime? Maybe it's not so apparent when the whole cast is Japanese or when they all have blue and green hair and stuff that's clearly not meant to appear realistic, but it always feels very odd to me when you have realistic world with, say, one Japanese character and one white (French, usually) character, and they look exactly the same, their ethnicity only shown by having blonde and black hair, so they constantly have to say the Japanese character is Japanese in every episode, because they are really pretty much white by the design's default. It's nice that they started including more darker skinned character lately, so more variety in design would be appreciated. Just a thought.
 
Scientiiaa said:
Finally watching Sword Art Online: Alicization and as a huge hater of SAO, I kinda like Alicization, which is a hella confusing feeling to have. :megusta:
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Alicization makes the decision to basically throw out most of the elements that make the series SAO pretty early on (besides kirito), making it feel like it has more stakes, and feels a lot more fresh. It's still not great, but it's a lot better than previous entries in the series in a lot of ways.

But since it's even less believable it's also a bit worse in that regard.
 
Starletka said:
It's half past one, hot as hell, and I can't sleep, so here's my DAT: Would it really be so hard to design Japanese characters actually looking Japanese in anime? Maybe it's not so apparent when the whole cast is Japanese or when they all have blue and green hair and stuff that's clearly not meant to appear realistic, but it always feels very odd to me when you have realistic world with, say, one Japanese character and one white (French, usually) character, and they look exactly the same, their ethnicity only shown by having blonde and black hair, so they constantly have to say the Japanese character is Japanese in every episode, because they are really pretty much white by the design's default. It's nice that they started including more darker skinned character lately, so more variety in design would be appreciated. Just a thought.
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I've heard that they use things like blue hair to distinguish the characters from each other. If they all had brown or black hair, it is more difficult to tell the difference between the characters. But I don't really know much on the history of character design in anime or manga. To the Western audience, white is the default ethnicity, but for the Japanese ppl, it would be Japanese. It is nice to see more variety in skin tones though.
 
DAT:
So my last Vegeta video got me looking up that other video I remember seeing long ago. Its just reminding me of how much I grew up with amvs, since I would always find a way to watch a few while in school.
 
Starletka said:
It's half past one, hot as hell, and I can't sleep, so here's my DAT: Would it really be so hard to design Japanese characters actually looking Japanese in anime? Maybe it's not so apparent when the whole cast is Japanese or when they all have blue and green hair and stuff that's clearly not meant to appear realistic, but it always feels very odd to me when you have realistic world with, say, one Japanese character and one white (French, usually) character, and they look exactly the same, their ethnicity only shown by having blonde and black hair, so they constantly have to say the Japanese character is Japanese in every episode, because they are really pretty much white by the design's default. It's nice that they started including more darker skinned character lately, so more variety in design would be appreciated. Just a thought.
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Mokokuseki!
I've been looking for that article and finally found it again just now...
 
BrainBlow said:
Mokokuseki!
I've been looking for that article and finally found it again just now...
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Yeah, it really made sense to me the more I thought about it for a long ass time and have literally asked Japanese people themselves, with their response being that anime characters do in fact look Japanese to them and they were so confused why western people thought they looked Caucasian. Pale skin and small noses are actually considered Asian. Looking at it from a different cultural perspective is a really interesting thing.
 
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howtoprocrastinate said:
I've heard that they use things like blue hair to distinguish the characters from each other. If they all had brown or black hair, it is more difficult to tell the difference between the characters. But I don't really know much on the history of character design in anime or manga. To the Western audience, white is the default ethnicity, but for the Japanese ppl, it would be Japanese. It is nice to see more variety in skin tones though.
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BrainBlow said:
Mokokuseki!
I've been looking for that article and finally found it again just now...
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Like I said, I get it, if everyone is meant to be Japanese. But when you watch shows like YOI or Great Pretender where there's a majority of foreigners, it feels odd to have everyone designed the same.
 
@Starletka
https://www.anime-planet.com/people/taiyou-matsumoto Well, Taiyo Matsumoto's work all has characters who look pretty distinctly Asian (though he has a particular stylization)

I get why characters are designed that way, but it is always funny to me (and I've seen this multiple times) when there's a show about Japanese and Korean relations and the Japanese characters all look like typical anime characters and the Korean characters are all like.... caricatures. Whistle and Rail of the Star both do this, among others. and it does raise some brows
 
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