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Aug 19, 2002, 12:44am

Sorry, Eep, but I only prefer girls that are legal (Sakura's barely 12
yrs old!). Maybe it's different in your neck of the woods, eh? :P

And apparently, this whole argument depends on your definition of "sex
and violence". If you think kids running around in skirts constitutes
"sex" and cute little monsters duking it out in battle equals
"violence", then you really need to get out more. :P

I will readily admit that there's sex and violence in a lot anime, but
you have to remember where it comes from. Violence was practically a way
of life for the Japanese culture until very recently (within the past
50-75 years) and they aren't as uptight about sex as we Americans; they
just see it as another aspect of life.

But again, just because a lot of it may have varying degrees of sex
and/or violence doesn't make it a necessary component for being anime.
One could also make the argument that Hollywood is all about sex and
violence, but that wouldn't be anymore true than anime. It all depends
on what you watch and how you interpret it, really.

[View Quote] > Sorry, but you're simply wrong, Goob. I've seen enough anime over the years (been watching since Akira came out in the mid 80s) and even the "cutsy" stuff (Pokemon, Urusei Yatsura, Sailor Moon) are HEAVILY laden with sex and violence. If you don't agree, you're obviously not watching enough anime. Sure, there MAY be a FEW series that don't have sex and violence (sorry, CCS has both--if you don't think little girls in short skirts is sexy, you're a fag ;) ) but I can't think of one off the top of my head and that hardly negates anime mostly being about sex and violence (which it is).
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