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MrSylvester
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I don’t appreciate having some of my favorite shows being called sentimentalist garbage. I hate sentimentality as it’s an unrealistic depiction of feelings. Compare a picture of Saint Anthony looking up to the sky with a simpering look as if his life was all fun and festivities with a picture of Saint Anthony feeding happy in ecstasy and holding the child Jesus as He is being given to the saint by Mary. You have the diffirence in then world.
However, when a situation is unrealistic bu the feelings are realistic and as long as it is executed tastefully, I enjoy an anime you’d otherwise call ‘exploitative’. And don’t think I’m not disgusted by excessive gore or actual exploitation. Case in point: Genocyber is nothing but pure gore for the hell of it. I saw a video of it on you tube. I saw Elfen Lied, loved it and it didn’t affect me. 14 seconds of Genocyber I was scarred for life and wanted to throw up. There is also a 6 episode anime called Mnemosyne or something. After reading a description about it on TV Tropes, I concldued that I was NOT going to watch this anime, not if you gave me a billion dollars.
Another case in point, only with an anime that does have gore until the last episode at least: School Days. I heard School Days was pretty bad so I wanted to see it in order to experience a bad anime so as to be able to enjoy good anime again after watching the MASTERPEICE that was FMABrotherhood. I didn’t laugh. At all. School Days was a very unpleasant experience. It can best be described what would happen if Jerry Springer or Maury made an anime. You get a group of people who through their mean spirited and selfish actions ruin their own lives and that of others but instead of feeling sorry for them, you’re supposed to enjoy their suffering and laugh at their idiocy. Thats what School Days was. It disgusted me to no end and had a HORRIFYINGLY BAD ending. It’s what I call pure exploitation because while the situations and the reactions of the characters were somewhat realistic, I felt no emotional connection to any of them. I didn’t care ebcause the anime gave me no reason to care.
Another case where events like rape and murder are sued so as to elicit emotion out of the audience in a contrived way: Ayashi no Ceres. I already said how much I hate this manga for it’s moronic characters. In one instance, Aya, our main ‘heroine’, follows the man she fell in love with after talking to him for 5 minutes into the building in which she knew her cousin was residing. She also knew that her cousin was planning on killing her together with her family. She also knew that the building probably had security as it was all so high tech and stuff. She follows her lover without bringing any weapons and without planning anything and oops, she gets captured. Now in order to rbing out her supernatural powers, her cousin tries to rape her before he is stopped. Thats what I call exploitation: writing a contrived event just for the hell of it.
I also hate how many harem anime always have to involved our main heroine having some attemtped rape happen to her. Kaichou wa maid sama, Ookami san, EF tale of memories, etc… now rape can be dealt with tastefully like how Berserk deals with it (even the protagonist was once raped as a child) but in these instances, it was nothing but a cheap ploy in order to make our female lead more sypathetic or attractive in a sick way.
My point is, as long as a subject is dealt with love, attention and written in a smart way, together with the intention to make people cry instead of making them vomit through disgust, it’s not exploitation. It’s only exploitation when your intention is to make people laugh at the gore and the suffering of our characters or simply to make them feel uneasy just ebcause you’re a jerk.
However, when a situation is unrealistic bu the feelings are realistic and as long as it is executed tastefully, I enjoy an anime you’d otherwise call ‘exploitative’. And don’t think I’m not disgusted by excessive gore or actual exploitation. Case in point: Genocyber is nothing but pure gore for the hell of it. I saw a video of it on you tube. I saw Elfen Lied, loved it and it didn’t affect me. 14 seconds of Genocyber I was scarred for life and wanted to throw up. There is also a 6 episode anime called Mnemosyne or something. After reading a description about it on TV Tropes, I concldued that I was NOT going to watch this anime, not if you gave me a billion dollars.
Another case in point, only with an anime that does have gore until the last episode at least: School Days. I heard School Days was pretty bad so I wanted to see it in order to experience a bad anime so as to be able to enjoy good anime again after watching the MASTERPEICE that was FMABrotherhood. I didn’t laugh. At all. School Days was a very unpleasant experience. It can best be described what would happen if Jerry Springer or Maury made an anime. You get a group of people who through their mean spirited and selfish actions ruin their own lives and that of others but instead of feeling sorry for them, you’re supposed to enjoy their suffering and laugh at their idiocy. Thats what School Days was. It disgusted me to no end and had a HORRIFYINGLY BAD ending. It’s what I call pure exploitation because while the situations and the reactions of the characters were somewhat realistic, I felt no emotional connection to any of them. I didn’t care ebcause the anime gave me no reason to care.
Another case where events like rape and murder are sued so as to elicit emotion out of the audience in a contrived way: Ayashi no Ceres. I already said how much I hate this manga for it’s moronic characters. In one instance, Aya, our main ‘heroine’, follows the man she fell in love with after talking to him for 5 minutes into the building in which she knew her cousin was residing. She also knew that her cousin was planning on killing her together with her family. She also knew that the building probably had security as it was all so high tech and stuff. She follows her lover without bringing any weapons and without planning anything and oops, she gets captured. Now in order to rbing out her supernatural powers, her cousin tries to rape her before he is stopped. Thats what I call exploitation: writing a contrived event just for the hell of it.
I also hate how many harem anime always have to involved our main heroine having some attemtped rape happen to her. Kaichou wa maid sama, Ookami san, EF tale of memories, etc… now rape can be dealt with tastefully like how Berserk deals with it (even the protagonist was once raped as a child) but in these instances, it was nothing but a cheap ploy in order to make our female lead more sypathetic or attractive in a sick way.
My point is, as long as a subject is dealt with love, attention and written in a smart way, together with the intention to make people cry instead of making them vomit through disgust, it’s not exploitation. It’s only exploitation when your intention is to make people laugh at the gore and the suffering of our characters or simply to make them feel uneasy just ebcause you’re a jerk.
I’ve had numbers 1 and 3, but I haven’t the urge to do number 2 yet.