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Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

Lol it's actually got a very bro-y angle to it in my opinion. Here's why I think it appeals to the male not really in that in touch with his feminine side:

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

1) Case Study 1: Rosario + Vampire

Regular boy enrolls by accident in a school for monsters and a super hot vampire girl becomes obsessed with his blood and therefore him. Subsequent episodes are basically excuses for more ridiculously hot girls to become obsessed with him despite him being in every way average until about three or four or so are established and then the rest of the series is devoted to them fighting over him for his affection.

This is a male fantasy in it's truest form. There's no pretense of which girl to choose--every girl is totally fine with the fact that he goes back and forth between all of them. Also, the real goal of most young guys is to be with a girl out of his league. Therefore, the fantasy of having a bunch of girls out of his league fighting over him is pretty fun to think about.

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

2) Case Study 2: Demon King Daimao

Unusual for an anime (I suppose) a strong male lead who doesn't look like prepubescent boy enrolls in a school with, you guessed it, hot girls who are obssesed with him, but...he's also a demon? This show plays with the dark/animalistic vs the good natured innocent sides of a guy and how girls are attracted to the evil despite saying they're not.

Having girls be turned on when you get all mad and in your demonrage mode is another male fantasy that in reality makes girls think you're a weird spazz who can't keep his calm. In this show and many others girls inexplicably think the guy's hot...no matter what he acts like. And that's pretty all right with me. At least in a tv where it's understood that this is story land.

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

Why BROS Should Give Anime a Chance

3) Case Study 3: Girls Bravo

Boy stumbles into a world inhabited solely by hot girls who become obsessed with him because he's the only male they've ever seen. When he returns to the normal world one of the girls has followed him and becomes his roomate then...sexiness ensues.

While it would have been if he had stayed in the world inhabited entirely by hotties. The show does what anime does best--keep things sexy and fun without being porn. It never makes you wish you could actually see them hookup--it keeps you just enjoying the ride and the what if scenario that's constantly teased. It's written like a boyhood fantasy come to life and that's just what tv is supposed to--a fantasy of what could be.

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  • I like anime, but I would prefer stuff like Steins;Gate-- not all sexual and "in your face/over the top". Good plot, some romantic elements, great character development, and it has comedic relief at the right times.

    The ones you listed are pretty harem-y and sexual. I would argue that people should give anime a chance, but not for the sexuality, but because of the stories and entertainment... Basically the same reason to watch any TV show normally.
    Many people don't want to watch them I'm guessing because they imagine stereotypes associated with anime, and also because of societal pressure not to. There are many many that don't fall into the negative stereotypes (aka people's responses).

    I don't know, in my opinion the ones listed kind of portray some of the stereotypes a bit, which may hurt your point some with your target audience.

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  • All those anime girls look like pre-teens. It makes it so creepy. But lets not forget than age of concent in Japan is apparently 13...

    • lol well now that you said that it's creepy!

    • Yep. Girls in sailor moon are actually 14.

    • Yeah. Child porn was legal until recently in Japan. Like, a few years ago. Child porn is still legal if it's in animation form, as well. They also have issues with epibophilia. Adult males will grab any girl's ass on the trains, not all of course. There have also been quite a few who go up to high schools and start jacking off to the high school girls. There's also a somewhat big high school prostitution thing. High school girls are considered ideal, and high school aged students are praised. The vast majority of anime is about middle school or high school kids. However, there are adult aspects in some of them. By adult I mean more mature concepts and things that apply to daily adult life, as well, which makes them worth watching, in my opinion. But yes. Even in an anime so great as No Game No Life, you can't get around the sexualization of this 8 year old girl. They do it with both little boys and girls. Disturbing, but I'm so used to it, I just ignore it. I just go "god damn it Japan".

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  • Sorry but the anime industry is not for me and me alone. Though some might agree with my points and some might not. Anime is just pretty pictures with fan service and stil images filled with fillers. I started watching anime as kid and loved it. That being sailor moon, yugioh, Pokemon and etc. as I her older. I'm now a novelist and character designer. I have noticed that anime cut corners and sucks. Some anime don't have plots. Not talking about slice of life genres either. Anime has way too many fillers. No excuses. Anime has useless main and side characters but has interesting back characters. Characters we only see for 1 episode with little screen time. Sometimes anime has too many ass pull moments for you not to care anymore. Female character are either rarely bad ass or 60% annoying and 39% useless and 1% useful, or unlikable and is horribly written. Another thing. Anime don't betray black characters properly. Yes we have Afro samurai, killer bee from Naruto and etc but cut them away from stereotypes and anime would a little better. My last reason why I hate anime now. 3rd party and fans knows what we want from manga, games and etc. these companies don't want to give it to us. Already people is raging over Naruto Storm 4. Back before that they created mods. And fan fictions were well enjoyed than writing teams themselves. I've seen way better Dbz content that written and animated well than dbz super. Also I hate harems cause it unrealistic, I hate overly use my parents died, and they somehow goes to the main character school and ugh. Finally why I don't like or hate anime is. Because of the fans. They want you to die and burn in hell if you make an opinion. And they take it way too seriously.

    • I see what you're coming from, but what about entertainment value? Can that always be quantified by the metrics by which we judge how "great" a story is? Many novels and shows that those who've studied the craft would consider great would not be entertaining to the masses.

    • When it comes to entertainment they are fucking flawless at it. A lot of comedic service and comedic relief, and parodies. That's were slice of life genre comes in. But I still got minor complaints but it can be over looked. I just hate it when the girls love or like the main character but beat ever living tar out of him for no reason. Or hits him for no reason. I'm not a fan of that. I seen this one Japanese movie about vampires and it wasn't an anime but she did the same thing but had a good reason. He was about to kill himself cause he loved the girl. Once caught on news that his suisidal act was heroic, cause saved a person from a train. She slapped him ( his love interest) for it. Now as I am watching you see she cares. But in anime they do it for no reason. But a perfect anime for me are azumanga daiho!! Love it. I wouldn't trade this anime in for anything. But when think about it. The quality of the entertainment is pretty good. Cute, and gosh darn enjoyable.

    • You've never seen shows like Neon Genesis Evangelion, or movies like Akira and anything by Hayao Miyazaki, then...

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  • hmmmmmm...

    • lol i never know what you mean by that merry Christmas youuu : )

    • and to you kind sir.

    • i never know how to take your takes either:)

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  • You should have at least thrown out some non-sexual animes. You're giving people the wrong idea. Do you watch anime?

    • just those ones plus dbz

    • Try Attack on Titan. Extremely popular for a really good reason.

    • Naruto, DBZ, Akira (though there is a scene of attempted rape, the majority of its screen time is pretty non sexual), Digimon, just to name a few.

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  • Good looking girls is not the only reason to watch anime, some anime have an strong guys with big weapons for us as to watch and admire, as well as some nice fighing scenes. :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXQcMEtoEw

  • Anime is legit just fucking animated child porn.

  • Well hey I'm 23 and on my free time alone I watch anime and I don't really care for the female characters with the overly sized breasts. Even though Fairy Tail and High School DxD are known for that, I simply could care less. I also spend a lot of time alone playing video games and reading. Maybe because I am an introvert and find people in my age range boring. Hell, to me that's better than going out to clubs and bars hooking up with people and wasting money.

    • you don't like hooking up with girls?

    • Yeah, hooking up with random girls for sex bores me.

  • Those examples are poor and reinforce negative stereotypes. Yeah some Anime shows are iffy but there are many well written shows that make American primetime TV look like some daytime Maury Povich bs

  • I'm in to anime but these are the speciffic types I avoid. Just can't take them seriously enough.

  • I personally like Love Hina. I don't like harem stories much. I prefer something with better women than those harem girls. They feel too much like stock characters without depths to me.

    For the guys, I prefer something with a cooler main character. Practical, cool, dangerous, powerful and smart.

    For the gals in the stories, I prefer the smart and rebellious type. I am also partial to the loyal, cute and smart type also.

  • I remember back in the day when i watch Rosario+Vampire, it was cool but too much time wasted to be honest, i would rather do much productive things. To each their own though.

  • Worth the Watch:
    1 - The Testament of Sister New Devil BURST

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    2 - Gundam 00

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    • ill check 'em out thanks!

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3aNq4h0grs



    The GOAT anime show.

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    • Coolest fight scenes and soundtrack

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTXoYUyLzY8

    • looks cool I'll check them out

    • I'd be lying if I said Samurai Champloo wasn't kick ass.

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  • Ever seen Daily Lives of Highschool Boys? Now that is the ultimate three-way bromance :P

    • lol sounds like it could be funny ill check it out

  • I've seen a little of those animes before and they just seem so damn creepy. This is the type of anime I like nitehawkcinema.files.wordpress.com/.../...ek-8.jpg www.absoluteanime.com/.../index-movie[2].jpg

  • While I don't mind anime art styles, as they can actually be very good and artistic. The half assed and lifeless animation styles just kill it for me. Most of the time in anime, characters are very still and move only their mouths. The only anime I've ever seen actually have quality animation was Cowboy Bebop. And that's the only anime I actually liked, although I admit I haven't seen much anime tv shows and movies because anime fans creep me out.

    • yea def cruder than American animation in that sense

  • treasure.diylol.com/.../...s-everywhere-56e9bd.jpg

    Or I could be like a normal person and go on pornhub with real people instead of waiting on 30 seconds of action that's mainly some old dude looking at underage girls through a peephole that I could draw myself...

    • "If you're ever feeling down about your life, just remember. There are people who comment on pornhub movies."

    • @SomeOtherGuy i don't get it. i mean there's way worse out there. also, boondocks i wouldn't consider anime... although anime itself technically just means animation in general.

    • Fair. The culture is different. Japanese anime does take on a strong sense of Japanese culture. Still, the subject matter you'd find in Boondocks isn't that far off from the subject matter you might find in an anime. The point is no less lost. I certainly could have used Berserk as a reference. The idea of commenting on pronhub videos almost suggest this strange... isolated behavior? A disconnect from normalized society? There's just something about it I can't put my finger on. It just seems weird to make a comment on two (or more, or less) complete strangers you can't talk to who are having sex together.

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  • Lol I don't know man. It just seems so childish tbh.

  • My roommate showed me an Anime once, I didn't really understand it. One Piece or something. Seemed to be about a train that went through water, and there was a guy called Luffysan who was stretchy.

  • Well, I'm already in touch with my feminine side and I'm already an Otaku. I've been into anime ever since I discovered JRPG's like the Disgaea series.

  • There was one another that I read , I forgot the name though..

    A boy has a weird tattoo on his butt, if a girl sees that tattoo she gets enchanted and wants to get fucked by him badly, once she does , then enchantment wears out.

    It's very good and emotional, read it !

    • did they make an anime?

    • I don't quite know, it was popular manga, and most popular mangas were made to anime. You'd have to check it.

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