you think that's bad, look at one punch man and my hero academia, they're even kicking our asses at the super hero genres, with heroes modeled after american comic book heroe archetypes, ferchrissakes...
Even as a straight guy, I get a little tired of the gratuitous sexiness.
As someone who also gets tired of gratuitous sexiness (to the point I vastly prefer women in armor over the "chainmail bikini" look): If you consider anything in MHA to be "gratuitous", you have far too narrow of standards.
It will never stop being strange to me that the Leftist are simultaneously obnoxiously sex-positive and sex-negative at the same time.
Even that is not entirely true. They are only sex positive if it is women doing it for other women! They always get upset if a man likes it. Ironically, also getting mad at Bisexual women who like it, since they usually like the same things as men.
Leftists will simultaneously call Americans prude and want every character in cinema to be a proud slut with a kink, but then get mad at a fashion catalogue with scantily clad HOT women because its objectification. But it's not when the models are grotesque.
Correct. There is absolutely a lot of fanservice present, and the author has openly admitted as such. But while it is slightly above average amounts of fanservice by anime standards, like you said they are usually pivotal to the plot. Which is far more than can be said of many anime where the women are just there as eye candy.
It's been a while since I watched it, but I'm not even sure I'd say "a lot," personally. There's some, for sure, although pretty mild by anime standards.
Even as a straight guy, I get a little tired of the gratuitous sexiness.
As you say, that's ridiculous. I just looked through the character roster, only a few I'd even consider that sexualized at all, from the commonly reoccurring characters. And none I'd describe as gratuitous. Midnight, who is meant to be over the top. And Momo. That's basically it, from the fairly regular characters. From the reoccurring but not primary characters, you have Mt. Lady, who is supposed to be a bit of a joke, and Bubble Girl.
Being very mercenary about the issue helps. Every once in a while, they will make something woke, it sells poorly, and they say "Well, so much for that" and go back to what works. And if you try to force it again, they will ask "But will it make money?"
also, If I want the opinions of an online feminist on anything, ill think about it really hard while bashing my head in with a sledgehammer and record whatever comes out of my mouth afterwards.
I look at pictures like that and feel a powerful urge to punish their faggotry. Bullying is a necessary part of any healthy society, we should never have attempted to get rid of it.
Many marvel comics aren't made to please a consumer audience anymore. they used to be, then liberal elites saw the cultural power of comics thanks to the advent of the MCU, so they rushed in to take over the industry and pervert it into a libtard propaganda machine.
None of these "woke" comics sell well. They just exist because these companies either truly want to push woke propaganda, or they at least want to make it look like they are so they can get DEIbuxx from Soros & also keep the trannies on twitter off their backs.
This is the natural and inevitable result of a war where only 1 side of fighting. The Left is fighting a war for the culture, and has been fighting balls-out for over a decade now. The Right, by contrast, got caught sleeping and is just now starting to wake up to the very real consequences of ceding the battlefield to the much-better-organized Left. The Right needs to radicalize. It needs shock troopers of its own. It needs to fight on every battlefield and force them all into contested status.
My local comic book store has a tiny new release section because most of their sales are from back issue comics, tabletop, and the manga section keeps growing
I mean, even for the Right that is all it would take. Blaine Pardoe is an open Right-Winger and he isnt really putting that into his newest book. Just a "Inspired by Tom Clancy" story of mech pilots defending the Earth from Aliens, which he is designing as a counter to Battletech (which he was kicked out of).
What we really need is to get past the point where you have all of these Right-Wing people who still think of things like comics and video games as "for children/childish."
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
C.S. Lewis
Some of the right wing has understood that for close to a hundred years.
It's amazing just how many great quotes that man has:
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it's pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”
And of course his quote on tyranny:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
his previous latest book series is about the Marxists taking over America and based brown immigrants helping to restore the republic after being victims of the system themselves. what a boomercon.
Look at alot of popular manga and you see a screaming horde of blatant passion projects that could only be manifested through the power of god, anime, and industrial-strength autism.
A Young Bride's Tale? Blame? Things like that could never be done in America outside of niche indie projects, and even then exposure would be low(and they sure as hell wouldn't last as long).
And it's not like anime is immune to that, either. Hell, I just saw a pilot for an anime movie based around a japanese TTRPG module that combines mountain climbing with Lovecraft's The Mountain of Madness with such attention to detail that it had actual mountain climbers commenting on it.
You're not really going to find stuff like that in the west.
The Right has been systematically de-organized over the past 75 years, while the Left has been steadily organizing. At this point it's like trying to stop a hurricane. I think that the smarter thing for Righties to do is hunker down and take the Benedict Option. The Left won, but we know how this will end for them. They can't create, they can only criticize, overthrow and dismantle. They can't wield power responsibly and they certainly can't rule. They'll destroy themselves far more effectively than we ever could.
We have to let the Weak Men create the Bad Times. Only then will the Strong Men find their opening. I don't think there are any shortcuts. All of this energy that righties are putting into fighting this culture war is just a losing effort to slow down this inevitable cycle of history. If anything we want it to accelerate so the Bad Times will get here already. Only when Lefty's organization is collapsing will Righty begin to organize.
I don't think doomerism and defeatism is the answer.
You're never going to convince the Right to join you in giving up, so all your philosophy does is give you an excuse to not join in the fight. Seems cowardly to me tbh.
Every attempt we make to organize is thwarted or infiltrated in some way. We try to democratically elect someone who at least doesn't hate us and he's rejected by the system. Right now, fighting that system directly is foolish. It does need to be destroyed, but I'm saying that the best way to accomplish that goal is to encourage it to destroy itself We should be finding ways to sabotage and subvert it on every level. The time for direct confrontation will be when the system has been weakened, not while it's at its peak.
The Freedom Fighter's Manual"The Freedom Fighter's Manual is the title of a fifteen-page propaganda booklet that was manufactured by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and airdropped over Nicaragua in 1983, with the stated goal of providing a "Practical guide to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state". The manual explains several methods by which the average citizen could cause civil disorder. The airdrops began after the Sandinista National Liberation Front, which had overthrown the former Nicaraguan leader, Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and had ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba, began to fund a similar revolutionary group in El Salvador. A Contra fighter gave the manual to a U.S. reporter in Honduras in 1984."
The left divides and destroys. The right creates and corrupts. Shits broken right now. It's time to start creating. Start backing more indies across the board. Is what I've been doing. Back indies and shit on leftist slurry.
I love Goblin Slayer, but it is definitely an outlier in manga these days, not tons of woke stuff per se but we have a lot of soyboy shit tier main characters for series out there and I suppose that has always been a part of anime and manga in general.
Harem def not but isekai I am a fan of, I think its the concept as a whole rather than the way they trend a bit. That being said some of the MCs are just insufferable shits for sure.
As a lifelong Marvel fan, it hurts to see Marvel comics in the state it's in. It's mostly written by SJWs who know nothing about telling good stories, and horrible editors who never know when to say no. The continuity even sucks now. I mean, characters die and come back within 6 months to a year. The editors can't even keep any sort of consistency, each new run is basically just the current writer's fan-fiction, soon to be overturned by the next writer.
I just stick to reading reprints of classic Marvel. If I want something new, indie comics and manga are what I read. How anyone can read modern Marvel trash when there are way better alternatives available is beyond me. Hopefully with numbers declining Marvel and DC will just die. I hope it happens at this point, it's like seeing a dying and in pain animal get put to sleep.
As a life long comic book reader it hurt to stop reading modern dc and marvel. Now I just buy older ones (mainly pre Disney buyout). The modern ones I buy now are Alterna, other undies, and I bought Rippa’s comic
There's a whole mostly empty universe inside of me...
Unintentional self-awareness.
"These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption"
you think that's bad, look at one punch man and my hero academia, they're even kicking our asses at the super hero genres, with heroes modeled after american comic book heroe archetypes, ferchrissakes...
From comments:
As someone who also gets tired of gratuitous sexiness (to the point I vastly prefer women in armor over the "chainmail bikini" look): If you consider anything in MHA to be "gratuitous", you have far too narrow of standards.
It will never stop being strange to me that the Leftist are simultaneously obnoxiously sex-positive and sex-negative at the same time.
Even that is not entirely true. They are only sex positive if it is women doing it for other women! They always get upset if a man likes it. Ironically, also getting mad at Bisexual women who like it, since they usually like the same things as men.
They're sex-negative if it's something that could conceivably lead to reproductive heterosexual sex.
Also, don't forget that to leftists, "real women" invariably means seriously obese.
Unhealthily fat 250+ lber = real woman
Dude with implants and a penis = real woman
Skinny or athletic girl = UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Not always. They tend to tell the younger women to cover it up to empower fags and the roasties.
They're sex-positive if :
It's a woman gaining enjoyment, regardless of anything else.
It's a woman gaining wealth from men.
Anything else is trying to circumvent the price women have put on intimacy and must be crushed.
Leftists will simultaneously call Americans prude and want every character in cinema to be a proud slut with a kink, but then get mad at a fashion catalogue with scantily clad HOT women because its objectification. But it's not when the models are grotesque.
Correct. There is absolutely a lot of fanservice present, and the author has openly admitted as such. But while it is slightly above average amounts of fanservice by anime standards, like you said they are usually pivotal to the plot. Which is far more than can be said of many anime where the women are just there as eye candy.
It's been a while since I watched it, but I'm not even sure I'd say "a lot," personally. There's some, for sure, although pretty mild by anime standards.
Yeah it's definitely not 'a lot' in the grand scheme of manga/anime. It's slightly more tame than Psylocke in the 90's. Not as many thong shots.
As you say, that's ridiculous. I just looked through the character roster, only a few I'd even consider that sexualized at all, from the commonly reoccurring characters. And none I'd describe as gratuitous. Midnight, who is meant to be over the top. And Momo. That's basically it, from the fairly regular characters. From the reoccurring but not primary characters, you have Mt. Lady, who is supposed to be a bit of a joke, and Bubble Girl.
thankfully, japan has done a pretty good job of dodging the woke mind virus so far, lol.
Being very mercenary about the issue helps. Every once in a while, they will make something woke, it sells poorly, and they say "Well, so much for that" and go back to what works. And if you try to force it again, they will ask "But will it make money?"
Good Boy Points aren't a currency there.
ESG is slowly injecting them though. Take a look at the censored RE remakes.
That's more then trying to pander to the American market. They think it's our culture now...
For now.
Keep an eye on MUFG.
also, If I want the opinions of an online feminist on anything, ill think about it really hard while bashing my head in with a sledgehammer and record whatever comes out of my mouth afterwards.
I assure you, it will be more coherent and sane.
Good.
MHA is better than anything to come out of American super hero media for 20+ years.
depends where you're looking. there's some indie stuff that's looks promising... Richard C. Meyer made some comics I'd like to read for example.
On that topic, Tiger and Bunny is also great. It also has this whole theme of superheroes being commercialised.
You just set the stage for me to read that entire thing as Peter Griffon. Thanks for that.
hehehehehehehehe....
anime has lots of super heroes. they just don't all wear capes and tights.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/genre/31/Super_Power
Take a look at the author of that panel and find your answer.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Grace_Freud
Not too long though. You may not be able to unsee what you have seen.
I look at pictures like that and feel a powerful urge to punish their faggotry. Bullying is a necessary part of any healthy society, we should never have attempted to get rid of it.
Looks like a fucking thumb.
https://archive.is/NU4AR
Many marvel comics aren't made to please a consumer audience anymore. they used to be, then liberal elites saw the cultural power of comics thanks to the advent of the MCU, so they rushed in to take over the industry and pervert it into a libtard propaganda machine.
None of these "woke" comics sell well. They just exist because these companies either truly want to push woke propaganda, or they at least want to make it look like they are so they can get DEIbuxx from Soros & also keep the trannies on twitter off their backs.
This is the natural and inevitable result of a war where only 1 side of fighting. The Left is fighting a war for the culture, and has been fighting balls-out for over a decade now. The Right, by contrast, got caught sleeping and is just now starting to wake up to the very real consequences of ceding the battlefield to the much-better-organized Left. The Right needs to radicalize. It needs shock troopers of its own. It needs to fight on every battlefield and force them all into contested status.
Japs be like "we just want to make money".
My local comic book store has a tiny new release section because most of their sales are from back issue comics, tabletop, and the manga section keeps growing
I mean, even for the Right that is all it would take. Blaine Pardoe is an open Right-Winger and he isnt really putting that into his newest book. Just a "Inspired by Tom Clancy" story of mech pilots defending the Earth from Aliens, which he is designing as a counter to Battletech (which he was kicked out of).
What we really need is to get past the point where you have all of these Right-Wing people who still think of things like comics and video games as "for children/childish."
C.S. Lewis
Some of the right wing has understood that for close to a hundred years.
It's amazing just how many great quotes that man has:
And of course his quote on tyranny:
And this is why I play with my kids' Legos after they go to bed, lol.
his previous latest book series is about the Marxists taking over America and based brown immigrants helping to restore the republic after being victims of the system themselves. what a boomercon.
It's not even money.
Look at alot of popular manga and you see a screaming horde of blatant passion projects that could only be manifested through the power of god, anime, and industrial-strength autism.
A Young Bride's Tale? Blame? Things like that could never be done in America outside of niche indie projects, and even then exposure would be low(and they sure as hell wouldn't last as long).
And it's not like anime is immune to that, either. Hell, I just saw a pilot for an anime movie based around a japanese TTRPG module that combines mountain climbing with Lovecraft's The Mountain of Madness with such attention to detail that it had actual mountain climbers commenting on it.
You're not really going to find stuff like that in the west.
The Right has been systematically de-organized over the past 75 years, while the Left has been steadily organizing. At this point it's like trying to stop a hurricane. I think that the smarter thing for Righties to do is hunker down and take the Benedict Option. The Left won, but we know how this will end for them. They can't create, they can only criticize, overthrow and dismantle. They can't wield power responsibly and they certainly can't rule. They'll destroy themselves far more effectively than we ever could.
We have to let the Weak Men create the Bad Times. Only then will the Strong Men find their opening. I don't think there are any shortcuts. All of this energy that righties are putting into fighting this culture war is just a losing effort to slow down this inevitable cycle of history. If anything we want it to accelerate so the Bad Times will get here already. Only when Lefty's organization is collapsing will Righty begin to organize.
I don't think doomerism and defeatism is the answer.
You're never going to convince the Right to join you in giving up, so all your philosophy does is give you an excuse to not join in the fight. Seems cowardly to me tbh.
Every attempt we make to organize is thwarted or infiltrated in some way. We try to democratically elect someone who at least doesn't hate us and he's rejected by the system. Right now, fighting that system directly is foolish. It does need to be destroyed, but I'm saying that the best way to accomplish that goal is to encourage it to destroy itself We should be finding ways to sabotage and subvert it on every level. The time for direct confrontation will be when the system has been weakened, not while it's at its peak.
The Freedom Fighter's Manual "The Freedom Fighter's Manual is the title of a fifteen-page propaganda booklet that was manufactured by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and airdropped over Nicaragua in 1983, with the stated goal of providing a "Practical guide to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state". The manual explains several methods by which the average citizen could cause civil disorder. The airdrops began after the Sandinista National Liberation Front, which had overthrown the former Nicaraguan leader, Anastasio Somoza in 1979, and had ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba, began to fund a similar revolutionary group in El Salvador. A Contra fighter gave the manual to a U.S. reporter in Honduras in 1984."
https://archive.ph/vmtDu#selection-219.0-219.28
The left divides and destroys. The right creates and corrupts. Shits broken right now. It's time to start creating. Start backing more indies across the board. Is what I've been doing. Back indies and shit on leftist slurry.
Goblin Slayer is awesome.
Souka.
The only good goblin is a dead goblin.
Souka.
still not good
I love Goblin Slayer, but it is definitely an outlier in manga these days, not tons of woke stuff per se but we have a lot of soyboy shit tier main characters for series out there and I suppose that has always been a part of anime and manga in general.
Maybe isekai and harem mangas aren't your thing (typical trope in harem mangas is that the mc is as dense as a black hole)
Harem def not but isekai I am a fan of, I think its the concept as a whole rather than the way they trend a bit. That being said some of the MCs are just insufferable shits for sure.
Survival of a Sword King has an absolute gigachad as a protag. It's one of my favorite ongoing series.
Okay superheroes, lets go in a circle and say our name, super powers, and favorite food. Xir, you go first.
That looks like actual marvel comics.
Because they(/them) are actual Marvel comics.
"Good Arson" lol. They aren't even trying to be coy anymore, they're coming right out and promoting antifa style "activism."
Not sure. I assumed it was a parody of Marvel.
I legit can't even tell anymore.
As a lifelong Marvel fan, it hurts to see Marvel comics in the state it's in. It's mostly written by SJWs who know nothing about telling good stories, and horrible editors who never know when to say no. The continuity even sucks now. I mean, characters die and come back within 6 months to a year. The editors can't even keep any sort of consistency, each new run is basically just the current writer's fan-fiction, soon to be overturned by the next writer.
I just stick to reading reprints of classic Marvel. If I want something new, indie comics and manga are what I read. How anyone can read modern Marvel trash when there are way better alternatives available is beyond me. Hopefully with numbers declining Marvel and DC will just die. I hope it happens at this point, it's like seeing a dying and in pain animal get put to sleep.
As a life long comic book reader it hurt to stop reading modern dc and marvel. Now I just buy older ones (mainly pre Disney buyout). The modern ones I buy now are Alterna, other undies, and I bought Rippa’s comic
Unintentional self-awareness.
2 Peter 2:17-19
It hasn't done its dilation for the day.
As Sony and CDPR (specifically GoG) have proven, we can't rely on the outside world to be immune to Western cultural freeloaders.
Goblin Slayer is a good read. Also back Comicsgate creators. Most are pretty talented and they are in the culture war trenches.
Daily reminder to GATEKEEP THE FUCK OUT OF ANYTHING YOU ENJOY.