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Lackadaisy said:
While the "legal" age established by the Japanese national government is 13, every prefecture has a minimum age of 16 or higher. That national age is to make sure that prefectures can't go below that age and also to protect non-citizen minors from abuse if it occurs within Japanese borders.
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Is it that prefectural laws only apply to residents of the prefecture rather than events inside the prefecture. I always thought that the federal law was just something that was made during the meiji era or earlier and was never updated because there was no need to do so
 
autisticdragonkin said:
Is it that prefectural laws only apply to residents of the prefecture rather than events inside the prefecture. I always thought that the federal law was just something that was made during the meiji era or earlier and was never updated because there was no need to do so
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Yes, prefecture laws - in most cases - only apply to residents of that prefecture. That in itself is a holdover from the feudal era, when most prefectures were self-governing. National laws trump prefecture laws (there's a standardized set of traffic laws, for example), so if for some ungodly reason a prefecture decided to drop any age of sexual consent minimums, the national law would then be applicable.

It's somewhat similar to our situation in the US, where states can decide their age of consent, but there's an official minimum age that no prefecture can go below.
 
Lackadaisy said:
Japan has slightly different societal views on child nudity and gentials to some extent. For example, it wouldn't be unheard of for a young child character in a manga to be portrayed as bathing nude with family or if he/she was particularly rebellious and ran around the house naked. In the first case, it's simply how bathing works in Japan, with family members (father-son, mother-daughter, young siblings) often sharing a bath to save on water. In the second, it's seen as innocent horseplay.
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And then there is Crayon Shin-chan, an extremely popular comic about a pre-schooler who behaves in inappropriately adult manner and loves to show off his pee-pee.
 
I find it interesting that a lot of these tropers who can't really handle change hate the Status Quo is God trope. Ironically, I think the reason this may be is because it's the status quo in the animation community to not like things to be static.
 
Abethedemon said:
I find it interesting that a lot of these tropers who can't really handle change hate the Status Quo is God trope. Ironically, I think the reason this may be is because it's the status quo in the animation community to not like things to be static.
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I'm not to be honest. Given how the site's a clear-cut case of ADHD between its users. And how several of them clearly want to go against popular opinion because it's the cool thing to do.
 
I actually find the useful notes sections to be pretty well written, especially when I'm trying to wrap my head around a strange or esoteric subject.

That said, when I do a Google search for something on tvtropes and I click on a link that happens to take me to a forum page, I turn around and walk right the fuck back the way I came.
 
Toxic community aside, I'm the only one who really dislike this website as a whole? Idea is quite interesting, but people really too often think they know everything about creative writing and creating stories, because they know TVtropes. And page states "tropes are not bad", but most of articles are written in that ironical language that make readers think they are making fun of some plot device and can make reader think it actually is bad. Not to mention how really many of entries are subjective or inspired exlusively by anime and its model of storytelling, that many times don't fit well to other media. And obsession with words "subvert" or "deconstruction" to a degree words are losing it's meaning. Similary to the word "trope" itself.
Really, TVtropes is not making you know uber-everything about storytelling and It won't replace actual education and serious books on subject. And it's really get on my nerves when people are linking article to the site instead of explaining what THEY are thinking.
 
I get the feeling that WMG really just exists so that people can post their dumb fan theories and speculation there, and the admins can just turn a blind eye safe in the knowledge that it's being kept off the main work pages. I mean, you'd think that if they actually gave a shit about WMG they'd at least have taken the time to decide whether it's for legitimate theories, or intentionally stupid ones.
 
IdaRita said:
Toxic community aside, I'm the only one who really dislike this website as a whole? Idea is quite interesting, but people really too often think they know everything about creative writing and creating stories, because they know TVtropes. And page states "tropes are not bad", but most of articles are written in that ironical language that make readers think they are making fun of some plot device and can make reader think it actually is bad. Not to mention how really many of entries are subjective or inspired exlusively by anime and its model of storytelling, that many times don't fit well to other media. And obsession with words "subvert" or "deconstruction" to a degree words are losing it's meaning. Similary to the word "trope" itself.
Really, TVtropes is not making you know uber-everything about storytelling and It won't replace actual education and serious books on subject. And it's really get on my nerves when people are linking article to the site instead of explaining what THEY are thinking.
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Welcome to hipster critiscism 101: " Tropes are not bad but sometimes it can do better specially when I don't like them".

Still not as painful as years ago, but I doubt any serious or educated writter reads the website as tool.
 
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