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Kari Kamiya said:
I've been thinking for a while now about why it is I felt like there was a difference in the show right around the Waking the Dragons arc, and it's not just because it's a filler. I think coming off of Battle City, the anime wanted to get darker, and 4KIDS tried to keep it lighthearted, but they were delving into some dark comedy. On top of the seemingly endless reruns they'd do, it didn't feel "fun" as a kid, it was just depressing and a big bummer.

Even rewatching it as an adult, it was actually a bit of a hard sit because it dragged, for one thing, but it was dark and cruel to the characters (although Weevil deserved it, fuck Weevil). Yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh is a dark shounen at its roots, but while Yami Marik was a huge psycho, he was a fun psycho, cracking stupid jokes and just having fun. I think the Egyptian themes helped, too, and that got put on hold for the next two arcs before Millennium came in. Dartz was easy on the ears because of his voice-actor, but he's... kind of dull as a character. His subordinates were more interesting, but he weighed everything down with his alliance with Leviathan. The arc after that is so forgettable despite feeling like a safer rehash of Duelist Kingdom, I don't know why it even exists.

So yeah, Waking the Dragons fucked it up in tone and pacing, and it didn't really deliver, but 4KIDS had to make do with what they could, and bless their hearts, they tried.
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jellycar said:
Out of all the 4Kids VA's I found Megan Hollingshead to be very underrated. She was one of the best ones imo. Nurse Joy, Mai Valentine, etc. Then she moved to California and got Rangiku Matsumoto in Bleach. Kinda hope she's still in the business.
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Yes, she still does voice work in anime and games.
 
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Media watchdog BPO said some surprising things about monster brothel anime Interspecies Reviewers

Controversial anime divided opinions even within Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization.
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Media watchdog BPO said some surprising things about monster brothel anime Interspecies Reviewers
Controversial anime divided opinions even within Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization.

Like a lot of anime TV series that came before it, Interspecies Reviewers is built around a monster-of-the-week formula. What sets it apart, though, is that Interspecies Reviewers actually use a monster-of-the-week-to-pay-for-sex formula. Each episode, the core cast heads to a new fantasy brothel to sleep with a new kind of monster girl, then give their reviews of the experience so that others can make more informed decisions on which species to hump.

Last week Tokyo MX, the local TV station that was broadcasting Interspecies Reviewers in the Tokyo area, announced it would no longer be showing new episodes. Because late-night anime like Interspecies Reviewers (which aired at 1:30 a.m.) are paid programming from the anime’s production committee, there’s no need for concern about advertisers shying from the time block because they object to the anime’s content, and so it’s almost unheard of for an anime series to be dropped by a network mid-season.

However, there were signs right from the start that Interspecies Reviewers was attracting controversy. Just three days after its first episode aired on January 12, Japanese media watchdog organization the Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization (also known as BPO) had already posted the following complaints about “a late-night anime with a world with humans, monsters, and angels where the main male characters go from brother to brothel:”
“I am outraged that an anime like this, with such sexual content, is being shown in a manner with no age restrictions and can be viewed by children.”
“There is a late-night anime, and even though it’s a fantasy setting, the male characters go to brothels and review them, disparaging the female characters.”
“Even though it’s an anime, it’s still full of nothing but paid sex and dirty jokes, and so it’s a bad influence on children.”
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Fans of the series are likely to take issue with the accusation that Interspecies Reviewers’ male cast “disparages” the series’ female characters, but the series being basically a constant stream of full-on sex and sexual innuendo is a little harder to deny. Evidently the BPO felt the complaints were serious enough to warrant discussion among its internal Youth Committee, whose members presented their own individual opinions on January 28, which included:
“In regards to complaints that the show is ‘digesting’ or ‘vulgar,’ such accusations are related to the concept of freedom of expression, and must be handled extremely cautiously.”
“In the past, late-night TV was watched only by adults. Now, though, it can be watched 24 hours a day through the Internet, and the societal time division is changing. That change is something we must consider.”
“Children are not the sole TV audience, and so I believe the TV station is producing it under the stance that a late-night adult-oriented TV anime can be broadcast withing the principles of freedom of expression.”
“Care must be taken that such extreme content does not gradually creep into regular time blocks from late-night slots.”
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The comments seem to show a few misconceptions of how anime is made and distributed. For one, broadcast and online streaming rights are generally separate, so one could argue it’s not entirely fair to blame a TV network for what time of day a program is being streamed. Also, Interspecies Reviewers isn’t produced by any TV station, but is created by its production committee, which fronts the costs for making the show itself.

That said, there appears to have been a surprising amount of dissension within the BPO Youth Committee as to whether or not Interspecies Reviewers poses a danger to young minds by airing on TV, concluding its statement with “We feel there is no further need to discuss this matter,” and the difference in opinions helps explains how even after getting dropped by Tokyo MX, the anime is still being shown on free TV in Kyoto and Kobe, as well as via Japanese satellite television.

Source: Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization
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Japanese soccer moms mad
 
I told you all it wasn't the SJWs who were pissed off about this.

I don't know if it's still like this in Japan, but they had PTAs too back during the 70s and 80s, and they were a hell of a lot more powerful than their American equivalents.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
I told you all it wasn't the SJWs who were pissed off about this.

I don't know if it's still like this in Japan, but they had PTAs too back during the 70s and 80s, and they were a hell of a lot more powerful than their American equivalents.
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Yeah, Go Nagai's dust ups with Japanese PTAs and censors are infamous and this was the 70s and 80s long before Progressive shit became trendy in the West.
 
CheezzyMach said:
Yeah, Go Nagai's dust ups with Japanese PTAs and censors are infamous and this was the 70s and 80s long before Progressive shit became trendy in the West.
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You could get away with more in Japan than you could in America at the time, but you still had the goddamn soccer mom activist types.
 
Cheetahman said:
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Japanese soccer moms mad
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Reminds me of the hissy fits over Shimoneta, except stations didn't drop the show mid-way.

These comments make me lol, though:

“I am outraged that an anime like this, with such sexual content, is being shown in a manner with no age restrictions and can be viewed by children.”
“There is a late-night anime, and even though it’s a fantasy setting, the male characters go to brothels and review them, disparaging the female characters.”
“Even though it’s an anime, it’s still full of nothing but paid sex and dirty jokes, and so it’s a bad influence on children.”
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"I am outraged that I have to be a parent and make sure my underaged children are asleep in bed before the adult cartoons come on. How dare you make me feel subconscious about my body and how my husband won't touch me anymore because I don't have ample mammaries like the elf and elderly prostitutes. Think of the children and our declining birth rate!"
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Reminds me of the hissy fits over Shimoneta, except stations didn't drop the show mid-way.

These comments make me lol, though:



"I am outraged that I have to be a parent and make sure my underaged children are asleep in bed before the adult cartoons come on. How dare you make me feel subconscious about my body and how my husband won't touch me anymore because I don't have ample mammaries like the elf and elderly prostitutes. Think of the children and our declining birth rate!"
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Never forget the love nectar cookies.
 
The shitstorm over Interspecies Reviewers is worrying, I sure hope Japan doesn't get a bug up it's ass about sexual content like the west has.

But Japan has always had a diehard conservative element, we are talking a country that censors genitals in porn as if that makes any sense or the country that has over 9000 porn video games but mainstream games with CERO ratings don't allow topless women.

Anime has probably only been allowed to get away with what it gets away with for so many years due to simply flying under the radar.
 
One thing I'll say about this season: it's great for big tiddy lovers.

Even if you ignore the ridiculous amount of tits in Interspecies Reviewers, you've got Nana and Lynn in Plunderer (and the preview for this week's episode showed another girl with a big rack coming in), Steel Lady Nanase in In/Spectre (and Saki to an extent), and Nikaidou and Noi in Dorohedoro. Subtler large tits in ID:Invaded as well. And those are just the shows I've been watching, so I might be missing some.

All hail the year of the cowtits.

ETA: Speaking of cowtits, looks like the no-fun-allowed admins at MAL have finally purged the site of wrongthink and removed a bunch of Interspecies Reviewers' ratings. It's now down to a 7.6. RIP.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
So does anyone else kinda like nation/city builder mangas? There's not many of them, but most of the ones I've found, I've really enjoyed.

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I really like them but I've only seen ones that have gotten anime adaptations (slimesekai, overlord etc). do you have any other recommendations in this vein
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
I told you all it wasn't the SJWs who were pissed off about this.

I don't know if it's still like this in Japan, but they had PTAs too back during the 70s and 80s, and they were a hell of a lot more powerful than their American equivalents.
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Didn't Bobobobo get canceled because it was too weird for Japanese Audience?
 
Hallstein995 said:
Didn't Bobobobo get canceled because it was too weird for Japanese Audience?
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Not sure why it got canned when it was super popular and audiences loved it. I don't think Toei ever came out to explain why they canceled it.
 
It airs at 1:30 in the fucking morning what kid is watching TV at that hour? Besides, if they have any premium channels they can find softcore.

PTA moms should be considered a global threat. Fucking christ. Nobody wants to control their kids. They want Mr. Government and Mr. Corporation to do it.
 
Dom Cruise said:
The shitstorm over Interspecies Reviewers is worrying, I sure hope Japan doesn't get a bug up it's ass about sexual content like the west has.

But Japan has always had a diehard conservative element, we are talking a country that censors genitals in porn as if that makes any sense or the country that has over 9000 porn video games but mainstream games with CERO ratings don't allow topless women.

Anime has probably only been allowed to get away with what it gets away with for so many years due to simply flying under the radar.
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Eh like me and Steamboat said this isn't new.

Go Nagai hated the Japanese PTA to the point he had them all violently killed in one of his mangas.

And Gundam IBO caused a similar shitstorm when it was airing. * although they had a point about that one I think *
 
Secret Asshole said:
It airs at 1:30 in the fucking morning what kid is watching TV at that hour? Besides, if they have any premium channels they can find softcore.

PTA moms should be considered a global threat. Fucking christ. Nobody wants to control their kids. They want Mr. Government and Mr. Corporation to do it.
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To be fair, I was first introduced to Adult Swim back when I was a wee skel, and I was frequently up well past midnight throughout my middle and high school years. I wasn't supposed to be, of course, but that's part of the appeal, isn't it? Getting away with things you know you're not supposed to is always fun. I did get caught more than once, but I had anime to watch, so it wasn't like that was going to stop me. The only thing that did was when Adult Swim killed weeknight anime, the bastards.

That doesn't mean these PTA-types have a good point, of course. If your kid's misbehaving, deal with it yourself, don't go crying to the nanny state about the potential of your children seeing giant cow tiddies.
 
pierce your heart said:
I really like them but I've only seen ones that have gotten anime adaptations (slimesekai, overlord etc). do you have any other recommendations in this vein
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These all more, or less fit the bill. The first one is fairly Ecchi (which you may, or may not like), the second one is great but really slow paced (brief loli warning though), and the third one I think is likely the best, but it only somewhat fits into the city builder category because the MC bounces around so much. Sadly they're all Isekais other than the one I posted earlier, though I'd say the 3rd one is kind of an isekai lite, since the other world characters aren't really in the driver's seat so to speak. The third one likely has the best humor if you like that kind of thing. When the other world characters are in the driver's seat, it's actually hilarious because they cause the main character to do some really out of character things.
 
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