what's funny tho is capeshit is the literal definition of regurgitating derivative slop, down to re-using the same fucking characters for decades. how many different versions of spiderman are there now, let alone when you go beyond comics?
See though, a good writer thinks "why?"
"because it's cool" mixed with western logic is how you get incredibly powerful cool men like injun joe.
Okay I always knew "Injun Joe" as the villain from Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. Who the heck is this?
It's a show about a child soldier having mental problems after witnessing the horrors of war, a subject no Western author will touch. The child soldier is a child. Imagine that.
Why do weebs always have to go "at least it's not capeshit!" as if all media is either pop culture slop or doesn't exist? Why not compare anime to other media made for a similar audience? You judge like for like and capeshit is only comparable to shounen anime.
You're so smart you missed that the problem is it's 14 year old girl so the audience wants to fuck her. You could tell a very good story about a 14 year old child soldier having to come home and deal with PTSD. But that story has to be done respectfully to have any meaning to it. Making it a marketable waifu to sell is disrespectful to the concept and shows it's about making money off of the otaku market. You don't find many female child soldiers because they have a vagina, something far more valuable than another pair of hands holding a gun. When groups raid schools for children to enslave the boys are slaughtered or sent into battle, while the girls are kept as sex slaves to breed more soldiers and act as a reward for the boy soldiers. That is what you're dealing with when you try to tell a story like this and instead the main character looks like that Saber chick and they're selling models of her looking like every other otaku bait woman.
Honestly, after looking up the trailer I couldn't see this argument anymore. The character in question isn't even drawn particularly sexy, so if this is coomerbait then so is literally any story ever that features a reasonably attractive woman, regardless of handling of subject matter.
Violet Evergarden is a sexless show with no fanservice to speak of. If the point of making Violet female was to induce a male audience to want to fuck her and sell the story on sex appeal, they didn't do a very good job. If I had to guess why they actually made her female, I'd guess that it's because the author and illustrator of the original novels were women, and female authors often write about female characters, because that's what they can relate to. So I think it's probably a 14-year-old girl because the author wanted to tell a story about a 14-year-old girl overcoming trauma by writing letters for people. Then the novel sold well and won a bunch of awards, and Kyoto Animation decided to adapt it into an anime. Then the anime did well and won a bunch of awards, and they realized they could make money selling figures of the main character to people who liked the show.
Looney tunes had like 2 or 3 characters named injun joe that were likely named after the tom sawyer guy without being him.The one in this animation is part of an a cartoon that's a partial remake of one that came out years before it. Like a year or 2 back when the 80s treasure island cartoon had a resurgance in pupularity due to showing up in memes injun joe was also experiencing a kind of similar comeback. Partly because him and dr. livesy have like the same kind of build of scrawny legs and massive torso and arms and do unhinged tier feats. Then again injun joe's are infinitely more high powered with him doing shit like casually splitting a mountain by walking through it.
You mean like Ender's game and it's sequels dealing with child soldiers realizing how fucked up it all was and trying to come to terms with it? Weebs only look at anime so they only know anime. In the last 10 years there has been a big push into child soldier stories in the West and "Child misery" stories. Lots of child soldier biographies are being published as well as works of fiction. But none of them are trying to sell you chibi key rings and figurines to go with them are they?
Any story that's part of the anime industry is designed to appeal to otakus. A quick google tells me you can buy body pillows of the main character in her underwear on Amazon. Sasha Grey didn't stop looking like a whore just because she tried to act in some low budget horror movies. If you want to do a serious story then change the art style up and don't make your main character look exactly like one of the otaku waifu poster children.
When I first watched Eternal Story I thought it was really cool, but when I recently rewatched it, all I could think is "What did I ever see in this pile of crap?" Maybe it's because it's a proto-moe anime and my tolerance for moe stuff is nonexistent nowadays. I'm beginning to feel the same way about characters that don't clearly look and act like adults. Those "wow" endings you talk about are less and less impressive to me and seem more and more pseudointellectual because they reduce grand, existential ideas to cheap plot devices. Maybe I'm beginning to age out of anime, though I still soyface over Gundam and the Brave series. Ultimately I just wish I was immune to the anime tricks of dwelling on cool vehicle/robot designs for lots of the runtime and catchy/brooding music because I wish I could straight up hate it. It's formulaic, tropey, ridden with cringeworthy writing in so many ways, falls apart the moment you ask a few critical questions, and only gets so much attention due to being the most goonified media ever. I wish I could be an anime hater if for no other reasons than to expose myself to greater variety and, most importantly, be consistent with my anti-porn values (if trannies can hate Harry Potter on a dime for not aligning with their values, I should do the same thing with anime), but because it advertises toys that are too expensive/old for me to ever own, I see something in it and always feel like I'd be missing out on something if I gave it up, so I continue with it.
Thank you for putting the instinctual aversion people have to the anime style in words. Weebs say "hur dur Alfred J. Kwak is technically anime so it's not a style", but go to any anime club or weeb sphere and you'll see their discussions center around that otaku waifu moe style, even if it's not anime (e.g. the dominance of Genshin, a Chinese video game, in weeb culture). Anime is a style, and it is a genre; the genre is "softcore porn" and the style is "7-year-old baby prostitutes".
This is why I hate it when people say "Fate isn't porn because sex scenes were only relevant in the original VN and it's become something bigger." No, faggot -- things like rapeworms are still major plot points, and the characters are still goonified because if they were in porn at first, they had to be goonified, and they will always be goonified for franchise recognition.
The YA ones 100% have merch and shit. Or did you forget the child soldiers against the wizard terrorists arc of harry potter? There's a lot more than just that one but that one's funny because dobby dies.
It's not so much that there's no merch but that the merch/media isn't in the moe otaku goonerbait style. Weebs will fixate on crap in that style while ignoring anything that's more mature or realistic visually.
You are aware that there are shows made for kids starting adults right? I'm pretty sure GI Joe wasn't aimed at at 40 year old soldiers.
Yeah, because a cutesy rendition of a desexualized character in a desexualized franchise with more than enough merch/art in regular styles is totally the same thing as a chibi version of characters that, in their regular styles, are already simultaneously babyish and sexualized.
wait till you see what animation studios made gi joe.
I'm sorry you didn't find the little figure of the soon to be elf corpse funny.
Gi joe's main character isn't a 12 year old girl meant for the audience to fantasize fucking.
