Karren

April 8, 2010 1:34 pm Oh dear. I don't even know where to start.

"There is a tangible feeling of sexual frustration in the air, which is only perpetuated by the fact that most anime is subtly perverse"

This is clearly different from the spine-shattering poses the half-naked female characters in western comics always take when they aren't stuffed into fridges. I'm sorry, but anime is tame in comparison. Oh, sure, if you ignore most of it, focus on the fanservice subgenres (which are totally worse than batman scenes by Jim Lee where he lets Vicky vale run around in sexy lingerie for pages upon pages, right? Right? Totally different, right, except that it's exactly the same thing), and compare it to every western comic ever, it looks different.

That's like comparing shoujo manga to the collective work of Greg Land and declaring all western art is therefore done by tracing porn. You cannot compare like that, it's dishonest and manipulative.
I understand that you want western comics to look better, but lying to reach that is pretty silly. Especially when western comics objectively...are extremely sexually charged, far more than the average anime.

For one, not all anime heroines are super models or half naked most of the time. Makes sense, western comics still are largely aimed at younger males (hey, remember Heroes for Hire #13? Nice cover, supports your point perfectly!), while anime is aimed at a much bigger demographic, including women, men, girls, and boys.

Ignoring this and pretending otherwise is just lying. Nothing else.

Same as the "The characters (these days) are down to earth with relatable characters and interesting back stories." part. That's just laughable. Sure, if you only watch teenage-male aimed anime, it's true. Sadly, there's far more than that.

Why are fans of western comics always so insecure and need to pretend that western comics are more mature and even "less perverted", when in reality, that's just not a feasible argument and can be proved wrong with laughable ease?

As for smell, comic cons usually are slightly worse, mostly because anime cons have a lot more female attendants, who simply know how to care for their bodies more than the male attendants do (sorry guys, but you know it's true).
Anime/manga is generally more friendly for the female audience, after all.
The bigger problem at anime cons is stuff like younger cosplayers not knowing about etiquette in some cases, like doing hitler salutes in public ( Anime Boston recently had ten fangirls pulling that out of ignorance, for example) or failing utterly at handling flags. That's pretty bad, really, and what really stinks at some anime cons.

And yes, I'd argue that Hitler saluting is worse than some guy not knowing how to wash himself.