It's incredible that despite feminism not being much of a thing in Japan that anime is the most feminist form of media there is
>Female characters make up 80% of the total characters across all anime >When female characters and male characters are present they are always depicted as being strong or intelligent >Every Studio Ghibli movie >Madoka (the greatest anime in the last decade)
Grayson Phillips
Dumb animeposter
Gabriel Kelly
Japan has well written female characters, thats not feminism.
Aiden Rogers
wrong board
you fucking weeaboo faggot
Ryder Garcia
That's because in anime females are used for the benefit of the male viewers rather than to appease feminists. The girls are there for men to find cute and masturbate to, they're not shoehorned in there because "muh stronk wimmins"
Luke Rogers
>Female characters make up 80% of the total characters across all anime And they are walking fetishes. There is nothing empowering about that.
Easton Williams
Female characters being written as well as males = Feminism
So anime viewers enjoy strong female characters?
Josiah Gutierrez
>So anime viewers enjoy strong female characters? They like action girls and very innocent girls. What they hate are realistic characters.
Leo Walker
They also have actually well developed female characters.
The west ideia of a strong female character is having her do whatever men can do, and then have her go "I'm a tough woman, I can really hang with the guys", and that's on movies, TV shows and games.
In fucking Japan of all places, they actually bother to have actual characters for the women.
Parker Foster
Because real women are shit.
Cameron Reyes
That would explain why Madoka was such a massive flop...oh wait
Leo Green
This. It feels forced in Western shows. In anime strong females just seem cool.
John Lopez
Real people in general are more complex than just good or bad. Anime or video games are for people who are afraid of the real world and real people.
Tyler Fisher
>>Madoka (the greatest anime in the last decade)
Oh, a thinly veiled bait thread. Nice one OP.
Ethan Morris
Madoka has flawed characters but they aren't realistic. The plot is ridiculous so the characters simply can't act like real life teenage girls.
Joshua Ward
It feels forced in western media, because being "strong" is the entire character of these women.
That's not to say Japan doesn't have a problem with the opposite. There are too many anime and VN with thinly developed female characters just to fanservice male fans.
Still, Japan mainstream media does have much better written female character overall than western. Fuck, most of the Studio Ghibli leads would be considered "depowering and sexist" under western standarts, if they were done here.
Jeremiah Campbell
They're not derogatory either
Those characters would all be feminist approved
Levi Taylor
Miyazaki is considered in the West a feminist director.
Jordan Wright
>Real people in general are more complex than just good or bad animu tends to have motivations for the "bad guys" as well though western media way more often shows characters as just good or bad I think it's a cultural thing though
Landon Reyes
Most good films don't have real "bad guys".
>western media You are thinking about media for kids and teenagers.
Aiden Ross
It's still a shit anime. Kill yourself.
Blake Johnson
you are moving your goal posts now man japanese do it with most shows it just shows how lot of western releases lack depth in that department if you have to pick "good films" only and exclude media for kids and teenagers
Julian Green
There are many good films, there aren't many good anime.
Brody Jenkins
the quality of the anime doesn't really matter though as long as they show that kind of more realistic morals my whole point was it's way more common in japanese media
Charles Robinson
>Madoka magicka I have never watched an anime anything in my life and even I know you're a faggot.
Nolan Miller
This isn't about the sheer quality of the medium,with is completely subjective. It's about the fact that over the years, even with rampant sexism and wide spread of moe culture, Japan has managed to write much better and more varied female characters than the west.
Parker Thomas
But I'm not talking only about villains with some silly motivation. I'm talking about real realistic people. People who cheat, lie and act like dicks.
They are almost nonexistent in anime, because otaku's waifus must be perfect. Oh and of course they must be virgins. It's the most important part.
Kayden Collins
And like I said, you are wrong.
Ethan Phillips
Japanese women don't need feminism, they have all their rights alredy.
Also, rule of cool.
Liam Nelson
Because in Japan there's less of a LET'S FORCE SOME NONSENSE mentality.
Camden Wood
every female anime character is the same you should be ashamed of watching cartoons that most people thought was too childish for themselves at 10, faggot
Levi Parker
>I'm talking about real realistic people. People who cheat, lie and act like dicks. but that's not really true either even the OPs example has all of those
Aiden Fisher
That's true to an extent, but perfect virginal waifus are only a thing in low-brow pandering anime.
It's like looking at the sittiest lifetime direct to tv movies, and saying that those represent the entirety of western media as a whole
Jaxson Young
So wait. Strong female cheaters are a bad thing in anime because the nerds that watch anime fap to it? So what's gonna happen when nerds just start fapping to the live action strong female leads in Hollywood movies? Are they gonna be mad that only nerds appreciate it and say it's a bad thing? Or are they going to keep making movies with strong female leads to add fuel to the dehumanizing fetish fire?
Mason Gutierrez
>every female anime character is the same don't be silly
hoe can that be possible in a show were every character is female (madoka, k-on, yuru-yuri)
Isaac Jenkins
Till he does something "wrong" just like whedon. Cancer can believe whatever they want.