I'm cutting him slack because I find his response genuine. It's not political. He has remained very consistant throughout the years. It's personal to him. Even if I find it to be a overreaction to damn a entire genre, I can understand where he's coming from. And despite all that, he still allows discussion of it on this very site. You'd just get nuked anywhere else.
Oh I don't deny that. There are people that enjoy anime, and then there are people that buy fifty body pillows, have sex with all of them, and eventually die when their statue covered house catches fire from all the plastic fumes.
Dude, he's pulling ad hoc arguments out of his ass and meme-ing. He literally used one of those "with jews you lose" style-memes to prove anime is evil. Arguing Spirited Away is pedophilic because he found a shot of a skirt in Kiki's Delivery Service of Kiki falling off her broom after googling around a bit and then having a bunch of ad hoc reasons why aksually it's different. That's not how someone sincerely argues on the internet, lol. And again the really funny part is Spirited Away is a lot like Alice in Wonderland, except with Japanese folklore and NOT being based on a story written by someone who was literally infatuated with a preadolescent girl named Alice.
We uncharitably misinterpret everything lolcows come here to say to laugh and make them sperg out harder. We skim over everyone with a careful eye for the slightest faught to get some laughs and yuks out of them. And here, null has this unhinged take but, in this case alone it's understandable. Please. If this was anyone but null we'd be ripping him harder except using the kiddie gloves, and that's out of respect for all he's done. But it really is an unhinged take from anyone.
It's not a smart or principled take, it's being around on internet communities too much and caring about what people think, if you think because something is from Japan and has an art style that somewhat resembles something else that had something gross, it somehow inherits that... that's just retarded. Null is just engaging in the same sort of pearl-clutching the left does regarding, I dunno, standup comedy or whatever, it's just the right wing version. This is just politically reactionary bullshit. It's a recent concern, a moral panic from the right to match shit from the left.
Equating Spirited Away with pedophilia just means you don't leave the house much and its turning your brain into HP Lovecraft's. It's the exact kind of thinking that led spergs to thinking there was a pedophilia conspiracy under Comet Pizza. Or does Null believe that? I don't follow him closely enough to know.
There's nothing reasonable about thinking that because something was made in a particular country, it has pedophilia naturally imbued in it by association. That's fucking unhinged. It's like coming from the internet where you see a bunch of Furry porn on gamer forums and then watching Disney for the first time and thinking ol' Walt was a furfag and actually getting worked up about it.
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And just do null knows, while I think this is an absolute shit tier take, I don't think he's a retard, and I know, more than he could appreciate, what running a forum is like AND having to deal with people sniping at him because they think they want to take on the big man at top. (and null, if you're reading this, I know just how angry you must be behind the scenes over what is going on. over everything.) I'm not doing this, I literally just think this is a garbage take and I'd say that to anyone. Less about anime, it reminds me how I approached music when I was younger and how retarded I was. If I didn't respect him in some way I would just lie.
Someone mentioned techno earlier. Well, if you hate anime because of the art style of the horrible animation quality, that's fine and understandable, but judging anime by weebs is like judging western animation if you only ever saw Disney, or Adult Swim, or something else that is made to appeal to a specific audience. However weebs respond to certain anime doesn't say anything about the anime itself. Imagine getting up in arms over The Smurfs or Batman Beyond because of some other cartoon show.
