I honestly don't know when it was that these common cartoon gags started becoming fetishized, is the thing. I couldn't tell you if the Felix the Cat animators were actually horny for the little cat, or if Walt Disney himself ever got boners over all the animal abuse in those shorts, or if Chuck Jones thought Bugs Bunny was actually hot in drag, or if Don Bluth ever cranked it out every time he animated all those bouncing fat tits. Animation was limitless in what you could portray because none of it was real. You could legit have a character get eaten and the protruding silhouette would still be able to move about and manipulate the eater from the inside into hilarious self-harm and it's hysterical every time. I still find joy in an anthro character getting smacked and smashed and spanked and pummeled with a wooden mallet, doesn't mean I'm getting turned on by it.
With that said, I
am concerned that whoever was the person in charge of animating this fucking monstrosity might've actually gotten off to it because holy shit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_nRjN3X3AQ4My mother will get into diatribes about anime's objectification of women and how it poisons children's minds, and yet she thought there was nothing wrong or questionable in
The Last Unicorn for little girls. And yes, the movie is a fantastic movie and I will happily show it to a child, but my God is this scene extremely uncomfortable, both then and now.