- Joined
- Nov 5, 2018
Before anything, I should note that this won't be a generic "haha weebs are so autistic and retarded and stupid and should be gassed" thread. I genuinely have some thoughts I want to share which may or may not have some value. From here on, the word "autistic" won't be used as an insult but rather as a very literal concept. Also this critique doesn't apply to all anime, but rather the contemporary reality of the industry.
Now, I don't watch a lot of anime and I heavily choose with my gut feeling as to what I should watch so take my opinions with an iceberg sized lump of salt. It's literally autistic. And I don't mean to use that as a random insult, it literally is. I don't mean to say that the characters themselves act autistically (though many do) but that the way in which they are written is almost like they're trying to make them appeal to the emotionally infantile. The characters not only often express themselves in an exaggerated way but also display very surface - level emotions and also lack subtlety in that regard. While you could shrug a lot of this off because the fact that a lot of anime are intended to overlap in terms of appeal with the 12-14 year old demographic that is still an age at which kids are far more advanced in terms of emotional development than the characters the shows portray. And looking at an even younger demographic, most shows dedicated to it still have simplistic, exaggerated, yet far less overtly offensive and annoying characters. Now, I may be wrong on the latter point since my experience with such shows is literally a few decades old but it's hard to not notice the difference. And all of this does point to the conclusion that anime is at least partially aimed at people on the autistic spectrum - the characters, their emotional expression really aligns well with that group.
Therefore, anime is, at least partly, literally autistic.
So yeah, that's my dumb ramble. Do you agree? Disagree? Am I a homosexual?
Now, I don't watch a lot of anime and I heavily choose with my gut feeling as to what I should watch so take my opinions with an iceberg sized lump of salt. It's literally autistic. And I don't mean to use that as a random insult, it literally is. I don't mean to say that the characters themselves act autistically (though many do) but that the way in which they are written is almost like they're trying to make them appeal to the emotionally infantile. The characters not only often express themselves in an exaggerated way but also display very surface - level emotions and also lack subtlety in that regard. While you could shrug a lot of this off because the fact that a lot of anime are intended to overlap in terms of appeal with the 12-14 year old demographic that is still an age at which kids are far more advanced in terms of emotional development than the characters the shows portray. And looking at an even younger demographic, most shows dedicated to it still have simplistic, exaggerated, yet far less overtly offensive and annoying characters. Now, I may be wrong on the latter point since my experience with such shows is literally a few decades old but it's hard to not notice the difference. And all of this does point to the conclusion that anime is at least partially aimed at people on the autistic spectrum - the characters, their emotional expression really aligns well with that group.
Therefore, anime is, at least partly, literally autistic.
So yeah, that's my dumb ramble. Do you agree? Disagree? Am I a homosexual?
