Anime does have a lot of 'sexual energy' western animation simply doesn't have.
Yeah lets just pretend the decades of shit with characters getting visibly super horny and going "AWOAOWAOAOAOOOOOAOAOA WOAH!" in response to shit like this happening out of nowhere didn't happen
Also disregard all the recent pedo shit in modern animation like that guy that wanted to fuck blossom from powerpuff girls or whatever. These two things aren't really connected but the way you're talking about shit it's like connecting them but only for one country as if people are fucking aliens and connections can't be made between everything. The animation industries of the US, canada, and japan are not complete monoliths, and they have been influencing and rubbing off on each other for well over 60 years at this point. Only real "monolith" about them s nowadays most of the US animation is in one specific part of california or texas (that's been infested by wealthy media californians), and animation from any country is always outsourced to koreans and the chinese. Every 2 to 3 years I keep hearing about how "ANIME HAS GONE MAINSTREAM FOR THE FIRST TME EVAR! and "WHAT IS ANIME?" type shit from media people and-
Oh wait, I took too long to write out my post. you made your intentions known.
I'm going to give my hottest take yet: anime censorship is a joke in current year. Oh no, they edited a scene to be less edgy or sexual ( that gets fully included in the Blu-Ray, partially so you buy the fucking Blu-ray). I remember the days of Yu-Gi-Oh, where they literally erased guns from people's hands, but they still shot the invisible guns anyway. That was broadcasted live on TV.
"WHO CARES GUYS WHY DO YOU CARE"
Get that skinwalker shit outta here. People care, and will continue to care about shitty media censorship because stupid and funny to laugh at. It's not "editing to be less edgy or sexual" these days either, it's almost ALWAYS weird nonsense script changes that imply lesbian or tranny shit or reference gamergate or something. Also you're really gonna ignore the
most mask off of these current year fuckers enforcing these changes? The people smugly censoring or warping media in general tend to be actual fucking degenerates which is something I've never stopped nooticing.
The thing the guy's referencing was an actual issue with some payment processors since a few years back, but the unrelated place he's bringing it up in reaction to tells all.
Maybe my memory of the series is foggy (its been 13 years since I last watched it), but I don't recall there being much of fanservice for Lolicons to goon over.
It's the fact he's bringing up "body type censorship" on a licensed game for a series where kids go through dark ass shit. It's the BIG tell of what his actual priorities might be if you read it a certain way. Like you see it you go "why is he bringing this up on someone making a gaming is saved meme"
Yee. Started in early 90's, or at the earliest perhaps 89 depending on how you feel about the Simpsons. But for context, Steamboat Willie came out in 1928. Cartoons were almost exclusively the purview of Children and briefly war propaganda for most of America's existence.
There's adult stuff from the 20s, 30s, and 70s I've seen that really negate this narrative. it's been fucking years and I haven't really watched them since so don't remember the exact names and titles for a lot of them and haven't watched em in years, but I think a big one that shows just how stagnant some discussions have been the last several decades, (or how much shits reverted I guess?) is stuff I DO remember like Fritz the cat
EDIT: FUCK I GOT BEATEN TO THAT TOO, THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR HAVNG TO WRITE THIS DOWN WHILE DOING OTHER SHIT.