Brap God
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There's always been raunchy animation in the West, yes. The difference is that anime predominantly sexualizes school age kids, whereas in the West it's largely either furry shit or adult figures that get sexualized. And before you give me examples of teen horny bait in western animation: I'm not saying it doesn't exist at all, it's just not the bulk.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
It wasn't a business strategy to optimize the show for profit. I don't know how it is now, but 90s children cartoons had very stringent regulations. Almost everything that's been censored in the 4Kids version of the show, they wouldn't have been allowed to broadcast otherwise in the US.In defense of censorship, YGO was a fucking insane manga that was changed almostly completely to become a vessel to sell children a card game.