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I'm new here!, I'm trying my best to still appreciate the art the effort the talent that goes into anime , bit it just seems like there is no effort anymore when it comes to story,, I know there are lots of manga adaptions and I understand monetary complications but doesn't it seem like the love of the media is gone or best case scenario watered down ?

Found and raided a mansion w/my brother and his wife. (There were actually -2- of these chicken rooms in this one. And they were right next to each other. What are the chances? )

But the drawings were made by real people who had the ideas in their heads and thought it was OK to sexualise minors and show underage girls in adult situations. Back in the mid 1990's when I started watching anime there was a huge amount of outrage in a couple of the national newspapers here in the UK over the amount of graphic sex and violence in anime. It wasn't a good time to admit that you watched anime, and even now I've noticed the occasional raised eyebrow when I mention anime. Sadly it has to be said that at least one distributor pretty much encouraged this attitude as a means of gaining some free publicity. On one occasion they showed an uncut version of a film at a pre-view screening for journalists, that contained scenes that had been cut from the actual release version, the outcry and outrage made the papers next day.