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So I've discussed with other kiwis that a lot of American media, like comic books, tend to have a hard-enforced "no kill" rule (Batman won't kill, Superman won't kill, etc.) and that the media in question likes to pretend its an in-character thing when actually its a media censorship thing.
For awhile, anime was the polar opposite--in fact in the anime invasion wave of the 1990s one of the marketing points was how hyper-violent shows like Akira or Fist of the North Star could be.
But lately I've noticed anime has also been getting cucked about violence and death.
Now, I'm specifically ignoring examples like Detective Conan where it makes perfect sense the hero wouldn't be blowing people's heads off.
I'm talking about examples like the following, which are all cases where the violent solution would actually make sense and be less unrealistic than the bullshit the story actually pulls:
Charlotte -- In this anime (which is about people who have powers that all seem to be kinda useless--like a girl who can be invisible but only to one person at a time, that sort of thing)--in the third episode there's a girl who is being chased because she found a cell phone with damning data on it. This girl is an idol and the phone belongs to one of her producers, strongly hinted to have mob connections.
They confront him--he brings like, gang members... and they actually discuss just frying him and his goons using the girl's pyro-powers but instead come up with this stupid plan to secretly take down two of his goons, take their place, and just scare him by making it look like she fried them.
What. The Fuck. This plan makes no sense and plus.... they're mob goons. Why not just fry them? (The only in-story justification they bring up is wanting to avoid jail time. But... no witnesses = no jail time).
Or how about...
Inyuashiki -- (No, this isn't the show about the dog-demon-man in Feudal Japan. This show is about an old guy who gets powers from aliens. The name just happens to sound similar).
So in the third episode, the title character happens to take out a gang of Yakuza by turning into this super laser machine. Like... he sends lasers through their eyes and everything....
.... And then he bullshits in something about how they're all actually still alive, just "rendered encapable of hurting anyone."
Again, when you see the scene in question, that's... highly dubious. Its also one of those cases where the "non-kill" solution is actually more horrifying.
Higurashi: When They Cry -- Okay its hard to describe this one without going into spoiler territory, but... several times it would seem like killing a bad person would actually be the more logical solution, or else just a natural consequence of some of the things the main characters do.....
But when it happens, its always presented as bad. When it does not happen, the show goes to retarded lengths to make it not happen AND hold it up as morally superior.
......
And these are just the ones I remember clearly.
Again, it stands out to me because when I was first getting into anime, most anime characters understood that sometimes that's just how battle goes. But now they're Batman levels of retarded about it, it seems.
What's up with that?
For awhile, anime was the polar opposite--in fact in the anime invasion wave of the 1990s one of the marketing points was how hyper-violent shows like Akira or Fist of the North Star could be.
But lately I've noticed anime has also been getting cucked about violence and death.
Now, I'm specifically ignoring examples like Detective Conan where it makes perfect sense the hero wouldn't be blowing people's heads off.
I'm talking about examples like the following, which are all cases where the violent solution would actually make sense and be less unrealistic than the bullshit the story actually pulls:
Charlotte -- In this anime (which is about people who have powers that all seem to be kinda useless--like a girl who can be invisible but only to one person at a time, that sort of thing)--in the third episode there's a girl who is being chased because she found a cell phone with damning data on it. This girl is an idol and the phone belongs to one of her producers, strongly hinted to have mob connections.
They confront him--he brings like, gang members... and they actually discuss just frying him and his goons using the girl's pyro-powers but instead come up with this stupid plan to secretly take down two of his goons, take their place, and just scare him by making it look like she fried them.
What. The Fuck. This plan makes no sense and plus.... they're mob goons. Why not just fry them? (The only in-story justification they bring up is wanting to avoid jail time. But... no witnesses = no jail time).
Or how about...
Inyuashiki -- (No, this isn't the show about the dog-demon-man in Feudal Japan. This show is about an old guy who gets powers from aliens. The name just happens to sound similar).
So in the third episode, the title character happens to take out a gang of Yakuza by turning into this super laser machine. Like... he sends lasers through their eyes and everything....
.... And then he bullshits in something about how they're all actually still alive, just "rendered encapable of hurting anyone."
Again, when you see the scene in question, that's... highly dubious. Its also one of those cases where the "non-kill" solution is actually more horrifying.
Higurashi: When They Cry -- Okay its hard to describe this one without going into spoiler territory, but... several times it would seem like killing a bad person would actually be the more logical solution, or else just a natural consequence of some of the things the main characters do.....
But when it happens, its always presented as bad. When it does not happen, the show goes to retarded lengths to make it not happen AND hold it up as morally superior.
......
And these are just the ones I remember clearly.
Again, it stands out to me because when I was first getting into anime, most anime characters understood that sometimes that's just how battle goes. But now they're Batman levels of retarded about it, it seems.
What's up with that?
