Why do SJWs like anime?

[Cyber Bowling]

In my experience, they've only ever liked the clean, non-fan service anime about the power of friendship and shit. They also don't like shit like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Jin-roh, because those dirty neo-nazis on /pol/ like them.

Building off of this, they tend to like very simplistic anime that has the most basic of good vs. evil plotlines where the character is destined to succeed and be seen as the most successful/powerful person in the world. It makes it very easy to self project and idealize these kinds of stories. SJW's like to see themselves as these special main characters fighting against whatever idea/group they oppose. It's also why a lot of SJW's tend to drift towards Harry Potter and similar live action stories. It was a big thing with Star Wars too, with SJW's comparing their struggles to overthrowing the Empire. Basically, they like things where you don't have to think a lot and there's not really any shades of grey.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

In my experience, they've only ever liked the clean, non-fan service anime about the power of friendship and shit. They also don't like shit like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Jin-roh, because those dirty neo-nazis on /pol/ like them.

Don't forget Goblin Slayer.

 

[Positron]

1. Many animes are about incredibly young people, even children, combating with and defeating evil adults (what TV Tropes calls "Save The World After School"). SJWs are often in the egotistic mindset that they alone hold the truth and will triumph over misguided adults (c.f. Harry Potter).
2. Likewise, SJWs are stunted in the childhood / adolescence phase of development, with more than a healthy obsession with "fuck you Dad!". The world of anime is a world of youngsters buddies looking after each other. Families and authority figures are either absent, foolish, or evil (again, c.f. Harry Potter)
3. Personal quirkiness that will give you cold shoulders in real life are feted and celebrated in animes.
4. Gender bending is prevalent in anime, because animators can't be bothered to learn to draw more than one face. SJWs mistake this as a sign of progressiveness.

 

[UE 558]

Because Allah will smite anybody who shits on Prophet Muhammad Avdol,
may piss be upon him

Most anime produced is simple and feel good and glosses any sort of complexity in human interactions. It simplifies existence to a few basic emotions. And, by reducing the human conscience to such a state, the mind becomes blind to the cosmic horror that is nihilism that breeds within all of us. For older generations, survival was more of a focus alongside use of the religion to guard themselves against nihilism. However, younger generations do not have this protection and, as a coping mechanism, will distract themselves with non-complex things or even dumb things down like anime, video games, gender/sexual/racial identity, and politics. This is not say you can't enjoy these things; however, more and more young people are enveloping their entire existence around these things in order to protect themselves.

(Sidenote: This is one of the reasons why words are equated to violence. If you make someone susceptible to that terrifying, nihilistic voice in their head, you are effectively trying to kill them because that voice will make them want to kill themselves.)

This can also explain why weird fetishes have exploded in the past decades. People have grown so afraid to the idea that nothing matters that they will develop their entire identity around some weird thing that either makes their peepee hard or their vag wet.

Overall, SJWs like anime for the same reason anti-SJWs like anime... because they are cowards who need to distract themselves from that "call of the void" voice in the back of their head.

TL;DR version:

Jokes aside, it's all just a good way of engrossing yourself in something that isn't the shittiness of reality, even if it's fucked up or has elements of the real world in it, like End of Eva, it's still better than the mental anguish/physical exhaustion real life can cause. It isn't a new concept. I'm pretty sure James the Aristocrat attended Shakespeare plays or read books because it was preferable to having to deal with his bitch of a wife asking him who he cheated on her with this week. Spergs will try to make it "theirs" because that's what they do.

 

[MadDamon]

For the ''lol look at me Im total nerd'' point, duh

 

[Mulberry Tree]

so they can make shitty fan art portraying the characters as fat, ugly and trans

 

[Caddchef]

They don't, SJW don't like anything.

What anime gives them is something they can perpetually complain about as problematic yet have zero chance of influencing as the Japanese give zero fucks.

 

[MasterDisaster]

I always got the impression that they loved anime because the protaganist can't lose. You look up any popular series and the main character has a pretty cut and solid mindset. Especially in current series like Boku No Academia the main character yells at his opponent (to prove how right his beliefs are) and then resorts to violence when talking, aka my point is always right, falls through. No matter the opponent or amount of damage the 'hero' takes they always win in the end; citing the same series for the first arc of the story the main straight up obliterates his own body because his power is so strong it breaks his bones to use it.

What better self important angle to associate yourself with than the 'willing to do anything to win because I'm always right' crowd?

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Funnily enough, there's quite a few people who bitch about how trannies in One Piece are always being portrayed as "jokes", despite them being some of the most powerful characters plus they have their own island paradise and a queen who can literally switch their genders at will due to her hormone related abilities, pretty much achieving true gender fluidity. They simply don't want to accept that Oda does draw a good percent of them like the inhabitants of the La Zorra subforum if not worse...yet they also have their own personalities that go beyond 'look how unbinary I am' (Gintama also treats them like normal people despite all of them looking like stubbly monsters).

I mean, my jaw dropped when some goon on SA bitched about it and somehow :autism:ly brought Black Panther into it as an example of how to portray other cultures with dignity.

 

[UE 558]

I always got the impression that they loved anime because the protaganist can't lose. You look up any popular series and the main character has a pretty cut and solid mindset. Especially in current series like Boku No Academia the main character yells at his opponent (to prove how right his beliefs are) and then resorts to violence when talking, aka my point is always right, falls through. No matter the opponent or amount of damage the 'hero' takes they always win in the end; citing the same series for the first arc of the story the main straight up obliterates his own body because his power is so strong it breaks his bones to use it.

What better self important angle to associate yourself with than the 'willing to do anything to win because I'm always right' crowd?

Though, I'm pretty sure the show itself isn't trying to be anything more than dumb fun. Sometimes a rock is just a rock

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Most anime produced is simple and feel good and glosses any sort of complexity in human interactions. It simplifies existence to a few basic emotions. And, by reducing the human conscience to such a state, the mind becomes blind to the cosmic horror that is nihilism that breeds within all of us. For older generations, survival was more of a focus alongside use of the religion to guard themselves against nihilism. However, younger generations do not have this protection and, as a coping mechanism, will distract themselves with non-complex things or even dumb things down like anime, video games, gender/sexual/racial identity, and politics. This is not say you can't enjoy these things; however, more and more young people are enveloping their entire existence around these things in order to protect themselves.

Yeah, the real answer is that most SJWs were watching anime in middle and high school long before they went to college to get gender studies degrees, so their fondness for anime simply overrides their ideology.

It also helps their cause that one of the tenants of SJWism is that white people should are obligated to bend over backwards for darker skinned cultures, so it literally only matters when American pop culture depicts something bad. In other words, they're allowed to make exceptions in regards to judging pop culture with biased discretion because the progressive stack allows them to without it making them hypocrites. It's the same reason kebabs get a passing grade with accolades despite their abhorrently oppressive practices and policies.

In a way, the progressive stack & SJWism in kind are the ultimate awkward white guy's apology for his guilt of racism by association of being accidentally born sharing a similar skin tone to racists in the form of self flagellation that happens to reach the bare backs of all other people of the SJW's own skin color. An extreme, over-corrective reverse course of previous racist attitudes, if you will.

Funnily enough, there's quite a few people who bitch about how trannies in One Piece are always being portrayed as "jokes", despite them being some of the most powerful characters plus they have their own island paradise and a queen who can literally switch their genders at will due to her hormone related abilities, pretty much achieving true gender fluidity. They simply don't want to accept that Oda does draw a good percent of them like the inhabitants of the La Zorra subforum if not worse...yet they also have their own personalities that go beyond 'look how unbinary I am' (Gintama also treats them like normal people despite all of them looking like stubbly monsters).

I mean, my jaw dropped when some goon on SA bitched about it and somehow :autism:ly brought Black Panther into it as an example of how to portray other cultures with dignity.

Though, I'm pretty sure the show itself isn't trying to be anything more than dumb fun. Sometimes a rock is just a rock

The story behind Oda's inclusion of trannies in his books is just that he has a friend who's a transvestite. Not to mention Ivankov is a clone of Frankenfurter. If you've ever seen the 3D2Y arc segments focused on Sanji, you could see why some trannies would be pissed off about it since it's depicted as his worst nightmare come to life, so much so that he learned how to moonwalk on the spot when cornered.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Thanks for the answers. After reading through the replies, I have a better understanding of some reasons why.

I just remembered something Diversity and Comics said, "If they (the SJWs) say, 'omg, I LOVE (franchise)', it means that they've heard of it." and yeah, I think that's true. They see that JoJo (for example) is popular and try to shoehorn their nonsense and gaudy art in hopes for attention.

And another reason commonly mentioned is the hopes to try and infect anime like they did with comics.
I don't think they should even bother. The Japanese won't even bother with the screeching, probably not understand what the fuss is about or if the stars are aligned, go against the whiners.

Spoiler: Glimmer of hope

It's also why a lot of SJW's tend to drift towards Harry Potter and similar live action stories. It was a big thing with Star Wars too, with SJW's comparing their struggles to overthrowing the Empire. Basically, they like things where you don't have to think a lot and there's not really any shades of grey.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen SJWs talk about Harry Potter or modern Star Wars. I think people are drawn to Harry Potter because the books/films are about special individuals that are better than those bloody muggles.
The only thing I can add about Star Wars is that it looks like they're getting the most loved characters, disgracing and replacing them with the Twitter-approved cast. I don't follow Star Wars but it makes me feel sorry for the fans that speak very fondly of the early films they've watched as kids.

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

The story behind Oda's inclusion of trannies in his books is just that he has a friend who's a transvestite. Not to mention Ivankov is a clone of Frankenfurter. If you've ever seen the 3D2Y arc segments focused on Sanji, you could see why some trannies would be pissed off about it since it's depicted as his worst nightmare come to life, so much so that he learned how to moonwalk on the spot when cornered.

fftopic: He's always been fascinated by them. In his notes for the character Kamatari (a transwoman with a giant scythe) in Ruroni Kenshin, [series author] Nobuhiro Watsuki said the idea came from one of his assistants at the time based on the pun of 'great scythe/sickle' and 'transvesitite' (both of which are pronounced 'okama') and years later, he admitted that yes, it was Oda all along like everyone assumed lol).

And of COURSE Sanji had good reason to be terrified of being in that Hell where he's either getting the shit kicked out of him or threatened to to be converted into one of them should he lose and without a single woman in sight....for two years! They probably said it in jest (as much as he didn't enjoy it, he's still on decent terms with them plus he befriended Mr. 2) but you know the average insane troon would be pissed that someone's onto their whole 'egg' thing.

 

[419]

i like to imagine a lot more of them are just former chan users with serious troll's remorse

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

You have confused something here. The Right watches anime (Japs' animation) while the Left has a passion for cartoons (Whypipo's animation), especially Steven Universe.

Maybe that's good because it keeps political extremists from doing violent stuff to society if they are mentally lost in fantasy worlds. Just let nazis fap to images of underage school girls while Antifas fuck each others in animal costumes.

 

[CatParty]

lol why does anyone like anime

 

[Slap47]

A common belief on this forum is that sjws pretend to like games and anime to infiltrate but I strongly disagree with that opinion.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wh...ave-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kiseki-trails-community-ot-familiar-faces-zemurian-places—spoilertags-or-die.1084/

I'm utterly convinced that they love these things but also somehow don't understand that they intend on destroying them with their wars on edginess and fanservice. You can't really talk with that much autistic knowledge without having played the games or watched the shows.

I don't understand them...

In my experience, they've only ever liked the clean, non-fan service anime about the power of friendship and shit. They also don't like shit like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Jin-roh, because those dirty neo-nazis on /pol/ like them.

They seem to like fanservice shows but hate the fanservice.

 

[Webby's Boyfriend]

lol why does anyone like anime

Autism.

 

[MadDamon]

A common belief on this forum is that sjws pretend to like games and anime to infiltrate but I strongly disagree with that opinion.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wh...ave-no-pants-and-i-must-scream-read-op.65064/

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kiseki-trails-community-ot-familiar-faces-zemurian-places—spoilertags-or-die.1084/

I'm utterly convinced that they love these things but also somehow don't understand that they intend on destroying them with their wars on edginess and fanservice. You can't really talk with that much autistic knowledge without having played the games or watched the shows.

Yes, they are not as alien to the the anime or cartoon they're talking about as many people think they are. However, I think it's worth mentioning that all of their favourite anime/cartoon/tv show/whatever are just what is hip at the moment. Ever notice the pattern? Jojo is big in these 2or3 years, and there's an drastic increase in the number of twitter/tumlr post/reddit in this time span, with people previous have no knowledge about the series saying that how good it is, or how they should have a trans girl to be the 9th jojo. The same thing happens to Marvel/DC, to SW , to Sherlock ,to every popular thing that you can just watch that is on fire on the internet for a moment, that they can skim through instantly to get some talking point in a community. Then, they would just discard it and change to another popular show that is huge on the internet.

Yes, they know more about these show than I want to give them credit for, but they definitely have zero attachment to the shows they claim they love so much and forget about it after 5 or 6 months. To these people, these 'love' is nothing but an accessory for them to look better to people around them and have a bigger soapbox to stand on.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

They only like "approved" anime that quickly dies out- like Yuri on Ice or Tokyo Ghoul.

They dropped Tokyo Ghoul when their gay OTP didn't become canon, that's why it died out.

But I've always been under the impression SJWs only "like" anime if it has uwu sweet yaoi bois, which is why they gravitated toward Devilman: Crybaby when that's one of the most "problematic" anime out there that explicitly calls out on witch hunts and the worst of humanity. But they didn't get the message (that I'm aware of, it'd be hilarious if they screeched about it and abandoned the Devilman fandom), all they cared about was if Akira and Ryo were going to make sweet love to each other's buttholes even with the world going to hell in a handbasket. But that's what happens when you get Masaaki Yuasa involved on a project, what with his style consisting of nothing but femboys.