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(DIR) Post #AXOppUZ2wjOCsv3yM4 by synapsid@nicecrew.digital
2023-07-05T23:35:56.759777Z
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There's a certain archetype or trope of anime that seems (relatively) new, where you have a normal guy that works with/ is saved by very beautiful and powerful women with some sort of special powers, who more or less completely carries the main character throughout the rest of the show, physically and emotionally protecting him as they possibly develop into a love interest. Maybe with some of these kinds of shows the main character eventually improves one way or another and can hold his own, but not always. This feels related to the (subconscious) mass demasculinization of men in westernized societies via feminism and the sexual revolution. Women are more or less free to do whatever they want to the detriment of men, and masses of men are left in the dust. It's like a mental block where these authors can't possibly write a story that depicts men in a positive light, but as cowardly losers that need to be 'saved' by their own special woman, permanently stuck on a lower level of self-actualization until then. Older anime were still similar wish fulfillment, but usually showed a guy going on a hero's journey to become powerful and win over a girl.
(DIR) Post #AXOwjqa2sSUH6lmm5Q by Velium@poa.st
2023-07-06T00:34:09.762254Z
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@synapsid Interesting. While it does seem like men are a lot less masculine in manga and anime than before, are there any specifics you know of that goes this far?
(DIR) Post #AXOwjrk0Yu3ChxSFFo by synapsid@nicecrew.digital
2023-07-06T00:53:21.157701Z
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A lot of the newest crappy isekai that come out every year are the most common culprit
(DIR) Post #AXP0F2jY2dLldlnVRo by Velium@poa.st
2023-07-06T01:31:53.150143Z
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@synapsid Ah, that explains why I haven't seen much of that, with the exception of that one sister isekai. I thought that generally Japan still doesn't completely emasculate their men other than the not so occasional getting beaten up for being accidentally mistaken for a pervert.
(DIR) Post #AXP0euAEWeAcajbx5s by InceptionState@poa.st
2023-07-06T01:37:17.156392Z
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@Velium @synapsid Yeah, I can't think of any examples besides that sister isekai either. The usual complaint with isekai is that the protagonist is playing waifu pokemon and has a stupidly overpowered ability gifted to him.
(DIR) Post #AXP0oRrwa3IRjRbhmC by Bead@poa.st
2023-07-06T01:39:00.415162Z
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@synapsid @Velium Yeah, there was the new one just the other day ago about a class that gets isekai'd and the teacher's power is less than worthless except for the fact it allows him to control a big tiddied war gynoid that wants to obey his every command.
(DIR) Post #AXP36gccfU8WblGUmO by Velium@poa.st
2023-07-06T02:00:57.770012Z
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@Bead @synapsid That sounds pretty based tho. What's the title?
(DIR) Post #AXP36iY5VJhIaH9tzM by Bead@poa.st
2023-07-06T02:04:41.007579Z
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@Velium @synapsid I guess it was two months ago.mangadex.org/title/41bb71cc-d316-4bbf-a9cd-1a137ee9f3f0/class-shoukan-ni-makikomareta-kyoushi-hazure-sukiru-de-kikai-shoujo-wo-shuuri-suru
(DIR) Post #AXPBWMyx6uEkrIT23c by Senator_Armstrong@seal.cafe
2023-07-06T03:38:59.831407Z
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I would suspect deliberate subversion more than demoralized authors
(DIR) Post #AXPBhlDvJzhnEAtxPU by synapsid@nicecrew.digital
2023-07-06T03:41:03.445368Z
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Possibly, but Japan has a sort of 'incestuous' pipeline going on with anime- kids grow up watching anime, then go on to write anime and light novels aimed at otaku, which then get made into anime, and then the cycle repeats, becoming a sort of simulacra of itself where the tropes get so distorted or bloated the original idea hardly resembles anything close to reality anymore.