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ŌKAMI (2006) dev. Clover Studio

Btw if anyone here is uninvolved with FFXIV fandom stuff overall outside tumblr, ThePhookas (the one who makes all those graphic and guides) just went full racist and Islamophobic mask off mode on Insta/Twitter.

Please block and stop circulating their content.

【 Okami Fanart / Agata Forest 】

sigurd is so funny in the new game i had to learn more abt him so i watched a retrospective vid and i suddenly am so intrigued by fe4 *doesn’t draw him*

these two got cute hairstyles tho

Hollow Knight Scenery | Queen’s Station

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I hate modern art but I also hate traditional art. Furry art is the real master craft and no one wants to admit it. It takes a lot of skill to anthropomorphize every animal possible and also add cock and balls to it

"You lost me at the end of the post"

A 25 year old woman calling a 16 year old anime boy her husband and a 25 year old guy calling a 16 year old anime girl his wife is the same

Yes, in that both are equally harmless. (I wouldn’t necessarily say they’re the same, just by the context that male and female characters are not necessarily objectified the same way. But that’s a different essay.)

Without judgment or excuse, I’m gonna break down some of the reasoning on why adults would call anime characters their waifu/husband. The gist of it is that teens are rarely portrayed as their actual age in anime and this is confusing for everyone.

(Know that I’m not typing this for the adults. I’m typing this because some of you folx are very young and in a few years you won’t be and you’re gonna be torn on whether you’re still allowed to like things the same way.)

When people call fictional characters their waifu/husband, it very rarely means they actually want to marry/fuck the character. Because that’s clearly impossible. It often just mean “best girl” or “fav boy”, while showing an appreciation for their attractiveness.

Attractiveness. Characters who are teens are often objectified like adults when it comes to anime. This is a problem with the genre. You cannot expect the audience to consume fanservice and deny their appreciation for it. When a character is drawn wet with clothes clinging to their skin and looking at the reader seductively, it’s gonna be hard to separate “my fav looks really good” and “my fav looks sexy”, even if you don’t necessarily like the character sexually. (I had a whole breakdown over that one image of Oz before.) You can’t critique fans without critiquing the work itself and the industry that produces it.

Target audience. Most animes, specifically shonen and shoujo, are made for teens. Teens have desires. Teens deserves to have their desires catered to in media targeting them. Teen anime characters are sexualized for teens. However, many animes are also made to appeals to an older audience and have more mature theme that adults can appreciate. This is NOT a bad thing, as teens also deserves mature storytelling. This means adults will consume work with sexualized teen characters. Which means they often have to desensitize themselves to the character’s actual age. (See point above.)

Character agency. Animes are written for teens by adults. This means teen characters will have full agency the way adults do. They will be treated like an adult in more serious stories and assume adult roles like saving the world or running businesses or committing murder. They will be relatable to adult audience because they’re probably relatable to the author who is also an adult. If you kin a 16 years old, and this 16 years old have a boyfriend who is constantly giving fanservice—

Age confusion. Sometimes due to art style adults and children look more or less the same. In fact, if the work stars 14 years olds, often 16 years olds will look like and be treated as adults, because they’re older. (This also makes some age-gap much less apparent in anime ships because sometimes anime adults behaves like teens and anime teens behave like adults…) As teen you might crush on these teen characters because they possess adult charms. Which then brings us to…

Anime characters don’t age. Or they age much slower than their readers. Either way, the emotion & relationship you have towards the character won’t necessarily change, esp if you’re remembering them as your middleschool crush. Let’s just say when an adult view a photo of their high school sweetheart they will still remember that person as their high school sweetheart, not as their son. You can’t expect people to view their fav as their child the moment they out-age them. That’s not realistic. And honestly, considering that the characters are fictional I don’t think people have the responsibility to make such a shift in their perspective.

Finally… the problem comes down to… Should you shame people for calling 16 years old anime characters waifu/husband. And well… let me just say that regardless of how cringe you think it is to do so… It’s not at all comparable to pedophilia (not OP, just seeing some of the tags), which is a real problem that affects real people. Even if someone do in fact lust after an anime character, it does not present any danger to any real human the way consuming actual child porn would. Regardless of how you feel about this, you should not conflate the two issues.

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