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fuck em up gang

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Man… Dandadan is such a good genre blend of fantasy and sci-fi. It explores both through the lens of Japanese history and culture, and it does it really well.

But then it also does typical anime things—like having weird, over-the-top villains get handsy with its underage protagonists.

And the thing is, it’s not the same as the usual “let’s titillate teenage boys” fanservice you see in lower-effort anime. There’s an actual point here. The series is clearly aware of what it’s doing. It’s critiquing how adults—especially institutions—objectify, dismiss, and exploit adolescents. It’s about the way society simultaneously shames and commodifies young people’s bodies and emotions.

Because without the context to know what it’s pushing back against, it just looks like it’s doing the same tired, gross anime thing. And it becomes incredibly difficult to recommend to people who aren’t already familiar with anime and its tropes. You have to preface it with like three disclaimers and a mini lecture on Anime and Japanese culture.

And it’s frustrating. Because it is good. It’s funny and weird and heartfelt and genuinely thoughtful. It cares about its characters. It takes genre seriously without taking itself too seriously. But I still find myself hesitating to bring it up in casual recs because I don’t want to spend twenty minutes explaining why “no, the horny alien thing is part of the point.”

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all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb

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do any of you remember that gumball episode where darwin becomes mega paranoid after watching a health and safety video so to quell his anxiety he goes out of his way to make everything kid friendly and inoffensive by propositioning it as being for the children and then he becomes a fascist at the end

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The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling

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norp

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[ My ass tried to paint a glass object… never again [probably a lie I’ll probably do it again] ]

Original Image under the cut

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It's not like I like you or anything! P-Pendejo!

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hey guys just here to say that the new online safety act in the uk has blocked the suicide hotline

this is extremely problematic for very obvious reasons and i have no idea what the fuck this country is fucking coming to

childline has also been restricted

if you're a uk citizen and still haven't signed the petition please do so

even if you're not a uk citizen please reblog to spread the word !!!!!

this isn't safety, it's censorship

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I'm probably losing my mind but I have to learn to color better

Lee-Lee's kitty

Love potion

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fucked up

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she's so lucky

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based off this text post lul :]