EDIT: Major typos in this entry. I think I fixed them. ^^;
For those of you who don't know, I like anime. Anime is short for Japanese Animation. Most people who read my blog will probably know anime from things like Pokemon, YuGiOh, and other misc kid shows. However, anime is much like live action movie making. Anime deals with all topics, whether adult or young, and is used in all genres.
There's a lot of good anime out there, there's a lot of bad anime. Some of the worst anime involves hentai, yaoi, ecchi, shounen ie, rape, or incest. I will explain some of the terms I just used for the uninformed: Hentail and ecchi are porn. Ecchi, tends to be less explicit and never shows things going "all the way". Yaoi and shounen ie are homosexual romances. Shounen ie, however, mixes in hentai and ecchi. I don't think I need to explain the others.
You're probably astonished that a CARTOON would have such adult themes (horrible themes). And at this point I want to knock something into your head: CARTOONS AREN'T JUST FOR KIDS, ANIMATION IS FOR *EVERYONE*. Anime is mostly animation, not cartoons. (Though they do make cartoons.) Please do not assume anime is automatically a cartoon. More likely it is not, and is most likely adult animation.
Why am I saying all this? Well, in my "private" journal (I use that word loosely) I ranted about the "sex obsession" most anime fans have. Anime fans tend to take good anime (and bad!) and turn it into something involving sex (hentai, shounen ie, rape, etc).
Now, in my private journal, most of my friends are Christians. However, some I'm not sure about or flat out aren't. Some of the people I know who claimed (at some point) to be Christians wander over to my journal. The result is this.
What was interesting to me was someone was claiming that there was, essentially, nothing at all wrong with fantasying and ENJOYING hentai, shounen ei, and rape. The logic being that since people fantasize all the time (like about beating up on someone you don't like) but never do it, then it must be okay. Because, after all, as long as you don't DO IT then no harm is done.
The problem with this is that fantasying is not always good. Actually, most of the times fantasying about bad things makes problems worse, not better. And often a bad fantasy keeps getting repeated over and over again until it becomes an obsession. Obsessions about bad things turn into bad actions. (This is how we get rapists and porn addicts, even murderers.)
I adhore the fact that these things are produced by Japan. But I can't point fingers too much, since many of those same things are created here (and in live action no less!).
My problem is that our society has fallen so far morally that there are thousands (maybe millions?) of kids from 12-19yrs old (and of course older people too) that think it is perfectly okay to read and write fan fiction about these sexual perversions. (And also I'm greatly bothered by the fact that their parents NEVER NOTICE what they're into.)
This is something about the Anime community I do not like. They are incredibly obsessed with sex[ual perversions], and they don't seem to know that it's bad for them! *slaps forehead*
I'm writing all this here because I feel like writing it in my private journal would either be preaching to the choir or falling on deaf ears. To me that's not worth it, since the "deaf ears" will just take my posts as a personal insult. (It's not like they don't already know what I think anyway. :P)
The worst part of all this is that it is my Christian friend, and her friends (who are not Christians) that often inspire me to write these things. I blame it on her family, really. They were too busy being legalistic to instill the "heart" of the law in her. I will be very surprised to see if she ever wanders back from the other extreme her family has often had. :-/
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