This is a response to
a post in another thread that I'm trying not to derail.
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Originally Posted by Black Francis
I see what you mean but i meant anime as whole, as in, in the anime universe everything goes..
And even regular series that are not hentai there is mature subjects brought up like incest and pedophilia, you got otakus watching some series simply because they have a loli obsession
Even action series or mecha series are ecchi as well and even though they are supposed to be for a mature audience, that mature audience tends to be 12 to 13 yrs kids who are now used to seeing all the crazy **** anime exposes without even flinching.
And yes they do have a standard but it's not the same as the american standard, their culture is different and so are they fetishes and anime exposes those fetishes without much censorship.
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But that's not really about boundaries, that's about different cultural standards. Most anime is still pretty formulaic and tired. I used to love anime, but these days I can only care about a very small amount of it. I mean how many times can I see the next Pokemon(anime)/Yu-Gi-Oh/Naruto/One Piece/etc/etc/etc clone and still be bothered with them? They might have more quasi-nudity and fan service in anime, but it tends to all conform to the same tropes, just like everything else in the majority of anime.
And I think a lot of the Western obsession comes from the fact that we probably don't see the hordes of duds that get buried in cancellation just like the hordes of terrible cop shows that get cancelled after a season over here. If all people had to go on were Lost, Heroes, Buffy...I'm having trouble thinking of any more, etc then they might actually think that American network television was absolutely fantastic. So really, the majority of anime is probably even more crap than any of us realize.