• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “We’re making a commercial work, so we want the audience to see it. I don’t care if they say, ‘I don’t get it,’ but I don’t want them to feel unnecessarily uncomfortable. On the other hand, if we make the work completely sterile, people’s immunity will be weakened, and they will all die. Therefore, there is a way of thinking that we should dare to take on the stigma and transmit harmful things to the public.”

    I mean, hard to disagree with his sentiment. Seems like classic article author not getting past the translated words and being pedantic. This was an article written because the author read a translated Japanese interview with a Japanese media outlet, NOT a direct interview themselves.

    Imagine if no entertainment or media ever showed content considered “unsafe” or “harmful.” So many masterpieces of artwork would just be deleted from existence.

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      6 months ago

      But maybe they could show risque stuff just… as a normal part of the story? Rather than just grafting on panty shots of women who look distressingly young…

      It’s like having a national nudity day where it’s curiously just hot women who are pressured to go nude

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        6 months ago

        But maybe they could show risque stuff just… as a normal part of the story?

        I mean isn’t that what kill la kill does?

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          6 months ago

          Kill La Kill is somewhat unique because the concept of nudity being considered shameful is core to the plot.

          I mean yeah it’s fanservice dialed up to 11, but at least they use it as a theme and motif rather than just grafting it onto an unrelated plot.