Reina asked her favorite friend, “Out of all the euphoniums in the band, would you play the soli with me?”

“Well, if a third-year talented transfer student doesn’t forfeit, she might cause me a little trouble.”

“But would you lose?”

“Nah, I’d win.”

Would… what? 🤔

It looks like a scanned center page of a book, so it’s a two-page spread.

“I dub thee a knightingale”

Nokia 6630

Australian moment

Yes

Yes

Gee…

Sometimes

I use RSS to help decide if an item is worth reading or not based on the title

How feasible would it be to have levels of federation? Make it possible for instances to partially-federate (if you’re from “your-instan.ce” and its partially-federated with lemmy.world, you don’t see lemmy.world stuff in your feeds, but allow browsing and interacting with “https://your-instan.ce/c/fediverse@lemmy.world”).

Me who started with strange Fake: 🤓

Counterexample: Jotaro and dolphins

Agreed.

Everyone has a comfort level and/or tolerance on what they can watch. Generally speaking, they’re free to look away from content that they’re uncomfortable, like the aforementioned example of Death Note with how the women are portrayed there. I have my own categories of content that I’m too uncomfortable to watch, and I’m sure it’s different from what you find uncomfortable.

Again, it’s not exclusive to anime. Personally, I find James Bond movies’ (massively popular with quite the cultural cache) portrayals of women more problematic if applied to real life, but it’s a work of fiction and we’re supposed to know better. My comfort level does not preclude me from watching those as well as Death Note, nor I’m supposed to assume watchers and fans of those endorse all the themes involved in there.

Some critical thinking from us should be employed as we watch those things especially if sensitive themes are included. Where does it lie in the prescriptive vs. descriptive writing spectrum? Is it meant to teach the audience that something is good or bad (the should/shouldn’t)? Does it describe a particular situation within the internally-consistent rules of the in-universe world (the what, where, when, how, and why)? etc. This applies regardless of the medium.

Would that be one of the legacies of guidelines like the Hays Code? That Western media is not seen as “weird”?

I have the same apprehension, but anime is a medium. There’s a lot of disgusting books and Western movies around, and we don’t shame people for liking books and Western movies.

Not to mention Nazis

Jojo

It’s the epitome of “Unhealthy relationships and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race”

Here’s some genre keywords for a start:

Adult Cast

Seinen/Josei

Chances are if those shows involve underage sexualization/unhealthy relationships, it doesn’t endorse them.

Edit: Also look for anime with kids as target audiences, they should have none of those things. On further introspection, that sums up to “look for shows that ain’t shounen or shoujo” lol.