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Sep 11, 4:02 PM
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I am always wondering why is there so much anime and manga where the couple aren't siblings. It was an interesting concept the first couple times but I am frankly tired of non blood related romance stories.
How would you explain that roughly 90% of couples in anime are outcestous these days?
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Sep 11, 4:11 PM
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I really just read the title as "outcast" and didn't know what I was getting into...
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Sep 11, 4:23 PM
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The way I would explain it is that it is what it is.
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I really just read the title as "outcast" and didn't know what I was getting into...
@NoelleIsSleepy I really just read the title as "outcast" and didn't know what I was getting into X2...
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The way I would explain it is that it is what it is.
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Sep 11, 4:25 PM
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The same reason that there is censorship on DLsite nowadays. Some rich westerner is paying them.
Sep 11, 4:34 PM
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The same reason that there is censorship on DLsite nowadays. Some rich westerner is paying them.
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Sep 11, 4:41 PM
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This is devastating, especially in this economy...
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Sep 11, 4:52 PM
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Exactly what I was wondering yesterday while taking a dump. It's hard to make a good catchphrase about outcest.

Outcest is poutcest...
Outcest is shoutcest...
Outcest is stoutcest...
Outcest is troutcest...

See what I mean?

Sep 11, 5:01 PM

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Technically everyone is related distantly though.

There is more people the more distant you get so statistics.
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Sep 11, 9:12 PM

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Sibling romance is rare in real life too. Even if you expand the definition of incest to include distantly related couples, my family doesn't have more than one such couple.
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Sep 11, 10:38 PM

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Tourists always complain there is too much incest anime in anime, but I say the vice versa: There is too little incest in anime!
Sep 11, 10:54 PM
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I really don't like Siblings romance tob be honest is really cringe to the core cousin is little bit okay if the that is third cousin since there are in the in real life but full blood sibling nope!
Sep 11, 11:09 PM

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90% is still way too few. I knew these godless heathens in Japan couldn't be trusted.
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Sep 11, 11:14 PM

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Because things like Orimeo exist. If things like Tsurekano & Gimai Seikatsu have championed the cause things could have been "better"
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Wouldn't "excest" be the more Latin-derived term for this phenomenon?

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Incest, outcest, shake-it-all-about-cest.

You do the hokey pokey and you turn around...


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Going full incest is actually a taboo in many airing rules in Japan. This is why Oreimo ended with the main 2 breaking up. In the game they try to argue they are not blood related. This is also why eromanga s2 and ngnl s2 are unlikely despite having huge success.
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Wouldn't "excest" be the more Latin-derived term for this phenomenon?
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I had Latin at school and hated every second of it, I think that outcest is a pretty good term
Sep 12, 2:44 AM

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Commit_Crime said:
I am always wondering why is there so much anime and manga where the couple aren't siblings. It was an interesting concept the first couple times but I am frankly tired of non blood related romance stories.
How would you explain that roughly 90% of couples in anime are outcestous these days?

You mean why is normalcy prevalent in anime??
Sep 12, 3:19 AM
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Like, why does this trope have to be so prevalent? Is the anime industry stupid?
Sep 12, 3:47 AM

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What the f*** is this ?
I hate incest so I don't want incest in any anime unless it's shown as an abnormal relationship.
What you see is what you get , Sorry my English is not the best .
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Incest or outcest, it doesn't matter, as long as the male in the relationship is at least 4 years older than the female then it's okay with me. My mother being older than my dad is why I am a genetic failure and our family is a mess.
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Incest can be good when handled right. Like OreImo. That show is far more interesting than 80% of siblings romance we have nowadays.

At least OreImo had the balls to have the siblings kiss each other.
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Sep 12, 8:43 AM

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Because the % of outcest couples in anime = the % of blue-pilled people in the audience.
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Because the % of outcest couples in anime = the % of blue-pilled people in the audience.
@Zarutaku you don't need to be blue pilled to be sane
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Is this bait? This has to be.
Who complains about not seeing incest?
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DigiCat said:
Zarutaku said:
Because the % of outcest couples in anime = the % of blue-pilled people in the audience.
you don't need to be blue pilled to be sane

True, sanity is independent of pill color.
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Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist.
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Is this bait? This has to be.
Who complains about not seeing incest?
@DGottem Me. I complain about that.
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DGottem said:
Who complains about not seeing incest?

People of culture who are not blue pilled.
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Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist.
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Guess the one mistake you made was in your head. Sorry, it's unfixable. Bad bait, Commit_Crime
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Appreciate the real ones
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This has to be Mandela effect, I swear more people used to be normal???
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Wait, I have a new answer: Incest is a highly cultured and elite thing to do, so it doesn't appeal to the uncultured masses.
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Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist.
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Wait, I have a new answer: Incest is a highly cultured and elite thing to do, so it doesn't appeal to the uncultured masses.
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wait, this might be actually true. Thats genius
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I wanna ask you if you have an actual siblings irl would you wanna fuck them. If you do there's something wrong with you
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you seem to really like blood-related incest. if fantasy isn't fulfilling your needs of it then just go do it in real life like a real chad sigma. you will even get a story out of it from your experience. you can publish a book of it and then other fellows like you can fulfull their needs of blood-related incest. win-win situation :D

you'll be their messiah. you will be praised above all. kept like a king. frankly you're missing out on your real potential. take my advise and take the first step today :)

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I don't know, but I'm sure someone will give us an incoherent rant about how woke libtard tourists ruining our chinese cartoons to explain it.
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Outcest? Outcast?... God Help The Outcasts.

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Because Japan is such an fucked up and depraved country.
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Wait, I have a new answer: Incest is a highly cultured and elite thing to do, so it doesn't appeal to the uncultured masses.
@Zarutaku Yeah, look how those elites turned out
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@Zarutaku Yeah, look how those elites turned out
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Pretty good, the golden period of ancient Egypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt
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Pretty good, the golden period of ancient Egypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt
@Commit_Crime Yeah, that included the golden age of deformaties, major health problems, and dying young
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@Zarutaku Yeah, look how those elites turned out
@DigiCat You mean people like:?
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Nobody resembles me physically because I don't even physically exist.
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@NoelleIsSleepy I really just read the title as "outcast" and didn't know what I was getting into X2...
@SignsOfSuicide I feel that same pain...

But now that I'm here, Ill answer anyways: Because those who want to see incest are very messed up, and only small minority of writers are messed enough to end up writing such stories... Damn, just noticed OP's username. I hope they have not committed any crimes along the topic!
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Wait, I have a new answer: Incest is a highly cultured and elite thing to do, so it doesn't appeal to the uncultured masses.
@Zarutaku I guess that explains why gods of various religions/myths engaged in it.
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I think it's some sort of pseudoscientific bullshit like "biodiversity"



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Outcest? Outcast?... God Help The Outcasts.
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Off-topic but, God, Esmeralda's so hot. She might have been the first animated character i had a crush on as a kid. Love that movie.
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I don't want to see this type of topics, is there a way for me to hide them?
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people find incest bad because of retarded child bearing sadly
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Most people think banging your sister is weird for whatever reason. I blame Jesus.
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