flannan said:> How do you feel about violent, bloody, gore filled anime & manga.
1) I don't like blood and gore. I'd much rather watch a show where girls hit each other with attacks that shred their clothes without leaving even a scratch on their nicely exposed skin.
2) Sure, I am an adult and can handle some of that in a show I like for other reasons. Like having violence, blood and gore inflicted on people I dislike IRL.
3) But when Attack on Titan ends its first episode on a bloody massacre without giving me any actual reason to watch it, I know I'm dropping the stuff.
4) For some reason, I expect shows that are explicit in violence to be the same when it comes to sexuality. Kind of like Highschool of the Dead does it. It gives a "they live fully on the edge" feeling.
When this does not happen, like when people tell me that women of Attack on Titan are always well-dressed, it makes me suspect these shows are actually just torture porn meant for evil people to enjoy when they can't find a puppy to kick or a kid to steal a candy from.
nocoolnamedanny said: I have noticed a trend these last few years of less and less gore, and whole lot more of "Moe sexualized preteen schoolgirls type anime". It doesnt bother me that much as i dont watch that garbage, but i am really craving for new material.
Well, times are changing. We don't get much space sci-fi now, because starships seem a lot more of a distant dream now that the space race is over. We don't get much old-school cyberpunk, because it's pretty much here, the worst predictions have not panned out, and the actual problems with technology are more like Netoge no Yome than like Ghost in the Shell.
Likewise, the old age of OVA gore seems to be over. Doesn't mean we aren't getting shows like Blood-C, but it's not fashionable anymore - only people who like that stuff make that stuff.
nocoolnamedanny said: and if you dont, what do you think about most anime that happen to be violent story wise?
Stories about violence have always been bread and butter of storytelling. It has all the explosions, and secret powers, and conflicts. I like that.
It's just that I am not a fan of good people dying, and do not find blood and gore to be adding anything to these kinds of stories.
I realy liked your response, i kind of have a better idea as to why gorier anime hasnt been shown as recently. I also really agree with your assessment on Highshcool of the dead.