| Are there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... |
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| It's a cultural difference again, similar to the one in your previous thread. Drug usage is extremely frowned upon in Japan and is basically a taboo topic so there's very few anime that show drug use. |
| Flying witch - what do you think why that witch is flying? Hyouka - Chitanda has huge, dilated pupils. I don't need to tell you what is the reason behind that. K-ON! - They are supposedly drinking tea. I am not so sure of what that tea is made of. Mushishi - seeing bugs all the time is the telltale symptom of drug consumption Shiki - blood addicts wreak havok in rural japan |
IshitatesoJul 21, 2022 12:01 PM
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| The only scenes I know of is Fujiko ripping a bong in a Lupin movie, and I think in Sarazanmai a criminal gang was growing weed. It is extremely rare though. |
I guess you have never heard of JoJo then |
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BunnyGirlHubby said: Are there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist |
| It's definitely not common but it is there if you look hard enough. Some examples. Banana Fish- story revolves a drug called Banana fish Black Lagoon- Lots of the gangs use drugs, and there's a side character at the end of season 1 who smokes a joint and gets very high. Code geass - has a drug know as refrain Vanitas no carte - more of a steroid I suppose but makes people go into a fighting trance a bit and enhances their abilities School days dub- mostly used for jokes |
| Not an anime, but Eden It's an Endless World has a funny panel with drugs. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
AnimeDownUnder said: There is anime with drug use, but generally it's the bad guys selling it and they don't really call it drugs most the time it's called something else like "pill to make you stronger" or "medicine". Reminder that Big X powers up via injection in the manga. The anime replaces this with an "electromagnetic pendant." https://tezukaosamu.net/en/anime/31.html |
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| Most drug use you'll see in both anime and manga generally involve the other stuff you mention and vice versa. In anime, it's just not as depicted to even changed or censored if showed. Japan is very strict regarding drugs, even regular smoking can get censored. Manga is more lenient in showing usage or just showing it at all but seeing as how you don't want the other stuff, then you're going to have to cross out the majority. |
| If you're looking for Cute Girls Doing Drugs, look no further than the Bakuon!! hemp special: |
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| Anime does not need to depict drug usage, because it is given that the authors are always under heavy influence |
| In OVA 2 of Black Jack (1993), drugs are a part of a pretty large subplot near the end of the episode, which also involves organized crime. One of the shorts in the first episode of Super Milk-Chan features a major mix-up which involves cocaine. |
| I remember the usage of drugs (via snorting) by a preety important character in the manga, Nana Now I am not sure whether its anime adaptation has episodes covering that far or not though |
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| Banana Fish is entirely about it... |
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jjklo said: but incest and pedophilia isn't? I swear I'll never understand this. It's a cultural difference again, similar to the one in your previous thread. Drug usage is extremely frowned upon in Japan and is basically a taboo topic so there's very few anime that show drug use. |
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Ishitateso said: Flying witch - what do you think why that witch is flying? Hyouka - Chitanda has huge, dilated pupils. I don't need to tell you what is the reason behind that. K-ON! - They are supposedly drinking tea. I am not so sure of what that tea is made of. Mushishi - seeing bugs all the time is the telltale symptom of drug consumption Shiki - blood addicts wreak havok in rural japan lol. yeah her pupils sure were huge. she must have some nice plants in her garden |
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AnimeDownUnder said: There is anime with drug use, but generally it's the bad guys selling it and they don't really call it drugs most the time it's called something else like "pill to make you stronger" or "medicine". But watch Banana Fish they actually do refer to it as drugs in that. I think anime like Black Jack probably do use medicine which are drugs, there's an anime called Drugstore in another world and there's another anime called Parallel World Pharmacy You could also watch Great Pretender which basically the first arc was about drugs i see ppl mention banana fish but it's tagged as shoujon thingy. meaning it's centered for female watchers. idk what that rly means but id rather not watch two guys make out or smtn like that if it's like that, again, ive no clue |
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BukkakeBubbles said: BunnyGirlHubby said: i love how you just contradicted ya self lolAre there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... how so? i just listed how drug use could've been used to enrich the viewing experience and bring forth great story and character building effects into play |
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i keep seeing ppl praise jojo but every time i see a meme or pic of it ppl have those overexaggerated expression and stuff which makes me cringe kinda. i wish anime were made more like bunny girl senpai where everyone looks more dead. |
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| Have you heard of Great Pretender or Jojo: Part 5 Golden Wind? |
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41413 said: was planning no watching another world. good to know. but i was thinking more of anime where it's a thing for a long period rather than a short bit in itBunnyGirlHubby said: Are there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist |
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MercerTheLegend said: It's definitely not common but it is there if you look hard enough. Some examples. Banana Fish- story revolves a drug called Banana fish Black Lagoon- Lots of the gangs use drugs, and there's a side character at the end of season 1 who smokes a joint and gets very high. Code geass - has a drug know as refrain Vanitas no carte - more of a steroid I suppose but makes people go into a fighting trance a bit and enhances their abilities School days dub- mostly used for jokes was planning on watching those first 3. good to know. thx for info! |
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SkyfallStar said: Anime does not need to depict drug usage, because it is given that the authors are always under heavy influence lol, hehhehe, yeahh, good point... |
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Piromysl said: Banana Fish is entirely about it... ye seems ppl mention that one most when it comes to drug use. mal page says it's targeted towards female audience though. what does that exactly mean? im a hetero guy in mid 20s so... |
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| Kamisama no Memochou has an arc about drug problem since many people there use it, the drug causes the one who uses it to hallucinate some angel wings iirc I kinda forgot. |
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| Samurai Champloo has a couple of eps about weed, even mentioning purple haze, which was a strain I remember from the 90's, now it's all cooky this and stardawg and random names I can't even remember. |
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23feanor said: oh nice, it even has a high score. thxSamurai Champloo has a couple of eps about weed, even mentioning purple haze, which was a strain I remember from the 90's, now it's all cooky this and stardawg and random names I can't even remember. |
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BunnyGirlHubby said: Piromysl said: Banana Fish is entirely about it... ye seems ppl mention that one most when it comes to drug use. mal page says it's targeted towards female audience though. what does that exactly mean? im a hetero guy in mid 20s so... It means nothing. It was published in some shoujo magazine and for that reason it has this tag. |
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BunnyGirlHubby said: i keep seeing ppl praise jojo but every time i see a meme or pic of it ppl have those overexaggerated expression and stuff which makes me cringe kinda. i wish anime were made more like bunny girl senpai where everyone looks more dead. Bunny girl senpai is 10 times more cringeworthy than JoJo tbh. |
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BukkakeBubbles said: BunnyGirlHubby said: how so? i just listed how drug use could've been used to enrich the viewing experience and bring forth great story and character building effects into play BunnyGirlHubby said: i saw you make another post complainin about how taboo stuff like pedo ,incest ,rape ,abuse ,etc is pointless towards the story of anime. You want drugs to be used to nicely potray a story with emotional life problems, coping mechanisms ,delusions ,personality issues ,but you're forgetting those taboo stuff you just listed are emotional life problems ppl go through. Where do you think trauma comes from a person as to why they get addicted to those drugs ,yea you can argue sometimes its just influence ,but alot of the times it stems from something much deeper than what you imagine. Just dont take anime too seriously and those things you listed do help the story progress and give us an understanding of how the characters backstory leads to their personality.but incest and pedophilia isn't? I swear I'll never understand this. true both loli and incest stuff could be used to enrich character and stories, to bring up moral dilemas, drama and help the narrative. but they rarely do. so many anime just throw it in as some joke or something. and it's simply disgusting and not funny to many of us. drug use on other hand could've been intertwined into anime with more ease and has much bigger potential to serve as a story, character, drama building block. plus any sane person would agree drug use in entertainment media is far far far less horribly disgusting topic to use than incest and/or pedophilia |
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Piromysl said: BunnyGirlHubby said: ye seems ppl mention that one most when it comes to drug use. mal page says it's targeted towards female audience though. what does that exactly mean? im a hetero guy in mid 20s so... It means nothing. It was published in some shoujo magazine and for that reason it has this tag. ohh. but generally I still don't get these target audience tags. it just means it has more male or female characters or something? |
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kizumi91 said: BunnyGirlHubby said: i keep seeing ppl praise jojo but every time i see a meme or pic of it ppl have those overexaggerated expression and stuff which makes me cringe kinda. i wish anime were made more like bunny girl senpai where everyone looks more dead. Bunny girl senpai is 10 times more cringeworthy than JoJo tbh. it's also cringe, true. haven't found an anime that isn't. but I'm talking about how they often make characters in anime have very overexaggerated expression and yell and stuff like they all have autism or something. I guess it makes sense cuz it's a drawn art and not a movie where you can see much more of little things ppl change about their face and voice and body language but still, some anime just do it so much to point it feel too much. for example, in bunny girl senpai characters do some crazy expression and talk very loudly and act like they are on caffeine and sativa for first time much much less then they do in nagatoro bully or pet girl of sakura hall for example. personally it detracts more than it adds to watching experience so i naturally didn't get to jojo jet. ppl say its good and has good score so i will eventually but got butt load of other stuff to watch first. |
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AnimeDownUnder said: BunnyGirlHubby said: i see ppl mention banana fish but it's tagged as shoujon thingy. meaning it's centered for female watchers. idk what that rly means but id rather not watch two guys make out or smtn like that if it's like that, again, ive no clue Well I hate yaoi and shoujo anime and I can say Banana Fish is the 2nd best anime i've ever seen apart from Monster. Don't be fooled by the tags it's not really a boy love anime, it's more of a bromance not really boys love. Banana Fish is a gang and drug anime where there's a lot of killing, fighting, badass scenes, guns, explosions, etc...it's fricking badass anime and if you just read the tags you'll be completely wrong. It ain't some romance or boys love anime, it's an extremely dark and messed up anime that covers serious themes like child trafficking, drugs, crime, chiildhood trauma, corruption, human experimentation, gangs and the MC is probably one of the top 10 smartest most badass characters out of all anime. Plenty of chase scenes, fight scenes and death scenes okay, good. cuz some folks recommended me some anime with gae romances n shit. no offense but as hetero dude i simply don't feel like watching those. guess I'll give banana fish a try some time then |
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| Its oregairu. 1x you watch, you will get Yukino addict |
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BunnyGirlHubby said: Piromysl said: It means nothing. It was published in some shoujo magazine and for that reason it has this tag. ohh. but generally I still don't get these target audience tags. it just means it has more male or female characters or something? Cast is almost exclusively male, so I assume it's because of bishounen bait. |
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| Welcome to the N.H.K technically counts, because while there isn't any direct references to it, there's definitely some implications of the effects of it within the series. The novel makes the references to drug usage more apparent even, from what I heard of it. BunnyGirlHubby said: Piromysl said: It means nothing. It was published in some shoujo magazine and for that reason it has this tag. ohh. but generally I still don't get these target audience tags. it just means it has more male or female characters or something? It's just the target demographic for an anime in reference to what sort of magazine the original manga was serialized in. Anime adaptations of Shounen Jump would fall under the shounen demographic, which consists of teenage boys for example. Banana Fish is based on a manga serialized in a shoujo magazine aimed towards young girls, so naturally it's aimed towards that same audience (as concerning as that may be given what kind of themes are featured in it, but that's really nothing new tbh.). Doesn't mean men or anyone outside of that demographic can't enjoy it, but they're not the intended audience for it. |
YoshiKiller01 said: Welcome to the N.H.K technically counts, because while there isn't any direct references to it, there's definitely some implications of the effects of it within the series. The novel makes the references to drug usage more apparent even, from what I heard of it. BunnyGirlHubby said: ohh. but generally I still don't get these target audience tags. it just means it has more male or female characters or something? It's just the target demographic for an anime in reference to what sort of magazine the original manga was serialized in. Anime adaptations of Shounen Jump would fall under the shounen demographic, which consists of teenage boys for example. Banana Fish is based on a manga serialized in a shoujo magazine aimed towards young girls, so naturally it's aimed towards that same audience (as concerning as that may be given what kind of themes are featured in it, but that's really nothing new tbh.). Doesn't mean men or anyone outside of that demographic can't enjoy it, but they're not the intended audience for it. I see. So it's mainly from what kind of manga anime derived from. I still don't get how it's targeted at certain audience but I guess as long as it isn't some guys falling in love and making out it's fine. |
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AnimeDownUnder said: BunnyGirlHubby said: okay, good. cuz some folks recommended me some anime with gae romances n shit. no offense but as hetero dude i simply don't feel like watching those. guess I'll give banana fish a try some time then It's not really boys love, only because it was published in a boys love magazine that's why it has the genre listed on there. I'm hetero and I agree I don't like to watch those types of anime either with boys love but with that said I have seen some good anime that is apparently boys love genre with basically no romance in it. Mo dao zu shi isn't another anime that is supposed to be boys love but there's no romance in it or any gay scenes at all. wait, so, is boys love and shoujo same thing or different thing? I guess different, no? I still don't understand what ppl mean when they say this anime is targeted towards this audience and so on. but I guess if it's, just more male cast and focus on life of guys and stuff and not dudes falling in love and making out or shit, should be fine. there's at least some female characters in banana fish, no? |
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YoshiKiller01 said: Welcome to the N.H.K technically counts, because while there isn't any direct references to it, there's definitely some implications of the effects of it within the series. The novel makes the references to drug usage more apparent even, from what I heard of it. The novel does. The manga shows this stuff, too. The powder, the pills, everything. They don’t play a huge part, but they contribute to Sato’s mental state. Due to Japanese airing standards, if you want more than a character smoking or drinking, your best bet is to look into older OVAs or manga, as they can show these sorts of things with less restraint. |
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41413 said: BunnyGirlHubby said: Are there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist I think, they meant drugs as no medicine, but drugs like addiction. BunnyGirlHubby said: Are there any even? It's weird how there is sex, rape, incest, pedo, murder, criminal and stuff but no drugs. MC can't even light up a harmless joint without a chick knocking it apart in the air before he could take a puff. it could've been used nicely to portray story telling, emotions life problems, coping mechanisms, delusions, relationship changes, life views, personality issues and such but alas... Of what I watched, I can only remember Banana Fish. Watch it, it is an amazing series, one of my favorites! So pity that in anime series the final is open, they don't adapt all the manga, but it is better this way I am sure! |
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