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I think “refute” is a rather strong word. There exist some good examples posted here (though some of them do stretch the idea what wouid count), but it doesn’t refute OP.

This plot summary is not exactly encouraging me to get into it.

I thought about this a lot the other day.

Its “justification” is in that era girls go married off even younger than that.

That monk dude has to turn away a girl who’s… 14(?) after she asked him to take her with him and that she’d bear his children.

Personally, in that setting I think it’s fine as long as they are not like fanservice to the viewer and its actually plot relevant. The monk asking her originally is more for humor as it was clearly shown as ridiculous and when it was more “legal” he took it more seriously and shot it down. That kind of humor is definitely a product of its era (wasn’t the age of consent in Japan like 12 until less than a few decades ago?)

Also regarding Kagome, this anime was written by a woman and one of the main demographics is schoolgirls who want their heart to flutter by imagining themselves in a pseudo-isekai. Not saying it makes it right but it personally doesn’t bother me because I get why stories like that exist coughTwilightcough

EDIT: The constitution set it to 13. But most prefectures up-ed it to 16 in recent decades apparently

Age of consent nationally was 13, but most prefectures had raised the age to at least 18 many, many years earlier. Specifically, most of the local prefecture laws outlawed sexual acts that were judged to be indecent between adolescents (those under 18) and adults. 46 of the 47 prefectures had adopted local laws to outlaw this behavior by the end of the 1980s. The last one (Nagano Prefecture) adopted laws to outlaw this behavior in 2016.

For reference, this array of local laws is referred to as Seishōnen Hogo Ikusei Jōrei, which can be translated to “Bylaws for Protecting and Nurturing Adolescents”.

Right, because episodes dedicated to a teenage girl’s underwear and chest don’t sexualize them, of course. (/s)

I’ve lived in Japan and seen middle aged men take analog photos of the short-skirt madoka murals in Akihabara. It’s sexualizing children and it’s creepy. And don’t get me started on the figurines. EVEN IN MANY anime it’s depicted as creepy.

Starts reading: oh yeah this is gonna be a funi comment about how fucked up the world is

Continues reading: turns out its just some fucked up rant about how “different cultures” justify horrible acts

You’re really weird, dude. This is a really weird thing to argue about.

Look, if you’re having to bring up age of consent laws, you’re arguing the wrong side.

13, hell even 17 is WAY too young for age of consent. Anyone arguing otherwise because of “culture” is asking for the abuse of minors.

I’m sorry to tell you this but while Weathering with You, Your Name, and Suzume don’t sexualize kids the head producer does

My father (~45) and I (~8) both fell in love with Ghibli (indistinctly remember my dad seeing Nausicaa on TV guide and saying “if it’s ghibli I’m not missing it”) after watching Spirited Away on Cartoon Network one random night in 2004 or so. Over the next 12 years I’d watch most of the rest of their catalogue & even visit their museum in Japan, but had yet to see PR until my birthday one year someone got it for me

I was NOT ready for that movie being what it was, nor the amazingly hard “better a pig than a fascist” line, and it’s my favorite from them and has been since

porco rosso enjoyer 🙌

Usually find random comedy pretty miss, but for some reason, their jokes landed for me. Whoever did the VA for pigtail girl really put her soul in that character.

But you’d also be lying if you said it didn’t have what OP was complaining about

The MC clearly has an unhealthy relationship with his parasyte, seeing how it ate his arm and such.

In what sense? I haven’t seen that one.