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[kirarakim]

Gurren Lagann is overly sexualized and compared to Hentai

But sexually-suggestive and explicit anime like "Gurren Lagann" and "Legend of the Overfiend," is finding an eager audience of adult Americans who are drawn to the post-modern, almost post-human mash-up of playful, blurry morality found in the genre.Way to go MSNBC for your brilliant

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[haro]

Wow, the sci-fi channel plays porn? I NEVER KNEW.

I hate articles like this. And the appeal of anime is that it's immoral? I'm pretty sure that's not the case for most fans or congoers.

Epic monster fail. Worse 'cuz it's on a major news site.

[kirarakim]

I bet they saw a picture of Yoko and made assumptions of what it is. And yeah I would have preferred if Gainax designed Yoko wearing something else but its not like Japanese anime is the only media that has fan service like that and it's not even that bad.

I hate articles like this. And the appeal of anime is that it's immoral? I'm pretty sure that's not the case for most fans or congoers.

Yeah god forbid we watch anime/read manga for the stories and characters. D:

[haro]

At least Yoko's clothing (revealing as it is) makes some sort of sense as opposed to most fanservice. They live in a desert so it's obviously really hot and a girl wearing a bikini and shorts hardly seems unreasonable. Kamina and Simon are shirtless all the time. I mean yeah they could have done it in a less revealing manner, but it's not like there's not tons of stuff like that in mainstream western media as well.

Yeah god forbid we watch anime/read manga for the stories and characters. D:

I don't know why anime has to be seen as a genre anyway. Just like animation itself, it's a medium, not a genre. Yeah there are genres within anime, but I love anything that tells a good story, no matter how it chooses to do it or what country produces it.

Meh, I'm so over crap like that article. Ugh. >>

[kirarakim]

Well I am pretty sure they designed Yoko's costume with fan service in mind not practicability considering that is not the type of clothing people wear in any desert culture but whatever I have seen worse and not just in anime.

Agreed about anime being a medium not a genre. When I say I am a fan of anime it is because of certain anime series but I like that series because of the story and characters.

Obviously that doesn't mean I love every single anime series out there or even most because I consider myself an anime fan. I just love what Japan has done with animation. Although my love for animation is not exclusive to Japan.

[haro]

Haha, I didn't mean to say that they didn't design it with fanservice in mind, nor a desert culture in mind as no one's clothes match up to one. I just meant to say that hot weather= less clothing makes more logical sense than most fanservice.

And word to the rest.