Have you ever thought that anime (or rather, Japanese pop culture in general) bends over backwards to avoid talking about what are clearly mental illnesses?
How overwhelming are societal pressures to conform in East Asia that this kind of stuff (and online watering holes like 2ch) are their escape valve?

what a retarded thread

>>279735669 (OP)
Yes and Bocchi is a good example. The author turned social phobia into a single gag. It's boring and a waste of potential.

>>279735669 (OP)
Women dont give a shit about anything at all.
Its just a bunch of poorly crafted psyops to make them buy stuff.
No point having "pity" for any of them, they have already won.
Im not an incel, I cant bring myself to hate them.
Having said that, I dont think we should take them seriously, ever.

>>279735669 (OP)
if they made anime on transgenderism you all would complain

>>279735771
>if they made anime on transgenderism
How long have you been watching anime? Two weeks?

>>279735767
>Women dont give a shit about anything at all.
These aren't directed at a female audience, though. It's pure waifuism.

>Im not an incel, I cant bring myself to hate them.
Spoken like a true incel.

>>279735799
Bocchi's author is a woman.

>>279735799
>These aren't directed at a female audience
(You) got me to reply. Well done.

>>279735818
They aren't, though. Bocchi, perhaps maybe with its musical angle. But the rest are moeshit aimed squarely at fat, lonely losers.

>>279735834
20-30 years ago maybe there would be more people saying all of these titles were made for women but whatever

>>279735909
Nobody outside of Japan knew shit about anime 30 years ago

>>279735942
>30 years ago
>1995
How much of a moron are you? Perhaps gringoes never heard of anime before the pandemic, but it was massively popular elsewhere.

>>279735669 (OP)
>why isn't entertainment media taking the time to "talk" about "the issues"
Can't you watch the news instead? What even is your problem?

>>279735724
/thread

>>279735669 (OP)
>>279735767 (me)
On that note, I think we are at a point where those "issues" are so romanticized, they represent the whole personality of these characters.
The only issue here is their unbearable, unapologetic hatred that goes unnoticed to the untrained eye.

>>279735771
You are over 40 years too late
https://youtu.be/cxmzGBUHfuM
Not only the titular character was born a boy who currently lives and identifies as a girl but also it is a romantic comedy and originally was published in Shonen Jump, same magazine for boys that published Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, etc.

>>279735669 (OP)
Brown Bocchi isn't mentally ill though, she's just extremely shy. Like, she's perfectly functional as a person.

>>279735669 (OP)
What do you think is better?
To send the kids to a therapist and get them hooked on mood-altering prescription drugs, like in America?
Or for them to get friends who accept them for who they are and live a happy slightly eccentric life, like in these anime?

That's because no one reads the CGDCTs that feature darker themes. Published in the same magazine as BTR.

>>279735669 (OP)
The 2 on the right are pure cancer and I could only possibly define them as "tik tok tier mental illness".

>>279736167
>like in these anime?
Except it's a fantasy. In real-life Asia, the only solace for "eccentric" people of any sort is on the other side of a noose.

>To send the kids to a therapist and get them hooked on mood-altering prescription drugs, like in America?
Stop doing smack, Bobby. You bring embarrassment to your family and makes you look like an old saddle.

>>279736186
Then why do we get endless threads on that obnoxious pink twat every single day?

>>279736202
Yeah you are full of it and you are a newfaggot.
Brother, let me tell you about comicbooks released almost 20 years ago, that JUSTIFIED drug consumption , teenage sex, delinquency, vandalism, alcoholism and all kinds of fucked up shit.
These anime titles dont fix SHIT, they reinforce the horribly self-deprecating idea that being mentally ill is OK.
At the end of the day, they all kill themselves

>>279735771
>>279736138
Related.

>>279736256
>These anime titles dont fix SHIT, they reinforce the horribly self-deprecating idea that being mentally ill is OK.
That's exactly what I said, moron. Except that in Asia you don't get any help whatsoever other than society telling you to conform to everyone else's expectations.

>>279736138
That's not transgenderism and you know it

>>279735669 (OP)
Congratulations!

Hourou Musuko is right there and retards bring up Hibari-kun.

>>279735669 (OP)
By mental illness people mean opinion disorder. There are no doctors here. What do you really mean?

>>279735813
>>279735818
Like half of Kirara manga are made by women, but that doesn't matter when their audience is at least 90% male.

>>279735669 (OP)
never thought of it

>>279735669 (OP)
>bends over backwards to avoid talking about what are clearly mental illnesses?
The west is far ahead on that.

So not being normal extrovert makes you mentally ill. Thats how stupid you sound. Fpbp

>>279737509
Oh, the west talks about certain mental illnesses a LOT. They can't shut up about them. They just don't call them "mental illnesses".

>>279735669 (OP)
You have no idea what a mental illness looks like if you think this bunch of shy but lovable heroines are anything but normal people.
Mentally ill people in Japan stab random targets while shouting how much they love them, find the busiest train in their vicinity without the gates and jump in front of it during rush hour, live in their own shit and piss because they have a several hour panic attack at the mere thought of leaving their room, live in a permanent loop of debt and selling their own body to pay off their host obsession.

>>279737816
I always wished I could be around when someone tried a public stabbing. You know they wanna be stopped, and I'll bet I could stop a little jap with only a knife. Might not even have to touch them. Just walk on up and speak English with a stern look. They hesitate or just run. Crisis averted and I look awesome.

>>279735669 (OP)
God what a retarded American thread. These series are escapism and not everything needs to "discuss the issues".

>>279735669 (OP)
>filthy casual has never heart of denpa

>>279736176
>Doesn't say the name
Guess I won't read it either

kuso thread

>>279735669 (OP)
>mental illness
nigger social awkwardness is not a mental illness
>social pressure escape valve
just stories about things people deal with and can relate to

KYS faggot and stop trying to turn everything into some sjw critical theory projection shitshow, YWNBAW

>>279735669 (OP)
Go play some earthbound inspired indie game no?
Japan isn’t nearly as mentally ill as the west so this is why

>>279735669 (OP)
>Japanese pop culture in general) bends over backwards to avoid talking about what are clearly mental illnesses

Remove the word pop, and you understand something fundamental about Japanese culture. Why is there so much Japanese media about burnout, repressed homosexuality, transgender issues, stalkers, antisocial behavior, incels, etc.? We're feasting on a medium that's the exhaust valve for struggling people in a conservative society, one that hides the mentally ill instead of treating them, where your best escape is being invisible to your social peers. Instead, the expectation is that people cope. In a country with high literacy and art skills, this is how they cope.

And you know what? Fiction is a good coping mechanism. Mangaka will draw the most degenerate fucking shit imaginable and someone online will go, "That's literally me!" Did I need to know about Itagaki Paru's Santa Claus and kemono fetishes? Did I need to know about Anno's fatherless behavior, among the many reasons why he's on a sake-only diet? Did I need to see Fujimoto hopelessly lust after a transman assistant across at least three one-shots and two serialized works? Hell no, but shit was fun and they connected with so many people with this clearly mental shit.

tl;dr they don't get psychiatric care in animu because they don't get psychiatric care in reality. lrn2cope

>>279740562
>Did I need to see Fujimoto hopelessly lust after a transman assistant across at least three one-shots and two serialized works?
Fucking hell, I feel like an idiot for not connecting the dots sooner. I read Fire Punch and I even knew about the transman former assistant and read their (highly personal) manga, but still.
>Anno's fatherless behavior, among the many reasons why he's on a sake-only diet?
What's this?

>>279735669 (OP)
The Japanese are famous for not believing in mental illnesses or psychology.

>>279740662
I'd beat her to death and cut her head off if she said this to my face

Repressing mental illness and not speaking about it worked for hundreds of years. More people are mentally ill now because they speak about it. Encouraging people to speak about mental illness is wrong and counterproductive. Japan does not need or want your westernization.

>>279735799
bocchi the reddit was practically designed for normalfag women that think they have anxiety

>>279740744
Now THAT is some mental illness

>>279735669 (OP)
As someone that pukes like 4-6 times per week due to anxiety. It sucks and I don't want to be reminded of that in anime or manga.

>>279740863
>>279740744
She cute though.

>>279740863
You shouldn't take pride in being a bitchmade weakling. Talk shit, get hit

>>279736202
It's funny how freaks like you think that because japs aren't accepting of made up genders and the like that means they're completely stern and personalityless and don't allow any difference even among their close peers.

>>279736186
This

>>279735669 (OP)
shinsei kamattechan is very much anime core (literally did openings and endings for attack on titan) and is way mentally ill than any similarly popular western band. japanese culture has a tradition of being open about mental illness in general, their most popular authors are dazai and mishima for example

>>279741051
>anime core
>core

>>279735669 (OP)
mental illness is a cultural thing.
They could shit on the west for telling obese people with eating disorders and 50percenters with gender dysphoria "they are fine the way they are and we should accept them"

>>279741199
it's a spammer, just hide post and ignore.

>>279735669 (OP)
No one wants to confront the topic of mental illness at any real level because it's just a clear reminder of our mortality and helpless nature in this existence. Play along or move along.