I found something I didn’t even know I wanted in Scum’s Wish. Which is to say, I finally found a piece of Japanese pop culture that took on the topics of sex and romantic relationships with some nuance and maturity. While I very much doubt that this is the first TV anime to break the mold, it is the first one to which I’ve been exposed. This is not a judgment to any of you who are fans. (And I won’t even begin to get into concepts like “fan service” or bouncing breasts “chichi yuri.” It’s all quite childish to me. That not only made me uncomfortable, it left me with a moral dilemma time after time more often than not, I sided with team chaste over time libertine. They may have had better plots and production value than a cheesy American porno, but their express purpose was to titillate and turn on. For decades, those were the words that I associated with virtually all “hentai” Japanese animation and erotic games (eroge).
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