Why do so many Western-run wiki platforms hold such contempt and hatred towards Japanese animation?
Are you familiar with the website “TV Tropes”? I wasn’t until today, mainly because I’ve been out of touch with Western-produced live-action TV shows for the past decade. For those who might not know, “TV Tropes” is essentially a wiki dedicated to cataloging and documenting narrative clichés and storytelling devices.
TV Tropes was launched in 2004, initially focusing on tropes found in television and film hence the name. However, over the years, it has significantly expanded its scope to encompass literature, comics, anime, manga, radio, and video games.
For some reason, the site, known for its multitude of pages on various shows, opted to remove its page on the anime and manga “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete” (Gushing over Magical Girls), which aired last season.
When visiting the page for “Gushing over Magical Girls” on TV Tropes, you’ll encounter the message: “This page was removed for reason: Both the anime and manga are to be removed as per Content Policy discussion.”
We’re just scratching the surface here! So, why was it removed? Well, as thoroughly documented in the past, the anime adaptation of “Gushing over Magical Girls” occasionally took a more risqué and erotic approach compared to its source material.
The series is brimming with such content and has enjoyed remarkable commercial success, with first volume sales far surpassing expectations. It even outperformed the beloved icon of the 2023 Fall season, “Frieren“ proving that fan service is here to stay.
TV Tropes removed the series from its website for a simple reason, the sites moderators unanimously agreed that the series itself contained scenes of nudity and or bondage involving “underaged characters.”
You can find the complete discussion that led to the banning of the anime and manga at this link.
Diving a bit deeper, TV Tropes has a specific content policy regarding “porn and pedopandering,” which prohibits shows featuring explicit sexual content or fetishistic material with minimal or no storyline beyond serving as a pretext for sexual content.
Certainly, TV Tropes explicitly prohibits pages related to works depicting “sexual activity of children in an explicit manner” or media containing titillating references to sexual activity involving underage fictional characters. This falls under what they describe as “pedopandering.”
TV Tropes has compiled a significant list of franchises that were ultimately removed due to violating their content policy. Among these are several Japanese anime adaptations such as “Kiss X Sis,” “Aki Sora,” “Kodomo No Jikan,” and now “Gushing over Magical Girls.“
These adaptations tend to be quite raunchy in nature, with explicit content. While “Ro-Kyu-Bu!” which is also banned is comparatively more restrained, it still includes fanservice featuring underage or “loli” characters, which is a subject despised by Western puritans.
Any one of these adaptations is worth watching if you haven’t already.
TV Tropes can choose not to include pornographic or heavily focused on erotic content in their documentation, which is their prerogative. However, the real issue arises when they label such material as “pedo pandering” or “pedo baiting.”
It perpetuates a misconception that fictional drawings equate to real-life exploitation of children or resemble actual child pornography, which is a subject that seemingly never ends.
Repeatedly, we’ve seen the glaring hypocrisy of those who condemn anime as problematic and or pedophilic, because lines on a canvas apparently need to explicitly state ages above the legal age of consent before they can be morally acceptable. Because schizophrenic freaks seemingly cannot differentiate between fiction and reality.
Yet, these same individuals often find themselves exposed for sending illicit photographs to underage minors or committing even more egregious crimes against humanity.
Arguing over fictional drawings and falsely equating petite or small-statured fictional characters with real-life children only serves to enable actual child exploitation. Those who vehemently criticize such material continuously shift the goalposts of what they label as pedophilic, while simultaneously supporting the exploitation of women through platforms like OnlyFans.
There’s no greater advantage for predators than to camouflaging their actions by diluted the terminology of “CP” by feigning outrage over fictional artwork. It’s no surprise that those who vocally condemn anime as problematic often are predators themselves.
Out of curiosity I decided to see whether or not TV Tropes have documented two western contrived media entities, one of which does much of what they’ve blamed Japanese animation of doing, such as sexualizing underaged characters and the other literally sexualizes actual children.
It’s hardly surprising that TV Tropes doesn’t seem to follow their own guidelines when it comes to adult-oriented Western animation that sexualizes underaged (fictional) characters for entertainment purposes. With the show itself being centered around middle school teenagers experiencing puberty.
Big Mouth features personified hormone monsters. Despite frequently depicting sexual acts involving fictional children with talking vaginas, this American show has apparently endured for over six seasons and is seemingly endorsed on TV Tropes, categorized under the tags “Heartwarming” and “Awesome.”
Here we see yet another example of TV Tropes’ hypocrisy and their failure to stick to their supposed strict limits on “pedopandering” content. It’s frankly unacceptable, especially considering they’ve even categorized the film “Cuties.”
This disgusting movie has ignited widespread debate across the internet when it was first announced and for good reason. The so-called “drama” film extensively follows real-life children, the film revolves around an 11-year-old child who is unmistakably portrayed as a fan of “twerking,” as noted in TV Tropes’ own analysis.
According to their writeup, the kids in the movie dance to explicit lyrics and engage in acts and dances that are far too mature and adult-centric for their age.
However, alarmingly, TV Tropes details the inappropriate attire of the girls in the movie, noting that despite being just 11 years old, they wear tight and skimpy clothing more suited for nightclubs. Despite the removal of “Gushing over Magical Girls” due to its erotic fetishism of supposed underage characters, the movie remains featured on TV Tropes’ website.
Cuties is a movie that literally sexualizes children, the title of the movie itself “Cuties” given the context of the film is utterly disgusting. It’s a movie about 11 year old girls twerking and given a classification of TV-MA in America. A film about children for mature audiences?
Retards have defended the movie, referring to it as an artistic form of expression deserving of existence. However, they conveniently advocate for the ban or censorship of fictional artwork and animation that doesn’t align with their own ideology or viewpoint of “decency.”
Those who praise Cuties would likely hold a completely different opinion if the content were in animated form, because only Japanese animation can be considered as child exploitation apparently. Big Mouth and Cuties are morally acceptable to watch with the whole family.
I have my own agenda and ideological stance, and in my view, anyone who isn’t thoroughly repulsed by Cuties is a villain, plain and simple. For some inexplicable reason, TV Tropes has extensively categorized and documented the movie, even leaving polite disclaimers about its sexualization of children.
It’s quite surreal how TV Tropes appears to have a problem with Japanese animation that they label as “pedo pandering,” yet they seem unwilling to apply the same standards to similar Western media.
Moreover, “Gushing over Magical Girls” is a work of fiction; the characters in the series are not real and do not possess physical ages. Even if ages were mentioned, they are entirely fictional. On the contrary, Cuties is a live-action show featuring real-life children.
Therefore, it seems appropriate for the moderators of TV Tropes to have their hard drives confiscated and searched.
