Well with the inclusion of both an ice zone as well as pseudo wyverns (That was Nargacuga at the end of the trailer), we should hopefully be getting Barioth ,and by extension, this armor set.
Spider-san is still super good, and to be fair, we may not see the high demons again...like...ever.I'm really disappointed in So, I'm a Spider, so what? It was hardly high fiction or anything but it was a pretty fun romp of isekai tropes done in an actually interesting way for once. And no sexualisation.
As it turns out, the only reason there was no sexualisation was just because it didn't have any human characters. As soon as the human(oid) characters are introduced (like 20-something chapters in when I'm already invested) it pulls this shit:
You see, she's evil so she doesn't wear clothes.
I guess lesson learned: look up any manga artist on baka-updates before you start reading. If I'd done that I'd have known that just about everything they've done prior is hentai.
I had completely forgotten about the G-Rank variant (the normal one served as more or less a stand-in for the Kirin set, since Kirin wasn't in Tri/3U).Well with the inclusion of both an ice zone as well as pseudo wyverns (That was Nargacuga at the end of the trailer), we should hopefully be getting Barioth ,and by extension, this armor set.
I don't know. I think this is the first time I've encountered the fantasy armor (at least to this degree) in something I've actually been reading (so not counting the ads on the western comics I read growing up, that shit was ridiculous). I still feel like I've read a fair share of stuff. Just not the shonen fighting kind of fantasy, I guess. (Mushishi is more my kind of fantasy.) That isn't to say I haven't encountered sexualisation before, just not the string bikini armor kind. It really soured my experience and I'm not sure I'll continue.
I'm really disappointed in So, I'm a Spider, so what? It was hardly high fiction or anything but it was a pretty fun romp of isekai tropes done in an actually interesting way for once. And no sexualisation.
As it turns out, the only reason there was no sexualisation was just because it didn't have any human characters. As soon as the human(oid) characters are introduced (like 20-something chapters in when I'm already invested) it pulls this shit:
You see, she's evil so she doesn't wear clothes.
I guess lesson learned: look up any manga artist on baka-updates before you start reading. If I'd done that I'd have known that just about everything they've done prior is hentai.
I'm curious. Do the light novels describe how the demons boobily breast down the stairs or is this all the manga artist's interpretation?
Ugh, boo...
Fire Emblem Heroes just announced its new campaign starting tomorrow, set in the realm of the dead, Hel. Here's some character designs from it. Top is Eir, the (inevitably) young, pretty princess. Some weird anatomy going on and backless because, hey, she's got a dress covering her legs and there's probably a percentage to hit or something. As for Thrasir (bottom, right), she's one of a pair of characters with that silly anime ninja run, but I have no idea what's going on with her red tit straps. Reminds me of the Shining Resonance maid-knight girl with boob window in the frame of the boob window, there's getting creative and then there's just weird!
Maybe they thought there was something for everyone as there's some Radiant Dawn characters (including Tibarn) coming in January...
Let's continue to pray that the abundance of shit in Heroes keeps it away from Three Houses.Fire Emblem Heroes just announced its new campaign starting tomorrow, set in the realm of the dead, Hel. Here's some character designs from it. Top is Eir, the (inevitably) young, pretty princess. Some weird anatomy going on and backless because, hey, she's got a dress covering her legs and there's probably a percentage to hit or something. As for Thrasir (bottom, right), she's one of a pair of characters with that silly anime ninja run, but I have no idea what's going on with her red tit straps. Reminds me of the Shining Resonance maid-knight girl with boob window in the frame of the boob window, there's getting creative and then there's just weird!
Maybe they thought there was something for everyone as there's some Radiant Dawn characters (including Tibarn) coming in January...
You'd figure trying to end the totality of existence would warrant getting an individual character reveal screen.
What series is that? I wanna read it
I'm betting it's Otome Game no Hametsu Flag shika nai Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei shite shimatta...
I hope so, I was actually surprised there wasn't any of this crap in the reveal trailer for Three Houses.
The one thing I'm worried about is the visual of that one little girl sleeping on a throne.
Oh crap I'd forgotten about that. I think my optimism regarding the outfits we've seen of the main cast had blocked that from my mind!
Apologies if I didn't get the time to respond to the argument. Resetera went down right before I could respond.
Strangelove literally gets fridged.
Yes, not a harem type but it's all about young ones going to another world....
That's it, I'm ordering those Rayearth omnibuses I found for cheap online.
I'm going to second this manga. Very funny and cute.
I had no idea that was an isekai. Its been on my list forever.
Oh dear, objective huh? This should be good~
....That's it? That's your "objective" ironclad rebuttal? You can't be serious. There's already a backlash against #metoo, with numerous articles in "credible" papers asking "has metoo gone too far?" and sexual predators escaping justice or even being defended. Sexual predators have been elected to the highest offices of the United States. Hell, Kavanaugh's appointment was a bigger disgrace than even Clarence Thomas's, which was 25 years ago, and it continued the same rhetoric of blaming and attacking the victim, gaslighting, making the accused into a victim, etc. Trump bragged about sexual assault and still got 62 million votes.
I'm really disappointed in So, I'm a Spider, so what? It was hardly high fiction or anything but it was a pretty fun romp of isekai tropes done in an actually interesting way for once. And no sexualisation.
As it turns out, the only reason there was no sexualisation was just because it didn't have any human characters. As soon as the human(oid) characters are introduced (like 20-something chapters in when I'm already invested) it pulls this shit:
You see, she's evil so she doesn't wear clothes.
I guess lesson learned: look up any manga artist on baka-updates before you start reading. If I'd done that I'd have known that just about everything they've done prior is hentai.
Oh hey it's the main character from Nights Into Dreams.
Magic Knight Rayearth gets soooooo dark in the second season.
And when you put that in the context of the first arc, with Kamoshida...I'm sure this has been discussed to death, but I wanted to post about it anyway. I'm a male in my mid twenties and I just started getting back into anime and JRPG's. With that, I've very quickly grown tired of the "let's put a lady in sexy clothing and make a joke out of her being uncomfortable" trope.
I just started Persona 5 not too long ago and was really excited to have Ann join my party... Until she received her Metaverse costume that is. Thankfully I had some free DLC from ages ago so I just put her in a "winter outfit". It makes 70% of the situation better, but it didn't replace her latex suit model in conversations. It also does nothing for the strangely painful looking poses they make her do during battles.
Like... Wtf are you making my girl Ann do to her spine here?
it just makes practical sense for thieves to wear a uncomfortable form fitting costume with stiff leather boots and gloves that can catch on just about anything while also doing crossfit.I'm sure this has been discussed to death, but I wanted to post about it anyway. I'm a male in my mid twenties and I just started getting back into anime and JRPG's. With that, I've very quickly grown tired of the "let's put a lady in sexy clothing and make a joke out of her being uncomfortable" trope.
I just started Persona 5 not too long ago and was really excited to have Ann join my party... Until she received her Metaverse costume that is. Thankfully I had some free DLC from ages ago so I just put her in a "winter outfit". It makes 70% of the situation better, but it didn't replace her latex suit model in conversations. It also does nothing for the strangely painful looking poses they make her do during battles.
Like... Wtf are you making my girl Ann do to her spine here?
No game in recent memory has made me more disappointed than I was at how Ann's arc turned out after the Kamoshida palace.I'm sure this has been discussed to death, but I wanted to post about it anyway. I'm a male in my mid twenties and I just started getting back into anime and JRPG's. With that, I've very quickly grown tired of the "let's put a lady in sexy clothing and make a joke out of her being uncomfortable" trope.
I just started Persona 5 not too long ago and was really excited to have Ann join my party... Until she received her Metaverse costume that is. Thankfully I had some free DLC from ages ago so I just put her in a "winter outfit". It makes 70% of the situation better, but it didn't replace her latex suit model in conversations. It also does nothing for the strangely painful looking poses they make her do during battles.
Like... Wtf are you making my girl Ann do to her spine here?
The #MeToo movement is not an example of society not having an issue with rape culture, it is the exemplification of just how much of an issue our society has with rape culture that all of these victims felt that they couldn't speak up when these horrific actions happened to them and instead had to go through social media to even be heard.
If we look at this from an American point of view, where largely the #MeToo movement surrounding Hollywood exists, we can look towards the court systems and the reasons why women don't come forward to better understand this as well.
And from that same source, as to the reasons why victims don't come forward :
Of the sexual violence crimes reported to police from 2005-2010, the survivor reporting gave the following reasons for doing so:5
Of the sexual violence crimes not reported to police from 2005-2010, the victim gave the following reasons for not reporting:5
- 28% to protect the household or victim from further crimes by the offender
- 25% to stop the incident or prevent recurrence or escalation
- 21% to improve police surveillance or they believed they had a duty to do so
- 17% to catch/punish/prevent offender from reoffending
- 6% gave a different answer, or declined to cite one reason
- 3% did so to get help or recover loss
Source: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
- 20% feared retaliation
- 13% believed the police would not do anything to help
- 13% believed it was a personal matter
- 8% reported to a different official
- 8% believed it was not important enough to report
- 7% did not want to get the perpetrator in trouble
- 2% believed the police could not do anything to help
- 30% gave another reason, or did not cite one reason
When looking at these statistics, the two highest reasons for not reporting at all was because victims feared retaliation or that the police wouldn't do anything to help. While these were from 2005 - 2010 from before the #MeToo movement, these are the underlying feelings that led to an issue as sensitive as personal as that to be forced out into the public.
If you look at the actual process of what happens when you try to report a crime like this, there are quite a few examples of police officers not testing rape kits for DNA evidence while throwing them out just to make more space while these crimes were still within the statute of limitations. In the event that you manage to make it to a trial and recount the trauma that you've gone through, there are times where judges will let the accused off the hook because they've suffered enough by going through the trial while prosecutors look for any possible reason to paint you as unreliable, whether it's by saying you sleep with your boyfriend which proves you're sexually active, so you must have consented or loads of other nonsense reasons like that, that happen every single day in the court system.
The court system is not 1:1 with how everyone feels about the situation and how much support they'll show, but it is a strong representation of the realities of how our society views and treats victims of sexual assault. As an example of that retaliation, I've heard stories of people who don't want to come forward because they know that their friends and family will ostracize them or blame them for trying to ruin someone's life for daring to speak up about what happened. That's a reality for a lot of people, where they have to weigh whether it's worth it to go through an entire system that will force you to relive your trauma, where there is little chance of any possible justice being served, while enduring the harassment and scorn of those closest to them.
Beyond just family and friends, you can see how people really feel about this when you look just beyond the surface of these women coming forward through the #MeToo movement. There are countless articles talking about how #MeToo has gone too far, or you can look at the Kavanaugh case where Dr. Ford gave a testimony about what she had endured, and the people on the highest court system in the country would not even investigate it because they cared about the man more than the people that he's hurt. Months after that entire hearing happened, Dr. Ford still receives death threats for speaking up.
The #MeToo movement is a great thing to have happened, but it's also really sad that it had to come to that point for people to even begin to question what kind of attitudes we have towards sexual assault victims. It's an incredibly long road ahead to even make sure that highly prolific cases like those will see lasting justice, so please don't look at that movement and assume that we've solved the issue and that everything is 100% okay now. Our society has a lot of deep rooted problems when it comes to sexual assault, and the reality is that those aren't going to go away that quickly. We have to acknowledge that it still exists and continuously fight to make things better.
