• marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    I heard great things about s3 and started it back up just to be smacked in the face with fan service. I’m 35 with kids. Fan service is for teenagers and it doesn’t do anything for me nowadays. I remember some truly ridiculous fan service growing up, so the baseline for what’s “shocking” nowadays is shit like “Please Put Them On, Takamine-san”; that was concerning, lol.

    As an artist myself, I don’t want art to be expunged from mature content because art is a reflection of life. It is also a way to question (or promote) the status quo. I think with kids getting exposed to this type of content is a cover for not having to speak to them about consent, sex, or queerness or anything else.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      12 days ago

      I have no interest in talking about “mature content” in general, and I wasn’t merely talking about “fan service.” I have, from the first comment, been talking about the normalization and eroticization of SV.

      I do think it’s really disappointing in the case of Fire Force because they’ve got some really lovely animation otherwise (though even by S2 I thought it was getting a little formulaic with the flashing impact frames and such).