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Neither condoning nor condemning, but: Japan is the same country where shows featuring brother-sister incest are aired on television, albeit late at night. [0]
by subjectsigma 6y ago
Neither condoning nor condemning, but: Japan is the same country where shows featuring brother-sister incest are aired on television, albeit late at night. [0] I'm not Japanese, just an anime fan, but from my understanding they (Japanese anime fans) could not give less of a shit about Western taboos and sensibilities.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreimo_episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreimo_episodes
- astrange 6y agoIt's not like Japan does a lot of incest in real life, they just seem to think romances are boring without violating taboos. Japanese people are so against incest they won't have sex after marriage 'cause you're related now.
- claudiawerner 6y ago>Japan is the same country where shows featuring brother-sister incest are aired on television I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that's what Oreimo is about, even though the theme and idea underlies the series :-)
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoThe t.v. version of Ore.Imo. was highly censored compared to the book whereupon it was based to downplay the incestuous themes. There have been far more explicit works. — Aki-Sora and Yosugano Sora feature explicit sibling sex scenes that show everything but the genitals.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoWhy is the term “western” so often used whenever Japan be mentioned to mean either “Anglo-Saxon culture” or even more specifically “U.S.A. culture”? I do not believe that many of these “western taboos”, invariably dealing with sexual themes, would be so taboo in most of continental Europe. — it is mostly the Anglo-Saxon who is known for his staunch moral control on sexuality, swearwords, and nudity.
- fomine3 6y agoJust because we(japanese) don't know much about foreign people's race so tend to distinguish by color because of ignorance.