Good Halloween animes?
Here are some of my recommendations, but feel free to add your own!
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I could populate a huge list I'm sure, but I've pared it down a bit to some of the better titles.
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I might look into it. I did enjoy Kokkuri-san. Though the poor guy just can't get a break with that crazy crew.
The worse "You really need to admit it's problematic" thing I watched was Super Lovers. It's a BL anime where a romance blossoms between a guy and his adoptive brother. It starts when the kid is very young, but then they separate them and age them up a bit, though the younger one is still really damn young and naive. It's a creepy and manipulative relationship to me, but since it's BL, the fangirls were eating it up and just could not admit that hey, maybe this isn't the perfect storybook romance you seem to think it is. I wrote a tumblr post about how awful the relationship was and people jumped down my throat. A few people also thanked me for pointing out what was making them uncomfortable with the whole situation, but on a whole, people just did not want to hear it. |
I completely agree. I've been in an emotionally abusive and manipulative relationship before, so I'm very sensitive to those things. When I point out a "fairy-tale" relationship in a fandom is unhealthy , people say "I'm too sensitive". Like in the Steven Universe fandom people don't see how a relationship between Jasper and Lapis is unhealthy. If you don't watch the show, basically Jasper forced Lapis to fuse with her (fusion is a metaphor for a relationship) and then Lapis forced Jasper to stay in the fusion for a long time (actual amount of time is unknown, but it's implied to be close to six months) to the point Lapis and Jasper lose their sense of self.
That's NOT a healthy relationship, but people are still rooting for "Lapis to forgive Jasper and start dating her!!" People literally what Lapis, who was manipulative, to forgive Jasper, who was abusive, so they can be in a "super hot relationship". |
I totally watch Steven Universe. .....so there are people out there that thought Jasper and Lapis' relationship was romantic?! What the heck! I haven't noticed that part of fandom. The part I see acknowledges that it's just not healthy.... they also seem to ship Lapis with Peridot. But still, holy moly! What a mess.
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There two kinds of fans that ship Jasper and Lapis: The ones that pretend Jasper and Lapis's relationship was healthy, and the ones (that are worse in my opinion) that say Jasper and Lapis "can still forgive one another" and "be a cute couple!"As if it's okay to pressure abuse survivors into forgiving their abuser for the sake of "being a cute couple".
I know that Jasper and Lapis are fictional, but as a real life person that's exactly what I, and other survivors, are told by other real life people, and seeing it being applied to fictional characters just reinforces that stigma and belief of "victims should forgive their abuser, no matter what!". |
That's a really gross outlook on things. Victims don't have to forgive their abusers. I feel like people are forever giving out unrealistic advice or advice from their point of view. A view often so far removed from other people's experiences that it's useless. But instead of just listening and lending support, they want to "help". I find that people do that with everything. If I complain about my mosquito bites, they suggest ten million ways to make them not itchy. Like, if any of those things actually worked, I would be doing it. But it doesn't! I am not complaining because I want advice. I just want to whine and get a little sympathy! And that's just a stupid little thing. For big life issues, sometimes you just want someone to listen and offer a shoulder to cry on or a hug or whatever. You don't want advice. Especially shitty advice coming from someone who just doesn't understand!
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