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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by subjectsigma on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:14PM (#25838280)
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

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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:04PM (#25839531)
Why 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.

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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by fomine3 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:17PM (#25840896)
Just because we(japanese) don't know much about foreign people's race so tend to distinguish by color because of ignorance.
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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by claudiawerner on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:07PM (#25838905)
>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 :-)

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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:07PM (#25839561)
The 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.

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Re:This Anime Does Not Exist by astrange on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:41PM (#25838606)
It'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.
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