Anime Has A S3xual Harassment Problem - Followup 

6:30 Can we have examples of that research? Not trying to be that guy, but I want to discourage people from simply saying "there's a good amount of research" instead of showing the actual research.

the real sexual harassment was the anime we watched along the way

Not only can you criticise things you like. The things you like are the things you should be the most critical of.

anime fans: "if you dont like it, don't watch it!" also anime fans: "you cant say you dont like something unless you've watched it!"

It's nice that someone can talk about the more problematic parts of anime without getting harassed and labelled as an sjw feminist, there is a real issue with consent in Japan treated as a joke.

It's genuinely sad that pointing out something as frankly obvious and bad as this is somehow contentious

What I find extremely troublesome is this "It's okay in Japan" mentality. It seems like people tend to view Japan as this weird alien entity that doesn't know any better and only really appreciate it for the pop culture. Kind of like how we love rap music but don't care about its roots in black culture or what the artists were actually trying to convey. I'm left with the impression that it really is more about the product than the people.

I really don't get how "Men get assaulted too" in any way refutes the argument. Yes, it is totally correct. But implying that saying women shouldn't be sexually assaulted is equivalent to saying men should be is deluded.

Can I just say that you're really-really-really cute holy

6:30 yes, i completely agree. I was in early teens when I started to get into anime, I'm a female, and I thought. That. Sexual harassment was hot. Rape trope, forcibly kissing, backing up against the wall, etc. And then surprise surprise, some of those happened to me and I Didn't Like It. I felt wrong, disrespected, objectified, and generally like I'm not human being. But those misconceptions I had was the one that brought me into the situation, was the way of thinking that made me confused, because why being forced by people don't make me feel desired, but instead disgusted? So maybe anime is just anime, a 2D moving picture, but they fckin affect real life, just by affecting people's idealization and thoughts

I didn’t know you were a trans woman! That’s awesome, as there are way too little trans and LGBT people in the anime community. We love you!

Insert *ace pilot takes of helmet and is actually a girl* meme here.

oh no she's cute AND she's a good anime youtuber? *fans self*

I really hate how many, infinitely, Aime fans for dismiss this criticism say: well Japanese mentality is different So? Is this a resolution? Is still bad, it doset resolve anithyng. Thank you for these videos, even if is really late, i still love them. Hope you are well^^

S3xual Harassment 2: Electric Boogaloo

I hate when people are like "you're just looking at this from a western view" Like somehow people in other countries are a completely different species and don't have basically the same moral codes... No one is cool with being sexually harassed, raped/molested, or demeaned in any way... Women in the West (or specifically in America), tend to have a more outspoken stance than others, but when women in some other countries are killed for even speaking about it, and it doesn't even matter if it's someone in the spotlight, it causes some to just silently take the abuse.

There is a problem of making light of sexual harassment in the industry, and it's never going to get better unless it's addressed. I'm willing to look past alot for alot of series, Hisone to Masotan and Uma Musume being two big examples from this year, but not everyone can nor should they. You're doing really good work pointing all this out, if even it's only the slightest chance it might actually reach the audience that needs it most.

Very well said! You eloquently executed your points, and I particularly found the distortion of s3xual assault induced by "boy has an accident" to be incredibly fascinating. The initial video was my introduction to your work, and I'm happy to say I really enjoy your content. -SliceofOtaku

"If you don't like it, don't watch it." That's actually a pretty good point. It's *such* a good point that I'd like to use it myself! Hey people who don't like a video about widespread issues in anime, if you don't like the video, just don't watch it! :DDDDDDDDD

Pedantic DESTROYS anti-feminists with FACTS and LOGIC -tho short I must say I did very appreciate your succinct dissection of the whole "video games cause violence" discussion, since I too have been guilty of using the discrediting of violent games causing direct violent acts as a broad stroke, while also being someone who generally thinks about the influencing power of media in society. Good framing of that for sure!

While this isn't directly related, the subject of sexuality on the whole is a topic I'd like to see addressed (and address myself, actually) more in anime discussions. It often feels a bit like there's absolutely no nuance in how the topic of sexuality and whatnot is addressed in anime discussions and criticisms. It's either "I Like Tiddy, It's Good", or "Tiddies...Bad", and those are both such reductionist and boring takes that it occassionally makes me despair about what people actually think about how sexuality is portrayed in media.

That is almost my exact suggested videos? What the hell? Also, TRANSWOMAN REPRESENTATION IN ANIME REVIEWS!!!!

So another one of my subs turns out to be a cute trans girl. There's a pattern here...

I see hbomberguy in your recommended videos! Good call!

When you click so quickly that the video is still private.

I'm so glad folks like you are confronting the more reactionary parts of the anime community about things like this, thank you! Also, coming from another trans woman, you're cute and absolutely transition goals for my IRL-closeted self :P

I'm surprised you still have such a good thumbs-up-to-down ratio on these videos. The anti-sjw outrage machine must not have gotten wind of these videos yet.

Discovered this channel yesterday. Good ass content. Hope you talk about ONe punch man when you start discussing the LGBTQ problem with anime

"If you don't like it, don't watch it!" How can you know you don't like something if you haven't watched it?

This isn't a rebut or really any other meme. I'm writing this purely out of the enjoyment of it, I do think the response was good, just wanna expand my thoughts. I agreed with the main point in the previous video, and I like much of what you said in the first part of this video. The part about feminism I think probably wasn't elaborated on enough to convince or sway people not already on the same train of thought, and often gets in the weeds and used for many things which makes the colloquial use of Feminism kind of vague here. Not necessarily your fault, just a lot of conceptions on what it is, especially as it pertains the third wave, and I don't expect you to write a paper on modern politics, for a response video. You good. Onto the fun part! (The reason why I wanted to comment) So based on all of the research I've come across, media has little effect on people's behavior outside of their natural dispositions and opinions. If you hold one opinion, watching a lot of movies with a contrary message won't necessarily sway you. The only exception seems to be in those who are 'over-stimulated', meaning many many times the average media consumption for a long period of time, and with strong emphasis. Something like only watching really violent gorey movies and watching them all day everyday for weeks. This will likely make you somewhat more aggressive but only slightly, and under extreme watching conditions. With sexual assault, this might be a problem if the person's main introduction into relationships is through sexually abusive media, but that would be very rare (although maybe less so with anime lel). Anyways here's some fun sources that pertain more or less to media's effects on people, the correlation, unless under extreme circumstances is normally, virtually, non-existent. Here's some Gerbner to back waht I'm saying a bit; Gerbner, G. (1970). Cultural indicators: The case of violence in television drama. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 388(1), 69-81. Gerbner, G., & Gross, L. (1976). Living with television: The violence profile. Journal of communication, 26(2), 172-199. Gerbner, G., Gross, L., Morgan, M., & Signorielli, N. (1986). Living with television: The dynamics of the cultivation process. Perspectives on media effects, 1986, 17-40. Gerbner, G., Gross, L., Morgan, M., & Signorielli, N. (1980). The ‘‘mainstreaming’’ of America: Violence Profile No. 11. Journal of Communication, 30(3), 10-29 Other semi-relevant sources; Gurin, P., Gurin, G., & Morrison, B. M. (1978). Personal and ideological aspects of internal and external control. Social Psychology, 275-296. Shanahan, J., & Morgan, M. (1999). Television and its viewers: Cultivation theory and research. Cambridge University Press. Wilkinson, J. S., & Fletcher, J. E. (1995). Bloody news and vulnerable populations: An ethical question. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 10(3), 167-177. Anyways! This is by no means a rebuttal, I agree with most of what you said to what I understand, or at least the sentiment behind it, I'm just a psych nerd and wanna flex my arms. This was a good response, although I don't think the point you made in the original video was off base or necessarily warranting of one. Have a good! Also feel free to not read all of this, I'm content with it falling to the void, I just felt like typing, and am having trouble writing a script for my own video!

Man, I'm going to miss bring back the romance month. The content you have been putting out has been stellar!

As a fellow trans-girl... you're shockingly good looking, to an inspiring degree. I'm sorry if that feels like it takes away from your statements somehow, but when you cut to your face my heart legitimately skipped a beat at how good looking of a girl you are. Like honestly you should show your face more often, its honest to goodness inspiring to the rest of us

I find the term "feminist" to be nearly redundant because everyone has a different definition for what it means. I know people who identify as feminist and other people with very similar ideals who don't identify as such. When I hear someone say "I am a feminist" or "those gosh darn feminists", I still have no idea what point they're getting across until they elaborate on what they think "feminist" means. I wish that word would just get retired from discussion because at this point, it's easier to go right in describing your stance.

I'm surprised the video even got controversy in the first place.

“And if you’re gonna say ‘Male Feminist White Knight-ing, I’m a trans girl so no.” Actual fucking POWER MOVE Also this discussion on sexual harassment in anime was very well constructed! You’ve earned a new subscriber, I always enjoy a good analysis on media’s effects/reflections of real life. Looking forward to checking out your other content and new stuff!

you're so pretty!! Jeez!! I only found your channel a few days ago and I've been binging your videos, love it!

Totally irrelevant comment but This is the first time I've seen your face in a video and OMG you're so cute! Your little swoop of bangs also really suits you and frames your face well. Are you planning on growing your hair out? If you aren't sure, an undercut might be a good compromise for letting your hair be as long as you want while 'feeling' short.

I would really love it if you did a deeper dive into this subject with more research when you have time, one that explores other animes and examples of this. I love how you are doing follow up videos clearing out a lot of these arguments that fester and get repeated continually even though they can be dispelled so quickly. I am also really glad you covered this show specifically as it is good show, that’s very enjoyable and too often people will only talk about the really trashy and obviously problematic shows (which should still be talked about) whilst they ignore or defend other shows simply because they enjoyed them or think they are good. I get people are tired of anime being looked down on but trying to defend or excuse anime’s constant sexual harassment and assault problem isn’t going to help.

Wait. You're a woman? *The more you knowww*.

I've had someone tell me that 'objectification' shouldn't be used when discussing media because it was just a word used to shut down free speech. Like what? Words should be banned to protect free speech? Reactionaries are just too much sometimes

*For a second there I thought this was a reupload.*

omg your trans OMG LGBT PRIDE IM TRANS TOO HEY HELL YES

Me: Anime has a sexual harassment problem. Other people: But men get harassed in anime too- Me: I DIDN'T. *FUCKING.* *S A Y A N Y T H I N G A B O U T G E N D E R-*

I love that you are doing these follow up videos! It definitely makes it feel more like a discourse, especially in the way you respectfully respond to respectful counterpoints.

I love your content but also aaaaaaaaaaaaa you're so pretty! Excellent eyebrows and analysis

I really wished I could read comments that disagree with you, but still have a point. Sadly you abusing the super-like feature makes that hard :(

YOU INCLUDED THE FINGER COMMENT, YESSSSSSSS also nice tank top

I have no idea how common it is but I knew a girl who had really shitty views on consent and she was obsessed with anime for a while, watched several hundreds of them, including a lot that played sexual harassment off as a joke. She would touch other girls without their consent frequently (e.g. slapping their butts, trying to raise their shirts in public, even pinned a girl down once and kept her from getting up) and then try to justify it by saying she's straight. This is not really something you left out as I don't think it relates to the show you talk about, just something to mention within the larger talk about sexual harassment in anime. Sexual harassment/assault between girls in anime is often either played for laughs (often with presumed straight girls groping each other), sexualized (e.g. one of the scenes in Yurikuma Arashi. It later appears in a flashback of romantic-sexual moments of the two girls too) or brushed under the rug quickly (Strawberry Panic). Unchallenged sexual harassment in anime is a problem no matter the gender of the people involved and I hope to see less of it.

I've read somewhere that video games don't cause violence, but violent people are attracted to it. But it certainly isn't a cause.

I loved how you broke down these objections extremely clearly. Your argument game keeps getting better :) Oh, and you look fucking gorgeous ;)

god damn you're so pretty and your smile is so cute, we love a well educated queen calmly addressing comments on the last video to keep raising awareness of the problem of sexual harassment in anime. also your nails are done really nicely I wish mine were that nice ;-;

thanks for this month of deep diving and selfreflecting content, thoroughly enjoyed it!

Your skin looks amazing! (Thanks hormones)

The way I interpeted Hoshino saying that she'd be fine with being Zaito's fuckbuddy was just her being cheeky

6:24 you’re really cute and pretty btw. Sorry, that was just kind of my first thought when you showed your face lol.

Holy crap! I fell in love with your videos when you did one on Wandering Son. As a trans guy the story itself always held a tender place in my heart and hearing you discuss something that meant so much to me in a way that was both understanding and clearly just as loving- well the long and the short of it was that I cried like a little baby. I know you have alluded to being a trans in the past, but I don't like to assume and put labels on people. Hearing you say it outright means a lot to me, as I'm sure it does to other trans folk. I've liked your videos from the start thanks to the angles you approach and the subjects you decide to cover, but it also means a great deal to me that you're so openly LGBT. Keep doing you, I can't wait to see more.

Really good follow-up to an already very good video. Also, your hair looks nice today and I thought you should know that.

literally just found this channel a few minutes ago and We Stan fr though it’s so cool to find more folks who enjoy/watch anime but criticize its problematic parts in smart and thoughtful ways? not to mention how excited I am to find more trans YTers to support!! keep up the great work, sis! 💕💕

This anime may not inspire people to sexually harass but it definitely doesn’t challenge sexual harassers

id seriously like to know what kind of people disagree with the core problem you addressed

i’m glad you made a follow up video, this subject needs to be talked about more! i really hope you do make the video on how queer characters often get mistreated in anime, because i usually see little to no people talk about that said subject. anyways great video! also you look great!

I am so happy to have found your channel! Thank you for bringing this topic up an being super professional and informative about it. Subbed

It’s the first tine I see you. You are beautiful! Not that it matters how you look, but you got so much hate for such a great video on such an important topic that I thought a heartfelt complement might brighten your day a bit.

Yessssss girl finally someone talks about these subjects!!! The anime community reeks of conservatives ( and fascists) and I am fucking tired of it.

huh, face cam. wasn't expecting that.

I went through months worth of RU-vid history to find this video because you look so much like my old boss and I just had to see again to make sure 😂 rest assured I subscribed 💖

Watched this in full screen and I still feel like I'm not in full screen, lolz.

6:10 yes!! This is why it’s so important to think and talk about the media you consume, because it does influence you.

One transwoman to another, girl you are pretty! I hope I can look as femme as you do someday.

Oh. I gotta say I did *not* expect that webcam shot. I'm glad you did a follow-up after the shitstorm that part of the reception of it was. Necessary conversation.

I was honestly not expecting this video to go into the direction of harassment towards males and as a male who has rather frequently been harassed, objectified and raped it was refreshing to hear a conversation that I didn't start shed light on the subject. So... Thank you.

This stuff has been bothering me for a while now in one form or another. Thank you for bringing this to the forefront. It is a conversation that needs to be had.

Another great video about anime and sexual harassment? Supporting and reevaluating previous claims and arguments? All done a by a super insightful and LGBTQ RU-vidr? I think I’m in love!

I respect your opinions, and I think your points have merit. I agree, the sexual harassing pervert trope is really annoying in anime. But I just can't agree that media as a whole influences people's actions. While yes the media can change our opinions and outlook on life, at the end of the day, people have agency. Someone using the excuse, that their favorite pervert anime character caused them to go out groping women on trains, is lazy at best. (Much like playing video games causes a kid to shoot up a school)

Actually I don't know about you, but I found the comments in the other video to be pretty civil and also quite interesting in the arguments they bring (also the ones in this video) I was pleasantly surprised.

The thing about talking about sexual harassment is that it angers the people who want to keep getting away with light sexual harassment.

Found this video and the last one pretty interesting (especially having recently watched the series in question), so definitely hope you’re able to expand on the topic in the future.

@Pedro, what do you think about this hypothesis. How much media effects an audience is directly correlated to how much it presents itself as indulgence and/or fascination. Violent videogames are almost entirely pure indulgence so thats why there is a low correlation between violent videogames and violent people. But shows such as Dragon pilot, which address many themes, seems to be going more for fascination, so getting sexual harassment wrong is less forgivable for it than it is for something like the monogatari series which clearly represents its sexually explicit content as indulgence.

Your channel is actually really good. For some reason i thought you were a Digi associate at first, so i never subbed. No idea why, i guess i was hate watching one of his vids and saw a rec for you and thought you were one of his minions lol Glad i gave this vid a chance, i love your content :)

To me it's supposed to be a joke most of the time like how in american television girls get to punch boys and the audience is supposed to find that funny, it's obviously wrong to do in real life which is why the shock value makes it comedic. So to me either both are okay or neither are okay.

When you said "I'm a trans girl actually, so no" I was thinking wait what? I was having trouble believing that statement, I was in some denial that you were being serious. Then the clip of you appeared and I was like "Oh, okay. Cool, now I believe you". I don't know why I felt the need to express this experience, I guess it is just an example of how people react to the news that someone is trans.

It's pretty obvious that characters that do overtly sexually harass someone are painted in a negative limelight, a narrative of sorts considering how badly the girls usually take it. The implication to me seems to be "this is creepy and doesn't work so stop it"

Holy crap A WANDERING SON VIDEO? You've just earned a subscriber I'm so excited it's my favorite anime

I just wanted to mention, that I think you did a great job with theese videos. You really just presented the facts about the whole problem so that anyone watching can see for themself, why this is bad (or well, they should in theory)

even if its part of a culture it can still be wrong. In africa young girls get cut as part of their culture, its painful and disgusting and wrong regardless. culture is not an excuse

I don't mean to be rude, but I absolutely love how you casually came out as trans, stay strong!

holy shit did u jus come out as u fucking tackled this problem that's been bugging me 5ever about anime?! (the whole "loveable pervert" trope really pisses me off so much so i wrote out a whole essay about it) go awf! as a trans nb/demi guy im so looking foward to your wandering son video too, i cried while watching that anime.

It's true. Garlic bread almost always needs more cheese.

I love your videos. This is an issue thats been bugging me for a long time. Thank you !!!!! Also you are very pretty. 😄

thank GOD for continuing to address this issue-- it bothers me SO GD MUCH that pervs are supposed to be funny and rewarded in anime! Even finding a handful of people who feels the same way (such as in the comments of this video) is refreshing and makes me feel like I'm not going insane. Keep being awesome!!!

I have so much respect for you 👑

Thank you for this video. A lot of statements I agree with, and honestly the way women are treated in anime is what pushed me away from the scene. You're cool and I'm subbing. Also you're cute.

That cut to face cam seriously surprised me. Pretty good mic quality for in-ears

You are awesome. Keep it up!

The finger bitting guy has a point though. Is it really sexual harassment if all he wants is to eat human flesh? The stigma over cannibalism needs to GO.

You really need to stop ending your otherwise reasonable disagreements on calling people close minded. You're shrinking your room for open discussion. I think most people's points were that if a person takes away something like an attitude more likely to commit sexual assault from anime, the fault falls on that person... not the anime. Specifically in reference to the lumped "Video games don't cause violence" section.

Just adding to the comments that (while your analytical mind and contribution to anime discourse and specifically addressing queer issues is more important) I feel it's been a while since we've seen your face, and you are *so pretty*

@ThePendanticRomantic I love the background you have on your computer at 6:10

Thank you for your effort on these videos! I just stumbled over them and I think, they're actually quite a good starting point for discussion. I mean, they're not that deep into the issue, but that would be a bottomless pit. As a starting point both videos bring up good arguments and I really love how you included some information about the situation in Japan! Because Japan is no wonderland where everything is fine. It has issues with sexual harassment, that are actually deeply routed in the mindset of people, and the feminist groups in Japan actually deserve more spotlight. In general, people tend to generalize feminists as "radical men haters", but this is sadly the case of a minority screaming way too loud....Heck, one of my professors at university was one of the greatest feminists I`ve seen, a really respectable man. To the issue with "leaving out men getting assaulted" - that topic could easily take another video on it's own, and deserves one. My guess is, that men who actually got harassed keep quiet about it because there's still the view of being a "wimp/wuss" if you couldn't defend yourself and not "being manly" enough. It doesn't matter whether other men or women are imposing this on them, but it's one of the cases when men suffer from stereotypes, but if they keep quiet (like women did) it won't change. Women fought and are still fighting for the "right" to talk, and this goes for men as well - there's just not enough time and space without writing an entire book about it. P.S. For this topic I highly recommend the TV drama "a restaurant with many problems" - it's a good show tackling these issues directly (not perfectly but a start).

Some of my favorite content involves creators ripping into products (TV and games) I enjoy.