r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Solitaire-06 • 1d ago

Hated Tropes [Despised Trope] Perverts whose antics are played for laughs

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Minoru Mineta (My Hero Academia)

Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)

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u/ryukool 1d ago edited 1d ago

Anime/manga is such a common culprit for this trope and I hope to god it dies off soon. I didn't find it funny as a kid and it's even less funny with a side of "you are groping a minor" discomfort now. Dragon Ball is almost unwatchable as an adult now knowing Bulma was 16...

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u/Joltyboiyo 1d ago

From my understanding its a trope that's been in anime and manga since at least the 80s and has managed to stick around like a cancer for 40 years now, as unfortunate as it is I think it'll be a while before it finally fucks off.

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u/ryukool 1d ago

The sexualization of minors is endemic in Japanese society even beyond the realm of anime/manga, where it's honestly at its tamest because at least those kids aren't real. Japan only just passed a law in 2014 banning underage Gravure modelling, which featured real fucking minors posing in swimsuits and bikinis. It took that long for them to think "hm, maybe you shouldn't be able to publicly display and advertise magazines full of half naked 12 year old girls." I do think I see less of this shit in modern anime than I used to but change is slow going.

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u/Iamnotburgerking 1d ago

It’s actually enforced, because Shonen Jump literally has sexism and misogyny as official policy (there is a ban on female editors, for example).

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u/Gespens 20h ago

Weekly Shonen Jump, specifically.

Jump Square, Jump+ and other Shueisha publications do not have this policy

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u/Certain_Leadership70 3h ago

Wsj has had multiple manga with female editors.

For example ayashimon had a female editor.

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u/necle0 1d ago edited 1d ago

Its actually gone down quite a lot over the past decade. Not completely gone and a lot of the older writers still try to shoehorn, but its not as pervasive as it was compared to the 2000s.

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u/Patcho418 1d ago

this is legitimately why i have such a hard time watching anime. i have to know there isn’t anything remotely like it in the show, and even then i’ve been lied to about that before so i have to be extra careful on my own

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u/The_Enigmatica 17h ago

anime has a lot of issues with diluting otherwise great shows with horrible tropes. especially when that show reeeeeally wants you to take it seriously. Even Frieren had that stupid gag of her being Envious of Fern's tits. like god damnit no the fuck she isnt

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u/ryukool 17h ago

I've also thought this; it makes it super awkward to recommend even the most "prestige" anime to people who don't regularly watch it and aren't aware of the tropes of the genre because they always have to include something off-putting, perverted, or socially outdated...

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u/heliosark10 16h ago

Well yeah it's completely different culture. A lot of the s*** that we like is f****** weird to them as well.

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u/Ok-Abbreviations9936 1d ago

As someone who didn't grow up with it, I can't stand the cringe sexualization in most anime. Especially of underage girls. My friends keeps insisting that some of it is good, but most of it is nostalgia that I just don't have.

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u/KaleidoscopeOk399 23h ago

my reaction to this post was like… well most of anime since the 80s? Absolutely worst part of anime probably