a) Demographic overlap. b) Transgressiveness without (western-legible) leftist politicking. Anime/manga is much more tolerant of explicit gore and extreme/borderline-illegal sexual depictions than western media product, so it works as a signifier of extremism.
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And yet on Livejournal in 2007, borderline-illegal (and maybe not so borderline) sexual depictions were a thing of the "left"-coded Harry Potter fandom, and the opposition to them from what would now be called a far-right group. These attributions change fast.
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I'm not sure about explicit gore. That tends to be censored much more heavily in East Asian pop culture than North American, with relatively mild gore treated as equivalent to quite explicit sex. You'll see gore in anime, for instance, *only* in direct-to-video properties.
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Yeah but it's disproportionately represented in what gets transmitted to English-speaking culture. Another aspect is the veiled/not-so-veiled sadomasochism in the anime Adult Swim leans toward, but that would take more than 280 characters.
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