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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Replying to @St_Rev @Scholars_Stage
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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Anecdote is not data, and I'm also a bit weak when it comes to this, but Tokyo Ghoul seems *far* gorier than anything I'd find on American TV outside of a cop show, and far darker than any cartoon (even counting "adult" cartoons)
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Replying to @totoTavrinky @mattskala
Yeah, Tokyo Ghoul is one of the shows I had in mind that takes the buried sadomasochism of eg Dragonball and just wallows in it. Attack on Titan is another one, Hunter x Hunter and maybe Black Clover to a lesser extent.
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They're all shows that prominently feature long closeup shots of pretty boys being tortured. I think that started as a budget shortcut -- it's cheaper to animate a reaction panel than an action shot while doing a dialogue dump -- but it seems to be a *thing* now.
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