In an effort to cure a recent bout of insomnia, I attempted to watch some low-tier anime, hoping it would bore me into sleep. For the record,  I have tons of love for the medium and the effort put out by animation staff to try and make everything great. Hell, I’ve been watching since I was barely out of toddler age and have seen almost everything that could be considered critically acclaimed since the mid-80s, which is why I think it’s fair to say that there is a ton of anime out now that’s pretty terrible. I mean, I could say that regardless, but when it comes to the anime, cartoon, video game and other extremely protective communities, you always have to preface everything with absurd signaling so you don’t get buried under a mountain of pitchforks. It shouldn’t be necessary that I go on and on about how fucking great Yu Yu Hakushou is or my unabashed love for Sailor Moon as a dude, but that’s what you gotta do these days, I guess.

Anyways, my first attempt was with Ero-manga Sensei. If you’ve seen that other little sister anime from forever ago, Oreimo, then don’t watch this because it’s the same show, just with the out of the two siblings being ‘step-siblings’. The story is going to end the same way that story did; it’s derivative, the characters suck and there’s a better show about manga/light novel writing out there: Bakuman. Hell, even Nozaki-kun takes a shit all over this show, but again, we’re comparing an objective 8 and a light 6 (my personal ratings) to a show that deserves a 3 at best, but is getting ass-blasted by moronic teenagers and societal defects who want to go around either banging fourteen year olds or go around banging their step-sister/real sister. Log off, go outside and meet real people, you nerd-burglars; I don’t get this incest obsession that’s just skyrocketed off in the western world.

Now pissed that I dumped an hour into a trash, I booted up WorldEnd. I’ve only spent half the first episode, but it looks okay; far more passable than Two Siblings That Want to Fuck Each Other 2: The Anime. Side note: why does almost every anime now have a fucking absurdly long name to it? Even the greatest comedy anime ever made, KonoSuba, follows this. The only time this has ever been creative or entertaining was the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, and that was because the staff was specifically making fun of how ridiculous standard tiling practices for a source of media and following sequels is. Halfway through this first episode, and I spot that one of the characters has a similar to something out of a Lovecraft story (Nygglatho) and when a second character has an even more Lovecraftian name (Chtholly), I went to search to see if the show was something like that Nyarko-san show. As I’m sitting here typing this, those are less Lovecraftian and more Norse, but give me a break, I’ve been up for almost thirty hours.

Naturally, because Google is busy letting slimy SEO bastards fuck up their search engine while simultaneously filtering out things that they don’t like because they’re busy trying to appease to their apparently autistic social justice overlords, the only thing I get is a link to this garbage. I’ll be honest, my first cursory read had me thinking that whomever wrote the article was actually looking at it through the lens of classical (read: proper and semi-intelligent) feminism, so I actually got interested, since almost every piece of feminist information or literature that doesn’t directly come out of Christina Hoff Sommers’ mouth is typically fucking tripe. Plus, I love when I’m able to find something that isn’t social justice garbage that I can dive into in an attempt to try and understand something from a reasonable feminist’s point of view, even if I don’t agree with the idea. Exposing one’s self to ideas from the opposition that are well-articulated and explained are how a person becomes truly enlightened, intelligent and worldly. Without challenging yourself or your ideas, you just sit in an echo chamber for an eternity and slowly erode your sanity; it’s how conspiracy theorists and flat earth people are born.

However, on my second read-through and further investigation into the website, I was far less than enthused. In fact, I went from a fan to that state of disappointment that your parents have when you do something so stupid that they reconsider the idea that perhaps you should’ve been aborted in one click.

In AniFem’s case to the posed situation above, the answer is ‘Yes’.

There are only two groups of people who makes fun of people over the haircut they’re sporting: teenagers and extremely narcissistic morons. Since social justice crusaders fall into both categories and tend to have absurd haircuts, it makes perfect sense that this is behavior they would have. I was initially skeptical of this, but trucked on and over the cliff when that was the real giant red flag I should’ve noticed about this site.

Bullet point two is not only where I lost all respect for AniFem, but something I want to bring up. There are over 7.5 billion people on the planet right now. I would think that a fair estimate of people who have lived and died until this point is probably five times that number, if not even more. The amount of people who have truly changed this world are in the thousandths of a percent. That’s the third digit column to the right of the decimal when considered as a percent. The overwhelming, and I mean to the point of reaching a real six sigma cutoff, amount of people are insignificant. Thus, the overwhelming majority of people are already marginalized and thus cannot be any more marginalized; marginalization is a binary state. You are either insignificant or you aren’t, and seeing as very, very, very few people in the entire history of Earth have been significant, this logically means the very, very, very many others are marginalized as they are insignificant. I get that she’s talking about people like women, blacks, latinos, and anyone who isn’t explicitly white, because that’s what the social justice definition of the word means, and that’s my point. Her definition is wrong, and she is wrong because of it. I’m sure Morally Grey would scold me for defining a social justice crusader’s words for them since that’s always how they shift the goal-posts and that it’s better to let them hang themselves with their poor grasp of the language they use, but honestly, if they have to shift the goal posts, then that means the argument presented was too strong to be rebutted outright and the opposition had to resort to underhanded tactics.

I also just noticed that, after telling us that the ‘marginalized’ people will be catered to through moderation due to their ‘experiences’ (read: things they make up that never happen), the writer of this policy states:

Everyone says the wrong thing by accident sometimes

The fuck is this? ‘The wrong thing’? What kind of English is this? Half of the staff are people with majors relating to linguistics. Then again, when they have writers who don’t understand that sex and gender are two separate things and retweet people stating shit like this:

We meet again, the classic ten-IQ point dropping statement.

I can totally see why they’d think that someone could say a ‘wrong thing’, especially a ‘wrong thing’ that they never explain what it is, what it could possibly be, and what makes it wrong.

Here’s one more bonus screensnap just to get your laugh box in the proper mode:

STRONK PEOPLE.

Yes everyone, modern feminism and feminists are such walls of ironclad steel that you must always be sympathetic and supportive to anime and feminism, even if both constantly putting out things that are objectively trash by objectively terrible people. I mean, it’s not like dealing with negativity makes you a much more intellectually sharp and understanding person. Oh, wait.

While I’m here, I want to touch on just how sad it is that websites like these even get bandwidth. When the internet started, the only thing available for website creation that wasn’t forcing you how to learn how code was Geocities, and Microsoft Frontpage, but Frontpage was just terrible. Anyways, Geocities was great because when someone made a website, they did so out of a true passion for the content on the website. Granted, most Geocities sites were terrible, but you could feel the effort each webmaster put into his or her page.

‘But Sahltines, isn’t that what AniFem is?’ No, it isn’t. These are people of my generation who are busy capitalizing on services like SquareSpace and WordPress and churning out cookie-cutter content at an alarmingly rate. The only reason they exist is because the newest fad is trans-trending, social justice and being an unreasonable ideologue to the point that you might as well be part of a cult. Seriously, go through the entire website’s back-log. They’ve only been reviewing anime that has been part of the last three season release schedule, all of it on Crunchyroll. Hell, in the span of October 1st to October 9th, I counted almost twenty individual articles alone. In the back half of the article catalog, I see posts involving monthly updates, tons of Patreon begging, and this clan of people claiming to having ‘loved anime’ for years has only existed for barely seven fucking months. These fuckers have put out over four times the amount of content I have in easily a quarter of the cumulative time.

‘But Sahltines, maybe they’re more concise and better at explaining their feelings’. Perhaps that’s correct, but considering how most of the articles I’ve skimmed through lack real paragraphs, are filled to the brim with pictures and tend to top out at just over the one-thousand word mark. These are all tactics that shitty aggregation sites and agenda-pushing op-ed garbage like the Huffington Post, Jezebel, Elite Daily, The Mary Sue, Ars Technica and almost anything I’ve covered on here do. It’s a tactic so that you take up the same approximate scrolling distance while having to write less words, which means less payments to dole out since writers are typically paid by word. Moderating comment sections so that everyone appears super agreeable is censorship and dissent squashing, and thus helps ensure the people in your ‘safe space’ will always be happy and if someone mad enters or a long fan becomes mad, they will instantly be removed because kid-gloving is necessary to get those big Patreon bucks.

Speaking of Patreon bucks:

Is that Torpedo 1 flying right into her?

I will never understand why over-promising is such a natural action these kinds of people take. ‘Holy shit, we make seven hundred bucks a month writing garbage! Dude, I’m paying all of you, even though we have nowhere near the amount to do so for the foreseeable future!’ High five!’. In this beg that the above was taken from, website owner Amelia spends the time detailing all the costs, including one paragraph where she just keeps adding and subtracting eight dollars from the set Patreon amount as if it’s some kind of voodoo mysticism. Also, ‘no community’? Bitch, you wrote trash for The Mary Sue, which is insanely popular in the radical feminist crowd. You know who doesn’t have a community? Someone like me, and while I fully expect that since my work is hugely insular and off-putting to just about everyone not cut exactly from my cloth, you don’t have that leg to stand on. Then again, I can’t expect someone who thinks that Milo Yiannopoulos commits ‘racist terrorism’, which he has never done and is something only spouted by people that are massively triggered by him being a conservative who sucks cock, as sucking cock is supposed to mean you are an auto-liberal, I guess. The biggest red flag was the fact she has almost ten-thousand tweets, most about eating bread, tons of humblebrags, and that same ‘art isn’t proportional’ shit that moronic liberal arts students who run shitty social justice blogs complain about without having one single artistic bone in their body, but again, I like to be generous.

I’ve pot-shotted long enough, let’s get into some of the material itself.

No guys, you don’t need anyone to become an AniFem patron. The fact that you and other retards do this shit where you come up with an idea and have no back-up plan is why I am terrified that one of your kind is going to run my country some day. Bloggers and YouTubers do this shit all the time, and it grinds my goddamn gears. It’s like these people are incapable of working real jobs or working long enough to save up a sizable nest egg so that when they go off and do what they want, they aren’t getting royally fucked in the paycheck.

No, it’s because setting up a Patreon is what talentless losers who don’t want to leave their house do. The fact that people are now just setting up Patreon pages and Paypal accounts as soon as they start out is one of the reasons why I’m actively avoiding it like the plague, despite how helpful it would be. It’s like going to an investor and asking for a handout without a prototype or plan ready to go. That’s not even addressing that you’re likely not getting patrons because of your work being great, which my eyes tell me it is not, but because you’re espousing popular ideology that people will throw money towards to ‘fight the power’, virtue-signal or due to pity. That’s getting hand-outs and that’s the last thing I want.

I have screen captures from a page on your own damn website where you brag about how you built your community out of ‘nothing’. You can absolutely build your website up without your community, you just don’t want to because then you’d have to get a real job and getting hand-out money is way better than that. I honestly wouldn’t have half a problem with all these people setting up hand-out bins if they just acknowledged that was what they were doing. Especially in the YouTube skeptic community, as I’ve talked about before, there’s this huge push for creating this narrative of ‘If you don’t support us on Patreon, we’ll up and disappear because we’ll have to get real jobs’-hysteria. Good, go and get a real fucking job, because it will weed out who gives a shit about these hobbies and who is just in it for quick cash. The world needs classes, and those classes need to have people that need to recognize that they are completely useless to the world outside of simply being a tiny cog in the grand machine. If you don’t like that harsh truth, then grab life by the sack and make yourself into something unforgettable; you won’t achieve that by getting sympathy bucks.

Also, that page I took all these recent screen captures from has two quotes from two of their staff plugging the site on other pages, but it’s okay because Amelia has made sure to indicate that said staff is ‘acting in an individual capacity’. Cronyism is the absolute best.

Keep in mind, they only write these pieces based on the opening episodes of each show.

Look at this projection. Take every second of it in because it pervades everything on this tasteless website. I watched the entire series, and Kobayashi-san is great. I’m someone who cannot stand shows that focus around cute girls doing cute things or yuri it fails to be entertaining to me. Tons fall within the shoujo style, which is known for extremely slow pacing because the business assumes that whirlwind love doesn’t exist, and the rest is poorly written to the point that nobody would watch it if it were a typical high school slice-of-life romance/comedy. The last show similar to Kobayashi-san I enjoyed was Re-Kan! and it’s honestly not that good on the re-watch. Anyways, none of what Amelia is saying is true or makes any sense. She would know this had she gotten to the mid-section of the series and seen the episode where Kobayashi actually wrestles with her feeling for Tooru, but of course, she doesn’t ever make it past episode one because doing so would mean that she couldn’t shit out her ‘reviews’ at the speed she does. Kobayashi never ‘accepts’ Tooru’s feelings, she just doesn’t question or deal with them. She’s essentially procrastinating on handling Tooru’s feelings, and anyone who procrastinate will be able to back me up when I say that pushing something off doesn’t mean you’ve accepted it.

In fact, procrastination is usually practiced by people who are either extremely perfectionist and need for that ‘moment’ to motivate them to act or who are completely disheveled and unorganized and filled with clutter. Lastly, Tooru isn’t a woman, she’s a humanoid female dragon, emphasis on dragon. I love how common it is that these social justice brigaders are gung-ho about people and animal people shacking up, especially animal people that are are generally animals except for having human posture and human sexual organs. I totally understand fantasy; cat girls are cute as hell, but that’s because cat girls are typically humans with tails or ears. At least to me, it’s a very covert way of saying, ‘If it weren’t illegal, I’d probably be into bestiality’, kind of like how I stated before that I feel so many fans of that borderline pedophilic-incest anime I didn’t enjoy watch it because they want to bump uglies with minors or their family members. Yuck.

Short bus alert!

Hey Amelia, you dolt, they didn’t ‘erase the interpretation’. If anything, they solidified the fact that Tooru is a lesbian at the very least, seeing as she’s attracted to Kobayashi, and that this might turn into the exact thing you open this paragraph with: a canon lesbian relationship in an anime. There is nothing distorted here because the entire point of the series is the romance between Tooru and Kobayashi; if you had gone into this show with an open mind and an actual mind, you would have understood this at the end of the first episode. Of course, though, you have an agenda to push and only think in terms of ideology and dogma, so it’s only natural you’d write the same way. It’s a shame that you couldn’t understand what I’d argue is the simplest and most straight-forward anime of the last two years.

Talk about female ally privilege.

This is really confusing. ‘Straight privilege’ is apparently a writer taking a clear line in Japanese and translating it into it’s exact meaning in English. Never mind that Amelia here is implying that when a lesbian confesses to another woman, that woman should never give them a direct rejection and be as unclear as possible. More importantly, how is assuming that the translator is straight a ‘reasonable guess’? For someone who supposedly knows Japanese, you’d think she’d understand that the translators do their job mostly based off the written script and sometimes snippets of the actual dialogue so that the translation makes the most sense. It’s why so many dub jobs are total refuse and the whole ‘watch it with subs on’ is the default answer when it comes to anime.

Was it really that good?

You just targeted a single translator and made some completely baseless assumptions about them. You can’t backpedal at this point, you goon. Additionally, something can’t be a ‘notorious problem’ if you are the only one bitching about it. Seriously, Amelia links to AniFan’s own article on this as if screaming next to yourself screaming in the echo chamber will bolster this point. Amelia, if non-queer subs was really the problem you and your tiny, yet loud, minority claim it to be, which it’s not because anime is watched by mostly men, specifically Japanese men, who are into otaku culture, a culture that is about gaming, anime and not giving a shit about your made-up problems, there would be more sources to pull from and you wouldn’t have to plug yourself. I also love how you continue to humble-brag your ‘knowledge’ of the Japanese language and the words used when it’s a goddamn fact that the vast majority of people in the world are straight, so saying ‘lover’ instead of ‘girlfriend’ outright would automatically be assumed to mean someone of the opposite sex, even in a language that has tons of implied meanings based on word choice.

Except that they wouldn’t.

You dope, if Sayo constantly uses gay characters, her fans wouldn’t be sitting there thinking, ‘I wonder if these two pretty boys are gay’, they would be screaming, ‘Oh my god, kiss already you two pole-smokers! God, they’re so hot!’ Pushing this aside, this is such a poorly constructed paragraph. I need to ask how you graduated from college because no teacher I had a literature or linguistics class with would have let crap like this pass. Then again, I went to real universities with names and quality programs, so perhaps that’s the reason.

Oi-fuckin’-vey.

No, you goddamn virtue-signalling twat, translation staffs are translating the lines as they are because the vast minority of people are actually homosexual. The subtitles aren’t broken, they’re correct for the majority and, unless you’re so goddamn important that you’re going to completely change the world (hint: you aren’t), that’s fine.

Oh, here we go.

Quoting that story from the Philippines, a country in a part of the world that is highly homophobic, as if it’s the fucking baseline for real trans-sexual people, let alone all you goddamn fake-as-fuck trans-tending fad-bandwagoning fruit cups is unbelievably fucking disingenuous. You’re trying to paint the whole world as hating trans-sexual people when, in reality, we hate you trans-tenders and couldn’t give a shit about real trans-sexual people. You know why that is? It’s because real trans-sexual people either completely pass for the sex they’re aiming to be, they tell people they’re trans-sexual before getting their smash on (like an intelligent person would do), or it’s really fucking obvious because they did not transition well.

Not to mention, the word ‘trap’ has long existed before you unholy dipshits stole the word and made it a ‘slur’. The word meant the same thing as ‘lady-boy’, or a dude who dresses in drag. Cross-dressing doesn’t make you fucking trans, you retard, having gender dysphoria and then deciding to take hormones and have the proper surgeries does. The word also didn’t come from cross-dressers ‘trapping’ straight dudes in sexual encounters, it came from the fact that the dudes were dressing as chicks, hence the ‘trap’ since females don’t have penises nine-hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine-hundred ninety-nine times out of a million. You moronic normies came in without taking a peek, like the average tool in a city who crosses the street without looking, and got hit by the rawness of the internet and took massive offense.

How do you even breathe, hon?

‘Intentions are always secondary to outcomes’? What the fuck does this even mean? I can only guess that Amelia is saying that we should somehow be able to scry into the future so we’ll know if something will be offensive or not, because if it is but it was intended to be funny, then fuck that. I got butt-mad, and I have an ego the size of a planet, so that means people need to bend to my will when I tell them to do something. It doesn’t matter if why I ask is completely ludicrous and the firs step to an inevitable slippery slope problem that will rear its head after I make ever-increasingly continuous, yet more ridiculous demands! The only thing that matters is assuaging my ego!

The percent of ‘marginalized’ people (read: people in LGBT) across the world is in the tenths of a percent, Amelia. I know this because Gallup, a polling website that understands statistics incredibly well, posted two years ago saying that just under 4% of the total population in the United States (3.8% to be exact) is part of the LGBT community. I would expect this figure to be slightly less in other first-world countries, but I would say that the entire world probably hovers around two percent (2%) of the entire population being LGBT, and I’m being hugely generous there. This ignores huge population centers like China and the Middle East, which are full of areas that kill homosexuals or limit birth rates, but even with my extremely generous estimate, it is obvious that these people are not in the minority. Does this mean we shouldn’t work to ensure they have the same legal rights as everyone else? Of course we should work towards that, although I really don’t know what more we can do since the biggest issues have been tackled properly and the only issues that keep coming up are absurdly stupid ones that only special snowflakes like yourself want. Should we halt production of everything to get a handful of lines right because some bread eating, virtue-signalling, moon of a human that spends all day tweeting about the work she isn’t doing, complaining about the opening episodes of anime she won’t watch, making extremely questionable claims and begging random strangers online to fund her cake eating? I think not.

My ending question remains the same: why do these blowhards complain so much about this shit and never do anything to actually fix it? Instead of offering to be an inclusive translator for Crunchyroll or Funimation and catch these ‘mistakes’, Amelia sits on her ass and bitches to the tune of pages of articles per week. If this thing is such an issue, take some goddamn action. The reason is, as always, because this would remove the problem and thus their reason to complain. I say complain because none of what Amelia is bringing up is critique. It is angry and frustrated whinging to anyone who will listen. There is no reflection on the media, just accusations. No digestion of perhaps why such a thing happened, only finger pointing. I mean, these people can’t even make it past episode one of new season shows much of the time; can you even be called a critic if you can’t even put in what is typically between ten and fifteen percent of the time a show will run for on average?

Yet again, a bunch of raging, coddled fart-baskets start a website and, like clockwork, they suck the wallets of people too lazy (or stupid, take your pick) to think dry. What a shame.