The Most Offensive Anime You've Ever Watched?

Yeah. Queen's Blade is demoralizing in so many ways. I mean, there's no real storyline to it and the entire series is practically borderline hentai (or what would suggest it as such), including the sequel.

Another series that pushes the envelope is Seikon no Qwaser. When I first saw images of this series, I couldn't help but wonder "What the hell were these people thinking?" Seriously, I didn't think women would get degraded this much in an anime.
 
I've never really found any particular anime to be morally-offensive, but am a bit bothered that certain shows like Kodomo no Jikan get made.
 
I never made it through episode one. Once you start getting to such wonderful dialogue as "Love Angel at twelve o'clock!" I figured it was just too stupid.
 
I don't think Wings of Honneamise was endorsing rape. That is like saying Taxi Driver was endorsing psychos and vigilantes.

Requinni is human. She acted like what many battered women would unfortunately act like in that situation. Doesn't mean the filmmakers are endorsing that message. The audience would prefer that she lash out at him and never forgive him. But is it realistic? No, it is not. Requinni, for all her moralizing, is still a human and she is going to react in a way many humans do. Why do you think so many battered wives stay with their husbanRAB? Is it right? No. Is it a reality? Yes.

Keep in mind, that the film was always talking about how man is capable of both good and evil. Shiro committed an act of despicable nature, but at the same time he committed himself to a well-meaning life goal that stretched beyond political borders.

So is he good? Evil? No, he's just a human, capable of both good things and bad things like any other.

So, that's the explanation of the scene in that context.

Now, does that mean they could have portrayed that dichotomy better? That's up to you. But to say that Wings of Honneamise was endorsing rape would be severely misreading the intention of the filmmakers.

I'm sure someone else here who's followed Gainax closely could add more to this. Karl Olsen usually has a good opinion on pretty much everything.
 
Eiken is just physically repulsive. It's not really morally repulsive unless you subscribe to the 'fanservice is demeaning' school of thought. I'm not a huge fan of fanservice, but that's more because I believe that if I wanted to watch T&A, even animated T&A, I can get plenty of outright porn for that need, rather then engage in juvenile frame by frames for panty shots.

Jikan DOES hit that 'morally repulsive' button for me.
 
A lot of you are listing some rather tame stuff. I mean, the only mildly offensive thing I can see about Strike Witches is that everyone inexplicably wears gym shorts instead of pants. What about, you know,Legend of the Overfiend? Tentacle rape ahoy.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/urotsukidoji/perfect-collection

Bible Black?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=390

Rapeman?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7439

Jungle de Ikou? It's just icky, a fanservice anime in which the main character is 10. Agent Aika? Most of the episode is a parade of panty clad butts pressed up against the camera in various situations.

None of you guys have seen these?

I'd say about 75 percent of the anime I've seen has something, usually something sexist or demeaning to women, that I would consider a turnoff. Often it comes out of nowhere, like a sex scene in one of the Ninja Scroll movies.
 
I was mostly pointing toward more recent stuff that wasnt outright porn.
If we included porn, I'd add any guro or rape porn title you want to feel free to add.
 
I haven't seen Taxi Driver yet (I know, bad film critic!), but from what I can tell there's a pretty big difference between that movie and Honneamise, since Taxi Driver is about a psycho vigilante and an in-depth examination thereof. The rape scene in Honneamise is so upsetting because it's basically a Big Lipped Alligator Moment. There's no reason behind it happening and, even worse, there's no consequences and its never referenced again. There's no good point to it, so that leaves the options of either there being no point or an evil point to it. It's probably just stupid and pointless, of course, but that doesn't forgive it.
 
Shawn Hopkins said:
A lot of you are listing some rather tame stuff. I mean, the only mildly offensive thing I can see about Strike Witches is that everyone inexplicably wears gym shorts instead of pants. What about, you know,Legend of the Overfiend? Tentacle rape ahoy.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/urotsukidoji/perfect-collection

Bible Black?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=390

Rapeman?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7439
[/url]Those are all H-anime. That's pretty much supposed to be as offensive as possible (also, let's not discuss H-anime, we're not supposed to)

Okay, I'm sorry. I'm gonna get a lot of flack for this but...I freaking loved that show. That was...incredibly hilarious for a corabination of how bad it was and insanely outlandish it was from like the first five minutes. I mean, it has like an incredibly thin plot and the tiniest margin of sensibility and for some reason, I can watch it and laugh my butt off. Yeah, the main character is 10 and she does a "way-too-erotic" dance for transforming but, it's wildly insane. It's no Excel Saga but it's good for a cheap laugh

Also, the dub was really good. Maybe because they got the voice actress from Digimon Tamers' Rika to do the main. I always liked her voice. She has this American Rie Kugimiya tsundere voice

Plus, the theme song is really, really, addicting

If it explains anything, I think Media Blasters licensed this. (You know, I bet Beat would love this thing)
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Well, it wasn't offensive to me, but I'd have to say Perfect Blue is the one in my collection that would freak the most people out.

It's actually an excellent piece on disassociative identity disorder....

/psych major
 
Yeah, not offensive but I completely understand how you think it would freak people out, I gave up trying to lend Perfect Blue out YEARS ago. If people aren't used to animation being more than just cartoons the way PB handles the subject matter can be surprisingly unsettling. Its really bad as an into into anime, Perfect Blue could and has(in my experience) chased people off.
 
I'm quite sure the rape was meant to be represented as the "worst instincts of man", as referenced in the film several times during its lengthy monologues about mankind and its potential. Was it awkwardly handled, like you said? Yeah, I certainly think you could argue that they creatively furabled how it was handled, but again, within the context of the film's themes, it served a fairly significant purpose. Just because it wasn't resolved to the audience's satisfaction doesn't mean that they were trying to endorse it.
 
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