Post #11: What the Hentai?

12Apr10

This week in class we are discussing animation that is tailored to adults.  Examples of these types of animation are: South Park, Archer, The Boondocks, and pretty much all of Adult Swim’s lineup.  These cartoons are scene as adult only because of obvious content that would be unsuitable for children, like language and topics of discussion, i.e., sex, drugs, and ultra-violence.  In Archer, sexual references are made just about ever other minute and in South Park, one of the main characters, Kenny, dies gruesome deaths every episode.  These cartoons cater to newer generation of adults who have developed a crude and sometimes sadistic sense of humor, I myself being one of those.  What I am not and never will be is a sick individual who gets his jollies off on watching what is called Hentai. (I’m not posting a link. If you want to see it, Google it.) How the hell did society become so twisted that no children’ cartoons are safe?

Hentai is basically animated porn, apparently live-action pornography is not perverted enough.  I understand that human beings are naturally voyeuristic, we want to see what goes on behind other peoples’ closed doors, but wanting to see two cartoon characters go at it seems a bit too much.  I imagine this started with comic-strip like cartoons found in Adult magazines like Playboy or maybe even early with the illustrations in the Karma Sutra, but these were made to be comical and instructional.  Have people become so immersed in consumer culture that they now have the desire to make love to products, or watch products make love to each other?

The truly disturbing aspect of this form of animation is that now it is incorporating cartoons that were strictly made for children.  Shows like Kim Possible, Phineas and Ferb, and Pokemon have been transformed into drawn orgies.  Animated porn that resembles traditional Japanese Anime is one thing, but animated porn based on Pokemon, WTF?  Is nothing sacred anymore? Kids today are becoming more internet savvy and it won’t be long before they come across these animated abominations.  I can see it now; a new generation of perverts who will one day have the technology, thanks to plastic surgery, to transform their bodies to look like cartoon characters so they no longer have to fantasize about cartoon sex; they can actually do it.

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