The Hentai Creep: A Rather Disturbing Trend In Today's Anime

We are nearing the final stretches of 2-4-1 Month but since I haven't written an article on my website for a while, I decided to focus on a topic in today's anime that I find rather disturbing and that is the hentaification of today's mainstream anime. Simply put, uncensored nudity and very suggestive to explicit sexual material is starting to find it's way into mainstream anime titles.
  I can guess why this is happening. for the last few years. anime producers have been scrambling to find an audience since kids are becoming harder to find in Japan these days. Simply put, people in Japan are not having as many kids as they used to and youth in Japan is rapidly disappearing at an alarming rate. As such, anime producers have been increasingly switching their attention from a child audience to a more adult audience for quite some time with shows like Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Gurren Lagann and the works. However, what I find disturbing is that material you could only show in hentai titles in the 1990's are starting to find their way into anime that is shown on Japanese television in a type of show that I like to call Borderline Hentai.
  A good example would be Queen's Blade. The anime includes very strong sensitive sexual topics and gratuitous amounts of nudity. Although the anime ran on TV heavily censored, the anime ran on the AT-X cable channel and was released on Blu-ray and DVD completely uncensored.Then there was Yosuga no Sora which was complete with nudity and extremely suggestive sexual acts not to mention a incestuous relationship. Another good example would be B Gata H Kei where the story revolves around, and I'm not kidding here, a teenage girl aiming to have sex with multiple guys. Feel free to throw up watching this one. I may actually review it just to point out how incredibly absurd and tasteless this is. Other examples would include Sora no Otoshimono, Strike Witches, Girls Bravo, Kodomo no Jikan, oh, and does anybody remember my review of Eiken? Although it wasn't shown on TV as they could never get away with such material on Japanese TV back then as they could now.
 It's not that I condone censorship, but I wish there were some way you could have an option to remove such material on the DVDs as such as like on the TV versions of these shows as not everybody wants to see such material in their anime. But whats more disturbing is that kids suffering from insomnia in Japan will see these kinds of anime on TV and think it's okay to emulate the characters on screen. Don't think for one second that this is strictly an American problem, people. I know I am probably nitpicking, but when I watch anime, I personally would rather not have a huge pair of ta-tas shoved into my face. Feel free to complain if you want to, but that's just my ten cents.

Oh, by the way, don't expect any pictures in this one since they are all way too graphic to show.

Announcing Two-for-one Month!

As a part of the celebration of my 2-year anniversary and the build up to Episode 50, I declare the month of March 2012 to be 2-4-1 Month! That's right, two episodes for the price of one! The main reason of course is to fast track the story and build up towards Episode 50 so I can resume reviewing new releases as soon as possible.
Here is how it is going to work. The first episode will be posted up as soon as Friday and the second review will be up the following day. So essentially, two episodes will be posted every other week throughout the month of March!