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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 585176" data-attributes="member: 8461">I wouldn't go that far. Some anime isn't good, and some is certainly damn smutty, but calling it filth seems a bit much.Actually, as I heard it, the age of consent was 14, not 13, and a few years ago it was changed to 18. I could have heard wrong, but I'm pretty sure thats the case. Of course, the rule in Japan is "if its not public, its not a problem" so the jailbait comment remains very true, but that doesn't necessarily make it awful. Japan is just more open about sex and sexuality. Just because younger girls can and do become sexually active there doesn't necessarily mean its rape or molestation.Anime is certainly popular, its just more or less popular in different places. Its extremely popular in Japan, for example, and its slowly moving into the mainstream here in America, which is basically a good thing, even though the fans of anime here in America often have to deal with it being warped and changed from how it was, and this can lead to various controveries (such as the highly popular and successful DBZ being dumped on by other anime fans for no real reason. It's a great anime with over a decade of history, yet people continue to rag on it without even bothering to explain why).A good place to look for a potpourri of answers to questions about anime is Animenation's Ask John archives: <a href="http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn_archive.php" target="_blank">http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn_archive.php</a></blockquote>

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