Anime & Incest??

[halo]

What is with anime shows and incest between Brother & Sister and Male & Female Cousins. First it started with .hack//DUSK then now in Elfen Lied. Can someone explain this to me?

[strike7785]

doesn't matter to me as long as the couple match

[halo]

What to you makes it so that the couple matches?

[shiv]

Halo..were is the incest in elfen lied?....hmm for example i saw angel sanctuary and i rly liked it-wach it...

[Koopaking]

Well a lot of animes involve things like incest, yuri, yaoi, etc. Incest and girl crushes, while still majorly frowned upon, are taken a bit more lightly in Japan than they are in America, I don't know how they are considered in other countries though. Yuri, the lesbian animes, are mostly made for the sake of fan service. The animes involving sibling/relative romances can actually present the incest as a plot device as a dilemma for the main character(s) who have feelings for their sibling, but are confused etc. etc. Take Koi Kaze for instance, which has some big things in it not considered acceptable. This guy and a girl meet, although she is 15 and he is 27, they end up falling in love. Then they find out they are brother and sister. So the anime is about Koshiro's love for Nanoka, his conflicting drive to obey societal norms, and Nanoka's growth into womanhood and her growing feelings for her brother. This is one of the only animes involving things like this to be licensed for other countries. In the end, though, a good anime has a good story, and seeing new and different things is something anime/manga writers consider when making them. An anime with a controversial or taboo subject matter by no means makes it a bad anime at all.

[Ryuuzaki]

Yeah Halo I've never really understood it either. I guess the main reason is because it makes good T.V or something, though to me it's just stupid. Surprisingly, I watched/read all of .hack//Dusk (.hack//legend of the twilight is the manga) and really enjoyed it, but I did see it first thing. Example (for those who haven't seen it) in the first chapter in the manga, after the main characters Rena and Shugo go into the game and meet up with each other, Shugo starts not only looking at her, but look at her breasts and waist (lower waist), blushes, and says he doesn't know where to look. That implies that it's a major turn on (not arguing there by the way) but it's his sister he's "looking at". Also Rena getting jealous and stuff whenever he gets kissed on the cheek, and saying stuff like, "Oh so you care more about this NPC then me?!" stuff like that. It's subtle but it's there.

[shiv]

I agree whith any love..(except the direct blood relatives-that not right).Love has no age limit..for axample the age dif. betwen my mom and dad was 17 years...and they had a nice love story and a nice kid--?that's me ;)

[Koopaking]

well yes the age difference really isn't that big of a deal with a couple once they get to a certain age. I mean, no one would think otherwise if there was an old couple that was 17 years apart, at like ages 75 and 58, and to a lesser extent if they were like 40 and 23, but it would considered just plain creepy if they were together and they were 25 and 8.

[shiv]

Originally Posted by Koopaking

well yes the age difference really isn't that big of a deal with a couple once they get to a certain age. I mean, no one would think otherwise if there was an old couple that was 17 years apart, at like ages 75 and 58, and to a lesser extent if they were like 40 and 23, but it would considered just plain creepy if they were together and they were 25 and 8.

Well 25-8 its not a possible relantionship...i refer the ones that both members involved in relation r constient and can take full responsabilty for their action..

[halo]

*Giggles at this topic* Well thank you for your response Koopa and and everyone else but Koopa's goes into a good depth of explination. Also Ryuu, so glad I am not the only one who saw it between Shugo and Rena in .hack//DUSK.

Now I never said I hated the animes because of the incest, I was just curious if there was some cultural difference that my American mind wasn't taking note of that Japan tends to follow when it comes to incestious relationships.