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Common Misconceptions on the Word Anime

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It has always baffled me when I tell someone I love anime and they say they do not like it. They sometimes say I hate all anime saying that they never could get into that genre. This is a statement that gets my geek fathers rattled because anime is not a genre; it is an entire medium and whole form of entertainment. It is a confusing statement to say because to me that is like saying you hate all movies or TV shows. To traditional Americans who do not know a lot about anime, it tends to have a stigma attached to it. Hence is why I decided to write about it as a social deviance. When you talk to someone who has never experienced anime before, you tend to get some weird looks. A common misconception is that all anime is pornography; they think all anime has tentacle monsters waiting for that busty girl to pick up and rape. This misconception very much alienates people away from anime. It is true there is a genre that is pornographic called hentai and is specifically targeted at adults. Hentai is its own genre and most anime shows do not come close to that line. Most people confuse hentai with shows that proved what is called fan service. Fan service is a term coined from anime and manga fandom for material in a series, which is deliberately added to please the audience. Fan service can be in both manga and anime and can include racy, erotic, or sexual content such as nudity, up-skirt glimpse of a characters underwear, shower scenes, characters wearing bathing suits, or

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