It could just be me having "but this art style isn't even hot!" goggles If you found the girls hot, it would be creepy. Which I think is the whole point, lol.
I think the point is that any mahoujo show (not just this one, which I think is doing it for commentary purposes) being deliberately marketed primarily to men to play to their lolicon kinks, period, is the creep factor. The idea that the market has turned around to the point that the aim is no longer, "Let's make a show about magical girls who fight for the power of love, for little girls (who will love it and buy our toys!)," anymore but instead, "Let's make a show about magical girls who wear short skirts and *~virginal kneesocks~*, for dudes (who will love it and buy our shit to masturbate to!)" is gross to me. Girls deserve to have heroes made for them, instead of mahoujo existing as porno fodder for dudes into elementary schoolers. Men have enough of the market cornered for their own entertainment, sexual or not, without co-opting the mahoujo genre.
And I disagree Madoka wasn't sexualized; just the OP alone, with the shot of Madoka in the skimpy fetish outfit, and the henshin sequence portion with the closeup on BOOBS SMOOSHED TOGETHER, pretty much read to me as "SENDING UP THE BATSIGNAL FOR PEDOS, THIS SHOW IS PROMISING YOU LOLICON GOODIES GALORE!" Which of course ended up being a bait-and-switch in the end, but they were still trying to draw in an audience of creepy dudes so they could be *~taught a lesson~* as the show attempted to humanize the girls beyond their moe stereotypes and reconstruct the world into having traditional mahoujo values.
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Date: 2011-05-24 04:25 am (UTC)If you found the girls hot, it would be creepy. Which I think is the whole point, lol.
I think the point is that any mahoujo show (not just this one, which I think is doing it for commentary purposes) being deliberately marketed primarily to men to play to their lolicon kinks, period, is the creep factor. The idea that the market has turned around to the point that the aim is no longer, "Let's make a show about magical girls who fight for the power of love, for little girls (who will love it and buy our toys!)," anymore but instead, "Let's make a show about magical girls who wear short skirts and *~virginal kneesocks~*, for dudes (who will love it and buy our shit to masturbate to!)" is gross to me. Girls deserve to have heroes made for them, instead of mahoujo existing as porno fodder for dudes into elementary schoolers. Men have enough of the market cornered for their own entertainment, sexual or not, without co-opting the mahoujo genre.
And I disagree Madoka wasn't sexualized; just the OP alone, with the shot of Madoka in the skimpy fetish outfit, and the henshin sequence portion with the closeup on BOOBS SMOOSHED TOGETHER, pretty much read to me as "SENDING UP THE BATSIGNAL FOR PEDOS, THIS SHOW IS PROMISING YOU LOLICON GOODIES GALORE!" Which of course ended up being a bait-and-switch in the end, but they were still trying to draw in an audience of creepy dudes so they could be *~taught a lesson~* as the show attempted to humanize the girls beyond their moe stereotypes and reconstruct the world into having traditional mahoujo values.