And since some of it is ongoing, there's always the chance. Now, there is plenty of good anime where I can go the whole series without seeing anything of the sort, but that's far less common than it has any right to be. And most of the ones I just mentioned are both somewhat recent and popular. Mind that pretty much all the aforementioned characters are high school age or less and would be considered minors and it gets even more skeevy. It can be not so subtle like outright groping (Fire Force comes to mind) or more subtle with the female cast having larger eyes or super low cut skirts (.several come to mind).Įven anime that I would find usually fun or at least watchable otherwise tends to shove it in somewhere (MHA, Fairy Tail, Black Clover, Food Wars, Kill la Kill, and many more), whether it's a Mineta-style pervert who is played for laughs and won't fcking stop, or the inevitable hot spring episode where all the guys suddenly have to go peeking, or the summer episode where we have to see every skimpy swimsuit (always on the gals) with plenty of commentary. I will say that at the very least the pedo/infantilsm and general sexual assault 'gags' are way more prevalent in anime than pretty much anything in Western animation. I like some anime but have been able to notice a lot of more problematic ones as I got older, not sure if it's just been more prevalent lately or I can be more objective about it.
