I don’t post here much. The last time I left a 
message here was three years ago and that was my 
only message, but here is my 2 cents on the 
subject, although you might only want to read the 
end. 

I don’t think Japan has a very healthy view of 
gays in their animes. Example A: Venus Wars the 
only gay character in that was a coward, and made 
tons of sexual advances on Hiro that could have 
been classified as sexual harassment.

I think there is more pedophilia in anime than 
homosexuality. Pedophilia seems to be in almost 
all of them it’s in dragon ball (bulma offers 
master roshi a feel on her ass for a dragon 
ball), Black Jack (Black Jack hangs around a 
little girl who’s really an adult but has the 
body of a little girl), the Deprive section of 
Robot Carnival (the robot guy instead of going 
after a damsel in distress, is going to save his 
match, a little girl), Sailor Moon ( Usagi is 
jealous of chibi moon who has a weird attraction 
to her own father), Captain Harlock ( In the TV 
series Maya isn’t a woman but a little girl, and 
in the movie Arcadia of my youth all of those 
alien guys were planning on sleeping with Zol’s 
younger sister ) and that’s just to name a few. 
When dealing with sex most animes seem to be 
really strange. 

Another theme in anime is its anti view of the 
west. Demonstrated in Black Jack(gee, who are the 
federal unites), the 2nd patlabor movie ( the 
heroes fear a modern day invasion from the west), 
Super Atragon (the US throw a surprise attack on 
a surrendering Japanese sub), and even robotech 
(gee, I wonder who the big hairy zentradi are 
supposed to be).

On a lighter note if you want to explore how 
anime feels about the treatment of the elderly, 
get Roujin Z.  

Chris Romano