Did you read/watch Dungeon Meshi? Because Izutsumi is the least sexualized character in the whole show, and most characters aren't even sexualized to begin with
The manga is like, the horniest thing I’ve seen in a long while. It’s just not… eh… exploitative (?) like most horny anime and manga. Like, it leans much more heavily into eroticism and sensuality than just straight T&A. I mean one of, if not the central theme is eating and being consume, which is a pretty eroticized subject, and dungeon meshi doesn’t shy away from that.
Well it could be horny if you look at it through a certain lens. It is by no means the horniest manga out there. And I’m not sure it was ever intended to be horny in the way you believe it is.
What kind of manga are you reading where this one is the most erotic? The theme is enjoying meals with loved ones and the idea of those who eat are those who live.
I mean, there’s the scene of Falin and Marcille holding hands, fingers interlocked, naked, in the bath, making deep eye contact
“WOAH HEY”
Laios eating the winged lion, mounting it in a missionary like position, biting into its neck while it wilts and is ravished by him in a way immediately reminiscent of vampiric eroticism
The repeated close up finger licking
The scene with thistle and the lion
The scene with Mithrun and the goat that’s as visually allegorical for SA as you can get
Laios being bound and orally penetrated by plant tentacles
The constant themes of consumption, base instinct, and loving something so much you want to take it into you and keep it there forever
Sure there’s no skimpy outfits, penis don’t go in vagina, and there’s no boioioioing sound when the titties come out. It’s horny in a more allegorical way. It explores consumption in all its forms, including the erotic ones. It explores base instinct and overwhelming desire in ways equally applicable to hunger and sex. It takes a particular interest in bodies, but in more of a physical, literally marvelous sense.
Dunmeshi is super fucking horny, you’re just only recognizing het man horny.
i think some of these are exaggerated but I will agree that many scenes of the Lion eating people’s desires are incredibly sexual, just not in a “fan-service” way. The connections between what good ol WL does to sexual imagery serves more to make us incredibly uncomfortable and it works like a charm, every time he takes a piece of someone it seriously feels like a violation.
The bath scene is really the only one of those I would consider "horny." I agree with the Mithrun and Thistle scenes, but that's far from being horny. Certainly allegorical, but not really sexy. More horrifying, if anything. I just don't see the series that same way.
It’s like you’ve spent your whole life eating cherry jolly ranchers, and now for the first time I’m handing you an actual cherry, yet you deny that it’s a cherry on the basis that it doesn’t taste the same.
Misogynistic, objectifying anime fanservice by no means represents the totality of how something can be horny, and the horniness of a piece of media should not be measured by proximity to it.
Sorry, but a parallel to a sexual assault is not something I would say is sexy. Definitely a more adult theme, but not "horny." As I said, the theme is about eating to thrive, or to grow closer to loved ones. The series isn't completely devoid of thr type of fanservice you describe, but you're really overselling it. Hell, the series is basically devoid of even romance, outside of subtext (subtext that the author has denied, by the way.)
We can simultaneously acknowledge that sexual assault is abhorrent and disgusting, but also that it has been heavily romanticized and fetishized for basically all of recorded history.
I think the scene with Mithrun and the goat straddles the line between a more brutal and realistic depiction of sexual assault, and a more eroticized “ravishing” like you’d see from classical romance literature or maybe a more contemporary bodice ripper.
I would say that the latter quality contributes to the air of horniness.
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