important question: what does steven grant rogers think of anime
I think Steven Grant Rogers is pretty neutral towards anime, and doesn’t see what the fuss is about.
Steven Grant Rogers grew up in the 1930s, in the days before the Hayes Code. Cartoons would run in theatres alongside newsreels as opening acts before the main picture. And by cartoons, I mean things like Minnie the Moocher, a fun little short where a distorted teenage cartoon sex object is tormented by ghosts singing pop songs about opium. “Bug-eyed moeblobs discussing coronettos and boob size” is probably gonna be a step down on the weird-o-meter.
And hentai probably ain’t gonna phase a man who served in the military during the heyday of the Tijuana Bible. Sure, the preponderance of alien squids ninjas might be novel, but is that really gonna be weirder than your squadmate crankin’ it to Donald Duck Has a Universal Desire?
i like the way you think
I love posts like this because I am so sick of people acting like Steve Rogers, who grew up in a rough neighborhood that was also near the gay ghetto of NYC, and enlisted in the US Army during WWII, wouldn’t know a hell of a lot about 1) sex and 2) coarse language.
Like imagine Steve Rogers cursing while there aren’t cameras present. He could probably turn your hair white at the drop of a hat, ok? He just has a public image to maintain. I am sick and tired of the uke stereotype practices, I thought those died out in the early 2000s as they should have. I wish people would stop laying them on Steve.
Steven Grant Rogers is an artist. He’d think anime is weird and fascinating. I mean look at those proportions! Check out the funky stylistic tropes! Look at how they use shading, and the kind of palettes they choose and the design elements that signify character traits and plot elements!
And then if somebody sat down and explained to him how anime tropes and illustration styles have evolved from Japanese culture and the way they draw from and sometimes critique longstanding artistic and cultural traditions…he’d probably go on a bender for weeks.
He might be a bit concerned about the age differences and what they’re willing to show to kids, but every generation has to make that adjustment. And anyway, once Clint’s explained the raunchy puns in Spongebob Squarepants, it’s not like anime is any more alarming.
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