“What Free! Would Be Like If Haruka Was a Girl”

Anime was never all for men. And even if that were valid, what it comes down to is that no one is being forced to watch (or click on articles for) this particular anime. Anime for men is not affected by this anime existing. That's all in people's heads. Why are people so up in arms about one anime with swimming guys and not about all the shoujo that has existed for years?

You're thinking too hard. It's the Us vs. Them mentality that has some of you all defensive in the first place. I thought the first episode was well done, so I'm giving it a chance. With the way some of you were talking about it, you'd think all the guys were butt fucking the whole episode. But all I saw was shrug-worthy.

17:32 You just described taylor secret fantasy of being gay gangbanged.

You're not thinking deeply enough about it 1732. If anime starts catering to women more often anime is going to start to fuggen suck. No more quality characters like Senjougahara, just men acting like women (which ironically girls dont like irl and wont date you but they love it in anime and manga) and the shallow shit that gets womens attention like in ouran and kuroshit. No more moe for those of us who like it. No short skirts, no pantsu, no lolis, no harem, no action, no warrior battles, no deres, no role model characters, no deep thought provoking storylines (name one fujoshi anime with a deep story line I dare you) no plots or PLOT, no waifus, no need for quality art (men are visual women like to hear shit), no sarcastic or dark comedy (women are too stupid usually to get it, dont believe me? no shojo anime has it.), and beautiful/cute girl going after the average guy not because hes cool but just because he treats her well will be replaced by poor antisocial average looking boy bodied no friends loser girl gets the rich model beautiful guy all the girls love to notice her and even though this dull boring nothing special about her girl pushes away this beautiful smart athletic guy whos great at everything constantly hes still chasing her annoying melodramatic ass around for 13-24 episodes. I can go on. That's the future of Anime if shit like Free persists. If you don't believe me, free has none of the fore mentioned elements that has made anime the greatness that it is today.

Taylor, the problem here is that you're clearly insecure. I have no fear or malice about what women have that is catered to them. I know what I like, and I go for what I like. I don't need to keep score with other people in order to know what I like. If I want to watch an anime with hot women, this anime existing has absolutely no effect on that. Take a step back and try distancing yourself from the need to win against this imaginary battle with women and just focus on what YOU want. Because at the moment, your energy is all focused on what you don't want, which just means you'll be seeing more of it.

Girls don't give a damn about otaku being out of the dating market or otaku not paying attention to them. It's a well known fact they see any male attention as harassment unless it's the guys they actually want hitting on them. You've invented this war in your mind because you *want* women to be upset at being replaced by 2D, but the reality is, the majority of 3D women don't care. They can get laid whenever they want dude. They don't need otaku attention. When you think about it that way, and realize this territorial thing you have going on with anime is a one-sided battle that's all in your mind, you can look at this more objectively.

The fact of the matter is, Free exists and women like it. Women liking it contributes to the companies success. If the company is successful they can also make more stuff for men. The anime field will also get a much needed boost in income, because while people are all complaining about fujoshi, they fail to realize that there are tons of girls who aren't fujoshi who would support anime like this.

And lastly, why are people complaining about girls showing sexual interest in something? I think this point confuses me more than anything. I couldn't be more happy about it.

Taylor, again you're thinking about it too hard. This is just one anime. And if more anime like this are created, it's not a huge deal. It will just be an addition to the vast library of anime, and not a replacement for other things.

Just read your entire post. Most of it is pretty geared towards insulting women. Take the anger out of it, remove the tendency for an overemotional reaction, and just look at it objectively.

When I saw this was coming out, all I thought was: Women are going to get to see some man flesh for once. Cool. Good for them. Next.

That's it.

Just take a second and consider that this isn't a threat. It's just one more anime you won't have on your list of things to watch. Stop putting so much effort into hating it and go watch something you like.

Of course that if studies begin to make more animes like these will be to the detriment of other anime, and that it is certainly a threat. I do not want that creepy fujoshifest to extend more. The male otaku must express their opposition to the existence of this crap, otherwise the future of anime can be insufferable.

All of my posts are geared towards insulting women, are you new here? 3D Women ruin shit as I have proved on multiple occasions and what may seem like 'just one anime' could be just the beginning. With hitler it all started with just one jew and look how that turned out. Hitler used to be a starving boy on the streets and you know what happened? A WOMAN saved him and fed him and later on went to say she regretted it her whole life. True story look it up.

The influence of women ruin every good thing men enjoy and it just starts with a little. You think like a commoner only in the present, but some of us think like leaders and have to consider the future. Do some research on the snowball effect.

Stop ass kissing women are u after upvotes? Think for yourself and don't think you always have to say the neutral popular opinion because you think it makes you objective. Objectivity is being able to consider BOTH sides of the argument including mine and justifying the conclusion you reached which you did not do and only preached on the obvious argument any simpleton could come up with without critical thought as if I didn't already know it. Ass kissing and supporting women no matter what (shallow superficial shit) they do trying to be a hero because theyre pretty is what turned women into the useless non contributing to society leeching on men opportunists they are today. Because of kumbaya men with no backbone andideals like You.

Taylor 18:05 07/07/2013 I agree with you that a lot of shoujo and shounen-ai animes don't really go outside of their genre stereotypes (but this also applies to shounen, seinen, and moe anime).

However, AND HERE IS THE GREAT DIFFERENCE, I don't have the same conclusions about it than yours.

My conclusion is: new genres are like wine: the older they'll be, the better they'll be. This is currently what's happening with some seinen, shounen, and ecchi. So let some time to shoujo and boy's love to become better too.