In another example of western malaise combining with anime, Crunchyroll has decided to add trigger warnings at the start of every Goblin Slayer episode streamed on their service.
After a lot of literal shaking because fiction is too hard to handle even in animated form, WarnerMedia-owned anime streaming service Crunchyroll has announced on their Twitter they will be adding content warnings to episodes of Goblin Slayer.
And here’s how they look:
There have been plenty of anime series with gratuitous violence and sexual content streamed by Crunchyroll but none of them have received this kind of treatment except Goblin Slayer – viewers can presumably expect similar warnings about the evils of indecent assault and gender stereotypes in more service-heavy shows in future.
As long it’s nothing more than warning it’s fine but honestly the overreaction toward the r♥♥e scene was ridiculous. There are similar scene every year that usually rarely go further than a few hatred post, this time was way too much. Back then when the anime was announced a lot of us who read the LN and Manga warned pretty much everywhere that the beginning was going to trigger some group because of the r♥♥e scene then there will be almost no similar scene, that’s too bad they didn’t bother spending some minutes doing searching for more information and instead promptly labeled the whole serie as r♥♥e propaganda.
The parental rating system on movies and tv is essentially no different than this. There is absolutely nothing wrong with how Crunchyroll added the warning or the warning itself.
That’s exactly what it is.
It initially didn’t have any form of content warning about the violence and r♥♥e, so people watched it without realising, and were not too thrilled about it.
CR responded by adding a content warning.
If that’s some sinister leftist SJW agenda, then what the f♥♥k are the constance “mature content” warnings I have to click through on this fucking site?
@08:43
mature content warnings on websites serve to aid in a legal case should they arise.
specifically, the concern is minors visiting adult websites and thus the message is aimed at them.
“trigger” warnings are aimed at adults, who really should be beyond this, but they’ve become such pussies this century that one has to wonder how much worse their kids will be when they grow up to be adults. there won’t be enough waaambulances to put them to rest.
it’s just like the left to encourage feelings of victim hood in fully grown adults.
@13:22
you’re really trying to argue that content filters which literally filter content and ask for permission before you view “mature content” on a written article is worse then a public video streaming service flashing up a generic discretion message for a few seconds? How retard are you? The hypocrisy of some of the retards on sankaku is unreal. Spend your anti-SJW energy on points that actually matter, not s♥♥t like this.
@18:42
If you’d actually step away from your edgy internet life for a few seconds you’d know that viewer discretion warnings are common place, and have BEEN common place, on all TV channels across the world. A few points here:
1) The fact that you know about the activities of porn sites on the net but seem oblivious to the common place nature of these kinda things in IRL society says a lot about how sad your life is.
2) Crunchyroll is a public video streaming service which features a wide range of content for all ages. Underage people can stumble upon random shows that have r♥♥e and violence in it, because they were stupid enough to make something like Gobin Slayer not age restricted. Parents can then sue Crunchyroll for not having any type of warning about it. This would be a fairly convincing lawsuit that would, at the very least, be considered in court. Sankaku is an edgy anti-SJW porn-focused website which isn’t for supposed to be suitable for all ages to visit, and which is only visitable by a stupid underage kid if they randomly click onto it for no reason. You’d be laughed out of court trying to make that lawsuit stick.
Is that clear enough for you kid, or do I have to spell it out even more? Kids are actively supposed to be on Crunchyroll, so if a kid sees a random anime and clicks on it, and sees something that traumatises them, you could convince a judge or a jury that it was the site’s fault. You can’t do that for a site like sankaku, since they have no responsibility over whether people do or do not visit the site because they were an idiot who was just randomly visiting an unknown hentai website.
Your logic is completely backwards, and it makes no sense. And why I’m even bothering to tell you this I don’t know. Since you’re apparently such a child or a childish person who has no clue how the world works, that you think a discretion warning which is common decency that has been around for decades is SJW pandering. Go and get some sunshine, and actually experience the real world so that you don’t don’t brain dead moron who knows nothing about the world.
@19:20
“Is that clear enough for you kid, or do I have to spell it out even more? ”
Unfortunately you’re the one that has to be spoon fed…
“Crunchyroll is a public video streaming service which features a wide range of content for all ages. Underage people can stumble upon random shows that have r♥♥e and violence in it”
….
“This would be a fairly convincing lawsuit”
What a joke.
Crunchyroll has a mature content filter for that purpose. GOOD. Combined with their Terms of Service, that should offer them sufficient legal protection. Read the Indemnification clause big boy. You can bet that WarnerMedia had their lawyers review it.
These _optional_ “trigger” warnings were added because adults, probably SJWs, kicked up a stink. There is no legal requirement to protect a user _using the service as intended_ who is overly sensitive. Their lack of balls is not a liability. Parents lack of reviewing shows before showing their kids is also not a liability – that’s bad parenting and the onus is on them.
Besides, as has been mentioned somewhere ITT before, the underlying reason for all the distaste is that western people that used to like anime were hardcore back in the day. Now there’s a heap of cry babies that need catering to.
The recent fiasco with “High Guardian Spice” doesn’t help CR’s case in looking centrist to us.
@20:34
filters and content blocking used to protect against legal cases, especially ones regarding underage visitors are justified. they have been common on porn websites for decades for this reason.
the warnings shown on crunchyroll are not critical to its legal standing.
it is simply a way to cater for fat crybabies.
that is why people here consider it “worse”.
but you knew that already shill-chan.
And yet the underlying reason for the bad taste isn’t the act of adding warnings, it’s the realization that anime is becoming so mainstream that normies and their sensitive feelings have to be catered for with such actions.
The days in the west when only weebs, whitu pigotakus, NEETs and anonymous trolls watched and posted about anime is fading away. That audience didn’t give two fugs about things like tentacle raep or sh1tting d1ck n1pples.
So that was all the r♥♥e?
Quite disappointing, was expecting more
Leftest SJW Feminists never looks for facts in anything.
Not all Left are SJW and Feminists, like how not all Right are racist and sexist pricks.
“like how not all Right are racist and sexist pricks.”
Could’ve fooled me.
The left is utter evil, baseless and depraved. The right are the good guys.
Spoken like a true NPC.
Let me get my fries ready for all the salt in these comments.
You won’t have to travel far since you probably work at McDonald’s grasping your woman’s studies degree in your little bloated fist.
Because the normies and autists combined their soy to protect the snowflakes from having anything that doesn’t cater to their infantile minds as unacceptable. To them, if it looks like it was drawn for 4 year olds then it should be made for 4 year olds.
This is exactly the problem. The scene is no big deal and those with delicate minds could have easily avoided it. The fact SJWs are overreacting AND that Crunchyroll listened to them is troubling. Complains are not going to stop because they added a warning, and Crunchyroll appears to be willing to accommodate for stupid sensibilities. When people complain that they don’t like some content, they should just be told to f♥♥k off rather than get an apology and whatnot.
Sankaku wanting those clicks. This is a nothingburger if I ever saw one. It’s just a generic message of viewer discretion is adviced. You get those when watching certain programming on live tv as well. Whatever!
“Sankaku wanting those clicks.”
I’m SHOCKED.
I’ve got this message on even goreless criminal series on Universal Channel etc.
I was thinking the same thing about mainstream US TV shows and the “Viewer Discretion Advised” warnings. Like what, did Kate Leth take over Law and Order or something?
To those who don’t know or weren’t around at the time. This comment section appears to be overrun with Crunchyroll shills downvoting anyone critical of the service and upvoting those in support.
I fucking hate CR. The content warning is a non-issue.
These two statements do not contradict each other.
And thats why I dont pay to watch anime or read manga
No, people are just pissed off at sankaku for ripping at the bottom of the s♥♥t turd for things to complain about. With all the social justice ass s♥♥t going on in the world right now, THIS is what they make an article about. It’s s♥♥t like this that paints anti-sjws as extremist virgins with no lives who complain about nothing.
Yes! Sankaku should be covering all the s♥♥t going on in Africa and the middle east! Why is this site even talking about anime?
for one thing, sankaku does do international politic news. they’ve done it a lot before. but more over, there’s a s♥♥t ton of stuff they could cover, some of it POSITIVE STUFF for anti-SJWs. Like that Marvel guy who recently got fired for insulting people with an SJW thing on twitter. But no, of course sankaku would never cover that, because that’d make anti-SJWs happy, and sankaku doesn’t want that. They know how to get people worked up by writing hyperbolic articles about stupid minor crap to get y’all riled up.
@22:47
I agree with you for the most part, but I have one problem:
“They know how to get people worked up by writing hyperbolic articles about stupid minor crap to get y’all riled up.”
R*ft doesn’t know how to rile people up. He just cries about random s♥♥t he sees on Reddit or the chans thinking its much bigger than it really is. 99%, of Americans at least, don’t even know of the war of the Anti-SJWs, and what little they do know is some dude in Europe was trying to stop a bill and stopped caring once they saw the “white niggers” comment he made. Its so lulzy. R*ft gets 300 comments at best and that is just half of them shitting on him, then another quarter trolling.
Can’t forget the “SJW” style comment scrubber. This is my 4th attempt.
@22:47
I agree with you for the most part, but I have one problem:
“They know how to get people worked up by writing hyperbolic articles about stupid minor crap to get y’all riled up.”
R*ft doesn’t know how to rile people up. He just cries about random s♥♥t he sees on Reddit or 4chan thinking its much bigger than it really is. 99%, of Americans at least, don’t even know of the war of the Anti-SJWs, and what little they do know is some dude in Europe was trying to stop a bill and stopped caring once they saw the “white niggers” comment he made. Its so lulzy. R*ft gets 300 comments at best and that is just half of them shitting on him, then another quarter trolling. The rest of us are smart and stop the shill buck clicks.
Can’t forget the “SJW” style comment scrubber. This is my 3rd attempt.
@22:47
I agree with you for the most part, but I have one problem:
“They know how to get people worked up by writing hyperbolic articles about stupid minor crap to get y’all riled up.”
Rift doesn’t know how to rile people up. He just cries about random s♥♥t he sees on Reddit or 4chan thinking its much bigger than it really is. 99%, of Americans at least, don’t even know of the war of the Anti-SJWs, and what little they do know is some dude in Europe was trying to stop a bill and stopped caring once they saw the “white niggers” comment he made. Its so lulzy. Rift gets 300 comments at best and that is just half of them shitting on him, then another quarter trolling. The rest of us are smart and filter the site.
I’m glad there’s a visible indicator of the soyboy butthurt.
Let’s not judge the pro-Crunchyroll commenters and voters. They’re just doing their job!
@22:29
Their parent company does have enough money to pay for “company image optimization”. Gotta assume that some grassroots lefties are also involved though.
Thanks for clarifying, a lot of these comments suddenly make more sense. Typical SC comments won’t give CR a free pass if they’re enacting even tiny policy changes due to sensitive person or SJWs.
The generic message is not the issue. Problem is Crunchyroll is listening to moralfags and SJWs. No way they’ll be satisfied with this warning; they’ll be demanding more and more restrictions and censoring.
Literal slippery slope argument.
It’s going to get worse unless Crunchyroll sees reason, but when that happens will there still be a Crunchyroll?
Holy f♥♥k, we truly transcended into post-irony. This very article obsessively mocking Crunchyroll for having a mature content warning itself actually has a mature content warning on it. I guess it doesn’t surprise me that Sankaku writers are LITERAL retards.
Rift and has crew of public masturbators should go commit sudoku right now.
Content warnings are totally reasonable, and should be applied to the other shows too. Don’t censor, but let those who want to avoid it choose to avoid it without telling others what they can watch.
lmao forget about crunchyroll shills, sankaku must be doing damage control now. There’s basically been zero new comments, even though some comments that had like six or seven up-votes are suddenly into negative numbers