In the first days of this month the anime adaptation of “Dungeon Meshi (Delicious
in Dungeon)”, one of the great promises of the Winter-2024 season
(January-March) as it has the production of the studios TRIGGER, who had not
produced any series since the success of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” in 2022.
Unfortunately, the series has just gone through a controversy
that no one really expected.
It turns out that TRIGGER was doing a countdown
prior to the premiere of the adaptation, and for them they shared a variety
of illustrations made by the team of production. The “one day left” was made by
the animation director Akihiro Satou and starred Marcille
Donato, the main girl. Marcille is a fairly intelligent and loyal girl, but
also very nervous and has a hard time facing things outside of her comfort zone
(like eating monsters). In “Dungeon Meshi”, she is the sorceress of the
group and joins the mission to rescue the protagonist's sister, her best
friend.
In the illustration we can see Marcille lying with her staff
and her hair disheveled against the floor, while keeping a smile on her
face. That is all that is shown, but it was enough for a certain sector
of people on Twitter to be upset by its “sexualized representation”,
according to them. For this reason, comments such as: could be found in the
aforementioned messages:
- «This
should be banned! Not with my favorite! Her butt shouldn't be posed for
fan-service »
- «It
will be too forced every time they want to make her look sensual, she is
not supposed to be sensual, she makes others feel sad and all the fans
love her for it».
- «God, please take away all TRIGGER's sexualization of female characters».
- «This
pose with that flirtatious smile that they gave Marcille will be the
reason why I will commit a hate crime».».
- «This
is literally fake, she would hate to be lying on the dirty floor of a
dungeon surrounded by worms and insects, stop doing this kind of thing
now!».
- «TRIGGER,
I swear to God, they will feel my wrath like a thousand hurricane winds,
you fucking shitty studio. I know the characters I like well, damn».
- «She
is simply lying down holding her staff. Is that supposed to be sexual?».
- «Some
of the publications cited say that this illustration of a blonde girl
lying down in all her clothes is “over-sexualization” and even get violent
about it. It's no longer a problem of “normies” entering the anime
community, everyone is simply mentally retarded».
- «People
complain that this is too sexualized when it is much more conservative and
cute than any Western illustration from the 40s or 50s».
- «Remember
that anyone who says this illustration is “over-sexualized” is a porn
addict in denial».
- «I
saw a mention saying that “she would never pose for fan-service” and I just
felt bad for the artist who tried his best to show a beautiful composition
for a promotion, and that idiots who have never drawn shit in their life
start complaining about stupid things».
- «Anyone
who says this illustration is “over-sexualized” automatically loses the
right to call someone a “porn addict”» .
- «How
is this even remotely sexualized? She is a girl with all her clothes lying
on the ground. Is she showing flesh? Are we falling behind socially to the
point that showing our ankles is wrong and should be embarrassing? What
the hell is going through these morons' minds?».
- «Anyone
who has seen nothing but pornography recently, and who sees a girl lying
on the floor for the first time will surely think that “she feels porn
vibes in the image ”».
- «It
is literally the most normal illustration I have ever seen, there is
nothing suggestive about it. But porn addicts prefer to humiliate
themselves again by saying that “they are sexualizing them”»
- «I
really feel bad for the idiots who scream that this is “sexualization.”
They've trained themselves to see fan-service in anything so they can get
angry about it. It is not a healthy way to live life. They have become
more addicted to porn than the people they criticize so much.”
Fuente: Twitter
