Why do they keep making the same Hot Springs Gag over and over again. (Mild Spoilers for Persona 3,4 and Persona 5 Strikers)
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Yeah, it does. Every now and them you have people making threads complaining about anime tropes, girls with loud cute voices, linearity and long dialogue scenes. Don't these people realize that maybe, just maybe, the japanese audience LIKES this?
I... Try to be aware of this, and agree it can very quickly and easily slide into knocking what a country and culture enjoy (and indeed, I've felt a few similar threads to be very dubious for exactly that reason)... But this gag >90% of the time targets women in the bath and Japan is reaaally not known for having great respectable/equal treatment of women. Hell the Japanese Olympic committee just had its head honcho resign because of his remarks against women in high positions.
There's some degree of nuance to be had here. This isn't about high pitched voices for fictional/animated characters, but voyeuristic gags that intentionally (and illegally) creep on the opposite sex... The same sex that's already kicked down by men a lot of the time.
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Nah this is not just an anime trope its basically a Japan Trope now its in everything whenever a Hot Spring is involved.
I was talking about the hate boner in general that this forum clearly has over japanese pop culture tropes, not this one specifically (which is one of many). This one is problematic, a lot of them aren't and people keep making threads complaining about what other country likes. It's annoying.
Well, probably not for you, but perhaps for many others? Probably because onsen in general is much more linked to the Japanese public than others so maybe they find onsen related jokes as funnier and more relatable.
Xenoblade 2 is the only time I've ever seen this horny anime trope used in a game to actually reveal character and not just skin.
The women truly were just hanging out and learning about each other. It was great.
Hmm idk. I don't really have a problem with this scenes. Like, any teen would do that. It's not crazy that a teenager would ogle a friend he's attracted too. At least he didn't air grope her tits this time like he did in vanilla. Now THAT was weird. The weirdest part is that she took it really well.
Edit: On second thought, the focus on her boobs was unnecessary and the same exact message of "wow Anne is hot" would've been sent without it.
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The Tales series takes pride in their hot springs scenes to the point where they try to "innovate" them in some form.
In Tales of Xillia 2, there is a secret ending where the characters get to relax in a co-ed bath, but instead it's just the girls relaxing while the guys are suffering in the belly of a talking doll seemingly on the verge of death.
In Tales of Berseria, the hot spring is a reward from a side quest, but this time the guys and gals swap bodies, and everyone suffers somewhat equally.
In Tales of Xillia 2, there is a secret ending where the characters get to relax in a co-ed bath, but instead it's just the girls relaxing while the guys are suffering in the belly of a talking doll seemingly on the verge of death.
In Tales of Berseria, the hot spring is a reward from a side quest, but this time the guys and gals swap bodies, and everyone suffers somewhat equally.
True, but those games suffer I feel even more than Persona from garbage anime troupes.
Little did you know the hot spring gag dates back to Persona 2 in an audio drama "The errors of their youth".
The gag plays out less tropey and it's actually funny.
I just googled this as I do not follow anything about audio dramas.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin ~ The Errors of Their Youth
Persona 2: Innocent Sin ~ The Errors of Their Youth (ペルソナ 2 罪と罰 果てしなき青春, Perusona tsu Tsumi to Batsu Hateshinaki Seishun) is a jumble CD containing drama and remixed vocal tracks. Apart from the first track, which serves as the prologue to the beginning of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, the rest...
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"Antics ensue."
But seriously the games themselves don't have this trope.
The stereotype with American games is that the women look ugly, among other thing seen here.
From Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro.
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Is that Trevor from GTA V.
The stereotype with American games is that the women look ugly, among other thing seen here.
From Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro.
that sucks. I watched the first two P3 movies and I was surprised at how good they were compared to the other Persona anime. didn't get to that scene but I didn't have any faith in them taking lame stuff out
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The hotel-spring scene is longer complete with Junpei losing his towel