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Are they "confused" or are they neo-puritans who can't handle an overtly queer story that's been around since 1989

The OG Ghost in the Shell manga isn't "raunchy," it's an action sci-fi series made for adults that treats sex as a normal thing adults do. It has, at most, 1-2 sex scenes over the entire series but because they're queer and about a woman just having a Normal Time of her own volition, it's a Problem

Literally just the odd single panel where its like "Motoko has fun when she isn't working" lol

Side note: how did I not know before now this was the same magazine that serialized Akira around the same time frame

thinking for no reason about how i couldn't get through reading Dragon Ball/Z because it was so thick with Sexual Harassment Humor at every turn but we all gotta freak out over one consensual lesbian threesome (this is not to say that DB is wholly terrible, i just like. personally couldn't deal)

The fact that they virtually never talk about things like the persistent sexual harassment (often targeted at MINORS) in "classic" shonen that's aimed at children shows exactly where these fucks stand.