Serious question are you guys ok? Every other post is pedophile this pedophile that Sarada's "horrible" dress Ikemoto is a pedo. Are these the only things you can talk about? Like no offense but this conversation has reached idiotic levels. Your calling someone you don't know a pedo because you don't like the way he drew a fictional character(lines of ink of a piece of paper)? I mean your seriously debating if a fictional character is or isn't wearing panties. I haven't seen any legit criticisms of the dress other than hurr durr i don't like it. I also saw the vol 3 cover and i think you guys are hilariously overacting. Unless you are seeing something i'm not in relation to the her dress then i don't see the issue and feel this is just virtue signaling among other things.
The problem is that we've never seen this style associated with Kishimoto's works, particularly with his tween characters. So this was kind of a shock to most people whose been following this series, not just here in the H&E forums.
You watched Code Geass too right? Then your familiar with how virtually every female character, from little girls like Nunnally and Empress Tianzi (around the same age as Sarada) to grown women in that anime was inappropriately viewed. Code Geass is rated M for Mature and shown late night for a reason.
I personally looked pass the sexual content in Code Geass because the story & characters made up 110% for it and it was under a different type of circumstance than Boruto. The difference is that Boruto is on a much higher platform and has a vastly different audience with vastly different expectations towards it.
Like yeah I get it. It's not real, it's anime so it's completely normal to see boobs & panty-shots in microscopic detail all the time. And as much as I dislike how PC culture has gotten out of hand lately, I get where your coming from. But I don't think it has anything to do with this situation.
One of the things I (and maybe many others) appreciated with this manga is that they kept those sort of things at a minimum and saved it for the adults that were appropriately aged for this type of exposure. Sarada is only 12 and she looks like she has the legs of a 20 year old LOL it's all hilarious to me tbh. It reflects poorly on Kishimoto's behalf, who has a rep of modesty when it comes to his character designs. If we've never seen this style with Kishimoto's other works, then of course people will be shocked and offed by it. So not everyone is gonna be as tolerant towards this.
Her outfit looks SO unpractical, but she looks like she can work it, so good for her. Her legs are drawn weird, but we'll all probably get use to it (or sick of it) and move on. I'm glad in the anime they toned it down.
But my main gripe is that they're just focused on only Sarada, so she in particular stands out. Why are they trying so hard with her? Will other girls have the same exposure as Sarada? Like Sumire, Himawhatsherface, Chou Chou, Hinata, Sakura?
Edited by lux, 21 April 2017 - 08:29 PM.