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Being a member of Animesuki for 15 years, I have seen its community dwindle and dwindle as years went by. It was once the prime forum to discuss anything related to Japanese animation, manga, Japanese culture, video games, other entertainment, and sometimes news and politics. However, the behavior from its main moderator (and now administrator as well) has been nothing short of despicable. A number of times, I have been handed bans for so-called "baiting" or "flaming" when all we did was expressing my opinion on something that I did not agree with. Now he perma-banned an account from a relative of mine on the basis of "duplicating an account during a ban" without adding further proof of the accusation. To that moderator, voicing discontent in an adult discussion is not allowed and is passible of more infraction points. Very disappointing for a 37-year-old if you ask me.

All I can say is that this behavior is not new, one of Animesuki's former members posted this blog a few years ago:

https://animehistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-day-animesuki-decided-oppressing-a-voice-was-more-important-than-accomodating-all-viewpoints/

At the expense of leaving behind a number of classy members, I told the moderator all that had to be said to mean that I quit. However, it's really sad when one thinks that a forum, which was once full of passionate people, is going to the dogs because of one person at the top being such a d!ck. In my 15 years over Animesuki, other mods were more polite and more lenient through editing posts and sending private messages instead of dishing infraction points without further explanation. With relentlessflame though, nothing can reason him.

I hope you will add him on your hall of shame now: relentlessflame of forums.animesuki.com

Being a member of Animesuki for 15 years, I have seen its community dwindle and dwindle as years went by. It was once the prime forum to discuss anything related to Japanese animation, manga, Japanese culture, video games, other entertainment, and sometimes news and politics. However, the behavior from its main moderator (and now administrator as well) has been nothing short of despicable. A number of times, I have been handed bans for so-called "baiting" or "flaming" when all we did was expressing my opinion on something that I did not agree with. Now he perma-banned an account from a relative of mine on the basis of "duplicating an account during a ban" without adding further proof of the accusation. To that moderator, voicing discontent in an adult discussion is not allowed and is passible of more infraction points. Very disappointing for a 37-year-old if you ask me. All I can say is that this behavior is not new, one of Animesuki's former members posted this blog a few years ago: https://animehistory.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-day-animesuki-decided-oppressing-a-voice-was-more-important-than-accomodating-all-viewpoints/ At the expense of leaving behind a number of classy members, I told the moderator all that had to be said to mean that I quit. However, it's really sad when one thinks that a forum, which was once full of passionate people, is going to the dogs because of one person at the top being such a d!ck. In my 15 years over Animesuki, other mods were more polite and more lenient through editing posts and sending private messages instead of dishing infraction points without further explanation. With relentlessflame though, nothing can reason him. I hope you will add him on your hall of shame now: **relentlessflame** of forums.animesuki.com

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[–] • 0 pt 5y

You're telling me you never heard about made in abyss?

I haven't, though I don't claim to know much about anime. However, I would also take that report with a grain of salt:

Many stories lacks of good female representation

I also notice the lack of ethnic representation (and a borderline racist depiction of Black people and some mangas)

There are other issues I can use to expand this essay, like how competitive is japanese society

Looks like a SJW complaining about the usual. The anime is sold on Amazon in all formats with literally hundreds of positive reviews and the wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about controvercial content. Though it is mentioned that it's actually a horror anime, which kind of reminds me of Oliver Twist, which for some reason was mandatory reading when I was a kid.

[–] • 0 pt 5y (edited 5y)

>Looks like a SJW complaining about the usual.

Oh yeah, that's what caught your attention in that link? Really...?

I mean me, that's not the SJW speech that retain my attention, that I find most disturbing here

You did you look at the screenshots, right? And there's nothing you find borderline pedo, in those screeshots? Well I that's bizarre to me. Because to me depiction of naked children being tortured, having sex also, isn't exactly what I would call "just fine"

>The anime is sold on Amazon in all formats with literally hundreds of positive reviews and the wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about controvercial content. Though it is mentioned that it's actually a horror anime, which kind of reminds me of Oliver Twist, which for some reason was mandatory reading when I was a kid.

Right..

[–] • 0 pt 5y

Well, no one out of those hundreds of people saw any depiction as "sexual" and I doubt Amazon would have such content available.

[–] • 0 pt 5y