The reception of Yanineko proves that in 2026, despite their pretentions to sympathy, most people still continue to view mental illness with immense suspicion and hostility and react aggressively and violently when presented with the clinical picture of someone who lacks basic life management skills and is too disorganized to take care of their environment.
They took the catgirl, probably the most sexualized concept to come out of anime, and they used the contrast of that image and the brutal, disgusting reality of addiction and depression to make a story that says something.
And people are angry because it's not pornified goonslop
Can we stop sexualising him tho? He would never do anything sexual and it really gives me bad chills when I see sexual art of him when I know he’d never participate in such acts.
Si te molesta que abran una carnicería Halal, a la que no vas a ir, pero no te molesta que abran un Starbucks donde antes había un bar, al que sí que ibas, y ahora no puedes porque te han subido el precio, es que eres un puto racista ignorante.
Los hombres cineastas se niegan a dar a las mujeres vello en las piernas o en las axilas en las películas de supervivencia, pero añaden una escena gráfica de violación de 10 minutos para aportar "realismo".
Ivan behind Till looking at him with apathy/indifference, showing how his actions were confusing to Till. And Ivan crying and hugging himself, showing that it is how Luka saw Ivan, understanding how he felt for Till (and how he could use Ivan to manipulate/destabilize Till)