Director Motohiro Katsuyuki Omits Moe From Psycho-Pass Anime

dtshyk said:
Urobuchi said this anime has cruel scenes both physically and mentally.

dtshyk said:
Urobuchi said this anime has cruel scenes both physically and mentally. Motohiro joked that he wanted kids audience to have a trauma for life by watching this anime.

McRib said:
So this is going to be a grimderp show aimed at Hot Topic shopping edgy teens?

Progeusz said:
Madoka was yuri, Psycho-Pass will be yaoi.

Tr1ckR said:
thank goodness, im glad they are not poisoning it with that crap. Ive been waiting for something that "goes against the current trend of anime". It being a CyberPunk anime makes it even better. Hoping to get a similar feel from it as i did with ghost in a shell.

dtshyk said:
Motohiro protects him from noitamina producer's demands to add appealing elements for female audience.

Progeusz said:
Madoka was yuri, Psycho-Pass will be yaoi.

symbv said:

Quite many anime fans in Japan finds Ghost in the Shell quite moe though.

Alpha_Centauri said:
Psycho-pass confirmed for awesome. Great news!

My body is ready.

Paul said:


One girl kiss girl scene = yuri (sexual/explicit relationship between females) = dat be sum great logic. /sarcasm.

Progeusz said:
Madoka was yuri, Psycho-Pass will be yaoi.

dtshyk said:
Urobuchi said this anime has cruel scenes both physically and mentally. Motohiro joked that he wanted kids audience to have a trauma for life by watching this anime.

dtshyk said:
Urobuchi said Motohiro protects him from noitamina producer's demands to add appealing elements for female audience.

Motohiro joked that he wanted kids audience to have a trauma for life by watching this anime.

OrochiPL said:

So no faggotry? That sounds great especially with how gay the chara design looks.

Progeusz said:
lack of sex scenes = not implied yuri (pure love between girls) = dat be sum great logic. /sarcasm.
: )

Paul said:


There's a fair difference between shoujo-ai and yuri (and shounen-ai and yaoi). Medaka Box isn't a shoujo-ai and doesn't try to be.

For this series, I'm not expecting much of 'your definition of yaoi' to apply with the characters unless the entire main cast was mostly males or something. Otherwise, leave it to the fujoshis to do the fantasizing.

Since then, the meaning has drifted from its mostly pornographic connotation to describe the portrayal of intimate love, sex, or the intimate emotional connections between women.

As of 2009, the term yuri is used in Japan to mean the depiction of attraction between women (whether sexual, spiritual, or romantic; explicit or implied) in manga, anime, and related entertainment media, as well as the genre of stories primarily dealing with this content.

Progeusz said:
You seem to live in the past. Words change their meanings over time... Many people don't use "shoujo-ai" and "shounen-ai" and prefer using "yuri" and "yaoi" as terms with broader meaning. It shouldn't be surprising as most of non-doujin stuff has no explicit scenes for obvious reasons and yuri lovers have to deal with shows like Rinne no Lagrange while yaoi lovers have Kuroko no Basket etc. If we wanted to stick to your terminology, there would be almost no yaoi or yuri anime outside of rare OVAs.

Edit: Oh, even wiki agrees:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_(genre)

Dalek-baka said:
Maybe he has some traumatic experiences with this word
like he had a dog called "Moe", which died when he was young
poor one :(

whole idea looks nice, as well as what they plan to do
now how they will execute it

Bern said:
This anime just became even more interesting.

kandiiyuutaamu said:
You think so???

McRib said:
So this is going to be a grimderp show aimed at Hot Topic shopping edgy teens?

jmal said:

This is a difference between Japanese and English fandom, though I think foreigners are more in line with the Japanese meaning lately. Technically, shoujo-ai is used in Japan to mean outright lolicon (shoujo = young girl, ai = love, after all), not girl-girl relationships. The distinction between "non-explicit shoujo-ai" and "explicit yuri" is really a second-hand creation of foreigners, not an original meaning in Japan.

百合 (yuri) is used in Japan to denote romantic or sexual attraction or subtext between two females, broadly. It doesn't have to be pornographic, or even explicitly canonical, so if you asked a Japanese fan Madoka would absolutely be considered (among many other things, it's important to stress!) a yuri anime. And if you search 百合 on pixiv, that's where you'll find anything from explicit pornography to girls holding hands and blushing slightly. Not so much 少女愛, which would really be supplanted by the contracted loanword ロリ or ロリコン (lolicon for lolita complex, obviously). So Progeusz basically has the right of it. I'm sure symbv would, as a Japanese person, be able to give more nuance if I glossed over anything.

dtshyk said:
Motohiro joked that he wanted kids audience to have a trauma for life by watching this anime.

dtshyk said:
Urobuchi said this anime has cruel scenes both physically and mentally.