Still on that little kick huh? You love being proven wrong over and over done you? Try again please.
Okay, fine, I was wrong. I really regret getting into arguments with you. Happy now?
GS and SH are generic wish fulfillment shlock in a vast sea of shlock that is the light novel market. Getting bent out of shape over them is stupid.
That still doesn't make you right or better for defending them. Shlock is shlock.
I wouldn't defend Gamerz Heaven as high art for gang raping the villain twice in the supplementary materials. It's porn.
The main thing I can say about stuff like that is that the Internet sucks. You're always going to have people wanting to be argumentative or stir the pot, either because they feel they have to protect their views at all costs or they just like fucking with people. It sucks, but there's nothing to be done about it.
I like Goblin Slayer. I like the brutal action and darker tone; they're a nice change of pace from the 10 million light-hearted series out there. But I'd also never claim it to be a perfect series or expect everyone to like those elements, either.
Seriously looking at it, the world of GS wouldn't work if you're going on the assumption that what we're seeing is the norm. The problem I see with that assumption is that we're only getting a look at one corner of the world in one (two, technically) brief moments in time, and it's outright stated that the gods interfere to keep things interesting. It's strongly suggested that goblins come from one of the moons, so it takes something to bring them down to the planet in the first place. We don't know if the goblins have to worry about other predators besides adventurers keeping their numbers in check. We don't know their lifespans, or if their numbers rise and fall periodically (thus making the period we're seeing one with higher-than-normal goblin activity), or if they start in-fighting if their numbers get too high. There could be a lot of factors that keep goblins from overrunning humanity out on the frontier where the series takes place, but we just don't have enough information to say why they don't.
Oh, and Overlord. I actually was looking into checking out the anime series but I heard it took a really ugly turn in season 3 so I'm sort of on the fence on it. I'll probably still watch it someday but for now I have far too much stuff I'm more interested in.
You give GS way too much credit, way more than it deserves. The "it was a game all along" thing pretty much destroyed my already broken suspension of disbelief.
If you want a game between two omnipotent beings, one good and one evil, Drifters is way better written and vastly more subversive of overused fantasy tropes.
I'll bet there were people who thought the kung-fu craze was pandering.
There's an undercurrent of politics to this LGBTQIAMNOP stuff that makes it especially distatesful.
So hey, I'll be the grumpy old man who yells at clouds over this topic. I am allowed to have an opinion, right?
To be fair, most of the representation is bad from the other side's POV because studios have literal mandates not to include genuine gay representation to avoid offending bigots because they want to air their cartoons in countries where gay people are executed for existing. This has been outrighted stated in numerous interviews over the years. Studios are hypocrites who want to sound progressive by claiming to support the gay community while refusing to actually speak out against the ongoing gay holocaust and even profiting off it.
Even She-Ra suffers the same problem despite the showrunner herself being gay. If Catra was instead Catro, he would be written with obvious romantic overtures to Adora and Scorpina. Dreamworks literally told the showrunner to keep the gays in the closet to avoid offending bigots.
It's difficult to discuss shows I know so little about. Do you have examples of right wingers defending these series?
There really isn't much to discuss. But if you really want details:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-anti-anime-left-is-garbage-and-heres-why-dont-let-the-alt-right-claim-anime-stuff-about-orientalism.97504/https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/rise-of-the-shield-hero-more-like-rise-of-edgy-revenge-isekais.725005/https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/goblin-slayer-ideas-discussions-and-reccomendations.647963/Long story short, lots of anime is creepy fetish wish fulfillment. Somehow the twitter outrage mob remained ignorant of this until GS and SH came along. Both prominently and callously featured gratuitous rape, corrective rape, attempted rape and/or false rape accusations as key plot points. This places them only marginally worse than many other anime in recent years, which commonly feature protagonists casually engaging in sexual harassment and assault (e.g. "How Not to Summon a Demon Lord"). Angry nerds came out of the woodwork to defend these magical realms as high art deserving of praise.
GS is apparently supposed to be a satire of how RPGs treat goblins as canon fodder, but in practice is about women being raped and bred by goblins for shock value in between scenes of generic happy go lucky anime hijinks.
SH is about a dude being metoo'd by an evil princess and then buying a harem of slaves to get revenge on the filthy whore who accused him, but his slave girls convince him to give up on revenge and build a retreat where they can live in blissful servitude.
It is difficult to determine the political views of the defenders, but whenever it comes up their defenses are just knee-jerk reactions to the twitter outrage mob. So I can only assume they are right leaning, but I could be wrong.
"Showing underage girls being raped for your entertainment is distateful." "Goblins have to rape underage girls to show how evil they are."
"Goblins are eerily reminiscent of racist propaganda about foreigners/martians/whatever wanting our women designed to appeal to the Id." "Sometimes a rape monster is just a rape monster, not a metaphor for the Other."
"The evil princess deserves to be literally raped to death." "Rape is never an acceptable punishment for any crime."
"Slaves being happy with enslavement is literally Confederate propaganda." "Hero needs to use slaves to show how emotionally damaged he is."
"Depicting false rape accusations as the ignition of a revenge story may incite courts to disbelieve rape survivors slightly more than they already do." "Disbelieving false rape accusations takes precedence over prosecuting rapists."
"It cannot be a commentary on #MeToo because it was made in 2013, and it cannot be sexist because the anonymous author uses a vaguely feminine pseudonym." "Crunchyroll funded it and should have realized it needed censoring to avoid causing needless controversy, unless they wanted the publicity in today's clickbait dystopia."
Mud slinging, mud slinging, mud slinging. Strawmen everywhere on both sides. Everybody makes fools of themselves.
It basically boils down to women being objectified as part of the virgin/whore complex. Virgins are objects of affection. Whores are objects of pity or scorn. None of this casual objectification of women is new for anime. Whole genres of anime make money by selling twisted wish fulfillment fantasies to socially maladjusted perverts. What is strange is that twitter is only calling it out now.
I got into arguments over this while I was still high on painkillers recovering from a car crash and that colored my interactions a lot. I made myself look like an idiot by taking them remotely seriously and I'm still trying to shake the stigma. But to be honest everybody who argues over this trash looks foolish. GS and SH simply don't merit critique or defense because they are trashy wish fulfillment stories in a vast capitalist sea of similar stories that will be quickly forgotten in favor of another fad.