It's a bit weird that a board dominated by people who are so sensitive about violence to the vulnerable could so much enjoy a show which has a lot of lurid depictions of sexualised violence against women, including an instance or two of a woman being raped and then falling in love with her rapist, or coming to enjoy the experience. And of course, where someone comes to lead an army of enslaved men who have suffered amputatory genital mutilation.
I would have thought the content is... "Problematic", to say the least.
I’ve not read the GoT threads, but if the direction of the anime moderation over there is anything to go by then practically every other post in those threads ought to include a ritual denouncing of the show for all the terrible stuff it includes because just the existence of rape, slavery, etc. in a show “normalizes” those things and acts as apologia for those awful things, especially if there is no explicit ritual denouncing to condemn awful things.
It must be said that Anime are, by definition, made for a Japanese public, and Japanese culture is surprisingly tolerant of extreme sexual/mindfucking stuff. When we in the West watch
some genres of Anime, we are not the intended public by default.
I watched a single "Problematic Anime" back in the day, "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend" (the uncut version, BTW). It was brutal, with "rape" being low on the scale of what could happen to the human characters. Let's say that at the end I could see the artistic intent of the creators: to
very explicitly show the level of suffering that a war among demons could cause to innocent humans - using super violence&rape as a proxy. Well, I can that I watched it and... fine, it was a look at the underbelly of another culture. This was the end of my experience with hentai stuff.
It is worth mentioning that Alan Moore pulled a similar stunt in his "Neonomicon" comic book series, where a "lovecraftian tale" all of sudden becomes stunningly explicit (yup, repeated rape and stuff). The problem (a real one I mean) is that in this case I couldn't see a reason for things to become so explicit. Maybe Moore wanted to use rape as a metaphor for what happens to you when the Mythos close on you but it simply doesn't work. It is a muddled and boring story, with repeated rape scenes that have no reason to exist, characterizations that go nowhere (a female character is a "recovering nymphomaniac" - this point, obsessively made over and over, has no impact on the story) and, overall, a very strange drop in quality compared to Moore usual work.
This to say that "extreme explicitness" must always be judged in context (this has nothing to do with your willingness to experience it, of course). So, I think that in "Urotsukidoji" or "A Serbian Film" (yes, I watched that one too...) it is fully justified by the author's artistic intent, while in "Neonomicon" it is problematic and gratuitous.
I don't think, however, that TBP Mods approach this level of analysis when judging artistic expressions. Many hentais are made only to show violence and rape, to working class Japanese males, and that's it. To us Westerners they should be either unacceptable or for private use only. Maybe there is an unnatural inclination to "respect culture" on that forum...