{"id":68176,"date":"2025-02-04T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/the-anti-slut-shaming-anime-frogkun-com\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:20:59","slug":"the-anti-slut-shaming-anime-frogkun-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=68176","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Slut-Shaming Anime \u2013 Frogkun.com"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In the afterword of Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me<\/em>\u2018s first volume, author Makiko Nagaoka remarked: \u201cIf I got lucky enough to date a beautiful voice actress I admired, would I give up on the idea if I found out she wasn\u2019t a virgin? There\u2019s no way I would\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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She has a point. Statistically speaking<\/a>, you\u2019d be awfully presumptuous if you demand your partner to have no <\/em>sexual or romantic experience before meeting you. Less than 2% of people marry their first love, and the average person has at least two long-term relationships before meeting the person they marry. <\/p>\n

But high school anime romcoms operate under a different logic from reality. One could say that the genre exists to paint an idealised, nostalgic picture of young love. And because this usually involves a coming-of-age theme, the stories are almost exclusively about characters entering their first serious relationship. They are often explicitly shown marrying the first person they ever date.<\/p>\n

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The thing about sticking to formulaic narrative structures is that you can also end up being constrained by the social values of an older era. If you\u2019re writing a teen love story, then the characters\u2019 virginity is suddenly very important. If they are not virgins, then logic would disqualify them from experiencing \u201ctrue\u201d love. The gender double standard also factors into this to some degree. In romcoms targeted at male audiences, female characters with sexual experience are usually not considered primary love interest material. You might see a MILF or a seductive older woman as a side contender, but a teen girl who isn\u2019t a virgin? How scandalous.<\/p>\n

Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me<\/em> stands out by revealing in its first episode that the heroine is not a virgin\u2014and then going on to depict a very conventional, puppy-love sort of romance anyway, as if to say \u201cWho cares about that noise?\u201d For all of her past relationship experience, Runa Shirakawa is a very cute and innocent girl at heart. It becomes very clear early on that sexual experience is not the same thing as experience in love. <\/em><\/p>\n

If I have to be perfectly honest, I\u2019m not really that into the relationship between the timid nice guy Ryuto Kashima and the gyaru Runa Shirakawa. It\u2019s the kind of romance where the characters spend a lot of time gushing about what they like about each other, which is cute and all, but doesn\u2019t make for much onscreen chemistry. But the story does take its time to have the male protagonist verbally reassure Shirakawa that her previous experiences does not diminish their current relationship, nor do they diminish her as a person. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s also refreshing to see the characters engage in frank conversations about sexual consent. After Shirakawa reveals in episode one that she had sex with her exes because she felt \u201cobliged\u201d to, Ryuto tells her that she should only do it if she <\/em>really wants to. This plot point comes up again later in episode five, when Shirakawa becomes silently worried about whether she \u201cled\u201d Ryuto on when she casually touched him in their hotel room together. He reiterates that the decision to initiate sex is completely hers, implicitly assuring her that he\u2019s not going to interpret other forms of intimacy as sexual consent. I have to respect Ryuto for being a genuinely nice person in a situation where plenty of other individuals would not <\/em>be nice.<\/p>\n

With such a solid relationship based on trust, you\u2019d think that these two would be immune to the usual miscommunication-based conflicts that happen in romcoms, right? Well, no. The climax of the anime is about Shirakawa assuming that Ryuto would be better off with her sister, because she was his <\/em>first crush. As frustrating as this storyline is, I can\u2019t help but think that her behaviour stems from her idolising Ryuto too much and assuming she\u2019s unworthy of him. In her mind, he\u2019s the first boyfriend to treat her so kindly\u2014he must deserve more in return. So I don\u2019t believe that it\u2019s too outlandish that their relationship takes a negative turn soon after they tell each other earnestly how they feel.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s particularly interesting about Shirakawa as a character is how she admires that her parents were junior high school sweethearts. That was her reason for agreeing to everything her first boyfriend asked\u2014even though her parents ended up divorcing down the line. And, of course, Ryuto\u2019s first crush didn\u2019t work out either, nor does he have any interest in reigniting that relationship after falling for Shirakawa. One could say that Shirakawa\u2019s mental hang-ups fundamentally stem from her obsession with \u201cfirst love\u201d, and that to fully embrace her current relationship, she must move past that mindset.<\/p>\n

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I think that this is the story\u2019s gentle way of reminding us that we shouldn\u2019t put \u201cvirginity\u201d and \u201cfirst love\u201d on a pedestal. Regardless of what experiences you\u2019ve had in your life, falling in love with the right person exposes you to many \u201cfirst times\u201d. It\u2019s not the other way around.<\/p>\n

That might seem like such a self-evident point that you\u2019d wonder why someone would bother writing a whole book series about it, but I do feel that it\u2019s a meaningful theme for the genre and target audience. Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me<\/em> might not be the most creative or exciting romcom anime out there (even just this season, it\u2019s hard to compete against 100 Girlfriends<\/em>), but I definitely think it deserves credit for challenging the slut-shaming that sometimes seems implicit in the genre. A sexually experienced girl can be a cute anime heroine too, just you watch!<\/p>\n

(Nicole is the best girl, though.)<\/p>\n

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