Okay, seriously: I'm not a social justice warrior in any means (okay...perhaps by accident. In any case, I'm just being me). I know Kawaii is a culture, and while Western circles (usually feminists) see the portrayal of women therein as objectification, it was never meant nor received as such in Japan. Fuck...I've read some critiques on the show "chobits" and couldn't feel but pity towards the writer where he saw nothing but the woman in a passive and submissive role and completely missed the point of it being a love story with a philosophical meaning.
But let's be honest here. This isn't your typical anime. It focuses exclusively toward that very thing that feminists are complaining about. Please don't give me this "you don't understand: it's a cultural thing!" argument. It's like that anekdote that Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the first pornographic image ever created ("sure, it may be a woman performing fellatio on a horse...but there's a Greek pillar and a vase with flowers in it, so it's actually art!"): it's a cute attempt to hide what it's really about.
Or to put it in different wordings: if this was a western game, it would be about jerking of to free gun ownership. I may not be part of the culture, but I know the difference between a cultural thing and playing to basic sexuality fully well.
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