Also, Speed Grapher. Which makes me go "Did you really just turn a tooth extraction into a pornographic rape allegory?" and "Did you just imply the diamond woman ate her children?" and "Did you REALLY just say that you can only be successful if you're an evil pervert and about 80% chance of being a rapist and/or child molester?"
I feel I should be allowed to include Dollhouse, too, but that's more because of its ability to keep me watching. Though it does have "But they are like TODDLERS and the boy toddler is having sex drive things happen!" and "You...did you just tell me to sympathize with the serial rapist because he misses his wife? YOU JUST TOLD ME TO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SERIAL RAPIST BECAUSE HE HAS A SAD STORY, DIDN'T YOU!?!??!"
ETA: And I'm not ENTIRELY certain that's exactly what's happening in Speed Grapher. My brain refuses to process some of it. Then there's the villain's origin, which I hope is just impossibly convoluted and not yet truly explained, because if I understood things right He was created 15 years ago from the body of the 15 year old heroine's father to carry out the pain of all the men who died in war. Or something. This would be relatively normal for anime. What is not relatively normal for anime is deciding you are going to marry the teenaged girl your body fathered. I SINCERELY HOPE HIS ORIGIN WAS JUST INCOMPREHENSIBLE, AND NOT WHAT THEY WERE SEEMING TO SAY!!!
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I feel I should be allowed to include Dollhouse, too, but that's more because of its ability to keep me watching. Though it does have "But they are like TODDLERS and the boy toddler is having sex drive things happen!" and "You...did you just tell me to sympathize with the serial rapist because he misses his wife? YOU JUST TOLD ME TO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE SERIAL RAPIST BECAUSE HE HAS A SAD STORY, DIDN'T YOU!?!??!"
ETA: And I'm not ENTIRELY certain that's exactly what's happening in Speed Grapher. My brain refuses to process some of it. Then there's the villain's origin, which I hope is just impossibly convoluted and not yet truly explained, because if I understood things right He was created 15 years ago from the body of the 15 year old heroine's father to carry out the pain of all the men who died in war. Or something. This would be relatively normal for anime. What is not relatively normal for anime is deciding you are going to marry the teenaged girl your body fathered. I SINCERELY HOPE HIS ORIGIN WAS JUST INCOMPREHENSIBLE, AND NOT WHAT THEY WERE SEEMING TO SAY!!!