Noralities

Noralities is an American YouTuber and artist who makes video essays about animated media, predominantly anime and animated films while giving commentary through animations.
==Content==
Noralities first video was a character analysis on Phos from Land of the Lustrous, and she would also praise media such as Revoltionary Girl Utena and Mulan for showcasing female characters struggling with handling their own power and strength amongst other themes. 
Noralities has made several other videos about her love for the Land of the Lustrous series, citing it as one of her favorite series of the 2010's alongside Mob Psycho 100, Princess Tutu and Demon Slayer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR90-hYeBqUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE2NaTu-ICg She would also review and compare anime, as well as read to her audience.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fghPHF3Zchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHM1TWaqdI She has also talked about Western Animation such as The Moomins.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPPKdqNbig
While the majority of Noralities’ videos have a positive tone, she also provides critiques of anime. Her most watched video addresses the sexualization of childlike characters in anime.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buv3TA7dvdE
==Criticisms and Controversies==
==="Isekai" video===
In her video titled "I'm Tired of Isekai", despite the title, she mainly focuses her discussion in two topics, the first topic being the difference between the experiece watching anime from a male perspective and the experiece of wacthing the same anime by a female one and the second one being the disparity between anime targeted to a male audience and anime targeted to a female audience, explaining how anime targeted towards women get a lot less traction than anime targeted towards men in regards of marketing, popularity and production quality but also how, proportionaly, for every single anime targeted towards women, being it either Shojo or Josei, there's at least 3 others being released that are targeted towards menhttps://youtu.be/P4V3vEleTyE?si=q3sKjCFIcrfxkBX4&t=800.
The video ended up being controversial around the anime community because of the section named "I didn't care fo Re:Zero" in which she shares her experience watching the anime, initially being on board for it because of the concept and then getting disapointed and losing interest, the point she brings and also contributes to the greater thesis of the video, is that she wasn't able to enjoy Re:Zero because the anime was clearly targeted to a male audience and her experience as a woman made it difficult to engage with the series especially if looked throught the perspect of the female characters in the series who Subaru interacts. Criticism to the video comes in three forms, people who criticise her for not understanding or lying about watching Re:Zero, reducing the thesis of the video to "Being male is bad" and how feminists and SJWs are ruining everything or both at the same time https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIs6E3W45pSzKaS-ZTC_g4ms4gJ-kPXz3&si=8QCgiySjfuBUop8S
==="Child-Coding video" and Hypocrisy accusations===
In her video titled "How Coded Character Design Works" she talks about child coding in anime and other midia and focuses her discussion on how it's done on Kobayashi-San Chi no Maid Dragon in the characters of Ilulu and Kanna Kamui. one of the arguments used for the sexualization of Kanna was due to her wearing thigh-highs, despite them not being inherently sexualhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idcjz_M3PzY, she also says that this wouldn't be a problem if she wasn't wearing socks or stockings and if the framing in the series also didn't sexualized herhttps://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=5TX3iqyBo93MkvGT&t=489, other than the thigh-highs she also brings other examples of how she is sexualized on several occasions such as the most obvious example of this being the scene in Season 1 episode 6, that she mentions in the beginning of the Dragon Maid Videohttps://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=i9_ldmlF6eEBYtt_&t=52, where Kanna and Saikawa are playing and all of Saikawa's reactions involve her blushing, being startled and getting uncomfortable because Kanna is either close to touching her or making touching her directly, all of which are depicted like Kanna is making sexual advances towards Saikawa in an oblivious way, these reactions were named "Kannagasms" by the fans of the series and there's a 1 minute and 13 seconds section compilating all these scenes where Kanna is sexualized in Season 1 contained in the video in order to illustrate her pointhttps://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=4T7rtGXZAURNgBC_&t=504.
She also brings up in the video child-coding and how this is a problem in the series because of the way characters who are in-universe minors are sexualized, such as Kanna and Ilulu and how even in the art style the series has there are differences between the two that are intentionally made so the audience can recognize that these characters have different ages from a character such as Tohru in the anime's art stylehttps://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=6OxBfVUz0xnsk6Sg&t=695, and in the case for Ilulu, the anime even made some slight changes to her design in order for her to look older than her manga counterpart whose features are more child-like https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a2/ec/c4/a2ecc4410c0046e26b9ac0d2c9be345c.jpg one of the couterpoints she brings is compararing it to La Brava from Boku no Hero Academia and how even though she looks like a child she still is an adult in text, has some design cues to identify her as such and talks with an adult woman's voice in the Japanese and english dub of the anime, something that Kanna and Ilulu lack because both are writen as minors and them talk like children in the anime adaptationhttps://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=cZ9fjwgPPGeLn5YZ&t=743. People who disagreed with her points went throught her tumblr blog and accused her of being an hypocrite because she was making gay shipp art she made of male Boku no Hero Academia characters https://archive.ph/WchIu, like Bakugou, Kirishima, Kaminari and Izuku, and accused her of also a sexualizing minors and that these drawings were NSFW, even though the content of the drawings themselves were pretty inoffensive, most of them being most of them the characters kissing and/or replicating common romance tropes such as a Kabedon by Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugou. In a video made by Jakez123 titled "Noralities is a HYPOCRITE"https://youtu.be/VXiH3FVy1Xc?si=Bl44UJ_J6ARnjLCc&t=245, he goes as far to accuse one of the drawings, in which contains Katsuki Bakugou wearing a casual costume/sports attire of being a prototype for a body pillow and also taking one of her tumblr posts containing a kiss on the cheek with Bakugou and Kirishima from her tumblr with a caption that reads "I'M SO THIRSTY FOR SOFT BAKU I DON'T UNDERSTAND?? YOU CAN BE SOFT MY SHITTY SON, IT'S OKAY" with the word "thirsty" being used to say she likes how the way the character is written and acts soft in either canon/fanon material and wishes that happened more, Jakez twists the meaning of the word in the post's context to say that Noralities is actually sexually atracted to Bakugou. After all the backlash of the video she deleted her tumblr account and that event was used as an argument in favor of the hypocrisy claims. 
Another argument made against her video was saying that she said that people who like Dragon Maid are pedophiles, in reality she never said that and in the closing thoughts of the Dragon Maid video she states: 
"Do I think that everybody who watches Dragon-Maid is automatically a child predator ? No, I don't and neither should you. That kind of single minded ideology is inherently flawd, vast blank statements like that are not true, and the thing is like, I get it, I get why some people want to defend Dragon-Maid, like parts of it are legitimately good when the focus is only on Kobayashi and Tohru and their found family dynamic with Kanna, there's a lot I genuinely like and I was willing to put with some stuff that made me uncomfortable because there still aren't a lot of cannonical queer romances, and definitively not ones with this level of Sakuga. People can watch problematic midia critically and just because someone watched or liked aspects of it that does not make them inherently them problematic in the same way because that is not how humans work and no midia is perfect but at the same time you can't turn around and say that the people who are upset about the design of a child being sexualized are being sensitve because they just don't get anime."https://youtu.be/Buv3TA7dvdE?si=r4ZpPLRr4kHNz-Lr&t=901 
Other accusation made against her that was used was she that likes shotacon, the main argument for this, as well as an post made on KiwiFarms that contains criticisms of her Isekai and Child Coding videoshttps://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-twitter-pedo-hunter-loli-crusader-community.64404/page-39#post-8896574, is that she is a fan of the manga/anime series Toilet Bound Hanako-Kun, but in the video where she talks about the mangahttps://youtu.be/8r-qOjBCQhA?si=EMeais-xC6HAi6tt she replied to a comment saying "I really hope no one ends up thinking I have a crush on Hanako when I say I love him like, he's a child" and making it clear that she does not like shota nor finds it acceptable.
==Trivia==
*She thinks Sailor Moon Crystal should have been a space opera.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qNLA4kDv4
*Her favourite Zelda game is Majora's Mask.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4V3vEleTyE
*Her video talking about Howl's Moving Castle is currently blocked on Youtube due to a copyright reinvidication by Studio Ghibli, as it is common to most people who use footage from their movies in videos
==References==
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