It's not really possible to tell whether a series is deliberately trying to include a ryona scene, or it simply has scenes that fit the definition of ryona. 'This is confusing! Is it sexist to hit you? Is it more sexist to not hit you? I mean, the line gets real *cocks pistol* blurry!' -Movie: Deadpool (2016). Needless to say, this is somebody's fetish, which brings the question of whether scenes involving violence against female characters are pandering some fringe fetishism or an unavoidable consequence of having violence in a series. It boils down to: there's a girl, she is harmed, it's ryona. bullying can count as ryona, domestic abuse can count as ryona, all sorts of bad stuff can count as ryona. It could be just bad guys and victims, e.g.

In fact, it doesn't really matter if the girl is a heroine or a villain, if she gets beaten up, it's ryona.įurthermore, there isn't really a need for there to be heroes and bad guys. More specifically, when that happens with a female character, with a heroine, that's called ryona. Usually, you have the heroes and the bad guys, and if the series is violent enough, the bad guys will beat up someone, capture someone, maybe interrogate them with torture, lock them up in a dungeon, brainwash them, brutally murder them, or something like that. Anime: Ninja Slayer From Animation, ンジャスレイヤーフロムアニメイシヨン (Episode 3)īasically, ryona is a sort of violent pornography, except that the term is used to refer to all sorts of scenarios where characters get beaten, including such scenes found in anime made for general audiences.

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