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I made the same comment as one other person except rephrased it a little different and add a solution, and they have +70 likes and I have negative as well as one of my comments deleted
In this context, the translation is absolutely correct in my opinion. I can't really think of a context where "lolicon" being translated to pedophile would be incorrect. -con like siscons, brocons, etc are complexes or obsessions. Lolicon is a complex or obsession with, drawn or not, prepubescent minors.
Loli, not lolicon, can refer to both an individual who looks like the target of a lolicon (a prepubescent minor), or is short for Lolita fashion, which is meant to be a cute fashion style inspired by Victorian-era dress with archetypes like goth-loli.
For those wondering why Japan, a very shame based culture, feels more accepting of this, and why it seemingly appears in anime/manga culture so much, CSAM possession was legal, technically, up to 2014. CSAM production and dissemination only started being legislated in 1999, with much pressure from the west. Again, it is absolutely abhorrent and a crime, but culturally in Japan, many feel they are being forced to adapt at a rapid pace. There's a tangential relation between western conservatives and Japan when it comes to acceptance and cultural change (I wasn't referring to pedocon theory, but hey, it's a theory like gravity at this point with it being proven each passing month.)
Bonsai Pop's video on the Rurouni Kenshin mangaka goes into detail on this as he was found with a massive collection of this material. Which, again, was legal for him to own 3 years prior (he was arrested in 2017) regardless of how ethically abhorrent it was. Which it absolutely is. I believe his case was a case of hurt people hurt people in that he was abused as a minor and developed his complex. He never directly harmed children as far as we know, but he did own a large CSAM collection, which absolutely furthers a climate in which exploitation thrives. It's believed he was likely being used as an example by the state given how public the arrest was while how minor the punishment was.
Japanese react to imposing of our morals on them like westerners would react to criminalization of drinking alcohol. I wonder how strange and abhorrent elements of our culture must look to them.
Then again, I consider french to be weird and borderline pro-crime for prohibiting the paternity tests...
I disagree. A lolicon can also be defined as a person into lolicon, with no interest in actual children. Since she's holding a lolicon manga, this would be a valid interpretation. Whether it would be a more correct translation, I don't know
He never directly harmed children as far as we know
I absolutely loathe the entire apologist view of "They never directly harmed a child, they just had 45tb of pictures of children being harmed"
Buying/trading CSAM material IS directly harming children, because your activities are actively creating and furthering a demand for children to be molested and raped, Which very much means your hand is actively causing the harm, whether its directly against the child, or every other activity that creates the market that encourages molestation and rape. everyone participating in it is actively and directly harming children.
I don't disagree.
I was merely stating it as a fact of the case in why he, potentially, only received a light fine and no jail time. That's on the Japanese court system.
The American system is nearly as bad (arguably worse) so long as you are wealthy and/or have political power.
Because yes, everyone involved, both directly and indirectly, create the climate in which exploitation thrives.
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My partner sometimes asks me, What’s that anime you don’t like to tell people you like?
Mushoku Tensei Jobless Reincarnation
I like the art and merciless world they live in and a lot of the characters but that show I probably fast forward scenes more than any other. Shield Hero is probably second with the lusting for the little chocobo(giant bird thing) princess that can change to little girl.
Made in Abyss
I really wanted to like this one. The setting and story setup were really good. A fine example of "it really doesn't need this"
The MiA author is definitely a sex pervert (the volume extras leave no question of this), but children being put through incredibly fucked up dangerous body horror situations because most adults in the setting are useless and/or evil is like half the point of the story. It really does need that.
The fanservice stuff, on the other hand, is either just Japan being Japan, or further playing into the lost innocence theme above. I think one can convincingly argue for it being a little bit of both or entirely just the former, but it almost certainly is not entirely just the latter.
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I have mostly swapped to reading Korean manwha instead of Manga because of this. Going back and reading some of the Manga I used to like is a bit of a shock as a full grown adult now. So much is geared to young, horny teens.
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Is it not? The definition is the sexualization of a minor or prepubescent girl in anime/manga. Sounds like pedophilia to me.
"But she's a 500 year old [dragon/elf/vampire/etc] in human form, it's fine bro."
Looks like a child, acts like a child, would be considered a child by their own culture/species: That's a child bro.
I'd like to say I've never had that conversation but I have.
"Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid" was fine (though not everyone's cup of tea) until they started to sexualize the minors (which was basically at the introduction of the child "dragon"). Then I stopped watching it. And from what I hear, I picked a good spot to stop watching as it only got worse from there in regards to the minor characters.
EDIT: I should probably clarify for those that think I support that kind of content, I do not.
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