Ichigo Mashimaro. Manabi Straight. Moetan. Sky Girls. Kodomo no Jikan. These aren’t your average shows with young female leads intended for a young female audience. In fact they’re aimed at men. It really seems that the amount of series like these have drastically increased in the past couple of years.
I can understand why these shows are so popular. It gives lolicons the chance to do what they want (i.e. watch young girls in… ahem…”precarious situations”) without getting 25 to life. Should it be encouraged for studios to continue churning out these types of shows though? Is the anime/manga industry just perpetuating the problem by appeasing the intended audience with their next loli fix?
Maybe this is a problem that has always been present but is only getting more noticeable because of the recent shows with loli ero content in them. Of note would be the fact that Moetan episode 6 was outright banned from a TV airing and Kodomo no Jikan has also been heavily censored. What about the other shows I mentioned? While series like Ichigo, Sky Girls, and Manabi Straight aren’t as bad as the aforementioned ecchi titles, you can easily understand their target audience. I don’t suppose these shows are hurting anyone, but it is surprising how quickly they’ve found their fanbase and became an anime niche so quickly. Perhaps this matter has really come to light because the TV medium is so mainstream that you can’t help but notice how much things have changed.
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Glad to see I am not the only one seeing a rise in the lolicon anime. I know back when I was an advocate of PAD and helping with A-Kon 2002, there would be a few titles that barely slipped through the socially acceptable standards. Now, it seems more and more prevalent.
Things in Japanese culture like gravure picture books have been around for awhile, but it seems that influence is trickling into the anime niche.
Ichigo Mashimaro. Manabi Straight
Oh I had no clue! To be fair, I saw a couple of Manabi Straight eps at Animenorth and I liked them, as well as the next ep preview music (next on batches to download after Akagi :3). As for Ichigo Mashimaro, that will be after Manabi Straight since I read the description which only states “cute girls doing cute things”
IchiMaro, Manabi, and KnJ are all simply amazing shows. Lolicon-pamdering doens’t mater, they’re just amazing shows. All three in my top 15 (well, KnJ getting there)
Moetan is pedo-pandering. That one I will admit to liking just cuz I’m a lolicon.
i think lolicons are a great idea, it keeps perverts from watching “real” childporns and most people think, if it´s a cartoon, it´s a cartoon, not reality.
If they see “real” movies they ight think : “hey they do that, that means it´s ok for me to have sex with children”
i think lolicons are a great resolution to that problem, or would u blow up ur neighbor just because bucks bunny does it in his cartoons? I don´t think u would
sry for the bad enlish, i´m german ^^
I see where you’re coming from with your argument. I just wanted to point out that the rate of new loli anime becoming mainstream is really shocking. Maybe it’s for the best, maybe not.
And your English is all right. I certainly don’t know an ounce of German so more power to you.