Keep in mind this is the country that allowed a grown man to date an elementary school girl in a tv show for kids because they believe wish fulfillment for fans trumps being ethical. That show? Card captor sakura. They included that “couple” for little girls to fantasize about being with their teachers bc “girls do that”. That’s how they describe why they did that. That is SO dangerous and just sets kids up to get groomed and not be able to tell it’s weird if their teacher comes on to them. Especially if the kid likes their teacher.
It’s also a country with a long history of production of cp. Cp with real kids wasn’t illegal until pretty recently. Drawn cp is still legal there. They also just amended their laws regarding rape in 2017 to include men. It only used to included women. So it took until 2017 to acknowledge men and boys can be raped in the eyes of the law.
I knew he looked too much like a kid..
I wish I could explain how much that saddens me we rlly need to step up for men being sa too
Props for the anime that changed the theme of that “couple” to a father daughter relationship and in general made it more appropriate I was shocked when I saw the real storyline of the characters and sakuras parents age gap
Because you all never want to believe us when we tell you these authors like pedo stuff and are writing it to appeal to their Japanese audience that likes that content I went to their Twitter to find some examples. She herself says “it’s been awhile since I drew shota” and some of her works were published with shotacon tags. You all need to understand that Japanese culture around manga and anime is NOT the same as elsewhere. Drawn cp is legal there. This is a 40 yr old woman who likes to draw little boys in her sexual manga. Regardless of whether she ages them up or makes up a reason for them to be smaller like being malnourished…the point is that it’s included for those reasons. She knows it, her Japanese fans know it, it’s just yall that lump everything together because you’re used to reading everything on piracy websites that pull both regular comics, smut, and explicit porn from across the internet. They’re drawn to look like kids for people that like shota, like the author. These books would be wrapped in plastic and put in places kids can’t access them where sold in Japan. Just know when Japanese artists include weird stuff, it’s not innocent.