Yes but it's WEIRD that y'all read this and don't find it WEIRD. Can you imagine u being at most 12 and ur 16/18 y/o neighbor reciprocating ur childish crush. It's not like im saying y'all are criminals but to normalise this story is insane ESPECIALLY when there are some mentions of sexual shit e.g. the kid brushing up on his dick...
Yes. Yes, i can imagine that, easily and guilt-free I realise that would not be reality. I don't bc these things are only interesting for me when with fictional 2D characters, not real humans, but as long as it stays only in my imagination, it's fine.
Fiction CANNOT turn someone into a monster if they weren't one already.
No one who enjoys this manga is normalizing what happens in the story (supporting a romance between a 17yo and a 10yo). We are merely reading manga. You guys are the ones marching in defense of fictional non-existent characters when there's nobody getting hurt... there's no actual kid brushing up on anyone's dick, there's only a story of an underage couple of boys where THAT happens, so who cares, right?
sure you could say that it’s fictional so its guilt free but using that the devolving argument as to what "counts" as a child is so tired. i think that ideology is extremely dangerous in a society where the sexual use and abuse of women and children is so common.
even if no one is getting hurt directly, when there are these forms of “harmless” sexualization of children we gradually corrode the norms that define children as off-limits to sexual use. you keep using this excuse of it being just a story but have you questioned why you are consuming and enjoying it? even if you’re not normalizing it, the intention for these types of fictitious media is the same and everything about lolicon/shotacon is designed for the characters to look and behave like children, so let’s put on our thinking caps for a bit. are you going to say the same for AI-generated CP? child sex dolls? they're not "real people".
not everyone acts on their thoughts but not everyone has those thoughts to begin with. you’re saying as long as it stays in your imagination its fine sure but would you give drugs to a recovering addict? just food for thought ur free to do what you want but just call a spade a spade and stop trying to rationalize and sugar coat reading this shit lol
The age gap is insane