Recently, there has been a drastic accumulation of outrage against loli and loli-style artwork and characters.
Unable to separate the concept of “young man drawn with big baby eyes, overweight face and small build” from the real world, critics of artistic taste and fandom falsely accused anyone of selling sexual violence in front of real-world minors.
Believing they were doing something smart for society, voice condemnation campaigns undertaken by the warring parties resulted in effects such as a harassed Japanese mangaka, Patreon purifying any art, even in line with the style norm, and a player expelled from a fighting game. Tournament to love the many loli characters of the genre.
In light of this process of erasing all lines of loli taste from cartoons and video games and curious to know how this attitude has affected the current industry, Bounding Into Comics contacted an expert to learn about his ideas.
Graciously, they took the time of their day to communicate with us after our contact, writer, three-dimensional artist, Japanese video game developer, Haru47 told us about this upward trend and what it means for the long-term Japanese media in the West.
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Nerdigans Inc. : Which anime and video game introduced loli censorship?
Haru47: “I think the anime that started it all, Kodomo no Jikan, the debatable anime about a loli who falls in love with her teacher. I have noticed that many anti-lolicons take this anime as an example.
“As far as games are concerned, it’s the Nekopara series or any ero loli visual novel. I’m also thinking about the Senran Kagura series, given that many other people were celebrating the censorship that Sony was subject to.
Nerdigans Inc. : When would you say this update started on the loli erase?
Haru47: “Personally, I felt it started in mid-2016. I know it’s probably a longer debacle, but in my private experience, in mid-2016, when anime became more popular.
“All those normies just look at seasonal displays, even bother to investigate the media tropes they consume. “
Nerdigans Inc. : Would you say it around the same time in video games?
Haru47: “Actually, yes, at least for Sony, because in 2016 they started their censorship policy on the #MeToo movement. “
“A kind of irony, they now face a lawsuit for gender discrimination and one of their vice presidents was fired for seeking to flirt with a minor, but ‘loli bad’ according to Sony.
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Nerdigans Inc. : Why in particular is there such a prejudice against lolis?Why don’t loli’s critics seem to realize that the characters they fight are not real children (and that some loli are adults)?»
Haru47: “Projection. I wish I had made this up, but most of the time, most of those other people are to blame for the same thing they accuse everyone of.
“As for the drawing component, they insist that it is illegal, but the component that was overlooked to them is that it is the pornographic drawings of children in real life that are illegal, while loli is rarely illegal because it is based on fictional characters. That’s the main explanation for why. ” Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, reported lolicon content on the site to the FBI, only for the company to rate his reports as a waste of time.
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Nerdigans Inc. : I recently spoke to a professional translator about the state of the English localization industry and he told me that the mastery of a secure English localizer organization in the video game industry is worse than that of anime and manga. Are they concerned with Western coordinators about the escalation of censorship in loli content?
Haru47: “Yes, I think so, given that localizers complained on social media about the tropes they hate and actually lied and said the word ‘lolicon’ translates to ‘pedophile’ in Japanese. Actually, the Japanese use some other word called “shouniseai” or “jidouseai”.
Nerdigans Inc: To date, video game publishers like Sony have understood that lolicons are a fierce network that doesn’t deviate from their loli waifus. Why would publishers forget this money in favor of an audience that probably wouldn’t play their games?
Haru47: “Now that’s the funniest part. People need to erase any underclothed female characters, but they agree with the sexualization of male characters.
“One of my favorite examples of this hypocrisy is that of YouTuber Noralites. She made a long video complaining about the loli characters for the term “minor code” only to make other people realize that she made a video coveting Hanako-kun a Shota character and her art page was filled with yaoi content particular to supporting characters.
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Nerdigans Inc. : What do you think of the Climax of Night loli ban scandal?
Haru47: “I think it was a stupid ban. Imagine being banned by a meme that says you like lolis.
“Event organizers started calling Melty Blood developers ‘farts’ while creating their product for their own financial benefit. We’ve reached the point where you can’t express yourself if you like a confident trope of a character, like superiors. “it will throw you under the bus to please a minority of boring people.
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Nerdigans Inc. : What moves can the video game network take to fight censorship?
Haru47: “As a developer, I say don’t buy your censored products. It hits editors where it hurts the most. As a consumer, they presented you with a product in a safe way, right at that moment and expecting you to give them money.
Nerdigans Inc. : Recently, the manga network raised considerations about English localization with Japanese publishers. Should video game enthusiasts start taking an approach?
Haru47: “They took the same approach. The challenge is whether publishers are willing to pay attention or not.
(Editor’s note: Originally, this article and its name referred to @Haru47 as a “Japanese video game developer. “the mistaken impression that the developer of Japanese descent.
As such, the text was updated to explain that @Haru47 is a “Japanese video game developer”).
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