Nii-san and Nemu-tan
Fin alerted me to this interesting funny-as-hell article from The New York Times. Normally, I’d stick news articles that interest me in the side column, but this was too good. A few of my favorite excerpts after the cut, bolding emphasis mine.
Like a lot of kids in America, my first taste of anime was the Sunday morning airing of DBZ, but what truly got me started down this otaku road was stuff completely different: Serial Experiment Lain, Cowboy Bebop, and Perfect Blue to mention a few. Spoilers after the cut, of course.
I thought this was an interesting video. There’s also this article that has been in our sidebar for quite a while, but it deserves a second look in light of the video above. Of course, the media loves to sensationalize to get views and ratings, but we would also be quite naive to think that the lolita complex isn’t a concern. And yeah, yeah… we could get into the pedophilia/ephebophilia distinction, but that’s just haggling with minor details.
It’s important to make a clear distinction between condemning something and calling for its censorship. A fine line exists somewhere that I’m not all quite sure I have the perfect grasp on it. Furthermore, how seriously can we accept the claims of those who insist that their love for underaged girls is purely nonsexual and thus peaceful? Even if we grant them that, what does it say that a grown man prefers a young child over a grown woman even if his desire is purely nonsexual? And are 2-D representations any better? What if it was a 2-D representation of something very real? Where is the line drawn there?
I came across this post, which translated the thoughts of Akamatsu, the mangaka of Negima, regarding moe. I’ll just address bits and pieces that stood out to me.
