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That mushroom is an akuma!

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This post might not fit so neatly in with the rest of this blog, but I couldn’t resist. The creativity I find on Nico Nico Douga can surprise me at times, like those remixes of anime to resemble some silly Kirby song or Super Mario World being turned into a 16-bit composer of anime tunes. The video below, however, probably has my favorite gimmick: these guys came up with a game within Super Mario 64 where you attempt to collect 8 red coins while being chased by a 1-up mushroom. Considering that the mushroom is somewhat faster than Mario’s running speed and can phase through matter, it’s not as easy as one might think… anyway, this is my favorite clip of their six part series, but if you don’t have an account at Nico Nico Douga, someone was nice enough to upload them onto Youtube, which I’ve embedded below. Things are always being lost in translation, but I think these clips show that there are times when human beings understand each other regardless of culture and language.

Loli exhibitions again (this time for real, I swear)!

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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?