Gay Menyaio and the false narrative of escapism

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[–]KingDickThe2nd 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It is well known that the target audiences for the "age-structured homosexuality" media content in Japan is women. This varies from homoerotic but non-sexual man-boy relationships to pretty much cartoon child porn.

Yet many Western women who are into Japanese culture are now also watching some of the less pornographic content as well.

Look up the Japanese Anime (published by Sony) called "Loveless" on YouTube. It very much conforms to all the stereotypes listed by OP (20 year old man in a homoerotic relationship with a 12 year old boy, were the kid must suffer pain in order to save the world bah bah bah). There is a whole bunch of women swooning over the perverted relationship in the YouTube comments, saying things like they wish they were a boy so they could get molested in such a manner etc.

You might say it is only a cartoon and this response cannot be taken serious, but look at one of the trailers for the movie "For a Lost Soldier" on YouTube (biographical movie about the relationship between a Dutch artist when they were a child and their adult boyfriend during WW2). It too has a whole bunch of women (not coincidentally with anime profile pics) swooning over the relationship in the comments.

[–]turtleduck23 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I use to read manga and watch anime as a teen but after awhile it just became creepy. some may say "oh it's just a comic, it's not hurting anyone" but alot of these manga stories are read by teens and young adults and it feels like their grooming young people into thinking abusive relationships are "cute" or that the abuser is just "misunderstood and needs love" and trying to normal things that shouldn't be normalized. I use to read yuri and at first they were cute stories, but then i would see popular recommendations and many of the stories had to do with a young school girl being verbally and emotionally abused by a older woman (adult/child relationship are also common) and it was see as a love story because the school girl would make the abuser fall in love with her and the abuse would stop. another thing i noticed was heavy incest. like, 50% of the new manga i would see was sister sexual relationships. not step-sisters (which is still weird) actual sisters. and like you said, the comments were always positive, like, how can you praise a story about a 13 girl being pursued by a 20 something woman who wants to sleep with her? that's not cute that's rapey. or fawn over a character who abuses her gf.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I discovered Yuri as an adult and haven't read any of it because once you knock out anything about school aged children and sisters you've gotten rid of about 99% of it.

It just amazed me though how people get away with producing and reading what is blatantly child porn.

[–]antares 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I wonder if Japanese culture has the same effect on Japanese people as it is having now on the weeaboos, or if it's just the extremely weird stuff that gets exported and translated.

[–]SailorMoon2020 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, Japan has numerous sub cultures. Weeboos are westerners who attempt to become a part of that sub culture.

For example, the cat girl uwu, whatever, yeah, that's a sub culture in Japan.

Loli and shotcon, yes, that's a sub culture in Japan.

Futanari, chicks with dicks, that's a sub culture in Japan.

Traps, that's a sub culture in Japan...

If you can think it, there's more than likely a sub culture surrounding it; hence the Rule34 rule.

[–]YoutiaoLover 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As SailorMoon2020 mentioned, there are all kinds of weird sub cultures in Japan. Generally, though, being an adult anime fan is something seen as shameful by Japanese society. Most Japanese I know has separate accounts on social media for their private and their anime related contents (such as cosplay or indie manga they produce) because it's not a good look, unless they're working in manga/anime related sector.

Maybe because of societal pressure and culture, there are some glaring difference between Japanese audience and weebs. Not to say there aren't similarities though!