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[–]KingDickThe2nd 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 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.

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

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.

[–]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!