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[–]reluctant_commenter 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why do they look so young...? They look like children.

Sorry if this is offensive to you anime-watchers lol, it just weirds me out a little. Is that on purpose?

[–]throwaway999 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Not all anime is like that, but yeah, a lot of it is. Japan has disgusting age of consent laws. I believe 14 for boys and 13 for girls, so yeah, pedophilia is legal and often depicted in anime. It's possible that those girls (women?) depicted are said by the artist to be adults, but the fact remains that they are drawn to look like children because that is considered sexy in Japan. This is most common in "slice of life" or "healing" anime, which is basically trans-id male grooming content, that depicts women and girls' lives and lesbian relationships, well, like this. Then, boys and men get jealous and angry, wanting to live this life that they don't know doesn't even exist and was just made up in another man's head, then we get the transbians we see today.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not all anime is like that, but yeah, a lot of it is. Japan has disgusting age of consent laws. I believe 14 for boys and 13 for girls, so yeah, pedophilia is legal and often depicted in anime.

Whoa, holy shit. Don't know how I had never heard of that! That's fucking crazy.

Gotcha, thanks for the rundown. Sounds like I have some reading to do...

[–]throwaway999 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, it's disturbing. That's also why pedophilic themes are so common in yaoi.