05-27-2010, 10:48 PM | #1 |
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A turn of the tide?
There's a manga called Mirai Nikki serialized in the magazine Shounen Ace, it's an older shounen story about this kid who's imaginary friend becomes real and pits him in a death-match with his imaginary friend's other friends where they have to kill each other, and are armed with cell phone diaries that relay information about something, meant to help them survive. I haven't read it, but I follow the story fairly often.
It's ending soon, but to everyone's surprise, in the most recent chapter the main character Yuki actually banged his psychotic 'girlfriend' Yuno. It was very graphic, moreso than Talon's recent example provided to assert the ecchi of Kiss x Sis. This isn't even an ecchi title, it's dead serious most of the time, and was serious with this scene too. The spoiler leak of this event shocked the Japanese online community about as much as it shocked the US waters. Discussions are still going on now. It'll be interesting to see the ramifications of this, given the new anti-pedo law in Japan (Yuki and Yuno are both 16 years old, clearly underaged even for an eroge, which defaults all characters to 18 regardless of how they look) and where the magazine was published. Frankly, I'm ecstatic it happened. I might not be big into H, but when used as a storytelling element and used properly it is an excellent way to evoke emotion and illustrate just how close a relationship is. Murder of family is likewise an equally powerful tool, but it's used a lot more commonly because it's not as taboo, so the effect is less pronounced (most of the time) when it happens. If something happens, we'll find out about it in the next few weeks. Dear gosh, and to think an anime was coming out for this as well. o_O
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05-28-2010, 08:58 AM | #2 | |
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Translation: hentai of a crazed mustachioed middle-aged man banging a frightened curly-cued ten year old is what is going to be the focus of loli/cartoon pedo debates, not a one-time sex scene between two borderline-legal adults. Further: you cannot use the climate on 2chan to accurately assess the current climate nor to predict the future climate of the greater Japanese sociopolitical sphere. 2chan consists primarily of otaku, i.e. Japanese nerds, i.e. one of Japan's very vocal but very minor vocal minorities. Fifty raging Anonymouses does not a social upheaval make.
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