It's a great article! Especially for me, because I've had to deal so often with people who want us to print lolicon or shotacon books at Radio, and they always say "well, in Japan EVERYONE LOVES LOLICON!" Like there are giant billboards of lolicon porn all over Tokyo or something, to advertise Coca-Cola or C.C. Lemon... But no, not everyone in Japan likes lolicon! Hooray!
And yeah, the fetishization of the Japanese culture/lifestyle is kind of goofy. It kills me to overhear anime fans at conventions talking about how someday, they're going to move to Japan, and become perfectly assimilated into their culture... and of course, they'll get jobs as animators or manga artists! Suuuuure, they will...
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Date: 2006-05-13 08:43 pm (UTC)And yeah, the fetishization of the Japanese culture/lifestyle is kind of goofy. It kills me to overhear anime fans at conventions talking about how someday, they're going to move to Japan, and become perfectly assimilated into their culture... and of course, they'll get jobs as animators or manga artists! Suuuuure, they will...