A generic isekai, but done right?

ExBaku5 said:


Nah,I've been watching anime for over 5 years

Lolicon is the dark matter of Japanese pop culture, infusing everything from best-selling comics and animation to the nation’s ever popular girl groups. Yet it’s almost never discussed in polite society. Indeed, the very term is something of a four-letter word in Japanese, virtually synonymous with pedophilia. When I recently spoke about lolicon to a comic-book-artist friend—an industry veteran who dabbles in erotica herself—she lowered her voice to a whisper whenever she uttered the term.

Lolicon emerged in Japan in the late nineteen-seventies as self-published fan parodies of popular female manga characters. Something like the Tijuana bibles of the manga world, they exposed the eroticism hinted at in the curvaceous young cartoon beauties of the mainstream. Lolicon’s arrival, perhaps not coincidentally, accompanied the coming of age of the first generation of boys who had been raised on manga and anime, and the runaway popularity of these amateur pornographic productions triggered a flood of similar content in Japan’s vibrant professional comic industry. For a time, lolicon seemed poised to go mainstream. But in the end it remained a skeleton in the closet, reaching only domestic audiences as more palatable sci-fi and fantasy fare, such as the apocalyptic cyberpunk epic “Akira” and the early films of the director Hayao Miyazaki, built the foundations of “Cool Japan” abroad in the nineteen-eighties.