too many idks with this one

People reaching out and projecting too much about the grooming, most doesn’t even hold it definition to relevancy, making up new “meaning” and terms to fit certain narrative instead.

Twitter mob mentality at its finest.

@Mainnus i don't think you can really call it reaching when its pretty much explicitly implied in the plot outline. there's no ands, ifs, or buts about it, its a teen heartthrob romance that is attempting to garnish its notoriety on the fact of its novelty. It is exciting as an idea because its not normal, it is exciting because its taboo. take traditional porn for example, since males value the act of sex and the majority of porn is catered to a male demographic, the story isn't the actual focus and which is why most lack development in those elements. they are a terrible representation of what sex is and sexual relationships really are like and how they function in reality. that's why we call it "unhealthy". Like i stated with examples before, there is a genre of literature that does the same thing for women but focus on a spectrum of emotions, you can wall it "woman's" romance or "woman's fiction" but it is essentially the same thing, a warped and distorted depiction of romance catered to the female tendency to live out their emotional fantasies. It is not healthy either and shouldn't be in the same genre or time slots with shows your kids watch. the problem isn't that it is fetishising an ideal of grooming, which it definitely is for the sake of its plot line, the problem people have with it why is this on tv like everything else? its mascarading as a high school romance when it clearly isn't primarily that.

@chenfeng There's tons of fetishes in anime, and sexualizing minors is fairly common, maybe you should switch to western television?