I was reading a pretty-okay article about doujin circles from 1996 and the writer said the cons were filled with “virginal girls.” Why oh why do you need to weigh in on their sex lives when saying young girls write their own manga? I also hate the absolutely disgusting look so many people in america take with Japanese school girls. Not saying Japan is totally innocent here, but the whole “yeah all Japanese school girls are super-sexualised. I know because every piece of Japanese culture I look at contains sexualized children” and never realise that this is a statement on their own failure.
Now to be fair, there is a lot of sexualisation of everyone, especially women and girls, in Japanese manga and anime. However, three recently popular anime, jujutsu kaisen, Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Jojo’s bizarre adventure, all do not feature sexualised underage characters. However, people go out of their way to find these things, and pretend its Japan’s fault it exists. Take Lolita fashion for example, the original purpose was that women would be so covered up, and their more sexualised parts so concealed, that they would be outside the male gaze. Some men interpreted this as baby-play, and I don’t need to tell you about how underage looking characters kinda veered off this path. I guess my overall point is that american culture and Japanese culture both sexualise young women, but it’s some weird kind of brain worm that america can intentionally import this content and pretend they are not just as much a part of the problem.
real cool to just ignore the entire BL genre. Jolyne is neither a minor in age or really depicted as schoolgirlish. Nobara takes of her jacket to reveal a shirt, not really that sexual. The rest of these are somewhat matters of interpretation or taste, so I can’t really debate it.
