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Well well well, there is lot to be said on this topic. Everywhere in the world, in every country, you will have stupid laws, even if often inspired by an idea of doing something good. From reading sankaku, Japan has tons of these laws in real life scenarios, people get arrested for asking a direction from a schoolgirl and stuff like that. But such things happen everywhere in the world and Japan is no exception. What is Japan special in is something completely different. They, at least to my knowledge, are the country that restricts any creativity the least. And that is where all the "weird" stuff can come from. You often see quotes like "can you think about something weird - it probably exists in Japan" and stuff like that. And it is true, because they are at least smart enough to understand that limiting creativity will slow the progress of the whole planet. Yet there are people in Japan who try to limit that creativity and many of them have been successful, for example many copyright laws and such matters, that are very stupid and limit creativity (C&D notices and shit like that). I don't want to really go into that now as that is for very different topic (we have quite a few of them on this forum already xD) But what other ways are there to limit creativity? By limiting what you can actually originally create in the first place. And that is where Japan does really great job, it basically says "you can think about it, you can create it". And that is exactly how it should be, everywhere in the world. Unfortunately it is not the case, in lots of parts of the world censorship is a big deal, I know lot of stuff from history of my country about it myself. People being arrested for speaking words of truth, books being burned, media being destroyed, authors being forbidden. There has been countless instances of such things happening and it is only from the history of my little unimportant country. If you take whole world, you will soon see that it is ALWAYS BAD doing things like that, limiting what people can write, draw, create. Or would you not agree that banning something just because YOU don't it is bad and evil? What is then the difference between such person and other "evil" historical figures banning religions, banning all media about some subjects, about things that people create. You know who benefits from stuff like this - the leaders. Because most people alone are nothing, they are just another person between all other 7 bil people. So if you manage to restrict a share of thoughts between those "unimportant" people, you will basically have no opposition. Someone with military and political power would just be the one ruling everything. The reason why this hasn't happened yet is because information and thoughts of people are much more powerful than anything else in this world. Mind is the most powerful tool we have as humans, it is not our arms or legs or eyes, it is the mind. And with complete freedom of expression, you can be important in the events to come, you can be important in the future. Even I with this post am sharing my thoughts, it might seem like sure thing for many of us, we can login and post. But even now in many countries you cannot do that. Because that is what lot of people with power are afraid of, it takes some of their power away from them, it makes internet the most powerful tool to share your individual mos powerful tool, your mind. And more and more try to, laws to restrict the internet are always the threat, because the people with power see it exactly that way. And that is why banning ANYTHING that comes from mind should always be opposed as strongly as possible. That's why these loli ban laws in Japan fail, because there is actually enough smart people in the community to oppose it. It is, always has been and always will be only sharing your mind, nothing else. You cannot possibly compare lolicon to a porn (or a child porn for this matter), because for real porn to exist, real act has to happen, and the tools are real people. For a loli manga or anime to exist, only a thought is required, mind is the only tool and author is the only one using it. Why should it be restricted, why should it be limited in any way? Because YOU don't like it? THEN DON'T WATCH IT. Its simple as that, if you do not like any expression of creativity, whether it is for you boring book, disgusting movie or loli VN, what is forcing you to watch it, how does it affect you? The answer is it doesn't, you should just move on and enjoy whatever else you enjoy. I will bring this fact again as I haven't mentioned it enough it seems, rock music (or similar genres coming from west [america etc]) were banned in my country for a long time because it was believed that it causes violent behavior in people. Most people will even laugh at absurd idea like that nowadays, but exactly the same is happening here. Some Japanese media is already banned in some countries in Europe, there were some problems in America and Canada too about this. All I can do is laugh in the face of the people saying those things because I know that it is exactly the same as the rock music idea, but many people hasn't realized it yet. And then I stop laughing because I realize that maybe there will never be a time where people realize it, with what direction I see the world turning, I am actually often thinking how I don't want to live on this planet anymore. But I still try to at least offer my mind to oppose, I try to persuade other people to oppose it and with our connected minds we can rule this world through creation and free expression. I am just worried that time will arise where the limits will be too high to allow enough minds to connect and oppose, it will be the moment of the ultimate evil becoming victorious. All we can do is fight the limitations themselves, that way we can always connect our minds for the better cause, especially now with the use of internet. Don't let those limitations slowly overwhelm us to the point of no return. And if you don't like something ignore it. Just because you don't like something or don't agree with something doesn't mean it should be banned. It is all creativity after all. You might say "well if those people didn't create loli manga, I would have more non-loli manga to read" - and that is WRONG, if there were such limitations, people who now can create would just be working in McDonalds for minimal wage or something, not creating anything at all. Just pick what you like from the literally unlimited amount of media available and leave the rest alone, you are not the only consumer. And until the end of days, lets just pray that creativity will always be limitless, as that is the way its meant to be. And have a cirno:

While I personally dislike the sexualization children in this medium, I don't think it should be banned in any way. It's kind of similar to the recent video game debates. There doesn't seem to be any legitimate, non- biased, research to show any link between this sort of thing, and pedophilia. In the cases where there is a link, I'd imagine the underlying causes were already existent.

thank the gods. if you left, with ryoji gone, all I'd have left is steve. i'm not sure how long I can hang out with just steve and not become a loli-con. he's already making it very hard.

I can understand why they start out as younger children in some anime, I mean who wants to watch a show about some middle aged dork who suddenly gains mystifying powers and must now go on an adventure to save the world or some such nonsense. although now that I think of it, having a series like that that ends up being him hallucinating his way through his midlife crisis would be brilliant, 10 stars, would watch again. I can't understand why they stay that age for the entire series. seriously, years go by and ash ketchup is still 10 years old? as for every other series, I just keep in mind that the entire thing is a work of fiction where teenagers look 30 and 30 year olds look like they're 10. (looking at you, toaru series). in reality, children that age don't act like that. give a real 14 year old boy super powers and he would be far less restrained with it than that and you would be hard pressed to expect him not to blow up the school for the jollies of it. I find myself being less concerned with the children in these shows than the adults. female kids do cute things and that's acceptable. male kids do stupid and irresponsible things and that's fine too. it's the adults that make everything in these shows go all willy nilly. let's look at ro kyu bu as a recent example: TL:DR: don't blame the children in these shows, blame all of the adults.

He's the hero Fuwanovel deserves, but not the one it needs right now. The day will come when the solid knight must rise once more, but until that day, he shall remain a silent, watchful predator. Edited because Eldin's insight was too good to pass up.

As obvious as it may sound, first we need to clarify that people do not choose what arouse them, and being aroused by something is not "evil". Coercing a kid to have sex with you or just simply raping them is in fact considered bad by most of the society and I'm not about to disagree with them on this one, but simply feeling sexual arousal by children is not bad in itself if you can properly control it. Now, if you ban the depiction of sexualization of small girls/boys in anime, the sexual arousal from those things will not go away. Conversely, I can assure you that most of the people that like this kind of thing are not intending to go and rape somene on the streets. People sexual orientations aren't about to change due to them seeing porn of another kind. Conversely, if you force someone with X arousal by something to not watch X again, saying that only Y is acceptable, that person won't magically stop liking X. Now, 2D H is harmless by itself. It doesn't matter what fetish you have, if you only keep it to 2D, no one is getting hurt by it while you still can have what you like. There should be proper regulation for 3D, but that's besides the point while dealing with animes, doujinshis and such. Banning X sexualization from 2D is not going to stop anyone from liking X. In fact, it sometimes may compell them to take even more drastic changes to get X. If you're an common heterosexual, banning straight porn is not going to make you gay. This applies to all kinds of sexual preferences, therefore, I am against prohibiting the sexualizatons of kids, trees, dogs, tentacles or whatever on any sort of 2D, non-real manner.

my ahoge is actually a contact device

the number of times she's needed rescue far outnumber the amount of times she's been useful though. she's about as handy as a dead dog nailed to an armchair I don't mind her character so much as the concept. she's a freeloading ninny who gets angry over the smallest things, violently at times, and is possessive as hell over a guy that she has no right to be possessive of. hearing her complain to touma that she's hungry was funny the first thirty or so times she said it but then you get into episode two and you kind of just want to beat her in the dome piece with a long loaf of stale French bread, serving the dual purpose of shutting her up and filling her up. at least misaka is cute when she's being tsundere. index is tsun and she's dere at the same time, but it's completely different. it's more like a daughter with daddy issues that fights with the step mum over who has the right to marry the old man. while misaka is adorable and gets all shy, and to be perfectly honest I would have a good deal of fun teasing her about it, index is unjustifiably arrogant about the whole thing as though she owns touma just because he's nice to her. not unlike a cat in that aspect I suppose but far less cute and cuddly. this is, most unfairly, my negative view of the character. as badly as I've made my opinion of her sound I don't mind her that much. she's not in my top 3 choices for index heroines, but she has her moments.

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