Reddit reviews The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming
We found 4 Reddit comments about The Moe Manifesto: An Insider's Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Good news. There's strong blowback against censorship of loli content in Japan. The prefectural government, mainly Tokyo, and some lawmakers have been using Olympics as an excuse (for quite a while now) to ban them but it's not going away. If you examine the concept of lolis you'd return to the concept of moe and kawaisa (also check out the Moe Manifesto, an interesting read even if a bit on the iffy side), which sure as hell ain't going away anytime soon.
The popularity of Eromanga Sensei and its ilk is hardly detrimental to anime as a whole. Don't like it? Well that sucks for you. Japan does not give a damn; in fact they've told UN to fuck off regarding what they can and can't show in their media.
Read The Moe Manifesto. It contains some of the latest ideas about fictional character love.
eli5: It's complicated.
eli10: It's complicated and can't be explained quickly due to how frequently and rapidly the word has changed over it's history. Academics and otokus have been discussing and arguing about this for decades.
The Full picture: Read the academic paper The Moe Manifesto, and it will answer all.
[the actual Moe Manifesto is a book, that essay was written by the same author. He revisits general ideas of Moe, Lolicon, and sexual identity in it].
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Or if you're lazy, you can get a brief glimpse in this video:
> Digibro | What The Fuck Is Moe?? [15:31]
Or a brief glimpse into the conversation between an otaku and an academic [and and hey that other guy is also there]:
> Digibro, Pause & Select, Pedantic Romantic | An In-Depth Discussion of Otaku Lingo [2:05:40]
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