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hikaru393



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:39 pm Reply with quote
i dont know where to put this but i was at a site and in the manga section they kept saying loli in hear so what is loli?
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huh?



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:52 pm Reply with quote
loli if im not mistaken comes from lolita. and its basically liking young girls. for example if the character you like in a harem manga is the little girl then you have a loli complex
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hikaru393



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:58 pm Reply with quote
oh i get it know but why do people say loli is bad and can get you in jail do the little girls like have sex or something
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:33 pm Reply with quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon

No, you can't go to jail for loli (at least in the US). Yes, some loli invovles pornography.
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 11:38 pm Reply with quote
Loli simply refers to a young (pre-pubescent) female, regardless of whether or not there is any sexual content. Lolicon, coming from the term Lolita Complex, refers to the interest in young girls in anime and manga. A lolita complex is a sexual interest in young girls, but lolicon does not necessarily involve sexual interest. In most cases, it is probably a turn on, but I would say there are some cases where it isn't.
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Ataru



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:43 am Reply with quote
hikaru393 wrote:
why do people say loli is bad and can get you in jail do the little girls like have sex or something
Not to get polictial, but depending on the local laws, only person of the age 17 and below having sex on any type of media is consider kiddie porn. Anime and Manga it's pretty hard to tell the character age unless they state it.
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Digital Dreamer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:35 am Reply with quote
hikaru393 wrote:
oh i get it know but why do people say loli is bad and can get you in jail do the little girls like have sex or something
Because people seem to think with their dick than there brain these day.
Ataru wrote:
Not to get polictial, but depending on the local laws, only person of the age 17 and below having sex on any type of media is consider kiddie porn. Anime and Manga it's pretty hard to tell the character age unless they state it.

They got the age of 19 quoted on the back of the cool deviced box set.

Although it does disturb me that you have that blonde haired guy going after the little girl in DigiCharot. Then again, there is a lot of things that are disturbing in that show.
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Ataru



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:46 am Reply with quote
Yeah, most Hentai say that all characters in the movie is at or about 18, but it's kind of hard to believe sometimes.
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:53 am Reply with quote
That's because it's often BS. If they look 12, they probably are. The DVD distributors are just covering their asses, even though it's unnecessary with current laws.
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Ataru



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:12 pm Reply with quote
HitokiriShadow wrote:
That's because it's often BS. If they look 12, they probably are. The DVD distributors are just covering their asses, even though it's unnecessary with current laws.
To be fair, most females look like 14-16 years old in hentai to me.
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Arkard



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:51 pm Reply with quote
You know lolicon is a lot more complex in Japan than one might think. Actually, I remember a very interesting lecture that inspired me to research more on the subject. The lecture in mind was, of course, on lolicon, it was held at my university (do I go to a cool uni or what?). Anyway, to my knowledge, the fascination with lolitas in Japan doesn't nessesarily have to be of sex nature. If anything, to a true loli lover, sex may be the last thing on his mind Smile

The true nature of a Japanese Lolita, at least to me, is different than her European counterpart. Whilst the western term "lolita" refers to... a young girl acting in a manner suitable for a more sexualy profound person, the "oriental lolita" for the most part has to be... cute. Or rather more than that, she has to be kawaii. It would take hours to actully write about the phenomen of "kawaii", but In Short kawaii can reffer to anything simply cute, cute as in fluffy-soft cute, clumsy as in heart warming clumsy, in No way dangerous, threatening or conventionaly sexual (!). And in a way that is the way of a J-Lolita. She can be of adult age, but wearing kiddy clothes, specially designed for the large demographic of girls wanting to be "lolitas", and using a restricted lingo of cutesy sounds, which like to give man, the impresson they are yearing for. Now I am not a sociologist, so I can't really say what are ther basics for the lolicon part in the minds of japanese man and woman. But it has to be, at leat in my oppinion, distinquished from pedophilia.

I think the Best example of True lolicon is Chii from Chobits. She is harmless, she acts like an infant girl at times, she is clumsy and overall cute. Her owner - Hideki, in the end choses a Perfect Loli girl. She will NEVER grow up, she will be a lolita forever. But between them.. sex will never happen. That really interests me.

But lets remember that in Japan there is lolicon and there is pedo. Some people like to assosiate those 2. But lets keep them separated, K?
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Digital Dreamer



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:39 pm Reply with quote
HitokiriShadow wrote:
That's because it's often BS. If they look 12, they probably are. The DVD distributors are just covering their asses, even though it's unnecessary with current laws.

The "They are just drawn to look young" line is just as convincing at my ex-homemate line of "They are of age, they just look young" with his school girl fetish.

Arkard wrote:
It would take hours to actully write about the phenomen of "kawaii", but In Short kawaii can reffer to anything simply cute, cute as in fluffy-soft cute, clumsy as in heart warming clumsy, in No way dangerous, threatening or conventionaly sexual (!).

That seems to explain that tall blonde haired guy in Di Gi Charat Nyo.

Arkard wrote:
But lets remember that in Japan there is lolicon and there is pedo. Some people like to assosiate those 2. But lets keep them separated, K?


So could you some one explain Air?
Like here i was watching the anime. I knew that is was based on a PS2.

Then one day I had one of my freind show me the AIR TV / GAME artwork book. 3 pages later, i find out that it all based on a H-Game. Considering that most of the girls looked under the legal age limit. It did put me off continuing to watch the show for a few months.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 9:02 pm Reply with quote
Digital Dreamer wrote:
I knew that is was based on a PS2.

No. The 18+ version (also the first one) was on PC. The "G" version on PS2 released later.
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DKL



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:16 pm Reply with quote
Arkard wrote:


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Hey, that was a pretty interesting read... you got more detailed stuff?
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Digital Dreamer



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 5:29 am Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:
Digital Dreamer wrote:
I knew that is was based on a PS2.

No. The 18+ version (also the first one) was on PC. The "G" version on PS2 released later.
The art work book was making reference to the PC game then. Embarassed

It does make it wonder some times. Like I am normally used to seeing the Porn Versions Of Movies.
Eg. White Men Can Not Hump, Sex Trek The Next Penatration. etc.

Not the other way around.

The whole AIR thing had made me think that maybe not all H-Games is all Tentical Sex, BDSM and Sex.
However i am not going to go out of my way to purchase one to confirm this.
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