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INTEREST: Manga Editor Provides Glimpse of Lolicon Magazine's Standards

Arale Kurashiki wrote:

For every handful of people reading such material and not letting it affect them, there's a future criminal viewing such material as validating.

You are going down the road of "Drawings/prose/(video)games where people are killed are helping future criminals feel validated".

These comments are a bit sad. It's weird how similar anti-lolicon and anti-violent video game rhetoric are.

When it comes to porn, though, the only point of the work is sexual appeal. And pedophilia is something people often don't talk about, so it's much easier to subconsciously see it as not a big deal. Murder's terrible too, but we hear a lot more about murder than rape because, as horrible as it sounds when put this way, murder is a more socially acceptable topic. So it's considered "obviously wrong" in anyone's minds, while the things that people aren't willing to acknowledge or point out are in a more controversial area. You'd be surprised how totally warped somebody's logic can get without exposure to criticism or alternative ideals.

This Twitter post is obviously not entirely serious. There's plenty of stuff, even in LO, with girls who look younger than 9. Though it's probably also correct, or Enjeru/Angel (Toddlercon magazine) would still be going strong.

These comments are a bit sad. It's weird how similar anti-lolicon and anti-violent video game rhetoric are.

I'm talking more about people who are expressly interested in lolicon for the children and who try to defend their enjoyment of that as harmless.

Arale Kurashiki wrote:

Video games (or anything else, but because the player kills in games, I'll talk about that) where people get killed usually have some kind of story behind why it's happening. Even when the reason behind it is simple, there's hardly ever a glorification of real-world violence.

Redacted -Galap

I can understand that you personally are disgusted by these kind of fiction (and probably are also of what you saw if you clicked on the link I provided)

LO's readers want 9-year-olds, 8 is too young.

This is kind of a racy article, it's basically outlining the erotic preferences of lolicon fans. Has it really become such a large part of the industry that it's considered newsworthy now on sites like ANN? In a way it's good to know just to get a better sense for the anime scene, but at the same time it's understandably unsettling.

Video games (or anything else, but because the player kills in games, I'll talk about that) where people get killed usually have some kind of story behind why it's happening. Even when the reason behind it is simple, there's hardly ever a glorification of real-world violence. And violence is something that's hammered into us as wrong growing up. So it's very much a different thing..