I’m going to be that person and just let you know that the age of consent in Japan is 16. In fact, until mid-2023 it was 13. So, western views on the subject are not always going to be the point of view when written from their cultural viewpoint.
That is not true. Japanese people aren't inside a bubble. There's a lot of people fighting since the early 2000s in Japan, against the sexual portray of minos on media like manga. The age of consent applies to minors with other minos, not adult with minor.
There's no such a thing as westerns pushing their morals to poor Japanese people, we pretty much agree with the dangers that this comic culture bring to society.
I'm not even noth american, and westerns also mention my country in LATAM as "another world that westerns wouldn't understand with their morals of consent" and that is bulshit
actually, most countries have low ahes of consent... but their for MINORS with ANOTHER MINOR, just that not everyone takes the time to red then thoroughly and think "cool, minors and adults can guck" No. that's not it.
You know, not everything can be justified by the law or culture. Japan is infamously terrible regarding women's rights and sexual assault.
And yet most of the people who are complaining about cartoon characters have their countries run by satanic pedophile rings that sex traffic more children than they claim Japan has.
Last time I checked, my country wasn't doing shit to help curb kidnappings and child exploitation. Instead, they blame it on the gays and not the politicians literally rubbing elbows with powerful, evil ass rapists.
There are states in my country that have religious groups that practice fathers marrying their daughters till they deem it's alright for them to marry another man.
There are countries that marry off their daughters as young as 13 and allow them to marry within the family so long as money is involved.
Ya'll pointing fingers 'cause "thing japan" has got ya'll vitriolic towards anything SEAsian atp.
Only terminally online trolls think Japan is some sort of monolithic society of righteousness and good. Anyone with a fully functional frontal lobe knows that no place on earth is free of evil.
That and half the time most of you people don't know what you're actually talking about and only parrot talking points from tiktok or some shit.
I don't get what got you mad about my comment?
I worded it kind of aggressively 'cause this topic irritates tf out of me, sorry.
But I'm just stating that yes, Japan has its problems, but it is still leagues ahead of most countries when it comes to child protection. Children being abused isn't the fault of cartoons. Making the discussion "cartoon characters fucking is bad" is taking away the responsibility of evil people doing evil shit.
It's like saying videogames cause violence when in reality it's either ill people with no resources to help them or people who were already planning on committing crimes. It isn't the fault of the fictional media that someone shoots up a school or kidnaps someone. This shit happens even in places where they allow 0 problematic media or limit what their citizens are allowed to consume.
This goes for ALL countries, btw.
I wasn't talking about cartoons. Maybe the original post was about that, but I was responding to that reply specifically.
I was talking about Japan's age of consent and why you shouldn't bring up another country's laws and "western views on this subject" to defend topics like this. Just because it's a different culture doesn't make it automatically morally okay.
I am American. I know an insane amount of supposedly educated people IRL that believe Japan is a monolithic society of righteousness and good. It's much more common than you think.
I agree with your point, though. The very root of this problem is not fictional depictions of sexualized minors and there are definitely places worse than Japan.
But I did not say that Japan is the most disgusting country out there with the most pedophiles in the world.
I pointed out that Japan has a widespread sexual harassment issue (which is true) to support my point that a country's culture does not make all of its laws and customs okay. Though the age of consent, to be fair, has nothing to do with that. And the women's rights statement was absolutely made up and unrelated.
Legit a good premise but its the same way on how I feel with Euphoria, why the nines are they highschoolers?! Evwhen I was in high school Ive always questioned that and honestly loved older romances and if you wanted to include family with logical privacy but in there life college. I finished it but In honestly disappointed because its a 2019 Manga I kinda thought we went past this. Also really didn't need to make him a minor its also the fact they clearly ironically enough different way how the dragon was a clear adult and time and time again explained the Mc was a minor. Everyone was okay with it in the Manga it was really hard to see it all as cute and even more disappointed the comments are on the same boat. It wasn't a bad Manga its just honestly could have the Mc in college and.it would had been perfect. What with people being okay putting children in adult situations when you can milk far more out simply using adults.