pinkbow
One thing I hate about my fandom is how fucking normalized p*dophilia is in the JP side. Like it’s not even “well actually their ages-“ no it’s fucking high schoolers with 30 years olds can you guys fucking dieLike I’m going to a convention in Japan and there’ll be doujin sold of a fourteen year old and an honest to god almost thirty year old. What the fuck is wrong with you people. Like I get sometimes ppl use this type of story to process trauma but these people are 100% fetishizing it and see nothing wrong with it (source: their art appeared on my feed and I wanted to vomit)
my take on this is that within anime, like attack on titan, demon slayer, jujutsu kaisen, etc. yeah in the show they’re 15-17, but these are fictional characters with adult traits and personalities. none of their way of being or interacting displays how a regular actual 15 yo acts, UNLESS it’s part of the plot/character development. that’s why it’s confusion on whether or not they are “attractive”. (1) they’re fictional and (2) they don’t act like a kid nor look like one
anime project called hypnosis microphone :( I love that most of the characters are adults bc usually anime casts are just teenagers but there are some JP fans that I just. No. It doesn’t help that there’s also a lot of fans into incest and I honest to god have seen art that’s p*do incest. It’s not even like the series pushes either of those things fans are just freaks 😭
Yeah I totally get that! in this anime it’s very much part of the plot and character development that the underage chars are underage and they very much act like 14 and 17 year olds. The maturity gap between them and adult characters is very much apparent (on purpose!) so it icks me out when people ship them with adults, never mind adults that are old enough to be their parents (and one that actually is their parent… let’s not get into that 😭)