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Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita Finally Gets Anime Adaptation
May 5, 2015 - <http://www.animemaru.com/category/news/> News,
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tion/#comments> 3 comments
According to the June 2015 issue of Ichijinshas Monthly Comic Rex, an
upcoming TV anime adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs 1955 classic Lolita is
scheduled for fall of this year. Lolita ~ Onnanoko no Kifu ga
Narimashitaka!? is expected to be a one-cour show produced by Silver Link.
The story, inspired by the plot of the original novel, centers around a
otaku named Hanbo who has become a hikkikomori lolicon. One day, though a
series of comically inadvertent events, he finds himself living alone with a
violently tsundere 12-year-old girl. Theres one more catch: he finds out
shes his daughter-in-law!
Though some critics have voiced concern and skepticism over the subject
matter, many observers predict that Nogakas groundbreaking premise has the
potential to change the anime industry forever. I dont want to overhype
something so far off, but the fans will finally get what have been waiting
for all this time, one comment on Japanese anime blog Yaron reads.
Finally, a breath of fresh air in the anime industry.
The official Nogaka website confirms that Kugimiya Rie will be voicing a
loli with twintails.
http://www.animemaru.com/vladimir-nabokovs-lolita-finally-gets-anime-adaptat
ion/
Last years comments related to the Lolicon theme:
By <http://mic.com/profiles/18037/tom-barnes> Tom Barnes October 17, 2014
LIKE MIC ON FACEBOOK: Pharrell Williams unveiled his music video for "It
Girl" on Sept. 30 and somehow nobody noticed that it was insanely creepy.
Nobody, that is, until this Wednesday when the New Yorker
<http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/pharrell-williamss-lolicon-gi
rl?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=facebook&mbid=social
_facebook> pointed out that the video, a cartoon featuring overtly
sexualized young girls, is actually a form of Japanese anime most commonly
known as cartoons for a very specific audience: pedophiles. [ ]
http://mic.com/articles/101722/pharrell-released-an-insanely-pedophillic-vid
eo-and-nobody-talked-about-it
THE NEW YORKER: OCTOBER 15, 2014 Pharrell Williams Lolicon Video, by Matt
Alt
What are we to make of Pharrell Williamss latest video for
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZDBF0kei0> It Girl, which features the
hip-hop star singing, Hold my hand, and moan again, Ima hold that ass to
images of what appears to be a prepubescent cartoon girl? [ ]
A Japanese term derived from the English phrase Lolita complex, lolicon
describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in
varying degrees of erotic behavior. (The word can be used to describe both
the genre and its aficionados.) What can really confuse non-Japanese is that
lolicons, who exist in large numbers in Japan, actually prefer illustrated
art over real or photographic portrayals of girls, a predilection thats
known as a 2D complex. This one-step removal from reality is the genres
key feature, and its what keeps lolicon legalif still, as non-fans note,
creepy. Almost all of Mr.s work is related to lolicon; in
<http://www.hintmag.com/artcrawl/artcrawl.php> a 2007 interview, he
described his efforts as a sort of safety valve, releasing my fantasy world
through my work instead of acting it out in real life.
Lolicon is the dark matter of Japanese pop culture, infusing everything from
best-selling comics and animation to the nations ever popular girl groups.
Yet its almost never discussed in polite society. Indeed, the very term is
something of a four-letter word in Japanese, virtually synonymous with
pedophilia. When I recently spoke about lolicon to a comic-book-artist
friendan industry veteran who dabbles in erotica herselfshe lowered her
voice to a whisper whenever she uttered the term.
Lolicon emerged in Japan in the late nineteen-seventies as self-published
fan parodies of popular female manga characters. Something like the Tijuana
bibles of the manga world, they exposed the eroticism hinted at in the
curvaceous young cartoon beauties of the mainstream. Lolicons arrival,
perhaps not coincidentally, accompanied the coming of age of the first
generation of boys who had been raised on manga and anime, and the runaway
popularity of these amateur pornographic productions triggered a flood of
similar content in Japans vibrant professional comic industry. For a time,
lolicon seemed poised to go mainstream. But in the end it remained a
skeleton in the closet, reaching only domestic audiences as more palatable
sci-fi and fantasy fare, such as the apocalyptic cyberpunk epic Akira and
the early films of the director Hayao Miyazaki, built the foundations of
Cool Japan abroad in the nineteen-eighties.
The shadow culture of lolicon triggered a great deal of soul searching in
1989, when a young man by the name of Tsutomu Miyazaki was arrested and
convicted for the serial killings of four elementary-school girls in a Tokyo
suburb. The Japanese press, desperate for a way to explain the inexplicable
horror of these crimes, seized on the presence of anime and manga in
Miyazakis cluttered bedroom to label him an otaku murderer. Given the
immense popularity of all sorts of illustrated entertainment among young
Japanese, many critics felt the connection was a stretch. Despite lolicons
inherent ickiness to outsiders, it has never been definitively linked to
Miyazakis case or to other instances of criminal behavior.
Still, the headlines sent lolicon underground for many years, and in the
nineteen-nineties creators reared on the genre absorbed, defanged, and
desexualized it for the mainstream. Today, it has morphed into an animation
style called moé, after a kanji character meaning both burning and
bursting into bud. In moé, sexuality is treated indirectly; rather than
showing overtly pornographic images, it focusses on slice of life dramas
that allow consumersmainly adult mento observe the budding sexuality of
pre-teen and teen-age girls from a discreet remove.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/pharrell-williamss-lolicon-gir
l
.
http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/01/150107_japao_manga_erotico_fn
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May 5, 2015 - <http://www.animemaru.com/category/news/> News,
<http://www.animemaru.com/category/news/short/> Short - Tagged:
<http://www.animemaru.com/tag/lolicon/> lolicon -
<http://www.animemaru.com/vladimir-nabokovs-lolita-finally-gets-anime-adapta
tion/#comments> 3 comments
According to the June 2015 issue of Ichijinshas Monthly Comic Rex, an
upcoming TV anime adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs 1955 classic Lolita is
scheduled for fall of this year. Lolita ~ Onnanoko no Kifu ga
Narimashitaka!? is expected to be a one-cour show produced by Silver Link.
The story, inspired by the plot of the original novel, centers around a
otaku named Hanbo who has become a hikkikomori lolicon. One day, though a
series of comically inadvertent events, he finds himself living alone with a
violently tsundere 12-year-old girl. Theres one more catch: he finds out
shes his daughter-in-law!
Though some critics have voiced concern and skepticism over the subject
matter, many observers predict that Nogakas groundbreaking premise has the
potential to change the anime industry forever. I dont want to overhype
something so far off, but the fans will finally get what have been waiting
for all this time, one comment on Japanese anime blog Yaron reads.
Finally, a breath of fresh air in the anime industry.
The official Nogaka website confirms that Kugimiya Rie will be voicing a
loli with twintails.
http://www.animemaru.com/vladimir-nabokovs-lolita-finally-gets-anime-adaptat
ion/
Last years comments related to the Lolicon theme:
By <http://mic.com/profiles/18037/tom-barnes> Tom Barnes October 17, 2014
LIKE MIC ON FACEBOOK: Pharrell Williams unveiled his music video for "It
Girl" on Sept. 30 and somehow nobody noticed that it was insanely creepy.
Nobody, that is, until this Wednesday when the New Yorker
<http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/pharrell-williamss-lolicon-gi
rl?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=facebook&mbid=social
_facebook> pointed out that the video, a cartoon featuring overtly
sexualized young girls, is actually a form of Japanese anime most commonly
known as cartoons for a very specific audience: pedophiles. [ ]
http://mic.com/articles/101722/pharrell-released-an-insanely-pedophillic-vid
eo-and-nobody-talked-about-it
THE NEW YORKER: OCTOBER 15, 2014 Pharrell Williams Lolicon Video, by Matt
Alt
What are we to make of Pharrell Williamss latest video for
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZDBF0kei0> It Girl, which features the
hip-hop star singing, Hold my hand, and moan again, Ima hold that ass to
images of what appears to be a prepubescent cartoon girl? [ ]
A Japanese term derived from the English phrase Lolita complex, lolicon
describes a fascination with cartoons of very young-looking girls engaged in
varying degrees of erotic behavior. (The word can be used to describe both
the genre and its aficionados.) What can really confuse non-Japanese is that
lolicons, who exist in large numbers in Japan, actually prefer illustrated
art over real or photographic portrayals of girls, a predilection thats
known as a 2D complex. This one-step removal from reality is the genres
key feature, and its what keeps lolicon legalif still, as non-fans note,
creepy. Almost all of Mr.s work is related to lolicon; in
<http://www.hintmag.com/artcrawl/artcrawl.php> a 2007 interview, he
described his efforts as a sort of safety valve, releasing my fantasy world
through my work instead of acting it out in real life.
Lolicon is the dark matter of Japanese pop culture, infusing everything from
best-selling comics and animation to the nations ever popular girl groups.
Yet its almost never discussed in polite society. Indeed, the very term is
something of a four-letter word in Japanese, virtually synonymous with
pedophilia. When I recently spoke about lolicon to a comic-book-artist
friendan industry veteran who dabbles in erotica herselfshe lowered her
voice to a whisper whenever she uttered the term.
Lolicon emerged in Japan in the late nineteen-seventies as self-published
fan parodies of popular female manga characters. Something like the Tijuana
bibles of the manga world, they exposed the eroticism hinted at in the
curvaceous young cartoon beauties of the mainstream. Lolicons arrival,
perhaps not coincidentally, accompanied the coming of age of the first
generation of boys who had been raised on manga and anime, and the runaway
popularity of these amateur pornographic productions triggered a flood of
similar content in Japans vibrant professional comic industry. For a time,
lolicon seemed poised to go mainstream. But in the end it remained a
skeleton in the closet, reaching only domestic audiences as more palatable
sci-fi and fantasy fare, such as the apocalyptic cyberpunk epic Akira and
the early films of the director Hayao Miyazaki, built the foundations of
Cool Japan abroad in the nineteen-eighties.
The shadow culture of lolicon triggered a great deal of soul searching in
1989, when a young man by the name of Tsutomu Miyazaki was arrested and
convicted for the serial killings of four elementary-school girls in a Tokyo
suburb. The Japanese press, desperate for a way to explain the inexplicable
horror of these crimes, seized on the presence of anime and manga in
Miyazakis cluttered bedroom to label him an otaku murderer. Given the
immense popularity of all sorts of illustrated entertainment among young
Japanese, many critics felt the connection was a stretch. Despite lolicons
inherent ickiness to outsiders, it has never been definitively linked to
Miyazakis case or to other instances of criminal behavior.
Still, the headlines sent lolicon underground for many years, and in the
nineteen-nineties creators reared on the genre absorbed, defanged, and
desexualized it for the mainstream. Today, it has morphed into an animation
style called moé, after a kanji character meaning both burning and
bursting into bud. In moé, sexuality is treated indirectly; rather than
showing overtly pornographic images, it focusses on slice of life dramas
that allow consumersmainly adult mento observe the budding sexuality of
pre-teen and teen-age girls from a discreet remove.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/pharrell-williamss-lolicon-gir
l
.
http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/01/150107_japao_manga_erotico_fn
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