Monday, November 24, 2014

Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei/When Supernatural Battles Become Common Place Episode 4 Loli controversy

Although his monologues are awesome, the male character in this magical sentai harem I find a bit annoying. It of course doesn't help with them all of a sudden having him discussing loli bondage with a girl in the group, one who is later revealed to be an elementary student. It's not something typically conservative Americans would find conservative behavior.
However, is this a result of me being intolerant towards overzealous asians?
Or is this a result of me not understanding the true essence of lov-o, lov-0, l0v-o?

The original of Japanese loli is the aesthetic style of drawing prepubscent/kawaii females, according to wikipedia, 11/22/2014.

In fact, since this is a magical sentai harem, it should be expected that these women are drawn this way, since the style is often associated with magical girls.

However unlike most fascinations with the genre, this isn't a woman who looks like a young girl. She is an admitted to be elementary school student in the 4th episode.

The male protagonist does take a picture in maid uniform to destroy the appeal of the anime to hardcore conservative heterosexuals.

Also, is it worse that the male protagonist does or does not reciprocate in this shipping?

The delivery in this cartoon is anything but subtle, using classic, unsophisticated use of panty shots throughout the friggin anime!

However, is this normally how Japanese teens act?
Should Japanese cartoons depict role models?
Should all Japanese cartoons be dramatic?
Is this humor just not for me and I don't get it?

However, this was an episode where it was revealed that the girl was a elementary school student.

She does however possess a high intellect, having a great teleportation power and enough ability to study

It was platonic.
There was no nudity.

Also, there's the pandering judging woman character by looks, hair color, size, appearance.

And we all know she is actually voiced by a talent of adult age, getting paid a decent wage.

Is this film going to be as classic as The Bad Seed, Kick-Ass or Lolita? Too early to say. I don't see a big pay off for this show, but maybe that's just me. One of my fellow writers sees more subtext in this show than me, and hopefully it'll just pay off more than-

SPOILERS ALERT

The main male protagonist is just so darn crazed that he's imagining these powers and completely locked out of real life.

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