Talk:Momiji/@comment-46184065-20200625113450/@comment-46184065-20200628130734

Omega64,

1. WE create these fantasy worlds. Art imitates life. (and sometimes the other way around)

2. Taking what is very clearly a human child and slapping some cute animal ears on it, doesn't in my opinion remove the moral consideration for that subject.

3. Kids have a tendency to have crushes on adults from time to time. I'm sure most of us had a celebrity crush in our early teens. I know for sure I did and most of my classmates at the time did aswell. Girls included. Now, if those crushes, who are morally responsible adults, took advantage of this simple childhood crush, and had sexual relations with them, would it not be an outrageous thing?

This speaks to a larger issue I've been thinking about recently, which affects this medium (mangas, LNs, anime) specifically. And that is the sexualisation of child characters. You always see these shallow attempts at masking it, saying the character just physically looks like this and is actually a lot older, or that they're apart of some species that ages differently, or whatever other excuses. But in reality, when talking about these topics, we are talking about sexual abuse of children, a very serious topic. And who commit these acts in the real world? They're considered pedophiles. Now, what might it be that they're attracted to? Is it the amount of years one has existed for? Or is it physical appearance and behaviour? I'd bet on the latter. And that's why I have an issue with this. It feeds directly to the fantasies of these people. Accomodating their sick desires under the disguise of "She's 20000 years old actually" or "She's half x and therefore ages differently."

This is something that a pedophile would love to happen for them. A young, cute girl falls in love with them completely out of their own will and they get blessings from all the friends and family.

And as a seperate issue, there are people who have experienced a similiar situation in the real world. Where they were manipulated/taken advantage of by an adult, but they needed to grow older to actually realise that said abuse took place. And for those people, getting into this series, or any other series that  uses these cliches, may prove difficult or impossible. Or in the worst case scenario, it could cause some very severe emotional responses. Like PTSD, anxiety, etc.

It doesn't serve the story in any way that she's 15 year old. How would the plot change if she was older both mentally a nd physically? What is the reason to have her be this way? Other than to appeal to a certain kind of fantasy of a certain group of people.