I was struck by the following line from the article ‘Polanski asks US court to dismiss 1977 charge of sex with a minor’ in The Guardian: ‘[The then-loli] publicly forgave the director in 1997.’
It got me thinking: How many harem animes actually ended with the harem lead chose and slept with the loli haremette? (It’s almost as rare as siscon anime where the Really Blood-Related brother and sister actually get together.) In the case of a strictly defined loli, consent is irrelevant in deciding GUILTY or NOT GUILTY!? While the loli may be able to forgive, it’s really out of her hands once this becomes an issue for the justice system and The Rules of Society. I suppose that’s when Not Actually Under-Age But Only Loli-Looking haremettes come into the picture as a sort of substitute.
In any case, perhaps the FBI should have been more proactive in trying to get their hands on Polanski. But, then again, they might have reckoned that lolicons are already well apprised of the concept of bait. Even hackers have caught on to the trick!
From my AFA08 experience, it seems that Singaporean attendees didn’t just like to take pictures of cosplayers but with them too. I certainly don’t recall that being prevalent when I attended ComiKet 72. I also dug out an old photo album of my visit to Otakon 2000 to see if attendees of that Baltimore, MA convention also had a ‘with’ predilection; ended up scanning a few to share with my readers. In the ancient year of 2000, SNK/CAPCOM game charas were all the rage. The biggest anime were Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon…
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Day Two purchase, again from Collateral Damage Studios, were a set of prints depicting Lutecia, Subaru, Teana, Erio and Caro, Vivio in child and adult forms which had run out by the time I got to their booth yesterday. Pity they didn’t do a set for the Yagami family though.
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I was there. My only purchases - a set of Collateral Damage Studios works: three beautiful Nanoha prints (art by Xeph and Mycstea) and a hilarous Burning Arisa doujin (art by WaHa) for SGD 45.
Too tired to do a proper write-up. Just brief notes.
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While I have procured DVD replacements for my Slayers and Evangelion VHS tapes, the same can’t be said of the hardware used to actually watch said animu. In contrast to moyism’s Samsung 50″ plasma 1080p TV/monitor or Stripey’s Sharp Aquos LC-42PX5M, I’m still using a CRT, an ancient bulky 21″ Panasonic TX21GF10M (yes, it has colour though it’s pre-Trinitron so the screen is convex towards the viewer). And I have not one but two VHS tape recorders (Sharp MA30 and JVC HR-J677MS). Ahaha~ ♥