PETALING JAYA: It is no secret that the anime community went from a cult-like following to mainstream.
Anime basically concerns forms of Japanese animated media - popular ones include Digimon, Dragonball Z, and Pokemon - the list is almost non-exhaustive.
However, what seems like an innocent fad has a dark side when it comes to loli anime or lolicon. The Wikipedia entry for lolicon defines it as, “... Japanese discourse or media focusing on the attraction to young or prepubescent girls.”
Lolicon subculture has not stayed away from Malaysia
One netizen pointed out certain comments that be considered lewd towards children through a variety of screenshots involving members of the local anime community.
In response to a news report involving a father who molested his 12-month-old daughter, an anime member of a local Facebook group commented, “Seems nice ... uwu ...if I have a child I will do this every day.”
Posts inside the Facebook group also showed guidelines on what seems to be acceptable forms of loli - with depictions through animated women.
Another post in the group asked why ‘lewd loli’ is not allowed. For those who don’t know ‘lewd loli’, would basically be forms of animated women who appear to be minors involved in not so pleasant acts.
There are however defenders of the movement in the international sphere who says that the women appear young, but could be older. One poster on Quora said, “A loli is a female character with an appearance ranging 6–12 years. Age and appearence doesn’t really have to be in consonance, she can be 19 years old and appear 9.”
