I really didn't expect Kodomo no Jikan to be a genuinely heartfelt, melancholic and sweet show
>>283599709You should read the manga.
>>283599709You have a long journey to become a lolichad
>>283599709That's the secret with all these "/a/core" "classic" shows. People joke, but the reason they're still talking about them is because they're good.
>>283599709What people misunderstand about Kodomo no Jikan is that it's not just your average lolicon anime, but a critique and deconstruction of lolicon culture and the objectification of minors in anime media. While it presents itself with provocative imagery that initially plays into the expectations of a typical loli work, the narrative continuously subverts those expectations by confronting the reader with the real emotional, psychological, and social consequences of sexualizing children.Kodomo no Jikan forces the viewer to confront the blurred lines between empathy and exploitation. Not glorifying the themes, but exposing them for what they really are. The characters aren't just fantasy objects but victims of neglect and trauma, and how innocence can be twisted when viewed through fetishization. The series holds up a mirror to its lolicon audience and confronts them with the realities of sexualizing minors through their own gaze.While the execution of said themes could be handled more effectively, the story was genuinely ahead of its time. But Kodomo no Jikan's anti-pedophilia message goes over the heads of most otaku, who simply seek escapism in fantasy and it gets dismissed as just another loli anime. Ironically, misunderstanding the very phenomenon the work critiques. That audiences consume media superficially, ignoring the moral and realities it is based on.
People talk about it like it's just pure lolibait, but KnJ was actually a pretty well-written story about overcoming cycles of abuse and growing up.
>>283601904Is this the renowned "media literacy" i keep hearing so much about?
>>283601984If that's what we're calling critical thinking now, then yeah.
>>283599709Yeah.The big-tits loli is still the best.
>>283602220I did like how naughty she became
>>283601904the story ends with the guy fucking a child you're not fooling anyone
>>283602369You weren't supposed to look up to him!
>>283602415Why? It's even less egregious than Wolf of Wallstreet if you're interpreting it that way, he just wins, plain and simple
>>283602369he literally waited until she was an adult faggot
>>283602508and she still looks like a child, that's very obvious escapism, contrary to what the bait entails
>>283602452>>283602369Technically the win is Rin's, not Aoki's. She wore down that barrier through sheer insistence. Also there was originally supposed to be no timeskip and Rin was supposed to take Aoki's dick pretty much the INSTANT she hit the (at the time) legal age of consent of 13. Man, imagine they run into Oyajima-sensei or Boin-sensai or Shirae or one of the ither staff in the future and have to explain that yeah, he wound up hooking up with the girl who was in his third-grade homeroom and always being inappropriate with him. Imagine that conversation.
