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   Ukonkivi
   

   Loli hasn't always been the booming influence on anime and manga that is it now.
   Once hardly heard of an obscure, it's influence is now or at least recently been far reaching.

   To the controversy of Kodomo no Jikan. To the Lucky Star boom that hit Japan like a sledgehammer. To the long running Shakugan no Shana series. To Zero no Tsukaima and Toradora. To the uprise of fanatical Rie Fandom. To to Aru Majutsu no Index. To the cultish Touhou boom that has echoed throughout the otaku community. To the bemused talk of Strike Witches and the degree to which it shows the fandom at. To Kannagi, the author even frequently announcing her character's lack of bust. To the various slice of life comedies in a slice of life boom, whose material focuses on the lives of little girls, moe aesthetic, and rarely busty drawn characters. It's even played up a bit in Gurren Lagann with Nia. And the boom even reached to ecchi usually about hourglass figured boobservice and wide hips. You had characters such as Ezomori Nozomu, and entire show centered around loli-ecchi, Moetan. Kyouran Kazoku Nikki, Yuki Nagato, Silver Forest's Tsurupettan, Ranka Lee...I could go on from this point much longer.

   For the longest time, big busted women have been the strict trope of anime and manga. And flat chested women were incredibly scares. In the past years has seen a tremendous increase in anime appearance. To the point it may have in some communities become more common to complain that "I'm tired of all these flatty women in anime and manga, catering to those nasty DFC fans" than "what's with all these unrealistically large breasted women?!".

   But has it reached it's limit and is the trend ending? At first, it was brimmed with excitement and controversy, fans brimming with loli talk either tongue in cheek, or serious fandom of some sort.

   Anymore, is the trend at all starting to run out of steam? Where are we headed exactly? Maybe I've just grown into the trend, but from my eyes it seems to be dying down a little bit. No longer does the Tsurupettan jokes and area seem to have the same impact and novelty they once did to people. Loli is less brought up, and when it is, it's talked about more like a thing of the past. No longer such a broad controversy and amusement, it looks as if to narrowing back down into obscurity a little bit for the hardcores to hold onto.

   Where is loli trend at, and where is it headed? Am I imagining things at all? What is the future of anime and manga trending right now? Are we moving into a trap or shota phase? Are we moving into an era of non-loli moe? Are gruesomely muscular Dragonball-esque action leads going to resurface and take the forefront again? Perhaps we'll even see the return of the Space Western?

   Sister thread:
   http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=128297

   Posted 6 years ago # Quote
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   Busy
   

   Actually it is easy to find the answer why there is a loli boom currently.

   As far as you know loli and shota characters are the mosttimes innocent and cute. Then look at the real life, girls these days want to be sexy and popular doing everything for it including increasing their breast size, using tons of makeup and other things that make them unnatural. Special japanese men are searching since ages for the cute innocent natural girl of their dreams but at the current society and media it is rare, so they can just imagine it and anime can give them what they are searching for even known it isn't real. That the loli characters are mainly displayed as underage has nothing to do with having a desire for childs anyways, it is only because child-like characters can display "innocence" better then large breasted adults since "huge breasts=slut".

   As long as the trend at females being sexy and desired like a slut increases, the trend of the opposite will increase in fiction.

   Posted 6 years ago # Quote
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   loli in a box
   

   Ayu Jochuu said:

   As long as the trend at females being sexy and desired like a slut increases, the trend of the opposite will increase in fiction.

   This.
   I don't see a end to the "loli boom" and certainly no decrease of moe in the otaku world. The more females nowadays develop this slutty image the more we wish for our innocent lolis.
   Moe is the life energy of all otakus and since loli is the definition of moe, loli will exists as long as there are otakus.
   Don't deny your roots!

   

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   Posted 6 years ago # Quote
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   Schrobby
   

   I think the same. I wouldn't be surprised if loli will not be that prominent in the coming years, but I'm very sure loli won't go away anytime soon if at all.

   Traps are upcoming, but not nearly as heavy weight as loli. Big boobed MILFS are also on the rise again, just see Queens Blade.

   Queens Blade is a great example, because it has huge tits for the boob fetishists but also normal sized ones and loli for the general audience. That shows that all three groups can exist together in one title quite fine.

   Loli is prominent in anime for 25 years now, it will still be there in another 25.

   Posted 6 years ago # Quote

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