I wanted to ask a question/propose a concept, and discuss it.
What exactly would one say is the limit on anime adaptations? I ask this while knowing the existence of Redo of Healer, an anime notorious for it's brash scenes of rape and overall obscene situations. Admittedly, I myself like things like lolis and what not. Which is what I'm partly here to ask about, as I hope to see a I'm Not a Lolicon! anime one day. Is it possible for a manga like that to come across with such an opportunity? I should also mention that this artist has gotten an hentai before, that being Seikatsu Shidou. Anyways, I'm interested to hear your thoughts, and opinions.
So from what I understand it's like this....Japan, at least at a legal level, is not a huge fan of lolicon content and has been creating stricter and stricter laws around it. It may have been in motion prior to this event but it was a moment that definitely lit a fire to push the laws towards this direction. At one point there was a guy in Japan that tried that to mimic what he read in a Lolicon rape hentai, he failed and was caught but the fact remains that this guy crossed the line and did it with Lolicon Hentai as the source of his planning. This did not make anyone happy, even the author said he'd quit drawing lolicon hentai after that whole thing (don't know if he kept to that) and this clearly had an impact because it was a decent sized story. People in Japan ALREADY had the trope of the Otaku being a creepy child rapist in their head, they didn't need real world confirmation of it being a thing but that's what they got and the result is likely what we see today.
Reading a direct quote from what appears to be the ending chapters of the "I'm not a lolicon" manga, the author himself states that the conditions to even publish said content in general publications have gotten stricter. Meaning that these laws are working to limit how much Loli content is in circulation as well as limit what that content can do/be via a buffer. I.E. You COULD make a lolicon manga, but you'll have less trouble just making a Shonen or an Isekai. And if the laws change and get tighter, you don't need to worry. Add onto that the fact that, with the recent law change, your information can be leaked if you're being paid for said content and there is a very REAL potential for personal damage.
With that in mind we can see that any studio willing to take up lolicon content of any kind is asking for quite a bit of trouble. There are far more hoops for them to jump through than with standard media, all of said hoops are getting smaller and smaller every day. Then then they have to deal with the public backlash that comes from such content because, and let's be honest, the average japanese person isn't just ok with all the weird porn and fetishistic content that comes out of the place. Japanese people have strong opinions on A LOT of things, they normally just keep it to themselves. And there are quite a few organizations over there that exist to fight specifically against what's considered immoral content and Lolicon content is on that list.
You're far more likely to see manga about most other subjects than straight up lolicon, get animated. Even shotacon has a better shot. So while it's not impossible to get Lolicon anime like that now, it's just far less likely now.
Edited for clarity because I was clearly drunk when I wrote it.
