Where the shotacon concept developed is hard to pinpoint, but some of its earliest roots are in reader responses to detective series written by Edogawa Rampo. His bishōnen cuteness embodied and formed the term "shotacon", putting a name to an old sexual subculture. Throughout the series, Shōtarō develops close friends within the world. In the anime and manga series, Shōtarō is a bold, self-assertive detective who frequently outwits his adversaries and helps to solve cases. The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction of Shōtarō complex ( 正太郎コンプレックス, Shōtarō konpurekkusu), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō ( 正太郎) from Tetsujin 28-go. Some critics claim that the shotacon genre contributes to actual sexual abuse of children, while others claim that there is no evidence for this, or that there is evidence to the contrary. Seinen manga, primarily aimed at otaku, which also occasionally presents eroticized adolescent males in a non-pornographic context, such as Yoshinori "Yuki" Ikeda, the cross-dressing 14-year-old boy in Yubisaki Milk Tea. Elements of shotacon, like yaoi, are comparatively common in shōjo manga, such as the popular translated manga Loveless, which features an eroticized but unconsummated relationship between the 12-year-old male protagonist and a twenty-year-old male, or the young-appearing character Honey in Ouran High School Host Club.
As such, shotacon themes and characters are used in a variety of children's media. As with lolicon, shotacon is related to the concepts of kawaii (cuteness) and moe (in which characters are presented as young, cute or helpless in order to increase reader identification and inspire protective feelings). The usage of the term in both Western and Japanese fan cultures includes works ranging from explicitly pornographic to mildly suggestive, romantic, or in rare cases, entirely nonsexual, in which case it is not usually classified as "true" shotacon. The equivalent term for attraction to (or art pertaining to erotic portrayal of) young girls is lolicon. The phrase is a reference to the young male character Shōtarō ( 正太郎) from Tetsujin 28-go (reworked in English as Gigantor). It can also apply to post-pubescent (adolescent or adult) characters with neotenic features that would make them appear to be younger than they are. A cutoff of "about 15" has been suggested as the dividing line between shotacon and BL. In others, he is paired with a female, which the general community would call "straight shota" or oneshota (おねショタ), a blend of onē-san (お姉さん, older sister) and shota. In some stories, the young male character is paired with a male, usually in a homoerotic manner, which is most common in yaoi/Boys' Love (BL) works meant for female readers, but some of these works are male-oriented, such as Boku no Pico. The term refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein prepubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner, whether in the obvious role of object of attraction, or the less apparent role of "subject" (the character the reader is designed to associate with). I can't believe SHAFT stooped this low.Shotacon ( ショタコン, shotakon), abbreviated from Shōtarō complex ( 正太郎コンプレックス, shōtarō konpurekkusu), is, in Japanese contexts, the attraction to young (or young-looking) boy characters, or media centered around this attraction. I can't watch past episode 3, it's too apsurt. >characters try to defeat the feds by calling the cops on them which is ridiculous >feds had global satelite and inspected all of it, and then spent watching a child for 10 years and you expect me to believe it? >3 letter agency starts chasing them because they were watching her for the past 10 years to see if she remembers this at some point ,and they somehow knew that she was the only person in the entire world that was looking up at the sky at the time >reach the conclusion it was a nuclear rocket hitting a space station >they go to the place from where she saw the star with a helicopter, despite the stars looking the same from perspectives that a couple of hundred km apart >first story arc is about a girl that wishes to find a star she saw 10 years ago in the sky, and a detective club decides to help her out despite her wish being fucking stupid
>see they did actually make something recently, decide to check it out 238981123 >be me, think to self "man, shame SHAFT isn't making any more anime Pretty boy detective club Anonymous 06/14/22(Tue)12:25:08 No.