
“Looking at junior idols soothes me,” explains Shigure Akagi, 45, an artist who says he draws inspiration from these products. “I do not have children of my own, so seeing them makes me happy.”
He isn’t the only one. Mr, the most eccentric member of Takashi Murakami’s stable of pop artists, admits he suffers from lolicon, and recruited junior idols to star in his 2008 film, “Nobody Dies.”

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on July 7, 2009
Drawn though? that's just artistic expression. Sure we can debate about whether or not something like Koi Kaze is really art or if something like Kodomo no Jikan is teetering toward the questionable side, but that's beside the point. The point is it's fake. It's part of someone's expression no matter how perverse their expression is intentionally trying to be, and it didn't involve harming anyone. I mean, has no one in Japan heard where the term Lolita came from?