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"The lolicon guy": Some observations on researching unpopular topics in Japan

Chapter 6 and Appendix I of The end of cool Japan: ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture (2017, ed. Mark McLelland), written by Patrick W. Galbraith. A complement especially to his Lolicon: The Reality of ‘Virtual Child Pornography’ in Japan (2011) and The Moé Manifesto (2014). - I highly recommend watching the talk Galbraith cites in footnote 16. - I highly, highly recommend Galbraith's recent monograph The Ethics of Affect (2021), which is available for free online. - I will not reproduce it here out of respect, but if you can find it, the anthology Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan (2015), which Galbraith co-edited, is an absolute masterpiece.

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