CATDOLL: Japanese university professor says cute girl characters encourage sexual crimes, gets slammed by netizens

In today's Japanese anime, there are more and more cute girls, and many of them are developing towards the direction of young girls. Many areas in Japan have also adopted cute characters as mascots to attract tourists. However, recently, a university professor named Rika Koyama believed that cute characters would encourage sexual crimes.

Rika Koyama is not only a psychiatrist but also a professor at Rikkyo University. She said in an interview with the Tokyo Shimbun: "Even if it is only a minority of people, when they see young girl characters, they will feel that there is nothing wrong with these characters being erotic." "No matter how people stare at them, these characters will accept it with a smile, so people will have the illusion that all 'girls' are like this."

In addition, she added: "We often see reports saying that young girls have been victimized by sexual crimes, and I was surprised to find that every time there are comments like 'The perpetrator may have seen the girl as a sexual object when he saw the cute characters.'" "Although people may laugh it off and think, 'There is no such person, cute characters have nothing to do with crime.' But every time I see the cute characters rampant everywhere, I still find it difficult to let go."

In this regard, many netizens expressed their shock and anger: "Yes, no matter what you do, it will encourage it, including you lying here, right?", "When will the idea of ​​anime fans = criminals be eliminated?", "Do these people understand that real otakus are not interested in the three-dimensional world?", "It's like saying that kitchen knives will encourage crime. The so-called professors these days are really weird... After all, people who commit crimes may have all kinds of interests, right? At present, the news almost only reports on the interests of criminals related to otakus, and nothing else is mentioned. I don't believe that there are no people who like watching movies or watching games among them!"

However, at the same time, some people have specifically listed many cases of young girls being killed in recent years, and many of them are indeed closely related to anime. Many of them have collections of lolita themes, so the accusations are not groundless. In fact, many perpetrators in previous cases were found to like watching anime, but does this mean that these anime works or characters induce people to commit crimes? The editor thinks that although some of them may be really related, most of them are far-fetched, and they are mainly personal ideological problems. What do you think?