Shota in anime - what did the studios think?

My quest to find out how the anime studios talked (or not) about making their boy characters appealing to more than the primary audience of children.

Update 2024: Read my book about shota!

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Works cited:

Allison, Anne. 2006. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Galbraith, Patrick W. 2014. The Moé Manifesto: An Insider’s Look at the Worlds of Manga, Anime, and Gaming. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.

Galbraith, Patrick W. 2019. Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. Durham: Duke University Press.

Manda, Ringo. 1996. The Syotaroh. Sekiyado: Self-published.

Nagayama, Kaoru. 2020. Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga. Translated by Patrick W Galbraith and Jessica Bauwens-Sugimoto. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Yum, June Ock. 1988. “The Impact of Confucianism on Interpersonal Relationships and Communication Patterns in East Asia.” Communication Monographs 55 (4): 374–88.

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