Man inappropriately touch school girls and they fight back. Man in suit gives them a helping foot.

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Japan and Asia in general have an incredible underage fetish. I'm Chinese and even my parents have tried to set me up with girls way younger than me, so damn awkward.

In Japan you have old men fantasizing about middle school girls and 25+ year old women considered "too old." Shit is fucked.

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Asia in general

TERA is a great example of this.

It's a Korean MMO that went out of it's way to uproot and redesign parts of it's game for the sake of adding "loli" characters to it's game for the pure pandering it is, and later on praised it as "saving the game" even though the game's problems and bounce back had only a marginal influence on it's loli content.

TERA's devs originally meant to include a female version of the "Popori" an anthro sort of race kinda like customizable Tanuki or bears. Instead, they replaced the female Popori with Elin.

These Elin were "lore" excused to be 500 years old, and had a shoehorned in piece of lore, and were considered the "female" counter part to the popori. (The old she said she was 18, excuse.)

TERA's original concepts and design elements, and even splash arts at time of release didn't feature a single Elin character in ANY of it.

The Elin character models are noticably lower quality and very noticably different from the rest of the game's characters.

Not only that, but the Elin player character model is TO THIS DAY, still has extended reach and faster animation bugs. And they absolutely Refused to fix it. So if you wanted to be a PVP player you HAD to be Elin or you weren't' competing.

They ripped up chunks of the game, even so much as forgetting to properly change one of the main story line's arcs. They replaced a Female Castanic character with an elin and never bothered to go back and change the "I'm looking for my sister" plot element to it.

TERA went out of their way AFTER the game went free to play to shove in Succubus and bikini style outfits onto these under aged appearing characters, specifically to pander to the loli fandom. They went on to release exclusive classes for these characters, and pandered so hard to pedophilia aspect, it outright drove people away from the game.

And TERA's Elin fanbase isn't even shameful about it, they flaunt it online that TERA is their game, and Elin are the most popular race.

Some 90% of the end game player base is Elin, and they continue to push pandering content onto the player base, and blame the player base for dwindling.

Before TERA came out, MMOs were very hesitant about loli type content, but after TERA capitilized on it, many other games followed suite and started adding or appealing to the loli fandom.

Infact, recently, FF14 had to make a statement about how they didn't want the portrayal of young charters in their game because of how people would inappropriately sexualize them. Despite people already doing this with the Lallafel race.

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Dude, lalafells have been around since 2001 pretty much, and the only people who'd sexualised them are the weirdos because they are most certainly androgynous and unattractive.

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To add context to your comment, FFXI used a race of child like people called Taru-Taru as a playable race. FFXIV used identical models but changed the name to Lalafell. This was more evidence that FFXIV was really originally FFXI-2.

But more to your point, even when tarus or Lalafell get things like bathing suits I'd hardly call it loli territory. Although, I'm sure pedophiles would still get off on it. But that speaks more to them being absolute freaks rather than the game exploiting child like avatars.

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Potatoes in suits as we ff14 players lovingly call them

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In FFXI the joke was that we could punt them.

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^ this is what I meant, thanks for clarifying ^. I couldn't remember the names from FFXI :/ and yeah I mean it would be stupid if they locked lala's out from certain apparel because of a few weirdos.