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, sometimes shortened to , is a Japanese term for a sexual complex where an adult is attracted to an underage boy, or in which two underage boys are attracted to one another. In the Western world, it refers specifically to artwork or manga depicting pre-pubescent or pubescent boys in sexual situations. Shotacon art is often explicit in nature; some common themes include yaoi (homosexual relationships), cross-dressing, and in some cases incest with an older sibling or other family member. The female equivalent of shotacon is lolicon.
Though shotacon typically features relationships between two boys of the same age or between boys and men, a related but less common genre is 'straight shotacon'. Straight shotacon features young boys, but includes women or girls as pairs for them. In anime, straight shotacon themes are far more common than homosexual ones. Many prominent series, notably FLCL, Negima!, and Pitaten, include scenes where older women press themselves on boys.
Like lolicon, shotacon often depicts children in sexual situations with adults. While the shotacon community argues that drawn art is protected under freedom of speech, critics claim shotacon is a direct offshoot of child pornography and may lead to child sexual abuse, though there is no evidence or documented cases to back this claim.
Shotacon has dubious legality in most parts of the world. The sale of shotacon is outlawed and punishable by imprisonment in some regions of Japan, but is legal in others. The United States PROTECT act of 2003 prohibited obscene or sexual drawings of children, while the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition ruled that such legislation is unconstitutional. Shotacon is illegal in Canada, Sweden, Norway, and South Africa, but prosecutors do not typically press charges unless other crimes are present. Since most shotacon is trafficked internationally (such as through the Internet), national legal prohibitions are difficult to enforce.
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese portmanteau of ''ShÅtarÅ complex'', a reference to the young male character ShÅtarÅ(æ£å¤ªéƒŽ) from ''Tetsujin 28-go''.
In the anime and manga series, ShÅtarÅ is a bold, self-assertive young detective who frequently outwits adult adversaries and helps to solve cases. Throughout the series, ShÅtarÅ develops close adult friends, and acts within the adult would despite being a young boy. His bishounen cute embodied and formed the term "shotacon", putting a name to an old sexual subculture.
Where the shotacon concept developed is hard to pinpoint, but some of its earliest roots are in readers responses to detective series written by Edogawa Rampo. In his works, a character named Yoshio Kobayashi of "ShÅnentanteidan" (Junior Detective Group, similar to the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes) forms a deep dependency with adult protagonist Kogoro Akechi. Kobayashi, a beautiful teenager, constantly concerns himself with Kogoro's cases and well-being, and for a time moves in with the unmarried man. The adult-boy relationship in part inspired the evolution of the shotacon community.
The shotacon community is predominately male. While females often enjoy softcore shota, heterosexual and homosexual males are more likely to enjoy hardcore works. Because of common themes, yaoi audiences sometimes "drift" into shotacon. For example, shipping pairs, while yaoi in nature, often involve pubescent or prepubescent characters.
Shotacon stories are commonly released in semi-monthly anthologies. Sometimes, however, mangakas will publish individual manga volumes.
★ Koushoku Shounen no Susume (好色少年ã®ã‚¹ã‚¹ãƒ¡)
★ Shounen Ai no Bigaku (å°‘å¹´æ„›ã®ç¾Žå¦)
★ Shounen Shikou (少年嗜好)
★ Boku no Pico (ã¼ãã®ã´ã“)
★ Enzai (冤罪)
★ Papa to Kiss in the Dark
★ Enzai (冤罪)
Many series make use of shotacon themes or evoke the fetish through stalker-like characters.
★ The shounen series ''Negima'' stars a capable if beleaguered ten year old teacher in a situation somewhat similar to a harem series, and contains frequent playful asides regarding the shotacon fetish. The class representative, Ayaka, has been referred to as a shotacon by fellow classmates.
★ ''Haunted Junction'' is a fairly conventional high-school ghost-hunter series. One of the trio of main characters, though, is a teenage girl with a self-declared Shota complex; she takes it as a matter of pride that she only has crushes on boys 12 years or younger.
★ ''Loveless'' is an example of a shonen-ai series that evokes the spectre of shotacon. One day Ritsuka Aoyagi meets a man called Soubi Agatsuma, who claims to be the friend of his dead brother. With the desire to know about his brother's death, Ritsuka becomes friends with Soubi. Because Ritsuka is 12 years old and Soubi is a 20 year old, the series evokes shotacon themes, even though it isn't technically shotacon.
★ The series Ouran High School Host Club features a shota character, Mitsukuni Haninozuka nicknamed "Honey."(or Hani, a shortened version of his name) He is one of the hosts who caters to the fetishes of young ladies at a high-class school. His childish habits (especially going around with a stuffed bunny doll) and short stature makes him appear to be around elementary school age. He is, however, the eldest of the hosts (the second-eldest being his friend Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka), being a senior in high school.
★ In the first series of Steel Angel Kurumi, Nakahito, a prepubescent boy, becomes the focus of affection of Kurumi, Karinka, and Kagonei, all full-grown young women.
★ Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!'s title character is a very young-looking high school freshman who is endlessly pursued by an older female senior. With his baby face, innocence, and small height, Mamoru is thought to be a shota character, although the series has not established his age or mentioned Mamoru having skipped any grades. A Japanese high school freshman is normally 14 or 15-years old. The official Mamoru-kun website, www.megadere.com, lists Mamoru's height as 155 centimeters (5 feet 1 inch) which would make him either a normal-sized 12-year old boy or a very small 14-year old. Further evidence in case for his shota status is the official site calls him a "boy" (ç”·ã®å) instead of "youth" or "teenager" (å°‘å¹´) used to describe his male classmates.
★ Please Save My Earth is a manga series which has an eight-year old boy named Rin falling in love with a seventeen-year old girl named Alice.
★ The shouho series MeruPuri features a girl named Airi who eventually falls in love with a very young prince known as Aram. Although Aram transforms into a seventeen year old everytime he is exposed to darkness, his true age makes him quite a bit younger than Airi.
In Japan a few works critical of shotacon exist as well. Most of them are not very popular or are not translated for release outside of Japan. One of the few comics in the western world that deals critically with the subjects of shotacon and abuse is the German manga style comic ''Losing Neverland''.
★ Pederasty
★ ShÅnen-ai
★ Yaoi
★ Lolicon, the female equivalent of shotacon
★ Hentai
★ Pedophilia
★ Deadfrog - Shota
★ Flatchan, Lolicon and Shotacon community
★ Shochan, A Shotacon and Lolicon community
★ Hentai HQ - An open anime/hentai user based community (Contains lolicon and shotacon)
Though shotacon typically features relationships between two boys of the same age or between boys and men, a related but less common genre is 'straight shotacon'. Straight shotacon features young boys, but includes women or girls as pairs for them. In anime, straight shotacon themes are far more common than homosexual ones. Many prominent series, notably FLCL, Negima!, and Pitaten, include scenes where older women press themselves on boys.
| Contents |
| Controversy |
| Origins |
| Audience |
| Shotacon publications |
| Shotacon anime |
| Shotacon video games |
| Non-hentai series with shotacon themes |
| Publications against shotacon |
| See also |
| Footnotes |
| External link |
Controversy
Like lolicon, shotacon often depicts children in sexual situations with adults. While the shotacon community argues that drawn art is protected under freedom of speech, critics claim shotacon is a direct offshoot of child pornography and may lead to child sexual abuse, though there is no evidence or documented cases to back this claim.
Shotacon has dubious legality in most parts of the world. The sale of shotacon is outlawed and punishable by imprisonment in some regions of Japan, but is legal in others. The United States PROTECT act of 2003 prohibited obscene or sexual drawings of children, while the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition ruled that such legislation is unconstitutional. Shotacon is illegal in Canada, Sweden, Norway, and South Africa, but prosecutors do not typically press charges unless other crimes are present. Since most shotacon is trafficked internationally (such as through the Internet), national legal prohibitions are difficult to enforce.
Origins
The term "shotacon" is a Japanese portmanteau of ''ShÅtarÅ complex'', a reference to the young male character ShÅtarÅ(æ£å¤ªéƒŽ) from ''Tetsujin 28-go''.
In the anime and manga series, ShÅtarÅ is a bold, self-assertive young detective who frequently outwits adult adversaries and helps to solve cases. Throughout the series, ShÅtarÅ develops close adult friends, and acts within the adult would despite being a young boy. His bishounen cute embodied and formed the term "shotacon", putting a name to an old sexual subculture.
Where the shotacon concept developed is hard to pinpoint, but some of its earliest roots are in readers responses to detective series written by Edogawa Rampo. In his works, a character named Yoshio Kobayashi of "ShÅnentanteidan" (Junior Detective Group, similar to the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes) forms a deep dependency with adult protagonist Kogoro Akechi. Kobayashi, a beautiful teenager, constantly concerns himself with Kogoro's cases and well-being, and for a time moves in with the unmarried man. The adult-boy relationship in part inspired the evolution of the shotacon community.
Audience
The shotacon community is predominately male. While females often enjoy softcore shota, heterosexual and homosexual males are more likely to enjoy hardcore works. Because of common themes, yaoi audiences sometimes "drift" into shotacon. For example, shipping pairs, while yaoi in nature, often involve pubescent or prepubescent characters.
Shotacon publications
Shotacon stories are commonly released in semi-monthly anthologies. Sometimes, however, mangakas will publish individual manga volumes.
★ Koushoku Shounen no Susume (好色少年ã®ã‚¹ã‚¹ãƒ¡)
★ Shounen Ai no Bigaku (å°‘å¹´æ„›ã®ç¾Žå¦)
★ Shounen Shikou (少年嗜好)
Shotacon anime
★ Boku no Pico (ã¼ãã®ã´ã“)
★ Enzai (冤罪)
★ Papa to Kiss in the Dark
Shotacon video games
★ Enzai (冤罪)
Non-hentai series with shotacon themes
Many series make use of shotacon themes or evoke the fetish through stalker-like characters.
★ The shounen series ''Negima'' stars a capable if beleaguered ten year old teacher in a situation somewhat similar to a harem series, and contains frequent playful asides regarding the shotacon fetish. The class representative, Ayaka, has been referred to as a shotacon by fellow classmates.
★ ''Haunted Junction'' is a fairly conventional high-school ghost-hunter series. One of the trio of main characters, though, is a teenage girl with a self-declared Shota complex; she takes it as a matter of pride that she only has crushes on boys 12 years or younger.
★ ''Loveless'' is an example of a shonen-ai series that evokes the spectre of shotacon. One day Ritsuka Aoyagi meets a man called Soubi Agatsuma, who claims to be the friend of his dead brother. With the desire to know about his brother's death, Ritsuka becomes friends with Soubi. Because Ritsuka is 12 years old and Soubi is a 20 year old, the series evokes shotacon themes, even though it isn't technically shotacon.
★ The series Ouran High School Host Club features a shota character, Mitsukuni Haninozuka nicknamed "Honey."(or Hani, a shortened version of his name) He is one of the hosts who caters to the fetishes of young ladies at a high-class school. His childish habits (especially going around with a stuffed bunny doll) and short stature makes him appear to be around elementary school age. He is, however, the eldest of the hosts (the second-eldest being his friend Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka), being a senior in high school.
★ In the first series of Steel Angel Kurumi, Nakahito, a prepubescent boy, becomes the focus of affection of Kurumi, Karinka, and Kagonei, all full-grown young women.
★ Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!'s title character is a very young-looking high school freshman who is endlessly pursued by an older female senior. With his baby face, innocence, and small height, Mamoru is thought to be a shota character, although the series has not established his age or mentioned Mamoru having skipped any grades. A Japanese high school freshman is normally 14 or 15-years old. The official Mamoru-kun website, www.megadere.com, lists Mamoru's height as 155 centimeters (5 feet 1 inch) which would make him either a normal-sized 12-year old boy or a very small 14-year old. Further evidence in case for his shota status is the official site calls him a "boy" (ç”·ã®å) instead of "youth" or "teenager" (å°‘å¹´) used to describe his male classmates.
★ Please Save My Earth is a manga series which has an eight-year old boy named Rin falling in love with a seventeen-year old girl named Alice.
★ The shouho series MeruPuri features a girl named Airi who eventually falls in love with a very young prince known as Aram. Although Aram transforms into a seventeen year old everytime he is exposed to darkness, his true age makes him quite a bit younger than Airi.
Publications against shotacon
In Japan a few works critical of shotacon exist as well. Most of them are not very popular or are not translated for release outside of Japan. One of the few comics in the western world that deals critically with the subjects of shotacon and abuse is the German manga style comic ''Losing Neverland''.
See also
★ Pederasty
★ ShÅnen-ai
★ Yaoi
★ Lolicon, the female equivalent of shotacon
★ Hentai
★ Pedophilia
Footnotes
External link
★ Deadfrog - Shota
★ Flatchan, Lolicon and Shotacon community
★ Shochan, A Shotacon and Lolicon community
★ Hentai HQ - An open anime/hentai user based community (Contains lolicon and shotacon)
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