Lolicon

Lolicon (spelled ロリコン in katakana) or “Lolita complex” is a Japanese-originating slang from the 1970s deriving from English literature in the 1950s/1960s. It refers to a fascination for adolescent girls, and by extension the adults (usually middle-aged men) who have that fascination. It subsequently has also been used to refer to the fixated adults themselves, and to a sweeping genre (of manga, anime, games, or otherwise, including pornographic) intended which explore that interest.

• ロリータ・コンプレックス＝小さな子どもばかりを好きになる異常性格。
• roriita konpurekkusu = {chiisana kodomo bakari wo sukininaru} ijou-seikaku.
• Lolita complex = an abnormal personality [in which] {[one] likes only small children}.
  • mid-1970s by Shinji Wada in キャベツ畑でつまずいて (pronounced "Kyabetsu-batake de Tsumazuite" meaning "Stumbling Upon a Cabbage Patch") a short story in an issue of "Bessatsu Margaret" (aka Margaret Comics) found at the bottom of page 121 (sometimes 201 in different compilations) - a note to the left as a woman elbows a man in the face
    • June 1974 is the publication date stated in 2019 by Patrick W. Galbraith on page 29 of "Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan", while 1976 is when the story was included with "Asuka Futatabi" and 20 January 1978 is the dated listed by the publisher Shueisha in used manga resale descriptions

• ★ ハイ . コン ( ヘイジ　コンプレックス ) 5~10
  ★ アリ . コン ( アリス　コンプレックス ) 7~12
  ★ ロリ . コン ( ロリータ　コンプレックス ) 10~15​
  (English translation below)
  Hei-Con (Heidi Complex) 5-10
  Ari-Con (Arisu Complex) 7-12
  Rori-Con (Rorita Complex) 10-15
  • 27 July 1979 in volume 2 of シーベル編集部 (Cybele Henshuubu) magazine, top-right corner of last (54th) page 54
    • preceding categories are based on Heidi of the Alps and Alice in Wonderland

• Cool off, lolicon count! Watch out before you get burned!
  • 15 December 1979 about 1h19m31s into Japanese film ルパン三世 カリオストロの城 (Lupin III: Cagliostro no Shiro = Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro) where Lupin (after removing his bearded disguise) insults the older Count for wanting to marry the film's adolescent damsel Clarisse d'Cagliostro

• ロリータ・コンプレックス、通称ロリコン
  [roriita konpurekkusu tsuusyou rorikon]
  Lolita complex, commonly known as "loli-com" [rorikon]
  美少女を恋してしまうミドルエイジの心の病
  [bishoujyo wo koishite shimau midoru eiji no kokoro no yamai]
  Middle-aged mental illness that makes people fall in love with beautiful girls
  合掌 [gasshou] praying hands [with my hands clasped in prayer]
  • 10 February 1982, the monk 錯乱坊 (Sakuranbou) aka チェリー (Cherry) narrating 6m50s into anime-original story あゝ個人教授！ (Ā Kojin Kyōju = "Oh Lone Teacher!") episode 16a/32 of Urusei Yatsura after Sanjuro Kuribayashi falls for seventeen-year-old Lum Invader

• It's difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become playthings for Lolita Complex males.^[1] In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict [such protagonists] as if they just want [such girls] as pets, and things are escalating more and more.
  • Hayao Miyazaki, 1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.
    • young female protagonists in films Miyazaki had released by that time included Clarisse, sixteen-year-old Nausicaa, thirteen-year-old Sheeta and ten-year-old Satsuki Kusakabe

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• classmate: ロリコン! (rorikon! = lolicon!)
  Yuuji Yagami: オレはマザコン (ore wa mazakon = I'm a mother complex)
  • May 1990 in the 3-episode OVA adaptaton of Yagami-kun no Katei no Jijō (Yagami-kun's Family Affairs) a manga that ran 1986-1990, Yagami is taunted by classmates for being in love with his mother Nomi Yagami because she has youthful features

• Hey, Tamamo! Tell me the truth! What exactly is your business today? You're in the surgery department! It can't be! You're... It could not be!No! It can't be! (screams) You want to see the chests of grade-school girls as a lolicon? And you can do whatever you want with your doctor status! No way, no way! Ah, stop being my rival already!
  • autumn 1996 by Meisuke Nueno, 4m33s into episode 39 of Jigoku Sensei Nūbē (originally a manga from 1994) speaking to Kyōsuke Tamamo after he gives physical exams to Kyōko Inaba and the other girls in Class 5-3 in Dōmori Elementary

• ロリコンだ･･･
• rorikon da...
• he's a lolicon
  • February 1999 in the first volume of "Azumanga Daioh" by Kiyohiko Azuma, transcript from January 2018 article

• ロリコンは人間じゃない･･･ケダモノだ･･････
• rorikon wa ningen janai... kedamono da......
• lolicon aren't people... they're beasts......
  • 2004 in chapter 2 of N・H・Kにようこそ! (Welcome to the N.H.K.) by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, based on a light novel in 2002. Transcript from January 2018 article

• It's because the technology for immortality was accidentally made during your experiments to create a lolicon's world. You froze the appearance of every woman in the world at age twelve.
  • 12 March 2005, Sabato Mihashigo in episode 1 of Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan

• Takechi: "I can't kill her. Killing a little girl... is not the samurai way. Capture her alive."
  Matako "Senpai!! You're such a lolicon!! She broke in here, we can't be so soft!"
  "I'm not a lolicon, I'm a feminist. I must be considerate towards female enemies. Such is the path of the feminist."
  • 3 February 2006 in volume 11 of manga Gin Tama, page 5 of chapter 91 満月は人を狂わせる ("Mangetsu wa Hito wo Kuruwaseru = "The Full Moon Drives People Crazy") exchange between Takechi Henpeita and "Red Bullet" Kijima Matako regarding mercy shown towards fourteen-year-old Kagura of Yorozuya

• She's famous among the five million members of the Nationwide Lolicon Network. The Network has awarded her with the best little girl of 2005 award!
  • May 2006 in the bottom panel of the 2nd page of chapter 1 (The Phoenix and The Girl) of ロリコンフェニックス (Lolita Complex Phoenix) by Satoru Matsubayashi, in Dragon Age magazine, page 314, regarding eleven-year-old Mia Watanabe

• ロリコン 男の罠にかかったと見せかけた少女ヘイリーの正体も明かされないまま、男の自宅という密室状態で繰り広げられる1対1の攻防はスリリング。
  Rorikon otoko no wana ni kakatta to misekaketa shōjo heirī no shōtai mo akasa renai mama, otoko no jitaku to iu misshitsu jōtai de kurihiroge rareru 1 tai 1 no kōbō wa suriringu.
  The true identity of Haley, the girl who appears to have fallen into the lolicon man's trap, is never revealed, and the one-on-one battle that unfolds in the closed space of the man's home is thrilling.
  ..
  ロリコン 男への制裁というひとネタだけで一気にラストまで突き進める脚本にも、洗練されたビジュアルセンスを見せる演出＆編集にも才気が溢れているのだが、本作の大きな魅力はヘイリー役のエレン・ペイジ。
  Rorikon otoko e no seisai to iu hito neta dake de ikkini rasuto made tsukisusumeru kyakuhon ni mo, senrensareta bijuarusensu o miseru enshutsu& henshū ni mo saiki ga afurete iru nodaga, honsaku no ōkina miryoku wa heirī-yaku no eren peiji.
  The script, which drives the film to the end with just the one plot twist of punishing a lolicon man, and the direction and editing, which show off a sophisticated visual sense, are full of talent, but the biggest draw of this film is Ellen Page in the role of Haley.
  • 25 July 2006 article by Eiga reviewing the 2005 movie Hard Candy starring 17yo Page as 14yo Stark

• どうすれば、才色兼備な30女をつかまえられるのか－－という趣旨の記事だった。 世界でも希有な ロリコン 優勢の日本社会において、（30女的には）ありがたい内容。
  Dōsureba, saishokukenbina 30 on'na o tsukamae rareru no ka -- to iu shushi no kijidatta. Sekai demo keuna rorikon yūsei no Nihon shakai ni oite, (30 on'na-teki ni wa) arigatai naiyō.
  The article was about how to catch a smart and beautiful 30-year-old woman. In Japan, where lolicons are the most prevalent in society, it was a welcome read (for a 30-year-old woman).
  • 21 March 2007 article in AllAbout

• 全てのオタク・萌え・非モテを中心に、コスプレイヤー、メイドさん、ニート、引きこもり、 ロリコン、 ショタコン、 腐女子、 腐男子、 ゲイ、 ビアン、 性的マイノリティー、 貧乏人、 ワーキングプア層、 苦学生、よっぱらい、 その他諸々の大バカモノと少数者はもはや結集するしかない！
  Subete no otaku moe hi mote o chūshin ni, kosupureiyā, meido-san, nīto, hiki komori, rorikon, shotakon, fujoshi, fudanshi, gei, bian,-sei-teki mainoritī, binbōnin, wākingupua-sō,-ku gakusei, yopparai, sonota moromoro no dai baka mono to shōsū-sha wa mohaya kesshū suru shika nai!
  All otaku, moe, and non-popular people, as well as cosplayers, maids, NEETs, hikikomori, lolicons, shotacons, fujoshi and fudanshi, gays, lesbians, sexual minorities, poor people, the working poor, struggling students, drunks, and all other kinds of idiots and minorities, have no choice but to unite!
  • 30 June 2007 article in ASCII.jp

• Konata: "I was just wondering... If a guy in our class confesses his love for me or Yu-chan... Does it make that guy a lolicon?"
  Soujiro: "Well, they're in the same class year... so technically it wouldn't. But in this case, there would be an emphasis on your appearances... Hypothetically... If you were a thirty-year-old who looked like a grade schooler... Then you could say that guy is into older women... This is quite a complicated issue. It's hard to come up with a strict interpretation."
  ..
  Konata: "If you fell in love with mom, and you dote on a daughter like me... That makes you a lolicon, right?"
  Soujiro: "Hold it right there. I think you're a bit mistaken. I like normal girls too, not just little ones. So you should say I'm also a lolicon. Though I suppose it depends on the character we're talking about."
  Konata "Either way, you fail as a human being."
  • 2 September 2007 exchanges between seventeen-year-old Konata Izumi and her father Soujiro Izumi in ここにある彼方 ("Koko ni Aru Kanata" = "The Yonder Here") episode 22 of Lucky Star

• Aogami "To be able to enjoy scolding from a child like that...Kamiya-yan you'll gain plenty of experience points!"
  Kamiya "So not only are you a lolicon, you're also an M? God, you're hopeless."
  Aogami "It's not like -I like lolis- but rather -I also like lolis-"
  • 4 October 2008 regarding Tsukuyomi Komoe in episode 1 of the anime adaptation of "A Certain Magical Index" (reference is absent in chapter 3 of the manga which this scene was adapted from)

• In this case you obviously have read lolicon, and I haven't. I don't know whether you're writing from personal experience here, and whether you have personally been incited to rape children or give inappropriate hugs by reading it. (I assume you haven't. I assume that Chris Handley, with his huge manga collection, wasn't either. I've read books that claimed that exposure to porn causes rape, but have seen no statistical evidence that porn causes rape -- and indeed have seen claims that the declining number of US rapes may be due to the wider availability of porn. Honestly, I think it's a red herring in First Amendment matters, and I'll leave it for other people to argue about.) Still, you seem to want lolicon banned, and people prosecuted for owning it, and I don't. You ask, What makes it worth defending? and the only answer I can give is this: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you're going to have to stand up for stuff you don't believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively distasteful, because laws are big blunt instruments that do not differentiate between what you like and what you don't, because prosecutors are humans and bear grudges and fight for re-election, because one person's obscenity is another person's art.
  • Neil Gaiman, Why defend freedom of icky speech?, Neil Gaiman's Journal (1 December 2008)

• "It's perfectly okay. I also hold some interest in this kid."
  "Aikawa.. you are, as I thought, a lolicon."
  "I'm not one for sure. I don't have any interest towards her in a sexual way. Rather, why don't you make a move?"
  "Hey, Aikawa, don't put me in the same category as you. I, on the other hand, prefer mature women."
  "How should I tell you that even though I'm in the flat-chested faction, I'm not a lolicon."
  "I got it. I got it. Don't be so serious about it. Lolicon."
  • 20 January 2009 in Koreha Zombie Desuka Light Novel Volume 01, pages 36-37 of 252 (unclear if this was adapted into a manga chapter or anime episode in later years)

• 「ロリコン」は航空自衛隊・ブルーインパルスの展示飛行課目の一つで、「ローリング・コンバット・ピッチ」の略称。
  `Rorikon' wa kōkūjieitai burūinparusu no tenji hikō kamoku no hitotsu de,`rōringu konbatto pitchi' no ryakushō.
  "Lolicon" is one of the demonstration flight events of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse, and is an abbreviation for "Rolling Combat Pitch."
  • 4 March 2009 in [https://ichigaya.keizai.biz/headline/520/ Ichigaya Keizi Biz article titled 「赤いきつね」「ロリコン」？－防衛省協力雑誌で自衛隊用語を解説

• 彼氏と一緒に卒業した学校へ忍び込む設定で、制服や競泳水着など学生コスプレを披露。「自分で言うのもなんですけど、わたし ロリコン なので、制服とか水着みたいに ロリ っぽい衣装好きなんです」と満足げに話した。
  Kareshi to issho ni sotsugyō shita gakkō e shinobikomu settei de, seifuku ya kyōei mizugi nado gakusei kosupure o hirō. `Jibun de iu no mo nandesukedo, watashi rorikon na node, seifuku toka mizugi mitai ni rori ppoi ishō-sukina ndesu' to manzoku-ge ni hanashita.
  In the setting where she sneaks into the school she graduated from with her boyfriend, she shows off cosplay costumes such as a uniform and a competitive swimsuit. "I know it sounds like I'm a lolicon, but I like loli-like clothes like uniforms and swimsuits," she said with satisfaction.
  • 16 January 2010 interview with 21-year-old gravure idol Kii Kizuki reported 18 January 2010 in Sponichi article titled 自称「ロリコン」娘 = Jishō `rorikon' musume = A self-proclaimed "Lolicon" girl

• もしもし、おまわりさんですか。近所のロリペドハイブリッドさんについて情報提供をしたいのですが
  Moshimoshi, omawarisandesu ka. Kinjo no roripedohaiburiddo-san ni tsuite jōhō teikyō o shitai nodesuga
  Hello, is this a police officer? I'd like to report a loli-pedo hybrid in my neighborhood.
  • 25 May 2011 in volume 3 chapter 1 of the light novel series 変態王子と笑わない猫 (Hentai Ōji to Warawanai Neko = The Pervert Prince and the Unsmiling Cat aka HenNeko)

• I'd like to report a loli-pedo hybrid pervert in the neighborhood.
  • 1 June 2013 in season 1 episode 8 (6m17s) of HenNeko's anime adaption

• Megumin: “Are… are you okay, Kazuma? Did you deplete your mana? I should say that was a close one. If things escalates…”
  Kazuma “I would be labeled a lolicon. Too close… ah, Megumin, sorry to trouble you, but can you help me wipe my body? I am completely out of mana and can’t move. I will catch a cold if I lie down here.” I lay face down on the floor, asking for her help without seeing Megumin’s face, but…
  Megumin “… Hey, why will you be labeled a lolicon if you bath with me, explain clearly. You have guts to say such things when you can’t move.”
  • 28 February 2014 (English translation 22 August 2017) in volume 3 (2nd chapter: part 5) of KonoSuba light novel series

• Kuki-chan, the truth is... I am a lolicon! I am a lolicon. A true lolicon. My strike zone for women lies between seven and twelve years old. In other words... Anyone works for me. Even you... Lolicon is not a disease! It is a way of life! Even I realize that I'm a pervert! But all the same, Chifuyu-chan was willing to accept me. Just being able to play with Chifuyu-chan satisfies me!
  • 27 October 2014, fifteen-year-old Jurai Andō speaking to nine-year-old Madoka Kuki about nine-year-old Chifuyu Himeki during "Capricious Lady", episode 4 of When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace

• サイテー！！ロリコン！！
• saitee!! rorikon!!
• the worst!! lolicon!!
  • January 2015 in the 2nd chapter of the manga Africa no Sararīman (aka African Office Worker) by Gamu, after a toucan is accused by a joshi kousei (high school girl) on the subway

• Lolicon? Asuna-san, as a member of the medical practice, that's a term you must never use .. pedophilia should be distinguished from the vague concept commonly referred to as "lolicon".
  • 20 February 2015, in episode 2 (ロリコンはどこから病気なの？ = "Rorikon wa Doko kara Byōki na no?" = "In What Point is Lolicon a Disease?") of anime series マンガで分かる心療内科 ("Anime de Wakaru Shinryounaika" dubbed "Comical Psychosomatic Medicine") psychologist Dr. Ryou speaking to Nurse Asuna

• “We’ve been using MMPI for the past five years,” Shukan Bunshun hears from an unnamed school board executive in an unnamed prefecture. “It’s possible, certainly, that Lolicons or people with other questionable sexual tendencies will find ways to hide that. On the other hand, we have noticed that, compared with prefectures that don’t use MMPI, our episodes of obscene behavior have decreased – to zero, in fact, over the past couple of years.”
  From another school board official in another prefecture Shukan Bunshun hears this story: A young applicant came across to examiners as very impressive. His written test results were tops. In interviews he conveyed fluently and convincingly his ideas concerning education. And yet there was something ever so slightly odd about him. He seemed, at times, to be looking about him furtively and uneasily. Perhaps it meant nothing.
  On the other hand, you can’t be too careful where children are concerned. The board sent the applicant’s MMPI to a qualified counselor for expert scrutiny. Sure enough, the expert detected Lolicon tendencies. The man was not hired.
  Score one victory for children and one defeat for sexual predation – right? But was the man really Lolicon? Tests are indicative, not infallible. What if he wasn’t? Whose victory is it then?
  • 22 July 2015, Kuchikomi, "'Lolicon' teachers a growing concern", Japan Today

• LOの担当さんから打ち合わせの時、
  「このキャラ９歳にしてはちょっと幼く見えますね」と言われる。
  じゃあ設定を変えて８歳ということにしますかと答えたら、
  「LOの読者層が求めているのは９歳で、８歳は幼すぎる。絵の方を変えて！」と言われる。
  LOのこだわりはこの次元なのだ。
  When I was making arrangements with my boss:
  "These characters look a little young for 9."
  When I suggested making them 8 instead:
  "LO's readers want 9-year-olds, 8 is too young. Change the picture instead!"
  This is the level of fine-tuning at LO.
  • 27 November 2015 tweet by Amagappa Shōjogun, manga artist for Comic LO (an acronym standing for Lolita Only) translated into English 3 December 2015 in AnimeNewsNetwork article by Eric Stimson entitled "Manga Editor Provides Glimpse of Lolicon Magazine's Standards"

• I'm not a lolicon, I prefer a plump figure, matured lady, so I'd say Fubuki...But the Fubuki from ONE sensei version is not plump at all...This version of Fubuki is fully based on my own liking and preferences.
  I love boobs since I was young, and the back, waist and the butt, I'm having fun time drawing them! Tastumaki is not my cup of tea, but turns out that I'm having fun drawing her as well!
  ..
  Previously I never draw any loli-like character, when I'm drawing Tastumaki I spent many effort on drawing the ass.
  • 13 December 2015 by Yusuke Murata (the writer of One Punch Man) when asked "The type of girl you like?"

• Me, I'm not interested in small little loli, really, hahaha, sorry I lied, I like her very much.
  I have the original Zenko version here, she looks older.
  This is the version that I decided not to use, she looks older right?
  I'm not good in drawing little girls, I'm always drawing it too tall in the first place, even for Tatsumaki.
  • 31 December 2015 by Yusuke Murata (the writer of One Punch Man) when asked "Stupid question, do you like Zenko?" in an interview

• I used to struggle when I'm drawing Saitama, as for now I'd say Tatsumaki. I'm not good in drawing loli, I like drawing thicc figures.
  • 31 January 2016 video interview by Yusuke Murata, the creator of One Punch Man, answering the question "Anything you are not good at drawing?" Tatsumaki is a green-haired petite twenty-eight-year-old woman.

• Kazuma Satou "I almost got branded a lolicon."
  Megumin (cracking her knuckles) "Why don't you explain exactly why getting into the bath with me makes you a lolicon?"
  • 19 January 2017 exchange in "A Friend For This Crimson Demon Girl!" s2e2 of KonoSuba (Megumin is a flat-chested girl who was thirteen at the time, Satou was sixteen)

• Megumin "I will be fourteen next month."
  Kazuma Satou: "Wait, fourteen? Seriously? You're not gonna be a loli character anymore?"
  Megumin: "A loli character!?"
  Kazuma Satou: "Oof...I was this close to becoming a certified lolicon for real..."
  Megumin: "Why don't you tell me how bathing with me certifies you as a lolicon?"
  • 9 March 2017 (English translation 14 November 2017) in volume 5 of Konosuba's manga adaptation (chapter 25) with similar dialogue as well as a unique new exchange added preceding it

• I'm actually quite shocked, too. This country is full of lolicons. I can understand finding little girls cute, but... you people take it too far.
  • 23 January 2019 by Naofumi Itami ~2m55s into 災厄の波 ("Saiyaku no Nami" = "Wave of Catastrophe") episode 3 of The Rising of Shield Hero lamenting the new attention that his bodyguard Raphtalia is getting from villagers (flashbacks are shown of them giving her unsolicited gifts) after having matured from her initial pre-pubescent form into a mid-pubescent form

• "Huh? Why do you have these manga, sensei?"
  "No, those aren't-"
  "Isnt this series notorious for being banned because of how it creates sex criminals?"
  "No, listen, I'm not into that stuff..."
  "Sensei, all this time I thought you were a simple lolicon...but I never thought you were a full-blown pedocon!"
  "Hey, I'm not a pedocon! I've never opened any of those books!"
  "Don't lie... all these manga have heavy-reading grudge stains!"
  "Look, a dumb college buddy sent me those as parting gifts. I couldn't throw them out, but I..."
  "You were friends with a fellow pedocon back home?"
  "That's how you see it?"
  "You married that girl after you knocked her up when she was 16. But this could mean you actually started violating that girl when she was only 15, 14, 13, or even younger than that..."
  "NGH! Believe me, I'm not a lolicon! And I'm no pedo..."
  "Make me believe!"
  • 2020+ in "Chii-tan's Sexual Deviancy Test", pages 4 to 6 of volume 5 chapter 33 of おれはロリコンじゃない! (oreha rorikon janai!) meaning "I'm not a lolicon!", a Seinen manga by Uran. This follows student Chise discovering volumes 3 and 4 of manga in protagonist teacher Shouji Osamu's room titled "Kindergartener of Innocence - The Most Risque Comedy - Over 190,000 copies in circulation". The entire ORJ series is 56 chapters spread across 8 volumes.

• CD Projekt Red first got the character design for Rebecca and they were like 'She's a loli. Lolis don't exist in Night City. It doesn't fit the Cyberpunk 2077 aesthetic'. But Trigger was like 'No, the loli must stay.'
  • September 2022 statement on Twitch by female producer for CD Projekt Red, quoting a conflict between CDPR and Studio Trigger, the creators of Edgerunners
    • 16 September 2022 article by Rhiannon Bevan of The Gamer reported on this

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