CONCLUSION - Where We Are Now
As of now, fanservice anime dominate the airwaves of Japanese television. For every One Punch Man, Attack On Titan, Space Dandy or other unique shows, there are ten shows designed to prey upon otaku to get them to give them money by soliciting anime girls for sex.
Shows made today seem to feel just fine with giving underage characters fanservice scenes, and even give them high levels of exposure. Series like Strike Witches, the Monogatari franchise, and Haganai give the same level of sexual exposure to adult women to at least one young girl character, complete with detailed nipples. At least one anime or manga per year comes out with young girls as the objects of sexual desire, such as Ro-Kyu-Bu!!, Fate/Kalaed Liner Prisma Illya, and Listen to Daddy! In some cases, not even very young children are safe from sexualization.
That was a far cry from the Japan of before. Previously they saw all children as being non-sexual, and would include young girls in cute nude scenes just as often as they'd include boys, with a joke about how curious the other gender is at what each other looks like. Nowadays the level of fanservice that involves males of any age is startlingly low, which is why it's always surprising when you get a show like Yuri on Ice!! or Free! to bring the fanservice balance, because most fanservice tends to be about females.
The end result is a Japan that sees no problem with sexualizing children, like a perversion of the society I've wanted to see. If all you're doing with nude young girls is using them for sexual purposes, you're not really solving the problem of inequality in nudity. All you're doing is showing how depraved you are for sexually exploiting children.
When Doraemon debuted in 69, children were innocent. Nowadays, little girls can be used as sex objects, which likely correlates to why Shizuka's scenes are so censored; they would be seen as introducing sex to children too early, despite that never being the intent to begin with.
All this shows society's corruption, and a reminder of that which we fight. If even young females are seen as sex objects, that reflects badly on how society sees females.
Shows made today seem to feel just fine with giving underage characters fanservice scenes, and even give them high levels of exposure. Series like Strike Witches, the Monogatari franchise, and Haganai give the same level of sexual exposure to adult women to at least one young girl character, complete with detailed nipples. At least one anime or manga per year comes out with young girls as the objects of sexual desire, such as Ro-Kyu-Bu!!, Fate/Kalaed Liner Prisma Illya, and Listen to Daddy! In some cases, not even very young children are safe from sexualization.
That was a far cry from the Japan of before. Previously they saw all children as being non-sexual, and would include young girls in cute nude scenes just as often as they'd include boys, with a joke about how curious the other gender is at what each other looks like. Nowadays the level of fanservice that involves males of any age is startlingly low, which is why it's always surprising when you get a show like Yuri on Ice!! or Free! to bring the fanservice balance, because most fanservice tends to be about females.
The end result is a Japan that sees no problem with sexualizing children, like a perversion of the society I've wanted to see. If all you're doing with nude young girls is using them for sexual purposes, you're not really solving the problem of inequality in nudity. All you're doing is showing how depraved you are for sexually exploiting children.
When Doraemon debuted in 69, children were innocent. Nowadays, little girls can be used as sex objects, which likely correlates to why Shizuka's scenes are so censored; they would be seen as introducing sex to children too early, despite that never being the intent to begin with.
All this shows society's corruption, and a reminder of that which we fight. If even young females are seen as sex objects, that reflects badly on how society sees females.