According to the Japanese website Sora News 24, a controversy surrounding the wearing of sexy transparent dresses for anime girls on posters is raging in Japan, triggering a dispute between otaku (subculture lovers), artists, women's rights activists, and Tokyo metropolitan councilors.
The incident began last year, because outdoor billboards and blood donation centers in many parts of Japan have appeared a lot of posters of too sexy anime schoolgirls, attracting public attention. There was a debate on the Internet at the time, and recently, a popular anime series that used the campus life of a group of students in the coastal city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Shōtsu, was used, "Love Live!" Posters of the characters have fueled the debate.
The controversial poster is part of the publicity of the Shōtsu IchigoKuchi Agricultural Assistance Project, which aims to help local farmers in Shizuoka sell their produce. The poster uses the image of Takami Chika, a key figure in the School Idol Project, as an ambassador for the program.
The official Twitter account of the "Campus Idol Project" shared the news and photos of the opening ceremony of the program that will be held at a shopping mall in Zhaozu on February 12, while revealing that Takami Chika's voice actor Iwa Almond Tree will be present at the opening ceremony.
Since the official number of the "Campus Idol Project" has 1 million fans, this tweet immediately attracted the attention of a large number of fans, of course, it also attracted the attention of many non-fans, but they were more concerned about who the character was, but what she was wearing, as many netizens mentioned, in the anime, the 16-year-old character looks like she is wearing a see-through suit.
Needless to say, such an image immediately caused a huge controversy, and people commented on it.
"I can't believe why no one says, 'This is not good.'"
"I'm still pretty open-minded, but this image shouldn't be shown in public like a shopping mall." "I would never buy their products."
A large number of similar replies occupied the comment area, of course, there were many replies to try to calm these controversies, suggesting that the so-called "transparency" is actually a natural crease of the skirt extension, and even an advocate of art design also issued a different state of the skirt to alleviate this controversy.
However, another Twitter user immediately extended the skirt of the miniskirt in the poster, removing the folds to make it closer to the real-life middle school uniform, while commenting, "Why do they have to have such a perverted taste?" ”
As the incident continued to ferment, the views of both sides received a lot of support, and even the voice actors who participated in the event innocently received malicious comments questioning why she would support this kind of image activity that was suspected of playing the edge ball.
However, Miss Yibo could not control this kind of thing after all, and then the shopping mall that hosted the event also became the target of public criticism, forcing the operator of the mall to hastily stop the event on February 16, just 4 days after the start, all kinds of promotional materials at the scene have been removed, some supporters asked the management of the mall the reason for this move, and did not get a clear answer, but confirmed that the event has been hastily ended, even if the original plan will last until the end of March.