ext_215901 ([identity profile] jakeexperience.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liz_marcs 2007-08-23 05:49 pm (UTC)

Liz: sorry for the deleted comment, I made a large typo and LJ won't let us edit comments we've already posted.

I'd like to point out that the original author of the manga is a woman who understands that this sort of silly comedy is meant to be amusing fiction. She sees the crush the kid has on the teacher as a rather innocent event, in great contrast to people who want to overread the text here in the west.

As Jason DeAngelis said quite well,
Most people have not yet read Nymphet, since we haven't even published it yet, so I would like to clarify an important point: Nymphet is a story about a mischievous young girl who tries to sexually entrap her teacher. The important context here is that the girl's advances on her teacher are never reciprocated by him; her teacher is horrified by her actions, and his romantic interest is in fact another adult teacher. The comedy arises out of this young girl saying and doing improper things (much like Crayon Shin-chan, which is currently being aired on Cartoon Network) and seeing her teacher squirm with discomfort and shock while he struggles to keep his composure, at the same time trying not to make a fool of himself in front of the woman he loves.

Gor and KnoJ/Nymphet are only similar in that both are fiction; they have nothing else in common.

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