>>30233997Forget yaoi/yuri, what about lolicon, softcore porn featuring actual kids right next to adult DVDs, and other stuff like that?
Postware infantilism. Look at the superflat art movement, high art vs. low art, manga vs. gekiga vs. pornographic/seinen(成年, not 青年) comics, themes like that.
This book may interest you if you want to look at it from an artistic perspective:
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Boy-Japan%C2%92s-Exploding-Subculture/dp/0300102852pic related, from an academic paper i read recently