Nijikon

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Nijikon (二次コン) or nijigen konpurekkusu (二次元コンプレックス), from the English "2D complex", is the affective perception that two-dimensional anime, manga, and light novel characters are more attractive visually, physically or emotionally than people from the real world. The term appeared in the early 1980s in Japan. It has been interpreted by some observers as a genuine sexual orientation in which a person loses interest in real-life people but develops feelings of love and sentimental attachment to characters.[1][2] This is generally directed towards the behavior and exaggerated physical or facial features of the anime/manga art style, which are perceived to be "ideal" human features.

The 2D complex has been characterized by some scholars as "otaku sexuality".[3][4] The psychiatrist Saitō Tamaki writes that for otaku, "fiction itself can be a sexual object," with attraction manifesting in an "affinity for fictional contexts."[5] Additional research includes work on its most controversial sub-attraction, lolicon.[6][7] The affection directed at fictitious characters is sometimes termed fictophilia, which is often enhanced by supernormal stimuli.[8]

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  1. ^ Steven Poole (2007). Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN 978-1611454550.
  2. ^ Lucy Bennett, Paul Booth (2016). Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 9781501318450.
  3. ^ Novitskaya, Alexandra (2019). "Otaku Sexualities in Japan". In Chiang, Howard; Arondekar, Anjali R. (eds.). Global encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) history. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale. pp. 1177–1181. ISBN 978-0-684-32554-5. OCLC 1080321952.
  4. ^ Galbraith, Patrick W. (2014). "Otaku Sexuality in Japan". In McLelland, Mark J.; Mackie, Vera (eds.). Routledge handbook of sexuality studies in East Asia. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-63948-4. OCLC 854611275.
  5. ^ Saitō, Tamaki (2007). "Otaku Sexuality". In Bolton, Christopher; Csicsery-Ronay, Istvan; Tatsumi, Takayuki (eds.). Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Translated by Bolton, Christopher. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-8166-4973-0.
  6. ^ Galbraith, Patrick W. "Lolicon: The Reality of 'Virtual Child Pornography' in Japan". Image & Narrative.
  7. ^ Alt, Matt. "Pharrell Williams's Lolicon Video | The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  8. ^ Karhulahti, Veli-Matti; Välisalo, Tanja (2021-01-12). "Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, and Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love and Desire for Fictional Characters". Frontiers in Psychology. 11. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575427. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 7835123. PMID 33510665.
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