●Loli (LOLI)
The full name is "Lolita" or "Lolita". Originally referring to the heroine in the novel "Lolita" written by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov in 1995, it was later used by anime fans to refer to a cute young girl.
"In the morning she was Lo, ordinary Lo, four feet ten in one sock. In baggy pants she was Lola. At school she was Dolly .Officially she is Dolores. But in my arms she is always Lolita. The light of my life, the fire of my sin." Students who know this novel should know that the heroine Lolita in the book is only 12 years old (later changed to 14 years old in the movie). In other words, "Lori" who is synonymous with it is only a young girl. It is a title that is worthy of the name, but it is not suitable for girls whose biological age is over 15 years old (or even younger). In addition, the elements of Luo Li are "innocent and lovable". However, due to the bad taste of Japanese animation, it is not uncommon to see older female characters with girlish faces but fleshy bodies, which makes Comic fans are accustomed to calling women "Lori" whenever they see a tender-faced or young-looking woman. This situation is now considered a convention.
"Lolita" tells the story of the abnormal love between a middle-aged man and an underage girl. The following introduction clearly shows one of the themes of the work - "Humbert, who lives in middle age by teaching French at the university, has always had a tenderness hidden in his heart since the death of his first love when he was young. And obscene nightmares. Those teenage girls have an irresistible magical attraction to him. He conceals this secret desire and only calls out to those superficial and arrogant elves with his trembling soul." sex. In Japan's OTAKU (more on that later), "Lolicon" refers to a person who is "clearly an adult male, but has no desire for women of the same age and is only sexually interested in little girls of a lower age group." Sexual orientation is consistent with the morbid psychology of the male protagonist in "Lolita". Therefore, the word "Lori" not only represents young age, but also contains sexually suggestive elements. In Japanese, Luo Li's kanji is written as "furnace", and even among higher-level monster uncles, there are situations where only one character "furnace" is used to express it. Related words include "smooth and flat" (without body hair and breasts, referring to young girls), "EROLI" (EROS+LOLI=EROLI), "PEDO" (abbreviation of Pedophile, referring to pedophiles, in psychiatric medicine) The field is a type of sexual perversion) etc... Do you understand why being called such is not worth getting excited about?
Publications that used this as a selling point appeared in Japan in the 1960s. In 1966, Kenmochi Kazuo launched the Raleigh photo album "NYMPHET·The Myth of 12 Years Old" (NYMPHET: formerly known as The young goddess of mountains, forests and rivers, here refers to a sexually attractive girl), the Loli magazine "Girl Alice" was born in the same year, and "CYBELE", which was launched at a comic book sales event in 1979, is a Japanese The earliest Loli comic doujinshi. Affected by this, the Loli whirlwind began to blow in the 1980s, and had a great impact on the future animation OTAKU culture. In the 1990s, a large number of Loli characters appeared in animation and game works. The most representative one is "Heaven and Earth are useless!" Sasami in "Mobile Battleship NADESICO", Ruri Hoshino in "Mobile Battleship NADESICO", DEJIKO in "Di·Gi·Charat" and Sakura Kinomoto in "Cardcaptor Sakura", etc. These characters can almost be said to have dominated the mainstream market of Japan's ACG industry since 1995. As a result, almost every subsequent Japanese animation work has a Loli character, and even the entire film is filled with Loli. This "grand occasion" makes animation Fans' consciousness gradually changed from "a little girl is not equal to Luo Li" to "as long as she is a little girl, she is equal to Luo Li", which is really speechless.
On the one hand, Luo Li has become one of the indispensable elements in animation. The cute image spares no effort to take money out of the pockets of readers and viewers. On the other hand, Luo Li is associated with There are still some outrageous incidents. Following the inhumane "Miyazaki Tsutomu incident" in 1989, the "Kobayashi Kaoru incident" broke out in Japan in 2004 because he was overly obsessed with Sakura Kinomoto in "Cardcaptor Sakura" and kidnapped and murdered. The victims in both cases were Young girls, also known as "Lori"... Due to the negative impact of the Miyazaki Tsutomu incident, Japanese comics at that time were subject to a certain degree of restrictions in depicting young female characters.
Of course, it’s not enough for a crazy pervert to die hundreds of times, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who likes girl characters looks at them with an obscene eye. Those who call them “Lori Luoli” ” are actually expressing their love for a certain person or character. Whether you only take the younger meaning of "Lori" or accept the full meaning of the word, you can say this - today, Loli, budding flowers have spread all over the world. Corner, as long as people still watch anime, the market for "Lori" will never disappear.
Related nonsense:
Let’s talk about the “Lolita Contest” held a while ago.
"From February 8th to 12th, the first LOLITA (Lolita) election contest was held at the Guangzhou Youth Cultural Palace. On the rooftop of the third floor, everywhere you look, there are many girls like this - innocent With her pretty face, sweet and pure expression, and gorgeous clothes composed of large pieces of lace, seersucker skirt and exquisite accessories, accompanied by parasols, roses, baby bears and other props, she looks like a little princess from a Western European court... …”
First of all, the contestants are basically over the required age for Lolita (just complaining...), and secondly, there are probably not many people who know why they become Lolita by wearing full lace. "Lolita" was adapted into a film of the same name by the famous director Stanley Kubrick in 1962. The Chinese translation of the film's title is "A Pear Blossom Pressing Begonias" (a reference to Su Dongpo's satire of the 80-year-old Zhang Xianna's 18-year-old concubine). I don’t know who’s brilliant idea was to use poetry as the title of the film.) Lolita in the film at that time wore lace tights, skirts with wide hems and bows, making this look a typical impression when referring to Lolita (pedophilia complex) in the future. Later, the Lolita style emerged in Japan, and the clothing style began to move closer to the complicated and gorgeous style of the Victorian era. Compared with the Lolita dress in the movie, it has been upgraded several times.
In the Japanese movie "The Story of the Lower Wife", Kyoko Fukada plays a girl who has a deep obsession with Lolita-style clothes. This is all thanks to the original author Yuemoto Wild Rose (this title The old man who was born in "1745, the heyday of Rococo" is known as the leader of Japanese Lolita). Today's Lolita costumes can be divided into three types: Classic Lolita, Sweet Love Lolita and Gothic Lolita. Each has its own differences in clothing matching and makeup effects. If you are interested Students can search for it themselves.