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I also prefer my girls in more tasteful outfits and would love a Ranka figure in the white dress.

However, given the cannonical nature of this statue and how cute Ranka is anyways, and the stand/background thingy - I will get it and hope for more Rankas to come.

Every anime show with a young girl in it was "loli" and every anime girl was usually in some way unconventional "for its' time." Minmey's shower scene in SDF M TV was probably considered "revolutionary" for its' time. Right now it seems "quaint" and "tasteful."

"Loli" - to me - actually means nothing. It's like saying "you got the cooties!"

Anyways - it's nice to wake up in the morning and see this thread at the top of the charts :)

Pete

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Anime has more often than not had kids under 15 pilot war machinery. Categorizing all underaged females under loli would be just make the selection far too broad.

I don't think Minmei or Mylene were considered anywhere near loli, even in that time, and public acceptance of prominent loli characters didn't surface in anime till much later. I think there would have been severe social backlash about it then.

Ranka obviously aims at the lolicon crowd, but at least the creators were reasonable enough to diversify the female populace in Frontier. Unfortunately, they made all the male characters feminine while they were at it. >_>

About the toy though... Considering that many of the members here are married and even have young children... How the hell are you going to slip this into your collection? Keep it in a closed cabinet? Socially awkward.

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About the toy though... Considering that many of the members here are married and even have young children... How the hell are you going to slip this into your collection? Keep it in a closed cabinet? Socially awkward.

embrace you're inner pervert and display it with pride?

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About the toy though... Considering that many of the members here are married and even have young children... How the hell are you going to slip this into your collection? Keep it in a closed cabinet? Socially awkward.

My step-daughter, who is 11, has stuff in her collection that is far more "lolicon" - it's a trend in children's comics these days - particularly for little girls.

My girlfriend (step-daughter's mom) thinks my obsession with cute women is good because a side-effect is that I buy her lots of clothes so she can look as cute as my anime dolls. Also, when we go shopping together, she is happy that I actually have good taste and can help her pick stuff that she looks good in. This is much funner than "here honey - take the credit card and have a nice day shopping."

There are designer and fashion magazines all over their apartment which the girls read. Theres tons of lingerie everywhere. My girlfriend likes raunchy erotic movies. Her step daughter just got her ears pierced and, as can be expected at her age, she envies her mom and older girls and wants to be "gornw up" too so that she can go out with guys and go to parties etc etc etc.

All of this is normal and to some how suggest that with the addition of 1:8 Ranka to my collection, my girlfriend will decide to quit her job and pimp out her daughter, who will suddenly develop the urge to run naked in the streets while snorting cocaine (or some other "bad effect") is just not logical:)

Although it is funny :)

Pete

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VFTF brings you: Justifications for pedophilia 101.

I can't win :)

My girlfriend sometimes accuses me of being a homosexual because so many of my male friends are gay, my fellow Macross fans accuse me of being a pedophile because I think Ranka is cute, my ex-boss says I'm a bad person because I don't sleep around with lots of women, and my male friends always get mad at me when it turns out I'm not gay, but they are and they thought I was too...

Life really is a bummer.

Pete

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I can't win :)

My girlfriend sometimes accuses me of being a homosexual because so many of my male friends are gay, my fellow Macross fans accuse me of being a pedophile because I think Ranka is cute, my ex-boss says I'm a bad person because I don't sleep around with lots of women, and my male friends always get mad at me when it turns out I'm not gay, but they are and they thought I was too...

Life really is a bummer.

Pete

and all this while none of your acquaintances, other than Macross Fans, have realised that you relieve yourself, so to speak, through your lolicon inclinations! ^_^

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It's like... kiddie pron...

Yep - that's all Macross Frontier and anime in general are. Me, I prefer animals. That's why I like the Lion King, Sesame Street, and Tom & Jerry.

Pete

(in what should be a transparently sarcastic comment meant to draw attention to the fact that comparing Ranka in a bikini to kiddie porn is like saying that cartoons featuring anthropomorphic animals are actually erotic zoophilia pornography)

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Yep - that's all Macross Frontier and anime in general are. Me, I prefer animals. That's why I like the Lion King, Sesame Street, and Tom & Jerry.

Pete

(in what should be a transparently sarcastic comment meant to draw attention to the fact that comparing Ranka in a bikini to kiddie porn is like saying that cartoons featuring anthropomorphic animals are actually erotic zoophilia pornography)

Interesting. Except, sitting seductively taking off (or putting on) a skimpy bikini is somehow the same as anthropomorphic (the animals in Lion King weren't strictly anthropomorphic) animals which happen to be naked in completely non-sexual situations?

I think you're really beginning to reach for your justifications ^_^

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Except, sitting seductively taking off (or putting on) a skimpy bikini is somehow the same as anthropomorphic (the animals in Lion King weren't strictly anthropomorphic) animals which happen to be naked in completely non-sexual situations?

Because the judgment of what is "seductive" and what is a "completely non-sexual situation" is ultimately a matter of subjective tastes.

Also - even if we grant that Ranka is seductive and that her overture is sexual - then that is still a far cry from pornography. A pencil is "sexual" insofar as it is phalic - heck - just about anything can be seen as "sexual." As for seductive - ditto: there are various things that can be seen as seductive.

"Sexual" and "seductive" are not synonymous with "pornographic" which by definition usually entails actual sexual activity. There is no sexual activity going on in that statue. Ergo, it's not kiddie porn or any other kind of porn.

Pete

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But her top is coming off!

Why should that matter to you? If you're a normal guy who likes big breasted women then Ranka in a bikini wouldn't be loli to you because you don't find it attractive. Definition of "lolita" or "loli" is a desirable young girl. Only the eyes of the beholder can say whether one is a loli or not. So basically everyone who says so and so is a loli have a few secrets.

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The fact is that this is a figure based off of a bombshell/pinup style aircraft marking which are supposed to be of attractive women wearing little to no clothes BUT the "woman" is a 13 year old girl.

but she's 16 and well past the age of consent in the country this fiction is produced and is well within the general age of consent range for the greater east asian culture and well within the age of consent for most of the countries in the continent and also happens to be with the age of consent for the countries in North America and around half of the states in the United States of America. It also happens to be anywhere from 2 to 4 years OLDER than in several countries including Mexico and several European States.

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And her feelings would be traumatically hurt if she knew that you said she was "not a woman." :(

Bad enough she had to endure boob-ville at the Miss Macross concert and Boob-Sheryl is all over the guy she loves, it would probably break her little sweet heart to hear someone say that she's "not a woman" just because her breasts aren't large :(

for shame :(

tsk-tsk

Pete

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but she's 16 and well past the age of consent in the country this fiction is produced and is well within the general age of consent range for the greater east asian culture and well within the age of consent for most of the countries in the continent and also happens to be with the age of consent for the countries in North America and around half of the states in the United States of America. It also happens to be anywhere from 2 to 4 years OLDER than in several countries including Mexico and several European States.

But hey, don't let facts stop you all from your name calling, continue, continue.

Well I have clearly been served!

I dont know why I thought she was 13. (maybe I read it in one of those nightmares where I am on Macrossworld forums)

By the way I was not calling anyone names.

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Well I have clearly been served!

I dont know why I thought she was 13. (maybe I read it in one of those nightmares where I am on Macrossworld forums)

By the way I was not calling anyone names.

yeah sorry, not you in particular, but "pedophile" has been thrown out rather casually in this thread. I happen to know people who were victims of child rape and it strikes a nerve with me when the term is used so flippantly.

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I know I was right to label it NSFW - the comments are worst then the pictures... :blink:

If it is a Nanase figure instead we will just have all the perv talk without the whining, even they are suppose to have the same age. You know it is actually micron Klan showing most skin in the anime. May be she will show more in the movie. :lol:

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yeah sorry, not you in particular, but "pedophile" has been thrown out rather casually in this thread. I happen to know people who were victims of child rape and it strikes a nerve with me when the term is used so flippantly.

Same here.

I am guilty of using the term lolicon in this thread though.

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I know I was right to label it NSFW - the comments are worst then the pictures... :blink:

If it is a Nanase figure instead we will just have all the perv talk without the whining, even they are suppose to have the same age. You know it is actually micron Klan showing most skin in the anime. May be she will show more in the movie. :lol:

Great points!

Nanase is 16 too?! Damn! Now since I live in California I will have to wait 2 years.

Werent Hikaru and Minmei 16 at the beginning of SDFM too?

And YES, if there was a nice Nanase figure I would probably buy that but it would not look like an underaged girl like Ranka does. Maybe I thought Ranka was 13 beacuse she looks it whereas Nanase looks 19.

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It's all the Lion King's fault--- once he got mentioned, everything went downhill. Damn you Simba!!!

Also, Ranka's chest, or lack of thereof, is actually pretty normal among Asians. Nanase is the one with freak torpedo boobs!

nanase was really uninteresting imo. Not sure if anyone else felt the same.

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I tried to do a search - but I can't find the thread. Help...

You guys need to read the long long looong discussion of the vital importance of Nanase that is somewhere in the Movies and TV section...

Pete Mr. Lingerie

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Couldn't find it either... But honestly Nanase served 2 roles... 1 to jumpstart Ranka's confidence, while ironically being an adversary (the anime uses Nanase's bust to intimidate Ranka more than once) at the same time. And second, to unconvincingly push Luca into seek vengeance against the Vajra.

Anyways, this topic is getting seriously derailed.

Ranka figure looks like it was done well, but I think Klan's figure was better :)

I wouldn't get this figure, but I wouldnt mind getting a VB-6 with Ranka tampoed on the side.

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