The most recent episode of the NBC crime drama Law and Order: Special Victims Unit has touched off intense discussion in the anime community. The episode, titled “Loliconvict”, featured detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Tutuola (Ice-T) pursuing an illicit doujinshi ring. The episode takes the detectives to an anime convention where they attend a boring panel discussion on the topic “what the hell is moe, anyway?”, and to several basements packed to the rafters with idol figures and dakimakura.
Throughout the episode, the agents crack down on otaku and the recent “moe” phenomenon, hinted to be synonymous with child pornography. Otaku, the episode explains, are dangerous reclusive criminals who peddle explicit cartoons. Agent Tutuola apprehends one otaku early in the episode and uncovers his harem of wives (known as “waifu”) before remarking that the man’s waifu were “shit.”
While many members of the anime community criticized the episode for inaccurately portraying anime fans as sexually deviant misogynist polygamist socially inept criminal weirdos, the writing staff insists that the episode was carefully researched.
“Our writers spent hours poring over Anitwitter, /a/, and several major anime websites in order to make the episode as believable as possible,” episode director Warren Leight told Anime Maru.
“In one scene, Detective Tutuola says that he read on ANN that Kirino was, in fact, best OreImo. That’s actually something we really saw on that website. See what I mean? We are committed to being authentic.”
/a/ is a nice board
U R mom is a nice board
You Waifu is shit.
say that to my face IRL and see what happens.
Fine, me. You. If front of twitter HQ. At dawn. With waifu pillows.
No YOU are mom is a nice board!
Your*
Because it’s actually about ethics in anime journalism right
actually it’s about ethics in your mom
Doodie poopy head.
I like the fact that they had to look up loli porn for an image to use.
im gonna bet they jacked off to it
That isn’t what an Otaku is at all. You can Google Otaku and find it means something completely different. Not a child porn peddler, but ‘a young person who is obsessed with computers or particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills’.
You don’t say?
This article was a satire about the recent SVU episode that portrayed gamers as violent misogynists.
“Intimidation game.” There’s a reason why Law and Order-fans think that SVU is one of the worsts versions (If not THE worst) of the L&O-family.
Thing is, it’s very successful commercially. 10-8 million viewers per season, give or take. That is considered a good amount these days, so it’s kept around, even if it’s clear it’s best days are long behind: Back when it started 1999, it was 15-18 million + viewers and this kept going for the first ten years, so about half of it’s original fanbase has left, it had to figure out new tricks to stay afloat.
It is what you say it is and they did go overboard with the portraying of an Otaku. Considering they went to boards, /a/ being one with information that is more than likely wrong as it’s 4-chan. They really needed to look at scholarly articles and actual proper sources of information, like they would have already learned from attending University/College/TAFE.
The Japanese portrayal (Which I’m not sure on the actual one, just a brief understanding) of an Otaku, from what I have heard, is actually closer to how they portrayed it. Being an Otaku over there is almost as bad as being a child predator, the same cannot be said for the western world, which sees it as being a huge fan of anime in general.
If I am wrong at all, point me to links, I love to learn as much as anyone else and if I am wrong, I’d love to know how.
I don’t think you can even put Otaku and child predator in the same category, Otaku’s in Japan are mostly those who are in too deep with games,computers,anime, manga etc to which they have horrible social skills, Otaku’s in Japan are basically equivalent of Geeks or Nerds to us, though it isn’t good to be one due to the fact you aren’t out working or being social thus not exactly a good thing over in Japan, pretty sure im right, if not then meh
“Otaku,” the japanese word for geek.
My fellow patriarchy members, we must be more careful next time we plan to be worse than isis and commit violent terrorist attacks on female anime community members. It seems the fearsome anti-otakugaters are onto us.
You have my bow Sir. This calls for war
Most of those comments above are disgusting… what is wrong with y’all?
You suck dick, that’s what.
mh4u lmao xDDD
Did ANYONE bother to “carefully research” the fact that this never actually happened? They never made this episode how hard is it to go to the Wikipedia and check the episode guide?
ya, you can’t just put every fan in that category of hinted to be synonymous with child pornography. Otaku, the episode explains, are dangerous reclusive criminals who peddle explicit cartoons. Agent Tutuola apprehends one otaku early in the episode and uncovers his harem of wives (known as “waifu”) before remarking that the man’s waifu were “shit.” thats stupid. loli stuff is not right, but that is why it is in its own category. and not included in regular anime. any thing having to do with child pornography is wrong. but not most anime and hentai, has noting to do with children. maybe late highschool, even drop outs, but not children. but most anime is trying to talk to young people. and those young people grow up still liking the anime. does that make them wrong or weird? dont think so. thats like saying your a pedophile for liking the old school female power rangers, they were adults making the show even though they played freshmen in highschool. but we were all teen agers when we first watched power rangers, and who didn’t like the female rangers. when we grew up, we still love them. does that make it wrong?
do you know where the episode is?
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Delicious pasta.
who neet here ?
Marry me
but.. muh waifu…
Ayyyy lmao
“what the hell is moe?!”, well moe isn’t something that easily can be explained, its complicated
kirino best imouto and waifu ~
Your mom is best imouto and waifu.
Kirino was, in fact, best OreImo
At least they have good taste
It’s anime as in not real so yea This episode makes no sense
It is clear the writers of the show did Not do any accurate research on Otaku culture They simply look into one part of Otaku culture and ran with it neglecting the other categories of anime in a desperate attempt for a new episode. If the writers did their jobs correctly they would have found anime cover many different themes. From romance, comdey, action and ect. Moe is just one part of Otaku culture and no Otaku are not sexually deviant misogynist polygamist socially inept criminal weirdos as the episode would like people to believe. All in all if the writers wish to do this again they must do correct research and not pick one part.
your right too because if they had they’d know that there are almost 8 diffrent type two of which are military and live idols. even wiki knows this shit and their not always right but they come far closer… its sad
NONONONNONOONO WAIFU IS NOT SHIT!
Top kek right there, my waifu isn’t shit it is in fact your waifu that is shit
Sadly, if Law and Order did an episode about anime, it probably would be like this.
Because Internet search qualifies as research.’aube next time theyll get off their lazy asses and go to a convention or ask an actual anime nerd. You know, for accurate research. But until then, shitty writing will continue.
Is this…is this really going to happen or is this a joke article. Because I honestly can’t tell anymore in these crazy times.
Genius. Go to 4chan for legit info. Smart as fuck.
I think it’s time to pull the plug on Law & Order: SVU.
They jumped the shark after this mental illness storyline with Olivia started, but shitting all over both the gamer community and anime fandoms is just taking things too far.
A little news: Moe is not the same as loli. And if they think they researched that, their researchers need to have their asses thrown out on the street.
Obviously it was researched that we’ll, because that is not what an Otaku is and I think this episode needs to be taken off the air before many young Anime fans get in deep trouble
Tell them to watch attack on titan or Knights of sidonia let them find a loli in there
Watch better anime.
Isn’t loli legal in america?
It must not be.
It is legal in the U.S, protected by the first amendment, so long as it does not involve real children. If you haven’t already noticed, this is a joke article, btw. Bait moar
It’s illegal in Canada though. U.S one, Canada zero.
Stephen, you should really log out of your discussions so your mother doesn’t read them.
Otaku has nothing to do with pedophilia. Don’t get me wrong I love SVU, it has always been one of those shows that my family and I watched together but this really disappoints me that the writers didn’t do better research. I am a huge anime fan however I am not enough of one to be considered otaku. which by fan definition (if not actual Japanese translation) simply put is one who is so obsessed with anime that they live the culture down to a fine point. collecting dressing like a character all the time etc. There may be a select few that abuse the term but wide spread it is a way to show your devotion to a fan base. That’s like saying because someone is devoted to a fandom they are automatically in a cult. I’m sorry to say it but if you know nothing of a culture you may as well just keep it out of your show altogether.
brah it’s satire
No loli no life
Loli is life
Loli>all
t(‘-‘t)
#SUVYOUMAKETHEANIMEMANGAWORLDSAD
Well i’m sorry if their waifu is garbage tier but making an episode about it seems slightly exaggerated.
You guys are acting like children, otaku is NOT a proud term! It’s literally a reclusive shut in with an extremely unhealthy obsession with anime. YOU need to get your freaking terms straight. An anime fan is different than an otaku and the second you get that the better. Hell even Japan hates American ‘otakus’ because it’s literally glorifying a group of unhealthy individuals. That’d be like if someone wrote a book on bdsm but it was actually full of domestic violence.. Oh wait that’s fricken 50 shades of grey!
Actually, hikikomori is the term for reclusive shut-ins. They are a more extreme version of anime/manga/tech fans or those with social phobias. Not all otaku are hikikomori, and not all hikikomori are otaku.
Well no hikiomoris are just shut-ins like people with agoraphobia. I should’ve said otakus CAN be shut-ins while there are others who probably comb anime conventions creeping on cosplayers and figurines.
So Anyone have the link to the episode?
This is SATIRE.
Course not cause it’s not real they never bothered to check the episode guide before posting these idiotic comments berating it.
all you proud otakus do understand svu doesn’t really give two shits which shitty waifus you fap to lmao
ANIME RN SUCKS, ITS JUST ABOUT NIG TITS BITCHES OR LOLITAS (PEDODRAW) IT SUCKS WHAT THE ANIME BECOMES, IT SUCKS THE ACTUALLY FANBASE ON ANIME.
Whatever that picture is behind her, I want it… xD
http://puu.sh/gd3xD/d5575a8540.jpg There you go.
ARE YOU REALLY KIDDING ME!!!!!! how is it that it took me 2 weeks to do a presentation in my high school class on other otaukus and they can’t even go to fucking wiki and see that there not even close…. HELL WIKI KNOWS MORE THEN THESE FUCKING IDIOTS..
Otaku isn’t strictly for anime either. You can be an otaku for freaking dolphins lol I watched a documentary once covering otakus. One person was an otaku for a jpop idol and another was really into action figures. Now, is this article real? Probably not. I think the shows writers would’ve given it much more thought. This article in my opinion is someone trolling …or I’m going to become a writer for thus show because they lack the creativity and knowledge to do anime Justice.
Not even know what the term otaku stands for, now saying moe = child porn?
1. Moe is not about child porn, moe is what they associate with cute things, and it’s not entirely about loli or child, even an adult girl wearing nurse outfit or maid outfit and they look cute in it, that’s also moe
2. Child pornography is crime, but you allow other types of porn, and homosexual is also allowed. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, nor I’m into those kind of things, it’s pornography, there are people who fap to that things. Now you’re gonna take it away from them, so they can’t get what they want, and you’ll see real life children being the target.
3. Talk about injustice, you’re actually questioning people’s fetish (child pornography) while you’re allowing homosexuality.
4. Why not abolish ALL porns instead of just questioning 2D stuffs.
5. 2D are drawn characters, they’re not real life people, why would you bother on calling it child porn or even consider it as crime, no child being harmed there. Well if you suddenly abolish it the enthusiast will go crazy and that’s when real life child will start being the target. Just so you know, 2D enthusiasts are loyal to 2D’s which is why you can see people marrying 2D characters. You take that away from them, endangering the real life children, so it’s gonna be your fault, you were the ones putting the children in danger.
6. Otaku = People with obsessive passion towards something, usually hobbies or something they like to do. That’s the real definition of otaku, do your research first before making such statement. Saying it’s crime, Math otaku, Machinery otaku, Astronomy otaku, those kinds of things are also deemed as crime?
This whole thing is made up. Big troll. You guys fell for it. LOL
It’s not like there aren’t any creepers out there. They’re not trying to say everyone is like the person in the episode, just that there are bad apples in every bunch and we all know that’s true!
baka.
I just want to say
we are free to be Otaku it’s a free country so you hate anime and otaku then fuck you ! We are free to choose who we want to be
most of the MCs remind me of girls, no change here
anime isnt real so dont go making an otaku a sexual deviant.
Lolicons babbling about not being pedos and how L&O writers are ignorant, while asking where to download the episode at the same time.
This piece is brilliant.
All your waifu a shit! All your tv show a shit too! Baka!
which episode is this?
where is this episode?
I can’t seem to find it anywhere
Because this article is meant to be a joke.
Really……svu…..you are FUCKING stupid….. Like seriously
Question: why can’t you see this episode on any format including Torrents? Is it banned world wide off the net? it is not even on thee site to show in episodes.
Clearly you people aren’t here for the comments, could it be you came all this way for butthurt and faggotry? This troll will grow strong with such nurturing.
Was this a real episode of the show? Or is this whole article some kind of satire?
Oreimo not OreImo. And just using something that was reality does not mean the audience are criminals. That’s like picking up call of duty and saying “see all the players here are murders”.
Is it bad that I recognised most of the pics shown or blocked during the show? I mean most of them I recall having in my lurk folders.