And it's pretty sad, too.

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We were lucky to get some quality animation from Japan, but according to this article, anime is now being made and used by spoiled, lonely otaku to trade their unhappy lives for an idealized Never Never Land where no one has to grow up and beautiful, willing young girls are there to serve their every whim.

Not only that, but there's another side to it, too:

"Is it a sign of pedophilia? Hell no, I say it's the longing for fatherhood," argued Scott Von Schilling in a column a few years ago. Scott went on to point out that the majority of moe readers are unmarried men in their 30s, who are seeing the "window of fatherhood" slowly closing in on them. With the graying of Japan, with Japan's low birthrate, is it a stretch to say that youth and childhood is becoming a more and more prized commodity?..."All these men really want is an innocent little girl of their own to take care of," he concludes.

*coughpowerpuffgirlscough*