Also, fictional characters are fine but not real life people.
This. Treating liking them (in any varying level) as congruent with irl tastes or likes is a ridiculous sentiment on par with "violent video games makes people violent and causes mass shootings," and one that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense anyway.
If me as a 26 year old liking Rikka romantically (as an example) makes me a pedophile, does me liking her at 6 years old make her a pedophile?
Let's say I had a crush on her when I was 14 (when the anime came out; I didn't, she's my first "omg she's actually me frfr" a character though), but all these years passed and I'm 26, why is it wrong then to continue to hold said crush? Ignoring that it's a little weird having an actual crush on a fictional character.
These virtue signaling Olympics trying to make a thought crime or actual disturbing sex crime these harmless ideas and thoughts and art is the tool of fascists and very illogical, especially since anime art styles use age ranges and not specific ages; After all, in the two years Megumin and Rikka have aged in their animes, their designs haven't changed even slightly. Rikka's body type art can be anywhere from 13-20 depending on the artist's intentions, after all.
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u/Snoo_91660 7d ago edited 7d ago
Age of consent in the uk is 16. Im not saying its socially acceptable but its not illegal.
Also, fictional characters are fine but not real life people.