UlasanAnime.com – Earlier today, while browsing through RSS feeds, I came across news about Ai Kayano joining the cast of an upcoming web anime. This anime focuses on the concept of fetishes related to tights, leggings, and pantyhose. The promotional material, as translated, describes the characters based on their preferred types of stockings, which is quite a unique approach.
The cast []stars Yōko Hikasa as Yua Nakabeni, who likes 30 denier tights (sheer); Haruka Tomatsu as Ren Aikawa, who likes 60 denier tights (opaque); and Aya Suzaki as Homi Moegi, who likes 110 denier tights (thick).
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This detail about denier levels is indeed striking. It’s worth noting that Ai Kayano previously voiced a memorable character who also wore tights in a different series. This connection seems fitting. In the comments section of the article discussing the new anime, a pertinent question was raised: why are these specific, niche sexual kinks being chosen for anime projects, even if they are web shorts?
While I don’t have an immediate answer, I later encountered an article that offered a thought-provoking perspective. It stated: “If we’ve learned anything from the internet in the past 20 years, it’s that sex is synonymous with diversity.”
If we?ve learned anything from the internet in the past 20 years, it’s that sex is synonymous with diversity.
This statement resonated due to its uncanny accuracy. There appears to be a correlation between the amount of sexual content and the level of diversity. However, the causation is less clear. In the context of censorship and conservative corporate policies on user-generated content, this correlation becomes more apparent. It’s easier to build systems for a single use case than for countless variations, and products are often designed for the most common denominator rather than customized for everyone.
This leads to the idea that the prevalence of kink-themed anime might stem from the medium itself being relatively liberated and diverse. Anime is often less expensive to produce, carries significant cultural capital, and demands considerable attention from its audience compared to other formats, such as typical YouTuber content. For the most part, it is still independently published, even if by larger publishers. Furthermore, Japanese society, on average, tends to be less inhibited about kinks than Western societies. There’s a certain “anything goes” culture within otaku escapism.
To conclude, I’ll also mention the news about OppaiP leaving Marvelous. The world of video games, particularly for “gamer” titles, is evidently not as free in its creative expression.
