Content Violations Review: Web Animation.Tokyo Fetish Mew

I... Don't get good vibes here. It seems like it's mostly parody, but it still focuses pretty much entirely around fetishes with ambiguously-aged teenage characters.

We need more evidence than "this content seems dodgy". The bigger issue seems to be whether this work is accessible anymore.

I did find a reupload channel here, I can take a closer look at it in a bit. They're all age restricted, if that's something worth noting.

I just came across the page on here and the description set off alarm bells in my head, especially the note of the creator admitting it was fetishy content with underage characters.

Okay, after skimming it - I think it's undoubtedly a parody, though it is worth noting that one of the main characters is a little girl who transforms into "Mew Lolicon". There's a lot of very sexualized shots, but nothing explicit.

Episode 10 is... Bad. There's a scene where one of the (again, underage) main characters sits on the lap of another one of them that has been decapitated in a very sexualized way.

Overall, it seems to me like a parody show with a very unsettling premise, but I'm not sure if it's bad enough to be cut. The way it was described on the trope page made me think it'd be worse, but it is still pretty bad, IMO.

Edited by Serilly on Oct 5th 2023 at 11:37:09 AM

If those shots of that young girl are sexualized, then cut because that would be pedopandering.

I meant in general the show has a lot of sexualized shots, Mew Lolicon less so but still enough to be uncomfortable. Though all the main cast are underage and I don't think it's ever stated how old they are beyond that, and the rest of them get very sexualized.

Gave the content a brief skim, and it's a bit tricky to gage considering the artstyle and the Vague Age of the characters, but I'm leaning towards "cut" largely on account of Word of God confirming that the characters are in fact underage, and feeling the fetishization content was enough to warrant the series' burial.

Honestly, unless I'm misunderstanding the rules about unpublished works, but the fact that the series doesn't properly exist anymore aside from reuploads that barely glance 100 youtube views alone should warrant this being cut.

Cut

If it exists in reuploads, it exists.

So I'd like to wait for more info before calling a cut.

Edited by Ramidel on Oct 6th 2023 at 7:53:10 AM

Cut for underage characters.

cut.

Honestly from reading the trope page and seeing the thumbnails of the reuploads this looks more like an attempt to be edgy than actual serious pedopandering. Even in the announcement of disowning it posted on the description, the creator says it's not sexual and it sounds like she is more ashamed of having transphobic jokes and merely mentioning fetishes with underaged characters than intentionally sexualizing them. I might check the series out later (I hate logging in to YouTube/Google) but if one of the scenes mentioned involves decapitation that does sound like it's trying to be some kind of edgy Fan Disservice more than anything. The videos are age-restricted, but by the uploader's request, which isn't really an indicator since it's just the uploader's own opinion and not the website's guidelines.

I'm not voting hard keep, but right now I'm not entirely convinced that this is any worse than, say, Kill la Kill, which also discusses/pokes fun at fetishes with underaged high schoolers and has sexualized shots of them.

Don't get me wrong this does sound skeevy but at the same time there's some ecchi series with high schoolers and Token Mini-Moe characters that have been kept here, and those are unambiguously written to be sexual first and foremost (eg To Love Ru), rather than simply discussing or making fun of fetishes. I'll need more than "Some shots are sexualized" to be convinced that something that looks like an MS Paint shitpost would be any worse than those.

Edited by greatpikminfan on Oct 6th 2023 at 4:12:46 AM

That's a good point. I've edited my post to want more info first.

If you watch the videos and they don't feel any skeevier than, say, an Animated Shock Comedy about kids with sexual humor in it, I don't think "involves underage characters" is a good reason alone to cut.

Then I think it's probably fine, sorry.

So uh keep than. Their doesn't seem to be anything in this any worse than a dumb shock comedy.

that makes sense, voting to keep then

Changed my vote to keep if it's just standard shock comedy.

Even though I nominated, I'm also on keep now

Keep.

Asking if ~Stalker Gamer, ~StarSword, ~opal6561 and ~number9robotic want to stick with their cut votes or want to reconsider.

Ah, if this isn't pointedly fetishistic in a policy-violating way and more just disowned edgy shock comedy, I would lean closer to a keep.

keep

Looks like we have consensus to keep. I'll do the tagging; locking up in the meantime.