'I'm releasing my fantasy world through my work, instead of acting it out in real life,' he told Hint Mag in 2007. He took up the work as a way to ensure his fate would not be that of the 1989's serial murderer. The artist who animated 'It Girl,' a man who goes by the mysterious pseudonym Mr., is a legend in the lolicon community who acknowledges his own sexual preference. 'Indeed, the very term is something of a four-letter word in Japanese, virtually synonymous with pedophilia.' 'It's almost never discussed in polite society,' the New Yorker's Matt Alt wrote. It took the vague sexuality hinted in manga's depictions of young female characters and made it way more explicit, but it was driven underground in 1989 after the Japanese press blamed a string of child murders on the killer's fascination with the art form. The video is in the style of 'Lolicon,' a form of Japanese anime named after the English phrase 'Lolita complex,' itself named after the most famous work about pedophilia in the Western canon. It's a largely underground art form that began in 1970 as a pornographic parody of Japan's popular manga.
