There have been many videos on TikTok with posts suggesting a homosexual relationship between Nobita and Luka (characters in Doraemon Nobita and the Adventure of the Moon), some videos have attracted nearly 500,000 views along with sensitive comments and directions. to 18+ content.
Some keywords accompanying searches for Nobita, Luka, and Shizuka coming from this post also show the deviation and intentional sexualization of characters who are elementary school students.
It's worth mentioning that these accounts also posted 18+ drawings of characters in the popular series. This action was opposed by netizens because the target audience was mostly children. The sexualization of famous comic characters like Doraemon can cause children to have distorted thoughts from a young age.
Spreading content that distorts and sexualizes characters in Doraemon.
A post points out that the accounts posting and commenting on objectionable content about the Doraemon story are mostly only in primary or secondary school. The owner of the post believes that sex education needs to be given more importance when posts about sexualization are widespread on social networking platforms, easily accessed by all ages.
Many people expressed concern in case their children stumbled upon a video with such deviant content, and said that bending a character's gender to assign emotions inherently offends the character and the work.
“Sex jokes (jokes that are sexual, suggestive or have sexual implications – PV) are not acceptable for characters in stories aimed at most readers who are children, and labeling them is a bad thing to do. 18+ content is a different story”, “Children's film transformed into an adult film. Since when did children's cartoons become genres like fantasy?… comments left.
Doremon is a comic book associated with the childhood memories of many generations. Fujiko Fujio's works are considered innocent and emotional. Adapted into anime, Doraemon was enthusiastically received, Doraemon: Nobita and the Earth Symphony is leading the Vietnamese box office, surpassing Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023) becoming the highest-grossing anime movie in Vietnam with revenue of more than 100 billion VND.
