★The origin of loli comes from the novel "Lolita" written by the American Soviet novelist Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) in 1955, which describes the story of a middle-aged professor who is obsessed with the 12-year-old girl Lolita.
This book was once banned at the time, but now it has become a classic in literature. It was selected as the fourth best English novel in the 20th century by Random House in the United States. It was also adapted into the movie "Lolita" of the same name (A Pear Blossom Presses a Begonia)
, the girl in the play is set to be 15 years old.
Since then, anyone who has the characteristics of the heroine in the play is called "lolita" or "loli". The first recognized loli character is Princess Momo, the protagonist in "Magic Novel" launched in 1982.
"Magic Girl" belongs to one of the "Magical Girl" series of animations, but "Magical Girl" is aimed at girls, and they are not weak. In addition, the publicity conditions at the time were limited, and not many people knew about it; in "Doctor IQ"
Xiaoyun has never been a loli; even though Sasame in "Heaven and Earth is Useless" has loli-like characteristics, she is only positioned as Ya Chongxia's younger sister in the story. Not only does she not have many roles, but the production team also did not emphasize her.
loli features.
The first loli character to be taken seriously in the animation industry was the heroine Ling Boli in "New Century EVAGALION". Although the production team and director Hideaki Anno had no intention of shaping Ling Boli into a loli character, Ling Boli fully conforms to the loli character.
With Ling Boli's charm conquering the hearts of countless young boys, Loli officially appeared in the animation industry.
Therefore, Ling Boli can be called the "ancestor of loli religion".
With Ling Boli's powerful charm, Loli officially appeared in the animation industry.
Due to Reibo Rei, the Loli craze began to sweep across the entire ACG world. A large number of Loli characters sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Among them, the most famous and popular ones are Ruri Hoshino from "Mobile Battleship Yamato Nadeshiko" and Sasami from "Magic Girl Sasami".
, Kinomoto Sakura in "Card Captor Sakura" and Maruchi in H-Game② "To Heart".
The above five characters can be said to have dominated the business vitality and mainstream market of the ACG industry since 1995.
After that, almost every work had to have a loli, and even the entire work was filled with loli.
As a result, the past grand occasion of female characters blooming, showing off their postures, and competing for their beauty is no longer the case.
It is full of cuteness, follows the trend without characteristics or changes, and is often monotonous and boring.
The most obvious thing is that in the past, even if there was a little girl character, it was not equal to Loli; but now, as long as it is a little girl, it is probably Loli.
①ACG refers to animation, comics and games.
② Forbidden Games ③ "Lolita" (1955) was originally a novel written by the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1899-1977) in France.
Chinese is usually translated as Luo Lita, or Lolita, or Lolita.
The author was born in St. Petersburg (ie Leningrad).
After that, he lived in Europe, mainly in Berlin, and became one of the most famous Soviet exile writers. He was defined by world literary critics as the greatest prose master of the 20th century.
In 1940, his family moved to the United States, where he taught at Wellesley College and received a Lepidoptera Research Fund from Harvard University (Nabokov also collected butterfly specimens).
He also translated Pushkin's long poem "Yevgeny Onegin" using a literal translation method with more annotations than the translation plus the original work.