Unreal Boys

Three young men in Tokyo explore the limits of fantasy through shota comics, which feature fictional boys in sexual situations. We follow an aspiring artist who wants to “live in a fantasy forever”, a youtuber who records his interactions with a shota game, and a professional comics artist driven by nostalgia. While trying to understand a controversial phenomenon that blurs the borders of actual and virtual realities, the researcher participates actively in the shota culture and ends up realising something important about himself. Unreal Boys is part of a master’s thesis in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.

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