In 1979, manga artist Azuma Hideo produced Cybele, which featured sexually explicit stories with characters drawn in a cute, "cartoony" style, which led to the rise of lolicon anthologies featuring precocious girls, such as Lemon People and Petit Apple Pie. Shotacon, a corresponding genre of erotic comics featuring precocious boys also developed.
In 1979, manga artist Azuma Hideo released Cybele, which featured sexually suggestive stories with characters depicted in a cute, "cartoony" style. This sparked the rise of lolicon anthologies featuring underage girls, like Lemon People and Petit Apple Pie.  Simultaneously, a genre of erotic comics featuring young boys, known as Shotacon, emerged.