In Zetsuen no Tempest, a bunch of guys were guessing to reasons why someone
(Yoshino) might hide his girlfriend, and writing them on a whiteboard. One of
the reasons that came up was that his gf might be an elementary schooler. When
this was written (see attached pic), it was written as "ロリヰタコンプレックス".
Obviously, the black sheep here is "ヰ" (katakana for the archaic "wi" if I'm
not mistaken). I'm wondering if this was just a really silly one-off way of
censoring "ロリタコンプレックス", or if this is referring to something more standard?
For example, ヲタク being a "less normie" way of writing オタク. [![Zetsuen No
Tempest
Screenshot](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bP8L3.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bP8L3.jpg)
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Lolita Complex changed to be ロリヰタコンプレックス in Zetsuen no Tempest?
Pretty sure Lolita is supposed to be written ロリータ, and that character should
be substitute for an elongation mark, as to why "wi" is used for "i", it might
be the same reason why を is often merged with "お" sound, but I'm not entirely
sure. Quick googling gave me a novel by Takemoto Novala titled "Lolita" that
was spelled exactly like that, so what it might be is just some quaint/clever
way to write it using the archaic character, and teenagers do like stand out
by adopting unconventional methods in various things. So your "less normie
way" guess shouldn't be far from the truth.
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I haven't seen ロリータ written this way anywhere else, so I agree that this is
just "a silly one-off way of censoring ロリータ". Of course this is a [fake
"censoring" for humorous
effect](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11833/5010).

Looks like there are a few existing works whose title contain the spelling
ロリヰタ, but they are not well-known. (If there is this kind of odd spelling in a
book title, it is not censorship but simply to make it eye-catching.)
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