Us don't have manufacturing. But yeah you're right that this is not officially licensed and stuff. The real blame is on the parents letting their children watch and then wear things like this.

The US for sure have a sexualization of little girls issue. It reminds me a lot of the cuties controversy that happened a bit ago with the little girl beauty pagents.

I still think they should have tried to get a pg-13 rating and just leaned into it more. I mean, maybe their writing would have been considered lacking if they went for an older demographic but that's a different thing.