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The police and the authorities have nothing better to do than to pick easy targets, like adult magazines not pixelizing enough or drawing too few lines through the genitals. Stupid make-work and/or exercising their fetish for authority. In fact I'm afraid incidents like this will cause an over-censoring of illustrations or photos (it has lightened up over the years)
Meanwhile, the Kurobas crazy stalker guy is still on the loose. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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This makes me fearful of the entire adult manga industry. Then there's more that threatens the very existence of fanart and fanworks coming too.
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RyanSaotome
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I hope it sticks around. Its one of the best hentai magazines out there...
Last edited by RyanSaotome on Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:01 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Nemo_N
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This. But I suppose chasing an actual criminal threatening actual people's lives would require some effort. |
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TheAncientOne
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Hmm.... Seriously, however, this is probably due to someone with influence finally seeing the magazine and getting offended or someone in the police department thinking of themselves as a defender of morality and just waiting for a technical violation. If it is the former, don't be surprised if we see more of this in the coming months. |
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Blanchimont
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From the article;
That seems quite a... catch-all law. 
Or am I missing something, something the article omitted from the paragraph? If the use of mosaics and bars in case of exposed genitals/pubic hair to avoid 'obscenity definition' while at the same time being able to depict almost anything else within the media concerned without running afoul of it, is simply an established custom under law and not anything tangible therein, a change in interpretation could cause... some havoc. For example, Christopher Handley was charged under US obscenity laws, and those can vary by jurisdiction as defined by the community per Miller test. A similar approach in Japan could force a whole industry segment walk on a very fine thread legally. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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People can find simple toplessness to be offensive and obscene, it's a very fluid definition.
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Hawkwing
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How much I hate censorship cannot be explain with words alone. To bad they've targeted this magazine.
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DTJB
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Well dang, and here I though Japan was easing up on it's censorship laws over the past few years.
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revolutionotaku
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Shouldn't the Japanese police be doing something else with their time like searching for those anti-"Kuroko No Basketball" terrorists?
Obscenity arrests such as this are just giving those real-life criminals time to run away & plot their next attack. |
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TitanXL
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What attack would that be? |
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revolutionotaku
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Probaly another one of those powder-filled letters delivered to another "Kuroko No Basketball" Doujinshi event. animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-21/kuroko-basketball-dojinshi-event-also-gets-threat-note-powder And what I mean by "real-life criminals", I've referring to those punks who hate "Kuroko No Basketball". Last edited by revolutionotaku on Tue Apr 23, 2013 3:01 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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TitanXL
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Does it count as an attack if nothing happened? That's more of a threat/prank.
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Mohawk52
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That's taking the piss. They're having a laugh with this one. I mean how big an [18+] label do they need to see it's not for anyone under that age limit?
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s0beit
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Are you kidding? They've only gotten more restrictive over time, and it's probably never going to improve. Once the ball gets rolling in government, they usually don't stop until it's completely destroyed. They can say they're just saying to preserve public morals, or just restrict it a little, but they keep taking bites out of the industry until it's on it's knees. Ishihara's law, enforcing obscenity laws (which are complete garbage in the first place - "obscene" material is completely subjective), all the nonsense with publishers owning the rights to manga and LNs, SOPA, the new trade agreement they've joined making derivative works a criminal offense. It's really, really not looking good for Japan's doujinshi market. |
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