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NEWS: Police Arrest your name. Producer Kouichirou Itou on Suspicion of Soliciting Minor for Nude Ph


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malvarez1



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:34 am Reply with quote
Ugh, gross, put him away.
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HueyLion



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:55 am Reply with quote
Take him away coppers!
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KENZICHI



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 5:14 am Reply with quote
Was NOT expecting this to be the first headline I read here today.
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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:54 am Reply with quote
Was this the same producer who forced Shinkai to change the plot for Suzume because they wanted more romance and less girls' road trip?

Lock him up.
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Floriane



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:32 am Reply with quote
I never understood how anyone could behave this way. Famous people ALWAYS get caught. They is only one issue Arrow Arrow Arrow Arrow
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Hellsoldier



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:33 am Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
Was this the same producer who forced Shinkai to change the plot for Suzume because they wanted more romance and less girls' road trip?

Lock him up.


More hetero romance, mind you. From what I remember from an interview I read, the original idea was more yuri in nature.

But anyways, on this topic concretely... I think the producer shoud've sticked to watching AV or something. Dear Lord, have you folks realized that this kind of crime is one of the most frequently observed when it comes to anime-related people being arrested?

Honestly, lock him up.
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R. Kasahara



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:06 am Reply with quote
Wow, what a first-class creep.
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Gem-Bug



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:41 am Reply with quote
What a creep. I still haven't watched any Shinkai's films, but I would hope this doesn't cause any blow back on him, where Itou has presumably being doing this the whole time they've been collaborating together. Confused
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CrypticPurpose



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:47 am Reply with quote
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Police said that Itou's alleged crime was discovered as part of a different prostitution investigation.


I'm really interested in learning how those puzzle pieces fit together. Was this girl engaging in enjou-kousai? That's the only way I can think of that evidence of this sort of thing would pop up in a prostitution investigation... Usually it's through parents, or the kid themselves, going to the police or a lawyer.[/quote]
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revolutionotaku



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:25 am Reply with quote
Why does the anime industry have so many pedophiles?
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TsukasaElkKite



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:35 am Reply with quote
Throw him in prison.
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ChirashiD



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:48 am Reply with quote
Here's another vote to just "lock him up."
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Juno016



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:39 pm Reply with quote
This is the only thing I'm saying on this topic (since it's only tangentally related), but those of us with 2D interests and not 3D interests are not worried about ending up like the creep in this article. If you're soliciting nudes from an actual minor, you have an entirely different problem than someone just looking up/buying art they like.

As others have said, this is obvious grounds for punishment. Japanese prison is no cakewalk, and there is a good statistical likelihood that even if the guy is released in a few years, he's unlikely to re-offend (I hope). But what bothers me most is how the heck this kind of thing has become so prevailant in general. I recently watched someone in the FBI talk about how instances of photos being solicited on the internet from minors (for fetish or blackmail purposes) has risen dramatically around the globe since early 2022, most likely due to adolescent access to smartphones and internet culture. The only attempts I've seen to tackle this problem have been piss poor approaches from legislators in multiple countries, who themselves don't understand how the internet works, trying to use censorship on the internet in ways more likely to hurt minority groups and sex workers than protect children.
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Mikan-box Glasses-kun



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:21 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
Was this the same producer who forced Shinkai to change the plot for Suzume because they wanted more romance and less girls' road trip?

Lock him up.

Just so people have their facts straight and don't further distract from the actual news (cause screw this dude), the producer in question for Suzume's story changes (because he thought the broader market wouldn't like a lesbian romance) was probably Genki Kawamura, who's Shinkai's most important producer nowadays along with being responsible for the "once every three years" movie schedule for Shinkai, Mamoru Hosoda, and now Naoko Yamada. (He's also responsible for Rie Matsumoto being figuratively locked away in Toho's basement for the better part of a decade.)

[Self-edited lightly to make phrasing more clear.]


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Sheriru



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:42 pm Reply with quote
Japan never be able to get rid of their Loli/Minor "fascination" allegations lmao.
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