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Hentai Publisher Fakku Looks Into Sales at Brick-and-Mortar Stores

I'm not sure what retailers they are looking into. General retailers I imagine shy away from porn, but it seems a bit niche to sell well at a porn shop, especially when competing against video. I'm not sure if anime stores would want them either, and I can't see general comic stores going for it either. Online retailers seem best for this sort of product giving both the maximum reach for such a niche product and maximum discretion for customer and seller alike.

Not to mention that, to a normal brick and mortar retailer as well as the average American consumer that might walk in there and browse, hentai could potentially come off as child pornography due to the fact that it primarily features high school students below the age of 18. It's my understanding that hentai kind of sits in a gray area because it's hand drawn, or in the case of the animated variation, it's, well, animated and the characters aren't based on real people, but that doesn't negate the fact that it could cause problems just by the nature of its content. I just find hentai to be a hard sell to brick and mortar stores.

Well, there have been some attempts in the past with re-writes so they don't fall afoul of child pornography laws (such as renaming a high school as a college). Though not pornography outright, the Senran Kagura games are extremely sexually suggestive and have underage characters, and the approach was to omit their ages completely, not mention the ninja academy is the equivalent of high school, and say they're "first-year," "second-year," or "third-year," and they ARE sold at brick-and-mortar stores.

This is interesting news. I mean considering that many brick and morter outlets keep shutting down. I mean we had Borders, and a few Barnes n' Nobles moved or shut down leaving the largest of stores. But if that can work I support this.