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NEWS: Project-H Brand Manager Talks About Online Store Closure, Relaunch Possibilities

...the problem is, audiences seem to be going along with it, instead of fleeing those sites altogether like they should. I've even seen artists say they're going to stop drawing ero things just because they won't be able to post it on Tumblr....
If anything should get a content warning, it's graphic violence, not sex. Sex is never wrong. More sex is good for the world.

It's almost like licensing the manga that got passed over the first time around because no store wanted to touch a manga that sexually depicted children was a bad idea.

My mother was an Elementary school teacher and some of her coworkers worked with sexually abused children. I've got nothing but distaste for this series. I'd feel bad for Project-H basically falling into a hole, but they made their bed. spoiler[They could have licensed Nana to Kaworu instead, but no.]

So, business lesson: you can take a leap of faith on something and die on a hill, but that won't make things work out for ya. There's your free market at work!

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...the problem is, audiences seem to be going along with it, instead of fleeing those sites altogether like they should. I've even seen artists say they're going to stop drawing ero things just because they won't be able to post it on Tumblr.... If anything should get a content warning, it's graphic violence, not sex. Sex is never wrong. More sex is good for the world.

To the first part, maybe audiences are telling you that they don't want ero as much as you do. To the second part, I totally agree and have said so in the forums many times. It boggles the mind that people who should know better claim depictions of violence don't desensitize viewers to it in real life and encourage it for some while it seems the same crowd love to show how offended they are by sexually explicit material.

To the last part, I suggest a proviso though. Sex is a powerful and multifacted force in people's emotional lives and even depictions of it need to be treated with respect and care, lest viewers develop attitudes toward sexual behaviour that lead to poor choices and much emotional hurt either for themselves or their partners (victims?). So there is sex which is "wrong" and more of that sort will not make the world better.

Shopify being Canadian probably has a big deal to do with it. They have very strict and terrible laws up there with this stuff.

Seeing drama like this is why I only deal with imported manga with Japanese outlets like Melon Books, Toranoana and DLsite. American/Canadian outlets seem so unprofessional and freak out over every little thing. It honestly should not take over 10 years for a series to find a way to get an actual release here after being licensed. But this one series has had to jump trough so many hoops over the decade+ here, from people protesting it to it being dropped by Seven Seas and stores. You can literally buy Kodomo no Jikan on Amazon in Japan. Not to mention bookstores everywhere. Crunchyroll streamed Lotte no Omocha, Uzumaid, Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA, and plenty other loli series. It's no big deal anymore. I'd like to think we've matured beyond the point of being offended by it as we go into 2019.

I do wonder if making a loli x loli yuri series will stir up even worse controversy than Kodomo no Jikan ever did.