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NEWS: Core Magazine's Head Editor, 2 More Arrested for 'Obscene' Manga, Photos

partysmores wrote:

Oh, Japan, stop it. This whole "no penises or vaginas" thing is getting ridiculous. 18+ should be allowed to view what they want (aside from things like real child porn, snuff films, and rape --- the last one Japan is way too lax on in manga).

I much prefer the current situation over the story censorship you're proposing.

Do Japanese adult magazine publishers have to censor pictures with actual people? (I could easily google this but i don't think my work colleagues would be best pleased.)

TsunaReborn! wrote:

Do Japanese adult magazine publishers have to censor pictures with actual people? (I could easily google this but i don't think my work colleagues would be best pleased.)

I don't know about magazines, but the couple of JAVs I've seen had no censorship at all.

There are a number of Japanese adult sites that get around censorship requirements by being incorporated and hosted in the US. But you probably would have noticed the FBI warning and 2257 compliance statements if that's what you saw.

Gamen wrote:

There are a number of Japanese adult sites that get around censorship requirements by being incorporated and hosted in the US. But you probably would have noticed the FBI warning and 2257 compliance statements if that's what you saw.

No, these were rips with no subtitles, and the accompanying material is in Japanese. The originals did not appear to come from the US, and they most certainly did not have any FBI warnings.

18+ should be allowed to view what they want (aside from things like real child porn, snuff films, and rape --- the last one Japan is way too lax on in manga).

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

kazziyan wrote: walw6pK4Alo wrote: Because censorship like that is a gesture, they're "censoring" to get the law off their ass but they don't want to tarnish their own work over a stupid century old law. Again, it depends on the artist and how strict they want to be; Japanese prison is a miserable place. Pretty much. It'd be annoying if they mosaic'd the entire area. It could be worse from recent h-manga releases in the states where they just completely white out the area.

Someone more familiar with U.S. releases can answer better, but my understanding from the threads on ANN is that recent "h-manga" releases in the U.S. have included a lot of smutty but non-adult manga, stuff that's the manga equivalent of R-rated rather than X-rated. This is stuff running in magazines such as Men's Young that don't have an "adult's only" label on them in Japan. For those, they're whited out to begin with in the Japanese version, so it's not something that was done for the U.S. release specifically.

Ahh thank you for the clarification i hate spreading mis-information on stuff like this. I was wondering why there was a decent story along with some erotica in the h-manga "colorful harvest" i won in a contest for digital press.