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House of 1000 Manga - 64 Pounds of Porn

Speaking of political content, it's a shame that Toren Smith (Mangerotica) never got his wish of publishing Tuna Empire's political satire porn manga Manga Nazenani Kyôshitsu ("Manga What-and-Why Classroom," aka the English subtitle "Viva Freedom"), which someone on the Internet described as "the only manga I've seen to have Bush and Saddam Hussein having gay sex."

I'd love to own a copy of this translated and I haven't seen it. Tayu Tayu (aka Boing Boing) is great though. Too bad the scanlated versions are better though.

Nayu wrote:

I'd love to own a copy of this translated and I haven't seen it. Tayu Tayu (aka Boing Boing) is great though. Too bad the scanlated versions are better though.

How so? DMP/Project-H's release is uncensored!

Hiro94 wrote:

The fact that Wolf Ogami's Super Taboo was officially translated into English comes as a shock to me. How did it legally come over here?

It's not illegal in the US to show explicit incest stories to adults (although technically, it's not 'illegal' to show explicit anything, except possibly child pornography... it's just a question of how likely you are to offend people and get your company boycotted and your books not carried by bookstores... complicated issue). Hey, Flowers in the Attic got made into a movie on Lifetime. -_-

Well, not really true. See: Missouri Man Gets 3 Years for Reading 'Incest Comics' (CBLDF coverage). For live action, see Filmmaker Gets 4 Years for Grossing Out Jurors. Your citation of Jesus Castillo's case highlights that. There have been other cases like Handley's and western comics and live action. But notice how Toshio Maeda's manga that landed Castillo in prison and other porn involved in these cases or similar to them are still legally around? That's how obscenity laws work in the US (in contrast to other countries).

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why can't porno manga artists keep it in their pants while they're drawing the covers?

Because you need explicit covers to stand out. Like regular manga, there's hundreds of h-manga artists in dozens of monthly publications and if they just had "generic cute girl" covers, you'd never know the contents by the titles alone. And, because they're making porn, they don't give a shit about trying to project a clean image on the outside.

Isn't it nicer to have the outside be some cute girl or some happy couple and some green & pink floral displays and just save the throbbing gristle for the inside of the manga?

I don't know if Jason reads the comments often but I resent this comment... "Furthemore, since porn is usually, shall we say, an impulse purchase, hardly anyone seeks out "classic" porn except for the most dedicated hipsters, historians and weirdos."

osakaedo wrote:

I don't know if Jason reads the comments often but I resent this comment... "Furthemore, since porn is usually, shall we say, an impulse purchase, hardly anyone seeks out "classic" porn except for the most dedicated hipsters, historians and weirdos."

I felt the same.
I doubt that there is any data on the popularity but "hardly anyone" seems a bit dismissive.
I do not even know how a "hipster" would be defined in this context, and I am definitely not an historian. But I guess that I must admit to being a bit of a weirdo.
I do occasionally check eBay for some classic hentai. I would love to find more like Bondage Fairies, Hot Tails, and Misty girl Extreme. all of which were Eros releases. Of course I cannot say that "usually ... an impulse purchase" is wrong because I definitely do a lot of that.
But hentai can be more than just fapping material. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Touma wrote:

osakaedo wrote: I don't know if Jason reads the comments often but I resent this comment... "Furthemore, since porn is usually, shall we say, an impulse purchase, hardly anyone seeks out "classic" porn except for the most dedicated hipsters, historians and weirdos." I felt the same. But hentai can be more than just fapping material. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Since I myself just spent days reading through a pile of classic porn, i certainly didn't meant it as an *insult*.

Regarding Toshio Maeda and the Castillo court case in the U.S.:
(This has come up on ANN before I think.) I thought while one of Maeda's titles was also wrapped up initially in the case- the conviction came on an issue of Demon Beast Invasion: The Fallen. At least that's what written on the CBLDF case file. However that title isn't by Maeda, instead an American team. And Castillo himself (albeit not very specific) seemed to recognize that in an interview back in 2003.

Wasn't Maeda's original not published in English until later anyway? Or am I mistaken? (It's so confusing.)