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NEWS: Libre Publishing Comments on Termination of Agreement With Digital Manga Inc.

I live in the US and I am an attorney. I'm not worried about it. You obviously haven't ever looked at KnJ, and are assuming from its (undeserved) bad reputation that it's something that it simply isn't. It contains some suggestive lolicon material that some people may find objectionable, but it is very far from violating any obscenity laws in the US. I can't speak to the laws in other countries, but it would be an extreme exaggeration to call it "child porn" in any context.

Actually I did take a look at it and refer back to US department of justice Citizen's Guide To U.S. Federal Law On Child Pornography https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-federal-law-child-pornography:

[i]Notably, the legal definition of sexually explicit conduct does not require that an image depict a child engaging in sexual activity. A picture of a naked child may constitute illegal child pornography if it is sufficiently sexually suggestive. Additionally, the age of consent for sexual activity in a given state is irrelevant; any depiction of a minor under 18 years of age engaging in sexually explicit conduct is .

You don't understand what you're reading. Picture here means photo, not drawing. The idea of drawings constituting cp was declared unconstitutional in the US. Drawings may be considered obscene, but that's a completely different argument that depends entirely on community standards, which means your notion of whether drawings are suggestive doesn't matter one whit as far as her purchases go.

Yup, so DMI was just being a baby about it. They were the ones who breached contract yet they attempted to paint Libre as the bad guys to gain support. Even if it was Libre's fault (which it is not), the tone and manner in which DMI made their announcement was very unprofessional.

however if i was a betting man i have a nasty feeling that they did this as a protest of digital manga going that kickstarter project to get the kodomo no jikan manga to be officially released in the US instead of having to tolerate fansub translations of the manga or even those 18+ fanart doujins that appear in comiket conventions.

crosswithyou wrote:

Yup, so DMI was just being a baby about it. They were the ones who breached contract yet they attempted to paint Libre as the bad guys to gain support. Even if it was Libre's fault (which it is not), the tone and manner in which DMI made their announcement was very unprofessional.

true enough. which is why most people dont bother with digital version of the manga.

however if i was a betting man i have a nasty feeling that they did this as a protest of digital manga going that kickstarter project to get the kodomo no jikan manga to be officially released in the US instead of having to tolerate fansub translations of the manga or even those 18+ fanart doujins that appear in comiket conventions.

jr240483 wrote:

crosswithyou wrote: Yup, so DMI was just being a baby about it. They were the ones who breached contract yet they attempted to paint Libre as the bad guys to gain support. Even if it was Libre's fault (which it is not), the tone and manner in which DMI made their announcement was very unprofessional. true enough. which is why most people dont bother with digital version of the manga. however if i was a betting man i have a nasty feeling that they did this as a protest of digital manga going that kickstarter project to get the kodomo no jikan manga to be officially released in the US instead of having to tolerate fansub translations of the manga or even those 18+ fanart doujins that appear in comiket conventions.

What does any of this have to do with digital manga as a format? Which I prefer but whatever. Libre releases over here are mostly paper. Are you confusing the name of the company (Digital Manga Inc) with the format some companies use?

And why would any of this have anything to do with Kodomo no Jikan when Libre doesn't publish it? Libre publishes BL They don't care about some other publisher's books.