i hope they never let the manga Bitter Virgin over here then if they have a fit about Peach Girl.......Most manga i have read are about life and i see one parent that needs to get one. if just owning manga is a bad thing then im up for about 10 years and add another 10 for the anime alone.......i HATE people and parents that just dont care then they read one of their kids books and its "Oh my god i didnt know they had this and i dont want to see it and i dont want her to see it" its stupid and they need to grow up im 28 and i plan to let my son read Peach Girl if he wants to let alone any other manga or anime. when he was born i watched anime with him on my lap his Father watchs anime with him and hes 2 years old next week. it sickens me to read about this kind of prejudice in the news its hard to even Get half the manga i read here in the mid-west of the USA now they want to take a way even more. ill be asking my library about what they do for weeding out some of "bad manga" but as far as they think most are about something that can happen to Any teen.

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The thing about Peach Girl and Bitter Virgin is that those are things that could very well happen. I'm 23 now and my mother doesn't bother too much about what I read or stop reading, a few years ago my sisters took away a book from me (not a manga, but a novel) called "Veronica decides to die" because I was a teenager and my sister viewed me as "suicidal" I thought she was out of her mind. At the end of the day we would like our children to know the truth, my mother never used petty lies on me on why people behaved like they did, and she was always very extremely concerned that I was well informed about date rape when I was a teenager (it's pretty disturbing to be 10 years old and have your mother tell you not to accept open sodas from your friends unless you've seen them drinking from it first) pedophiles and the like (when I was 5 I remember her telling me that if someone ever touched me to tell her right away, that it was against the law for adults to touch children in "naughty places"
Adults believe that children don't need to know about the evils of the world, but that's just the way that other adults manage to taint children, thanks to that ignorance bestowed by parents pedophiles and perverts are able to take advantage of children.

haha that is so true

I laughed so hard at this...

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So, from what I heard, he was buying shotacon and got arrest? Good riddance. The biggest problem with manga comunity is pedoretards. You might say whatever you want, but loli and shotacon try to depict kids having sex or w/e. KIDS. Be they 18+ or not the main reason is for them to look like KIDS. IT IS PEDOPHILLE. And it IS a crime, and one of the wrost. All of you idiots who like Loli or Shotacon should really go to jail and die there. I don't know if he bought yaoi shotacon, but if he did, I seriously hope he not only get arrest, but suffer for the rest of his life. If he didn't and it's just normal yaoi/hentai, then it's just you americans being stupid again, no news there.

You're being awfully biased there. At least take a moment to put yourself in the shoes of the other side(s), otherwise you're not going to prove your point effectively (unless you're simply stating your opinion without trying to persuade others).
Here, take my shoes (I'm a lolicon).
My view: None of the is real, therefore it's not a crime until it DOES become real.
I've seen a variety of things, loli/shota, rape, tentacles, guro, all that stuff. Thing is, I never wanted to actually do them (except for the things that you would deem "legal" or morally allowed in hentai manga). I have morals and I follow them. Should I really rot in jail for whatever happens to be going on in my head and in my head ONLY? That's what I'm receiving from your post, that even what I think is going to eventually put me in the slammer (and my imagination runs pretty wild compared to what's laying in my hard drive).

Now I'm not saying that there aren't people who would watch/read loli/shota and turn into pedophiles, but those are (in my opinion) rare cases. There are many other factors that can contribute to pedophilia and I'm not denying that manga is one potential one. BUT should we all be punished for the rotten apple in the bunch?

Lastly, your last line, at least for me, kills any credibility for believing the argument you're presenting. Whether it's your emotions or your own extreme bias, it does not matter as it makes me believe that you're not thinking about this in a focused and intelligent manner.

So does that mean that as long as the character doesn't look like a kid, you are fine with that? What would constitute a character that looks like an adult? Guess you must hate Moetan or Bokusatsu Denshi Dokuro-Chan.

Are there any other topics you'd feel comfortable with getting the axe? What about no guro in comics? Rape? Perhaps granny, midget and fat porn are closer on topic?

In any case, it isn't a crime to make drawings or write stories of minors engaging in sexual activities so long as they are complete works of fiction that have no direct bearing on any real life minor. This case is accuses the guy of owning a few books that contain panels which may or may not be deemed obscene.

Said laws are exceedingly subjective/disputable. The books in question, much less the panels are unknown. For all we know, they could be trying him for owning a copy of Negima. With no precedent regarding the legality of ownership of drawing of such material, the result of this case is pretty much up in the air.

You know, what's worse is than most rapist, pedos, etc., are the ones you never imagine them to be ppl act ALWAYS so you never know their true thoughts, I'd be worried about this guy if he was a single male roaming around real life kids and asking them obscene things but if he was in the privacy of his home with no kids around when he was reading, then I don't see where he did wrong... I say investigate politicians and priests, those are the ones who are most likely to commit a crime, why? Because that kind of ppl is the one that has the power and influence enough to get away with it. Well not just them, any person who thinks that is above the law should be halted

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- 1st I don't think that the country that released SAW and HOSTEL has any right to censor anything what so ever...!!
- 2nd I don't think its about Shotacon, Lolicon, Incest and put whatever you like Hentai, Yaoi, Yuri in this least

What one of the cases that might be is the fact that some of this manga are licensed but Western Companies and if they guy bought Japanese once, where you see the conflict of profit...!!
And the case is that they entered his house, opened his mail and broke every law that protect this guys PRIVACY...!!!!
When and if he ever hit on a 10yr old then he should be arrested but if he is satisfied with jacking off to pics then I say that they didn't have any right...!!
Also as I have heard he had a pretty mainstream collection of Manga that those too where confiscated...!!

You are being ridicoulous!!
Why'd someone reading a shotacon-manga (or similar) be a potential child rapist and someone reading an action-/fantasy-manga like Sanctuary or Naruto not be a potential murderer. He'd be an even more dangerour person if he watched live-action movies. If I remember correctly murder is also a crime. It might be even more serious. So all who enjoy fiction of this genre should rot in jail and suffer for the rest of their life.

if shota is the problem why is it again that tittles like Kirepapa and Junjou Romantica are "Licensed (in English)" and sold.. 1 half of the couple are high school kids.. these are just pupolar ones.. i could dig up many more but im lazy...

it's nice to see the goverment working to protect kids against pedo.. but if they made a mistake, move on.. there are plenty more real criminals out there to catch.

Yeah, the problem is that the real criminals are difficult to catch, they are 'respectable' members of the comunity, they have families and they got good jobs... people you usually wouldn't suspect of being criminals.
It's much easier to suspect a person who's simple and that has 'dubious' hobbies like reading manga.

Let me make myself clear: All I said and will say are for people who watch hentai with loli or shota. Anything that actually depict kids having sex. And I don't know if that guy was arrested cause he was watching hentai loli/shota, but if he was...

Do NOT try to make it sound like morally right by saying it's going in your head. It's almost as sick as if you were doing it. I am not saying that it is legal or not. I am saying that it is NOT right. I, myself, think that people who endorse any type of pedophille, even those people who will never ever do it, who just likes to watch it or draw it or whatever, are sick people and the world would be better off without them.
I bet all of you think just like me. I bet you'd never ever admit in your school, jobs or w/e that you watch cartoon with kids having sex; cause you know it's not something to be proud of.
And my last line: yes, you americans are so conservative sometimes it's just dumb. Arresting people for no reason. Homo comics are the same as homo porno and they are just normal. IF he was arrested cause he was reading gay shit without kids, it's just you americans being stupid. No one in my country would be arrested because of that.

Don't give me that crap about "what would constitute a character that looks like an adult". You know that the characters are supposed to look like kids, and that's what turn you bastards on, right? Pedos. It does not matter if it's just drawing and if it's legal or not, you still want to see kids having sex. That's the point, right? Seeing kids having sex. You are a pedophille, or at least you wanted to be one.
And don't give me that crap logic saying that people who watch naruto are the same as murderers. The point in naruto is not to have pleasure in seeing people die, it's action and super-power or w/e. If you like to watch people die, you are almost as sick as people who like to watch kids having sex.

The point isn't whether Naruto enjoys killing or not, it is how you feel about it. When a super villain is defeated, don't you sometimes feel very satisfied if he dies. I get annoyed when the villain somehow has a change of heart and peacefully goes his way after his defeat (like in Full Ahead! Coco). But if you want someone dead cuz he killed someone else, then you're not really better. They're the same or at least similar primeval emotions of the murderer. And some mangas produce these feelings and would be pretty boring without them. By the way, don't people enjoy killing each other in egoshooters in their deathmatches. You may call it sick, but I'm confident that I and most others can differentiate between reality and fantasy. And why'd you think that a graphical display of children having sex is much worse than e.g. a graphical display of a woman being tortured and raped? Just cuz you find something sick, you want it banished and severely punished?

No way! Going to jail for reading yaoi manga? ~(°w°'~