About 95% of directors of so-called eroge, or erotic Japanese video games, throw in the towel, and 10% of those within a week of getting the job, says Akabeisoft 2 president Kei Mimasu. Mimasu shared those and other interesting stats in a series of tweets …Read more »
Anime has a way of popping up in mainstream news in some pretty bizarre ways. This time it was a via a remark from Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who appeared on MSNBC to discuss Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump and had some choice words …Read more »
Sex, drugs, ultra-violence and lots of fan service. Since the late 1990s, late-night Japanese TV has been the host of a new breed of TV anime, one that has skirted all rules of socially acceptable behavior and successfully reached the airwaves by the sole virtue …Read more »
Last week, the Tokyo Bar Association issued a sexual orientation discimination warning to the Tokyo Detention House. Reportedly, the detention center had been refusing an inmate access to manga which depicts homosexual acts, while other inmates enjoyed unrestricted access to manga depicting heterosexual sex acts. …Read more »
Haven’t had the chance to write a headline that weird in a while. So this is what went down: an Australian man named Daniel Kelsall, who in April was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison for murder, was sentenced again this week …Read more »
PictureBox’s groundbreaking anthology The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame introduced the English-speaking world to manga by and for gay men via Tagame, one of the legends in the field. Sadly, PictureBox went out of business before it could publish its planned follow-up, an ambitious survey of …Read more »
One thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: you haven’t been fired from your sweet job for posting erotic art and complaining about your employer on Twitter. Unless you have, in which case you’ve got something in common with animator Ayumi Kuroiwa. Production IG, the …Read more »
39-year-old Robul Hoque received his second conviction over the possession of illustrated child pornography when the Teesside Crown Court of Middlesbrough, England hit him with 10 counts of possessing prohibited images. None of the images were of real people, but the drawings—both still and animated—were …Read more »
How the average American pictures jail in Canada. A Canadian man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for watching anime pornography because it depicted the “sex organs or anal regions of characters who looked like minors,” reports Canada's QMI Agency. Regis Tremblay was …Read more »
If you're not aware, a long-overdue child pornography law was passed in Japan this week which finally bans the possession (production and sales were already outlawed) of pornographic depictions of children. The exception is, notably, comics and cartoons, rationale being that children aren't abused in …Read more »
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