The arrests of four people by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police this week made news as the first arrests of its kind. The people had been selling pornographic posters made by AI, but because they didn’t cover up or pixilate the woman’s private parts, they got …Read more »
Senate Bill 20, which unanimously passed the Texas state senate, has some anime fans nervous because its vague wording could lead to anime and manga bans — and potentially even fans behind bars. The Bill appears to chiefly be concerned about stopping AI pornography made …Read more »
The Las Cruces Sun-News out of New Mexico reports that the Coalition of Conservatives in Action has put together a list of about 100 books that it thinks shouldn’t be on the shelves of local public schools. The first two volumes of Assassination Classroom are …Read more »
Late last week the Rutherford County School board in Tennessee voted to remove multiple book titles from its school library shelves, including volumes of Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui. Among the other titles, they also banned Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, a classic which is used …Read more »
Ken Akamatsu’s digital service Manga Library Z (a.k.a. Manga Toshokan Z) is turning to crowdfunding as a possible way to return. Otaku USA readers might recall that the manga site, which legally offered free and rare online manga, shuttered in November because Western credit card …Read more »
The upcoming game Assassin’s Creed Shadows may take place in Japan, but when it reaches that country, it’s going to make some changes. That’s because Japan’s CERO (Computer Entertainment Rating Organization), which does age ratings for the country’s video games, thinks this latest Assassin’s Creed …Read more »
Disney has made it clear it wants to get more into the world of anime, like with its Star Wars: Visions work. But fans online noticed something that Anime News Network was then able to substantiate: Disney is censoring the streaming of Macross Dynamite 7. …Read more »
It seems that Western credit card companies are again affecting Japanese businesses. This time around it’s about Niconico, which also has a “mature illustration service” called Niconico Shunga. (The title references shunga, a traditional type of Japanese erotica that usually would take the form of …Read more »
pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing trend of some Western credit card companies and their agencies refusing to work …Read more »
There’s been a controversy brewing over some Western credit card companies and their agencies when it comes to manga retailers that sell adult titles. Some of these credit cards will not purchase from the retailers, and Visa has publicly admitted that they’re one of them. …Read more »
Dozens of manga have been pulled from school districts in Tennessee to comply with the state’s new obscenity laws. For starters, Rutherford County Schools yanked more than 150 books from its districts shelves, and it’s reviewing the first volume of Fire Force and the first …Read more »
Another manga title has been pulled from an entire school district for review after a mother made a complaint. This time the manga is Unico: The Awakening, a story about a little unicorn that’s aimed for ages 8-12. The mother thought it was too violent. …Read more »
The Horry County School has officially banned Assassination Classroom from its district after a mother made a complaint. Jennifer Hannigan, the mother, learned about Assassination Classroom after her high school daughter brought it home from the school library. “Even if I didn’t have children, I …Read more »
Another Japanese business is being affected by Western credit card companies. Melonbooks, a chain store that sells doujinshi, will cease taking Visa and Mastercard payments on December 16. After this, people can still use things like American Express or JCB to make purchases. Melonbooks wants …Read more »
In August, Otaku USA reported on how some Western credit card companies have threatened penalties or told Japanese companies they need to stop selling some of their explicit manga titles. Manga creator and politician Ken Akamatsu spoke out against this, and now he’s been pulled …Read more »
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