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15 years is a bit much...I don't read/watch/support the type of stuff he did...but there are worst offenders out there, like the ones really doing all that.
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15 years is a bit much...I don't read/watch/support the type of stuff he did...but there are worst offenders out there, like the ones really doing all that.
what the- seriously, jailing someone over MANGA? and it's not exactly gonna stop everyone ELSE from doing it!
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This isn't going to stop anyone.
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15 years is a bit much...I don't read/watch/support the type of stuff he did...but there are worst offenders out there, like the ones really doing all that.
what the- seriously, jailing someone over MANGA? and it's not exactly gonna stop everyone ELSE from doing it!
It's not that it's manga. It's that it basically had CP. It wouldn't have made a difference if it was filled with American comics like that.
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The funny thing is, there's no law against it. It's not child pornography, it's... art? And in Japan that sort of 'art' is legal. Also, there are weirder things in this world than manga like that. ACTUAL beastiality movies exist...
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You can't blame the creators, people have a right to draw whatever they want. No matter how crude it is. And if people out there happen to want to read it so much that they'll pay money for it or download it, then so be it. Besides, what people do in Japan is none of our business. Limiting what people can and can't create, read, watch, listen to, etc... it's not a solution to anything really... not saying that people can go around making snuff films and real child porn, but drawing something really shouldn't be taken as seriously at all.
This whole situation is a bit ridiculous. Like others have said, it's not going to stop anybody anyway.
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If you're going to blame the collector, you should blame the artist just as much as the collector - Heck, even more.
There's just no point. Would they rather it happen in real life? Again, I have to wonder how the majority of people's minds work.
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Because if that's the case you guys are missing the point
edit: apparently not. I'm still pretty sure you've never been allowed to import this kind of stuff in the first place. It's less about owning it and more about the fact that he imported it
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I don't really see it any different from adult websites with "teen" content...the actresses are 18+, but they're depicted to be younger.
if it's the case that the characters depicted were just young looking...
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If (like HH said) he had child porn too then it would be entirely different.
They should be spending their time catching real paedophiles.
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Exactly.
I'm sure it probably is. I saw tons of lolicon manga and such when I was in Japan.
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edit: apparently not. I'm still pretty sure you've never been allowed to import this kind of stuff in the first place. It's less about owning it and more about the fact that he imported it
You can find them on Ebay. I still remember when i came across the
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one on there 
(i will say people who have this one need to be shot dead, or given some quality time with 
)
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I guess this is more important than going after like...terrorists or something.
These are the same people who go after other people cause they use Limewire.
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Eh? Lolicon is drawings, not photographs.
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So basically 90% of all manga.
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This includes FullMetal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, InuYasha, and pretty much ALL the mangas I read.
Why aren't they spending time and money hunting down the true pedophiles? I refuse to pay taxes in order to jail somebody for reading manga. That is a wrongful use of OUR tax money. Grrr.
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This is a stupid law from what im hearing...
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There's plenty of this kind of loli on Aeris Dies. Under this description, the site should be shut down and the server providers, as well as the site owners, tried for sex crimes.
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How does law be retarded?
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So maybe they're drawn depictions of children in sexual situations, (or other socially unaccepted sexual acts, i.e. they mentioned bestiality too) but are people forgetting that it's not a person's choice to be sexually attracted to stuff that's inacceptible? Pedophillia, for example, is considered a negative psychological condition, a 'disease' so to speak.
What these comics/manga really do is provide an outlet for these people's feelings that don't hurt anyone; rather than have these feelings be ignored, and built up over time. If their sexual needs are stored away in a corner of their being, it will eventually all burst and they will be more likely to commit an actual sexual offense.
Though I'll admit it's entirely besides the point; this man was merely an unsuspecting collector of manga. For all we know he didn't even know what was being sent to him. (Unlikely, true.) He was only gathering a collection. People collect things, and all.
tl;dr version: I think the law is still incompetent. It doesn't allow for human understanding or exception.
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