Over the weekend, a large earthquake struck off the coast of Japan. Here in Tokyo, we felt some pretty bad jolts for some time on Saturday night, but it was far worse for the northeast of the country.
Social media was soon awash with images of fallen bookshelves, smashed plants, collapsed and broken furniture.
One set of images that caught our eye on Twitter were these two photos of the insane disorder wrought upon a porn shop in Koriyama, Fukushima.
The manager of Book Fan 24 shared two pictures of the shelves emptied and countless numbers of DVDs and adult manga piled up on the floor. ...
Popular, long-running British game show Countdown has attracted an unusual flurry of headlines and online responses by allowing a "pornographic" concept to win a round.
In the long-running TV show, contestants try to find the longest words from a random selection of letters within 30 seconds.
On Monday's episode, Marwan Riach managed to find "hentai" and beat out his opponent's "patty."
The resident judge in the "Dictionary Corner" confirmed the validity of Riach's somewhat sheepishly offered word: "Hentai is brilliant," she said in a widely shared clip.
Well, quite.
With its customary ...
Ero-manga (erotic manga comics) is associated with sex, of course, but not just any old sex. Great sex. Strange sex. Fetishes. And, let's be frank, non-consensual sex.
But is that reputation justified? How much sex in ero-manga is actually non-consensual?
At the recent Niconico Chokaigi event, statistician Midori Makita presented a list of different ero-manga magazines along with the results of a survey examining what percentage of the sex they portray is non-consensual or consensual.
Here is the breakdown (first percentage is non-consensual; second is consensual):
Angel Club: ...
Just when you think the bureaucrats couldn't get any sillier, along come some to prove you wrong.
Activists and ero-manga (adult manga) fans in Japan have been shocked by the recent designation by Hokkaido and Shiga prefectures of two reference books as "harmful" to youngsters.
Zenkoku-ban Anohino Erohon Jihanki Tanbouki (Nationwide Study of Pornography Vending Machine of Yesterdays) and Ero Manga Hyogenshi (The Expression History of Ero-manga) by Yusuke Kato are about adult manga but are not adult manga themselves. But this distinction means nothing to Shiga and Hokkaido: the former ...
