Be warned. Be careful what you have in your drawer or on your phone, hard drive or cloud.
While the government was pressured by mangaka and animators to exclude comic book and drawn images from the new pornography laws passed in 2014, it seems the courts do not agree.
The Tokyo District Court has found an artist "guilty of violating the child pornography law by creating and selling realistic computer graphic images of a naked girl," reports the Asahi Shimbun.
The court on March 15 sentenced Akashi Takahashi, a 55-year-old computer graphic designer from Gifu city, to a one-year ...
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, the UN’s special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, has been in Japan for a week-long visit.
At the end of it she praised Japan for tightening up the law and banning possession of child pornography in June last year.
But she said Japan must do more and ban all "sexually abusive images" of children in manga.
“When it comes to particular, extreme child pornographic content, manga should be banned,” she said.
Japan's new laws have some loopholes, such as images and videos where underage models are wearing ...
People in their forties and older can get romantic too, you know. And we know that older Japanese women still look amazing.
To celebrate the 50th volume of Tasogare Ryuuseigun (Like Shooting Stars in Twilight) by Kenji Hirokane, a popular manga (adapted for TV), Shogakukan has created a free giveaway promo item: free playing cards.
Kind of like Last Tango in Halifax in manga form, the protagonists of Tasogare Ryuuseigun are all middle-aged or elderly, and spend their final years determined to find their true love.
The Tasogare Ryuuseigun playing cards include 52 jukujo MILFs ...
These days every fetish has a name. Kemonomimi ("animal ears") is a type of moe anthropomorphism where girl and boy characters in manga and anime have animal-like accessories.
Catgirls are probably the most famous but there are lots of others, since almost anything or anyone can become any kind of "animal" -- from dogs to wolves, rabbits and more.
All this moe inspires its fair share of adult toys.
Kemonomimi onaholes
You may think that masturbator sleeves had nowhere else further to go, but then you'd be wrong.
This is the Dekoboko Moo Moo Catgirl Onahole, a fairly typical ...
The BBC has weighed in on the whole "Is-manga-child-porn?" argument with an online article and radio show with the balanced headline: "Why hasn't Japan banned child-porn comics?"?
James Fletcher reports from Tokyo on this now slightly tired issue.
Posters of elfin-faced, doe-eyed cartoon heroines, many of them scantily clad and impossibly proportioned, turn the cavernous space into a riot of colour.
We stop at one table where the covers on display feature two topless girls. To my eyes they look to be in their early or pre-teens, and the stories show them engaged in explicit ...
A doujin-made comic cooking book is provoking some eyebrow-raising online.
The title for Oyako to shimai o oishiku itadaku 15 no houhou translates literally as "15 ways to deliciously eat mothers-and-daughters and sisters". What the heck does that mean? No, the creators, doujinshi Poisson Rouge, are not promoting cannibalism. Certain dishes in their book are classified as "mother-and-daughter" recipes, while others are "sister" dishes.
It's a pun on Oyako-don, a common dish whose name literally means "parent-and-child rice bowl".
While the concept is pretty interesting in itself, the ...
Under Japan's current laws, it is illegal to produce and distribute child pornography. However, politicians are looking to toughen this up by making it illegal also top possess child porn. Japan is one of the few major industrialized nations not to have a law against this.
However, the new law will not include comic book depictions.
The proposed revision to the law would exclude manga, anime and computer graphics, but would make possession of other forms of child porn punishable by up to a year in prison and a fine of 1 million yen (nearly $10,000).
The bill was debated by a ...
We just never cease to be amazed by Tenga, the Japanese adult toy brand that half designer sex accessory, half lifestyle choice.
Tenga first shot to fame with the Tenga Flip Hole. Since then it hasn't looked back!
After art exhibitions, music events at Womb and dozens of eggs, 3D toys and incredible-looking masturbators, Tenga has now come up with Tenga Hero, a manga about... well, itself!
The manga is 35 pages long and has been created by Doguri.
As you might expect, it's not exactly strong on story but for fans or the curious, it must make for an interesting ...
Not all manga is One Piece and Doraemon, you know!
Akira Narita is a Japanese mangaka (comic book artist) who gained a cult following for writing manga about his experiences with girls at terekura, the "telephone clubs" where you can go and contact girls willing to go on "dates". They are of course basically just euphemistic portals to amateur prostitution.
He claims to have had sex with 400 girls in this way and describes as such in his manga, including his various techniques.
In more recent years he has been collaborating with adult toy makers to produce a series of sex toys in ...
Now THIS is what I called manga. A heck of a lot better than all that One Piece crap, that's for sure!
Oki was a soldier in World War Two and afterwards he took up drawing SM and bondage manga. We don't know if it's just his innate character or his experiences in the war, but certainly his imagination is very, very fertile!
The results, as we're sure you agree, are magnificent.
Okay, Megumi, now it's time to recreate these scenes for ...
