Manga themes
The erotic elements of manga run the gambit, from the fantasy sex themes of Chinran where an alien or monster impregnates a woman who bears its offspring, to Futanari, featuring characters sporting both sets of genitalia, to BDSM-themed fair to softer encounters of multi-gender expression.
Depending on your predilection you can find naughty anime across many portals, from websites, to gaming, to manga books to films made in Japan, and also from other countries that have caught and enjoy the wave.
What’s coming down
As reported by Japan financial news portal Nikkei Asia, retailers selling manga books are being told that they are breaking credit card company rules. Furthermore, these retailers are being warned that if they continue to use certain cards, they could find themselves on the other end of large fines, as well as have their use of credit cards revoked.
As we find often in these kinds of cases, the information of what might raise a red flag is sketchy at best, causing retailers to attempt their own policing of what they will and won’t sell.
And of course, a decrease in the sale of titles that were very popular, not to mention stopping credit card use cuts deeply into a seller’s bottom line.
Comics under fire
Back in the late forties in United States, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham began to notice his “juvenile delinquent” patients reading comic books, something he quickly determined had to be an obsession. From interviews, speaking at symposiums and publishing his The Seduction of the Innocent in 1954 Seduction, Wertham caught the wave of McCarthyism running rampant in America at the time and even found himself as part of a U.S. Senate committee going after the comic book industry. And although the hearing didn’t bear much fruit beyond publicity for its time, 15 publishers went out of business the summer after the April hearings, with the rest, hoping to save their livelihood by agreeing to a Comic Code, that was set in place in the U.S. for decades.
