Police Raid Akiba Doujin Shop, Arrest Manager for Loli
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 26, 2009 13:04 JST
- Tags: Akihabara, Censorship, Crime, Doujinshi, Paipan, Police, Politics, Young Idol
Police are said to have raided the Akihabara branch of doujin bookshop Tachibana Shoten, confiscating “suspected loli material”, in circumstances which remain murky.
There is speculation that this is part of an impending crackdown on loli manga, though this is unsubstantiated.
The situation is not, however, straightforward.
At least one report specifies that the manager of the shop was arrested for distributing “suspected loli material,” and that police confiscated the materials in question, though the shop in question (part of a larger chain with branches throughout Tokyo) also stocked much idol material, and it is not specified whether the arrest related to illustrated or photographic material.
Thus, there is a significant possibility the report relates to either “young idol” material, which has recently been subjected to greatly elevated police attention with the tightening of laws against 3D loli materials, along with numerous arrests of distributors and producers, or to material which is otherwise legally dubious, such as uncensored material or similar.
Interestingly, it is said the shop stocked much “paipan” material, referring to the fetishistic treatment of shaven girls.
Regarding the notion that this is part of an effort to ban 2D loli, whilst this is not something which anyone could reasonably put past the police and politicians, there does not appear to be much in the way of firm evidence for this, and there are of course no laws against drawn loli as yet.
There is also the question of why this particular shop was targeted, and not any of the numerous others continuing to trade in the same material, implying this shop was perhaps operating differently.
What is clear is that the Diet will shortly be discussing the status of anti-loli laws, so this action is certainly timely…
Via New Akiba.
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If somebody wants to make suicide make it like the taliban!!! Bomb yourself at a place where the damn feminists and loli hating politicans are and take some with you into the death. =D
You'll get 77 lolis in heaven ;)
Nope, its 70 bunches of grapes and 12 shotas. You misinterpret the mysterious book.(Grapes are precious in the Arabian desert where there isn't water, thats why its often misunderstood to be lolis)
Finally, the Japanese police is doing something intelligent.
And again, most of the people on this site show their stupidity again. Loli is also used to refer to actual child porn in Japan. Remember, the word it's based in "Lolita" applies to real girls anyway, but western anime fans tend to think that "loli" just means girls like Etna from Disgaea. Cartoon loli is sold all over Japan, including at every comic convention.
You are not making sense at all.
im actually pretty scared. :l WHAT DO I DO. I HAVE TOO MUCH STUFF TO SIFT OUT MY LOLI.
lol loli ring.
What is happening to this world.
I predict a bleak future in Japan where anyone with the slightest thoughts of something erotic will have special police units in full assault gears raiding their house and seizing his computer.
The "Kono roricon domome !" thing will always make me laugh each time i see it, it's becoming like a conditioned reflex... T_T
AND STOP BANNING MY LOLIS OR ANYTHING RELATED TO IT YOU IDIOTS
GTFO, troll.
the charge should have read "obvious loli material"
3D loli BAD. 2D loli? no harm no foul IMHO.
Nope, 3D loli not bad, child 'pornography' not bad, and neither is adults and children having sex together.
What is bad? Idiot adults who wish to take away children's sexual choices out of the misguided and stupid notion that they are 'better' than children are and 'know better' than children do.
It's good that they're cracking down on young Idol distributers, that stuff really is sick.
How young though? I honestly don't think 13-18 ones are bad, especially if they never show anything. Some people make too much fuss over Sayaa Irie.
i have no malice but i found no value in one
get the loli while it's hot
UNDERGROUND LOLI MARKET "psst, hey. want some loli goods? totally untracable."
Meanwhile a real life child molestation-rape is taking place.
Man, this is why i keep reality seperate from manga, this shit pisses me off
Why not be sure that illegal activity is going on before making a lawsuit worthy arrest? It's like arresting a grandmother for being a drug dealer only to find out the police were given the wrong address.
I really hope that this is about 3D lolis or something, because...
DON'T THEY DARE TAKE AWAY OUR PRECIOUS 2D!!!!1one
Technically, I'm not THAT much into loli (and eroge) but some of that stuff is really good and I consider freedom of expression to be the most important thing person can have in this world.
It is riddiculous to ban something just because you don't like it, I hate when moralists think they are right and their truth is the only and absolute truth.
But what is happening with the world now... Germany is banning brutal games, UK is banning bdsm, America sued handley and now Japan is following worldwide trends...
And our freedom is slowly disappearing :c
If I ever do start my agency up in around ten years... you loli people will be safe. And death counts and dissapearances of criminals in prison will rise. :)
for gods sake, can't they just buy it like the rest of us? I know the recession can hit bad, but raiding for loli = fail
The great loli war is coming.
and we will definitely lose, we cant even organize our self, let alone mount a counter-campaign.
I sure do hope that THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD would ONE DAY REALIZE that REAL PORN is MORE ILLEGAL than Hentai......
In the year 2009 the Lolicons and the Policebots do battle in a place called Akihabara-tron
They wanted to put all the loli mangas under "protective custody" before they get taken and burned on the streets.
We still have the internet.
what good is the internet when there are no more content feed?
NOOOOOOOOO LEAVE MY FLAT CHEST GOODNESS ALONE.
Wait, I'm confused. This is a doujin raid, but there's 3d idol involved?
Got me thinking as well. Maybe it's mainly a doujin shop that also stocks 3D idol videos.
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WIN! :D
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It appears to be a false hand on a stick probing a tear in the fabric of space. If I were to guess I would say that he was using it to finger the universe's rectum, but we will have to send in a team to be certain.
looks like he hanged himself
It could be a fork.
A possible move :3 Loli Bubble will burst anytime
Damn Japan.
The probable solution is terrorism. Let us quickly abduct little girls and train them to be assassins. The government must not prevail.
We must corrupt the law, so that every policeman would crave the taste of loli. (2D, of course. 3d = pig disgusting.)
We must act now! We must fight for the freedom of expression or suffer eternal oppression from hypocrites who would take offense at simulated sex with fictional little girls that do not exist in our reality... while letting violence run rampant. (Shit can't even control organized crime.)
Further more, someone MUST DIE. A martyr for the cause. A person who is shot because of a crime he never committed: The imaginary rape of a little girl. Or an imaginary murder of a little girl.
Thoughtcrime must not be allowed as valid.
This is a time for heroes.
Forget martyrs, the only people who should be the ones doing the dying are the ones impeding on us. You've got methods like placing car bombs, putting mail bombs in mailboxes, and using suppressed sniper rifles with subsonic ammo--You can do the same job of killing these bastards without sacrificing your own lives.
But you see, the rest of us would miss you less.
Hear hear!
The feminist "spies" reported it to the police <.<
I'm just going to post feminism related wikipedia links everytime someone says something like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcha-feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfeminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_feminism
You're still just a cunt who's coming in here with her self-important attitude and telling people what to do. You're hardly any different at all.
Fuck off.
You forgot one, dumbass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
There are probably quite a few pro-sex feminists who don't even know about this situation. But I'll be sure to tell them about it if I happen to run across any, or had back to any communities I used to frequent.
Though I don't think other feminists have to apologize for the behavior of other non-feminists anymore than metalheads have to apologize for any black metalheads who burn down churches or mistreat nonwhites due to being NSBM fans.
What you're essentially doing is attacking treating all heavy metal music as National Socialist Black Metal and then saying "so what if I've got it wrong, it's YOUR metalheads job to stomp down the NSBMers and keep them in check, y'all brought it on yourselves."
I'm going to call y'all anti-feministic retards out on being stupid about it everytime I see it. Deal with it.
Pro-sex, progressive feminists, are not going to be able to get rid of the completely sex alienated anymore than speed metal fans are going overthrow black metal nazis. This is preposterous.
I find it funny that you don't want to be associated with child rapists, because all you want to do is jerk off to manga, but you are comfortable continuing to blame feminists for some pro-censorship organization. I also find it funny that you expect people with possibly little overlapping interests with them to, of all things, censor them. You can continue to, among other stupid things, attribute culpability for pro-censorship views to egalitarianism, but it makes you look stupid.
In case you hadn't noticed, your interests are not appreciated by societies at large, which is why you don't obtain a lot of support except from free speech organizations and why your political opponents are a laundry-list of moralists. Do you think there is a single organized religious group that would crusade against a pro-censorship organization calling for the banning of your crusty comic books? Do you think there is a youth organization that will stand in staunch defense of loli rape games? It isn't because some gaijin cows suddenly discovered your hobbies that they are under scrutiny. You flame out of the ass over Equality Now simply because you have been led there like a cow waiting to have a captive bolt shot into its head. Way to be trolled for web impressions, maybe you can vent some more of your impotent rage on the Internet.
My "ignorance" is irrelevant--You guys aren't doing enough to counter the sex-negative feminists who want to do these sorts of bans. Do I see other feminist organizations trying to get Equality Now to stand down? Do I hear other feminist organizations issuing apoligies to Japan for the embarrassment that Equality Now has caused?
NO. YOU GUYS AREN'T DOING SHIT, AND YOU HAVEN'T BEEN DOING SHIT TO COUNTER THE SEX-NEGATIVE FEMINISTS' INFLUENCES.
And thus, the result is people being antagonistic towards feminists in general. Live with it.
I kind of agree with my fellow anon, extremist feminists like Equality Now are giving the rest of feminists a bad name, that's expected. But it's also wrong to generalize the whole group for what only part of the group has done. But really, Equality Now seems like a separate group from other feminist groups, they have no connection to other ones, so I don't see how they could be influenced by other feminists that aren't of like mind with them.
Anyways, I'm getting tired of people bringing up feminazis or feminists all the time now. This has gotten bigger than them, there's much more to be blamed.
and by my fellow anon, I didn't mean the one above me, apparently
Obviously Ukonkivi is particularly adept in avoiding the point. The point is that sexual freedom envelopes ANYTHING, even dominance. As for using the "They aren't really feminists" card, that could go both ways and end up including what a Feminist really is, which isn't what this is about anyway. The only feminists I've ever respected were the ones fighting for a fairer position in the business world. TL;DR Your "feminism" can't exist due to sexual freedom. If you were to post that long list of sites that no one is even going to look at every time someone leaves a comment relating to "blaming the feminists" then you will be spending the rest of your days doing it.
The last bit was supposed to be a P.S. >_>
Nagging? I'm trying to cure your ignorance on the matter.
Oh, and as far as the whole "Radical Feminists are against such bans" is concerned, if that really is true, why the hell do I see radical feminists like Biting Beaver nagging on and on about sex and rape?
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/08/trash-and-purveyors-of-trash.html
Well guess what? Nobody gives a shit about the feminists who are supposedly for sex and such because the ones that are anti-porn happen to be screaming the most.
You want us to stop accusing feminists? Start rallying up your own damn feminist friends to counter the constant nagging of the sex-negative feminists.
And it looks like that one is defined much differently than the type of people you call feminazis.
Radical feminism doesn't appear to have much to do with misandry at all. It seems more to do with fundamentally changing society by overthrowing gender roles, capitalism, and laws.
I don't anything about hating men.
In fact, that would mean radical feminists are AGAINST lolicon bans, because that would be a law.
So much for peoples idiotic, misunderstanding of the term "radical feminism".
Also, I'm against gender roles, and I'm a Libertarian Socialist, so apparently I'M a Radical Feminist.
Banning, does not fit the profile. Criticism is not the same as calling for a ban. And the very article you linked to even claimed that anti-sex even runs COUNTER to feminism as stated by Ellen Willis. And that feminism, true feminism, embraces sexual freedom.
Again, any sort of thing contrary is just the right wing trying to invade and destroy feminism and implement conservative values.
You're just continuing to sound ignorant.
Also, the current state of the pornography industry IS sexist and uneven. It's almost all in one direction and things to the other direction are minorly represented. Maledom majority is something that is to and should be overturned in general I believe.
I am for moving the pornography industry in a more positive direction, myself. Though not through bans and such things.
Also, sex related inequality is a media-wide problem. Not just within the pornography industry.
Sorry pal, but if a radical feminist who constantly worries about her son inevitably becoming a rapist as a result of looking at porn doesn't fit the profile of a person who would be for the banning of such material, then you need to evaluate your own position as a "radical" feminist.
If you have a problem with the way we currently perceive feminists, then do something about the fucking people that claim to be feminists and calling for such bans. Nagging at us won't do you any good.
Being against overarching dominance over men, including pornography, and trying to even the scales, does not mean supporting banning the material.
Also, Amanda Marcotte is NOT a Racial Feminist, like that blog implies. She's fairly moderate, and nowhere near social and/or anarchist. I also strongly agree with her positions on birth control and abortion against the Catholic church.
Seems like politically motivated.
lets just hope 2d loli is never banned in the future...
It probably won't. More than likely, like the article says, it could have possibly been photographs instead of drawings. Plus, even if loli did get a ban, it wouldn't stop them from finding some sort of loophole.
stop acting heroic and fucking do something asshole a big mouth like you sucks
They should ban or exile 3d Loli. That'd be hilarious.
with the advent of feminist world domination, don't cross your fingers.
quick! hide your loli's!
Shit!! I haven't finished building the hidden room for them yet! I'M SCREWED!
may the Truecrypt be with you`
This actually worries me a lot. I thought this whole anti-ero thing would blow over after those "bans". I really hope they let that store owner go.
eventually, the ban will extend to all porn, follow by all photography of women and all drawing of women,and then all written description of women.
mass suicide of male
ban of free internet ban tv ban radio ban telephone ban private property, then they can annex North Korea. finally, man and women separate in to different race and protoculture degenerates..
wait, am i going too far?
An easy way to beat loli manga is that they make the loli announce being 18. Or have it being annouced somewhere in the book.
Originally, as I understand it, the concept of lolis came up as a way to legalize depictions of "underage" girls engaging in sexual activities.
In some H-games, for the example, the age of lolis is left ambiguous, but is "understood" that they are of "age".
You understand wrong.
I thought it was to get past censorship laws.
From what I understand, the law was that adult genitalia had to be censored in all porn...So people started using minors in hentai. The idea being that they aren't adults, so they don't need to be censored.
Wrong. Any depiction of pubic hair was banned (this has obviously been lifted to some extend), so all 2D characters were drawn without, making many of them look like minors. This is one of the roots of today's lolicon hentai.
Since when is expression of Art become a crime?
Hell, if it keeps people from "Real" child porn, then I say leave loli alone.
actually, expression of art was considered a crime in most parts of the world due to religious constraints until fairly recently. the concept of free speech is still a very young one, and only in a handful of countries worldwide...
or...you can just stop prosecuting loli materials all around the world...how hard is that?
People are stubborn, convincing people that loli is nothing but expression of art will be as easy as convincing Christians that God isn't real.
Just a example mind you.
damn right
Pif... Sometime soon another synchronised "attack should be launched. This time flooding youtube with Konata. It's about time we Timotei~~~ these spineless people to death. LOL.
timotei!!! hahaha..... best konata since ever!
nice
Shit the police found my underground loli ring D:
MUST MAKE SURE THEY DONT TRACE IT BACK TO ME!!!
Darknet.
let's not mention our "little secret internet" =P
There is no such thing as Darknet.
:)
No darknet doesn't exist and we well never ever mention it again.
sure there is.
Yes, it's a net that's dark. Literally. Nobody's on it and nothing's happening.
You mean "Darn it!", right? ^^;
Lol get what he deserves.
Seconded. GTFO KoHG.
GTFO Troll.. Your present has made you into fucking bed wig..
yea, only loli ban is great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing)
With HTML5 this will be able to be implemented on your browser. Learn your right to Anonymity. Just because you have nothing to hide, does not mean your government (or anyone else for that matter) has any right to raid your private life, without reasonable evidence that you are doing something illegal.
Skynet.
it doesn't prove what i mentioned earlier on, but it does atleast prove it's existance...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)
skynet is real...
Oh noes!
the day skynet launched the nukes and killed half the world's population. Hopefully the feminist half.
April 21 2011.
of course skynet is real, it just isnt here yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
DarkSkyNet. :O