A raunchy photo of AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai posing “hand bra” with a child providing the hands has led to Young Magazine withdrawing its latest issue from sale for being “inappropriate,” prompting accusations of “child pornography” and “child abuse” against her, AKB48 and the magazine itself.
Needless to say, the offending image (used to illustrate an announcement of the release of her own album of sexy gravure) was rapidly leaked along with the rest of the rag:
Young Magazine apologises for including this “inappropriate depiction” of the idol – though it is not clear from their explanation who determined its inappropriateness and how it got to be included in the magazine in the first place:
As the magazine had already begun printing, they apparently had no option but to withdraw it from distribution and postpone the entire issue.
Kodansha also explained the decision in vague terms: “it was determined the image might cause discomfort amongst readers.”
The leaked image does indeed exceed the raunchiness of Kasai’s usual offerings significantly, although it might be thought that this was obvious to both her and her handlers if she had to pose for the picture:
Just why the image caused such a kerfuffle is the subject of much speculation online:
“Yes yes. More controversy marketing.”
“Creepy picture!”
“Why didn’t the editors realise this would be a problem?”
“What is inappropriate about this anyway? The kid is annoying but that is all.”
“The problem is not the content but the fact they used a minor to do it.”
“Getting a minor to do something sexual – that might be grey in Japan, but in the US they would be arrested?”
“It’s hardly child pornography if the woman is an old hag like her.”
“This woman is always causing problems.”
“They are sexually abusing this poor boy!”
“If they tried this with the genders reversed it would be a big deal.”
“This could become an international issue, it’s not surprising they are withdrawing it.”
“There is no way this is child pornography. The boy is incidental.”
“Police, do something about this!”
“We’ll have to leave this up to Agnes.”
“It’s probably just been made with Photoshop in any case… even more controversy when that comes out.”
“Obviously they wanted to get this banned so it would some media controversy and get her even more exposure.”
“As usual AKB48 is just inconveniencing everyone with their marketing stunts.”
“Hand bras should be done with the arms crossed… having someone reach through her armpits is just lame.”
“Where can I get a copy!”
“It is already being auctioned at ¥8,000 a copy…”
Cool magazine cover… initial D is back 🙂
That boy is traumatized for life.
Putting hands in those boobs and not be able to finish the job, he’ll be onanizing forever.
When I was 16 I was abused by an old hag of 20.
Bless her forever!
kid as now ..
Lucky fucking kid…
It’s probable the best advertisment they can gent. Controversial promo, polemical image. They just want to keep everyone talking about that and to focus their attention to that. It’s all purposedly done to keep people talking about that album, nothing more.
The world is ending much sooner than I thought.
It’s a boy and a women, big deal. If the genders were reversed, I would have agreed with them.
This looks shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and seeing quite a few shops in my time.
Can we have “Hand bra” as a category in the galleries please.
Straight shota FTW <3
That was new for me. Holy God.
Tell me to take the kid’s place, i would do it for free. problem solved.
Boy, this was unexpected. There’s NO way I would do what this chick did. I don’t think it’s going to give them good publicity but then again I don’t think they wanted any. xD
The hands look young, but the fact that the picture was initially included in the magazine makes you think if that really is a young person who’s being shown, if that’s the point of offence. Or maybe there was something else to the pic that isn’t there anymore.
Lucky kid.
What’s with tha control mania disguised as chile “protection”?
Those damn lobbyists just want to have complete control over what children can/cannot do and think. Totally disgusting
Your childhood will never be this awesome.
Tomomi Kansai is such a shotacon.
Abuse?
More like doing him a favor.
I envy that kid.
I think thats the opposite of child abuse. Kid totally has a ton up on all his friends.
Wait – wasn’t the last AKB news story on here about a cute AKB Idol showing off her chest (a wooden one) now we have a story about an AKB Idol not showing her chest but it’s the correct chest.
I seriously hate the word “child abuse” these days.
I feel like they are abusing the word itself.
“Just why the image caused such a kerfuffle is the subject of much Ejaculation online”
Well, this kid just got bragging rights forever.
“Hey Takeshi, what you’d do this weekend? Oh wait, it doesn’t matter. I spent it fondling a member of AKB48’s breasts. Proof? Here you go. There’s her, and there’s me holding her tits. That’s right. I’m a god and you are not.”
Dat Takumi face on the mag cover.
so ppl who manage to get it ~ can sell it for very expensive price
hot – lucky kid
Best day of his life ever!
Hardly traumatic for the boy… Four years earlier he was doing a lot more to a breast than just holding it.
Westerners and our oddly bipolar view on sexuality I understand, our religion and 100 generations of perverts with shrewish wives have cultured it into a truly bizarre caricature of fearfully flaunting repressive sexual freedom.
But, isn’t the breast as a sexual object a relatively new concept in Asian cultures. I remember there used to be a lot of pictures from the turn of the century of women working in the fields topless. And and the not so ancient history painting courtesans and geisha as highly respected parts of high society?
Well, at least until the missionaries arrived right.
Damn those missionaries! They even went as far as inventing the most boring sexual position known today. Will their atrocities never end?
Lucky bastard! I want to grab these boobs.
The kid obviously doesn’t seem to complain about anything about holding a womans breasts, and yet they see the kid as the victim.
Typical propaganda of course.
Lucky IRL Yuuki Rito.
Kasai Tomomi left AKB, I wonder if she’ll always be tagged as AKB now..
anyway, lucky ass kid. There’s nothing sexual with the picture so it isn’t child porn.. this is more about tastes than anything.
There’s nothing sexual except the kid is grasping her sensitive erogenous zone with those little baby soft hands and she probably got wet from it.
So if a baby sucks on a mother’s teat, that would count as child pornography?
Way to go Japan, becoming more and more like the USA with every passing day.
Well the women certanly are americanized… or should I say feminized?
Last time I check, here in America you can a talk to a girl and give directions with out being arrested, or wanted by the police. At least here in America you don’t have to worry about a Mayor banning TV show’s he doesn’t agree with, or having to bribe the police just to publish a manga or as I like to call them comic books.
So if a baby sucks on a mother’s teat, that would count as child pornography?
Way to go Japan, becoming more and more like the USA with every passing day.
The explanation appears not to say anything about pornography of any sort, but just that it was determined what was shown might make enough of the viewers feel discomfort, for whatever reason, which they sensibly don’t intend to incur if they want to keep making it as a magazine.
By the way, the baby feeding scenario could turn out similar, there are many women who generally think babies are gross.
Exactly what I was thinking.
yess, i’ve seen this filth too: babies being forced to suck women’s nipples!
What are we, animals?
Yeah! Let’s punish them by makeing those mothers suck… um… cock!
d00d babies being forced to suck a womans boob is babyraep!!! A baby cannot consent to that. A baby cannot comprehend the risk of potentially catching stds from sucking a diseased whore of a mother’s body fluids. baby are incapable to consent to drinking mother’s milk.
Yep this and nursing babies are almost definitely comparable. Good job examplefag!
That lucky bastard…tch
someone drew the CP card?
Huh well this kinda photography would totally be ignored in any European country, it’s like artistic in stuff. It’s obviously way innocent.
Now, if she was giving him a hand job maybe…
“Child pornography”? So hands are considered sexually explicit now? Did I miss something and did the Taliban win the Japanese elections?
They did, but they’re called “LDP” in Japan.
i like how those who got to snag the magazine are selling it for $80
Collectors editions right?
Damn so lucky , those are some nice looking tits.
i want to be that kid!
This is dumb. There’s no child pornography here, and heaven forbid if a boy touches boobs. (how do you think he was fed as an infant?)
I would expect this here in the USA, where the human body is evil in all circumstances.
awww the poor kid… I’m sure he’s scarred for life. Even as we speak he’s probably having nightmares about this terrible ordeal.
..lolz
He’ll have to wash the sheets after those nightmares.
If a man had a little girl hold his nipples in some mag, the guy would get sent to jail instantly.
Equal rights my ass.
Yup, it’s sick fucking world ruled by women.
Equal rights my ass indeed
I’d like to give your ass equal rights
If you want to bugger his bum, go to a gay site.
Yes, in jail, everyone gets equal rights in the ass >.>
Exactly what I was going to say.
Was the child banging her from behind? Cause it sure looks like it.
Another play on equal rights my ass indeed
are you kidding? the entire article is about how the image WASN’T acceptable
But is she in jail for a few years? Or the producer/director/who-the-fuck-ever that thought of doing this? I doubt it. She gets away with this, but any other guy would go to jail. Does Japan even have equal rights (not that any other location does)?
If a man was so much as simply shirtless within 20 feet of a little girl, he would be immediately sent to jail.
GIVE THIS GUY A MEDAL!!!
Child is obviously photoshopped. It would take an idiot to not realize that.
With Woody shopped in there instead, that’d be awesome…
That’s not the point dumbass!
Equal rights are an absurd concept brought about by commies.
The Genders are unequal and should remain so without society forcing things that aren’t natural for the sake of ‘equality’. Not to say gender roles themselves should be forced, but for gods sake people need to shut the fuck up about it and let people decide for themselves.
Communists see men as the dominant species, point invalid.
I can’t understand how there are such sheep out there trying to justify double standards. No matter what bullshit reasoning you have for it, it will still be bullshit!
lol, all this “they” stuff about women. As if “they” are freaking aliens or something. Come out of your hermit caves already. Goofy kids here.
Go and see the U.S.A.’s statistics on devorce crimestatistics, and parenting statistics.You will see women are favored over men in every way. Women even get lesser time in jail than a man for the same crime! Fact.
You’re all idiots who believe in false equivalences.
They start to whine whenever we give equal rights. but hey, we have to endure every inch of insult if we are in the wrong.
If a guy touches a girl’s crotch, that guy would’ve probably be sent to jail all beat up.
If a girl touches a guy’s crotch;
A. report the girl to the nearest police station and be a laughing stock.
B. congrats, surprise snu-snu!
They are dominant in many respects in case reality hasn’t proven otherwise. Taking ego out of it, if you just look at how men and women think, there’s a reason men have dominated the world in general.
Women have their own strength, and equality merely means that you respect that strength and what it’s capable of. But women have started to get special treatment now as opposed to equality compared to what they had in the past in normal society. Because of that, the pendulum has swung out of balance in another direction. Men beating women for no reason has never been looked on with respect, yet men who roll over for women who badger them incessantly aren’t even respected by the woman who badgered him.
That level of bullshit cannot exist and be called balance and equality. That is a lie, and lies cannot exist for long.
That is because they are. Point valid on grounds of every major social system does view men as superior for most everything.
I guess it is too much but… one thing is clear… Id love to be THAT child 😀
And yet, Japan has an entire business called the junior idol industry which is 200x more creepier than this.
Don’t get me wrong, this is creepy too; But I cannot see how this is deemed inappropriate where half of the other stuff Japan gets away with is still accepted.
Was the boy raped? Was he fondled? Harrassed? Forced to do anything by sticking a knife to his neck? Was he drugged? No? Then I see no problem here.
Is he old enough to make his own choices on these things, or being manipulated by adults? I am thinking the latter here. Little kids do what they are told. They can easily be corrpted by adults who are not looking out for their well being, but just using them like in this case.
lol would you be saying the same if it was a little girl holdin a guys penis??
D00d, he’s damaged for life. Now all his gay lovers will hate on his little faggot ass when they see him grabbing a woman’s tits. How do u know the kid won’t turn out to be gay? This forced breast fondling could psychologically scar him for life, and no matter how many dicks he sucks later in life, he’ll never be able to wash the horrible feeling of those god awful icky boobs away. Would somebody pleaes think of the childrenz. Women should have the breasts whacked off just in case so no kid ever has to even accidentally brush against one of those awful horrible monstrous vomit inducing sacs of fat.
Come to think of it,what are boobs made of really?
^ Pedo Defender
^ Child dictator
white person detected
lol… moralfag
^ Conservative American, incapable of rational thought.
I am sure the kid and his parents got quite a sum of ca$h for the photoshoot. Soo it was not childabuse. Toddlers and Tiaras now THAT is childabuse!
I love how idiots act when they’re wrong.
Funny stuff.
obvious wanker detected
lol yes, and if a young underaged girl “voluntarily” wanted to pose naked/do indecent acts im sure you would still hold the same idea. Retardation is a disease.
^ Pedo defender defender
Because Im sure that kid feels abused.
I’m surprised the extreme otakus aren’t screaming bloody murder because someone else got their hand on her boobs.
She looks a bit like that Miyuki/Hiyori blend from Mangirl, but is she really that extreme?
Haters gonna hate
Those idol otaku should be asking their self if she’s not afraid of shoutas touching her breasts, nor appearing seminude in from of the cameraman, what chances are there that she’s really a ‘pure maiden’.
This coming from a country that makes U-5 videos. Okay, whatever.
I wouldn’t mind to lend her a hand or even two …
The boy is clearly just one of those… “hugging pillows”.
I can imagine the jealous AKB-otaku forming a mob to lynch the kid. “How dare you sully our beloved, pure, angelic idol!!”
Not one of them would be brave enough to touch her stupid coward virgin otaku.
you know that even if you are Chuck Norris whe you touch her you will be throw into jail for molest, rape, assault, indecent conduct, harassment charge? then proceed to get your arse raped by inmates?
Don’t be stupid.
Molest, rape, assault, indecent conduct, harassment charges will be thrown into jail instead if Chuck Norris is involved.
That’s what the goody two-shoes say.
Normal People (like me) say “How dare you impede the view on the boobs of our beloved, pure, angelic Idol!!!*
damn kid needs to get out of the pic because boobs.
Last I knew, “pornography” had to be sexually explicit. At most this is inapropriate conduct with a minor.
The issue here is kids do what adults tell them to do. So when adults tell kids to do things that most will find offensive, people get pissed at those adults who really should not be so damn clueless.
It’s not even that. I’ve seen the equivalent in European and Latin American mainstream films. Then there was that South American model that was in similar poses with her (also mostly naked) brother (again, we’re talking professional work here, not leaked private stuff). Americans are just up-tight about breasts.
They’re breasts, not genitals. Besides, kids that age are still bathing with their parents of either sex. I’ve known five-year-olds that were still nursing, even.
If you had a grown man, with a little girl having her hands on his pecks things would be far different, and that is the real issue here.
Even with the fact that breasts are considered more sexual than a mans chest.
Americans are up-tight about ewerything.
It’s not even an American magazine. No American is saying anything about this. If anything that was a Japanese blog. At least read the damn thing first before commenting about it, dumbass.
“kids that age are still bathing with their parents of either sex. I’ve known five-year-olds that were still nursing, even.”
thats just sick!!! especially the first part! where youre living? Pervert Island or what?
@ OmarCz
It’s been proved that the longer children bath with their parents, the better the family relationship.
Your thinking is the problem why kids these days often are on bad terms with their parents. They don’t behave like family anymore but like strangers accidentally living in the same house.
I bathed with my parents until I turned 10yo and it did not affect me in any way. Also after my female cousin was 8 her parents moved to us and we were so close that we bathed sometimes, and she bathed sometimes with her parnts until she was 10, and it did not affect her either in any ways. I guess it depends on the family and how you are raised that where the borders are drawn.
dear Anonymous 03:50 12/01/2013
1) Im far from both USA and America as a continent, so wrong guess there, my friend :))
2) have few friends with kids from 4-8years old, which I believe covers the age of that kid on picture, and I can assure you kids same age as that on picture dont bath with their parents if you think they do and its common then… well… Pervert island indeed
3) USA way of live? oh my! no thank you 🙂
Different culture, different values, don’t start to changer the world to fit your view of right and wrong and stuff like that, god help us we don’t need any more “USA”s that one we already have give us enough problems and loads of shit to deal with…
Let the other cultures be as the wish, and those who start to embrace the “USA’s way of life” and the values of the “USA’s culture” should be ashamed of themselves.
(And yup used “USA” instead of “american” on purpose ’cause American is ANYONE born on the AMERICAN CONTINENT)
its called japan you bloody idiot…..
This is nothing compared to what used to go in in Japanese media, like with Daigoro in Lone Wolf and Cub.
On the other hand, at least half of the Daigoro actors grew up to be crooks…
That little lucky bastard is going to fap his brains out as soon as he realizes what he’s done.
They could have at least thought up some artistic expression or womans rights excuse like that time magazine breast feeding thing. http://www.bt.dk/sites/default/files-dk/node-images/148/5/5148702-us-time-breastfeeding.jpg Its the one time feminazis are useful.
Just getting a little kid to hold on to a porn stars tits for no reason is going to spell trouble.
But little kids in questionable sexual situations as a marketing strategy is was makes Japan, Japan.
what*
That might just be the luckiest point in that kid’s life…
Its all downhill for him now.
Same for everyone…Life is all downhill from 10 years on…
Nah, I am pretty sure that he is a son of some big boss of the company. His life will about nailing new idol candidates every night.
Lucky…bastard.
Yeah. he’s blonde so he’s a delinquent.
Indeed. Putting aside the luck of that kid though, the Japanese aren’t very bright if any of them think it’d be a neat idea to publish something like that.
What’s the difference between sancummers and boobkid? Boobkid still has a chance.
So a creepy braat grabbing boobs on a photo is child pron and child abuse.
Teachers raping school children is ok.
Oh japan, your idiocy keeps impressing me every day.
Lucky kid.
Nope. Abused kid.
Someone removed my groosly offensive coment:
Luck!! Has nothing to do with it… Do you guys know how many handshake tickets that boy had to buy to get that deal?
Lucky kid indeed
Luck?? Has nothing to do with this…
Do you guys realize how many handshake tickets he had to buy to get this deal?
Lucky damn kid!
Lucky kid is lucky.
Comon a kid is only a kid. When you were a boy you could go to the ladies toilet and swiming pool chaning rooms and vice versa. What’s the big deal.
I meant, why all the jealousy lol. You might as well be jealous of babies because they suck nipples.
don’t wash those hands. Someone somewhere is willing to pay you big money to sniff them.
Imagine being chased around by fat, sweaty, obese, bald, old, virgin manchild. That’s why it’s called child abuse.
Other anons point wash your hands or the otaku chase you for the hands lol
What’s your point? That didn’t make any sense.
So true…
I wonder how he get this business deal,such wonderful childhood memories.
Food for oil. His wings can’t be seen so her nipples can’t either.
yeah, why is there a fuss about it? he’s just a little gentleman protecting her nipples to be seen. i would have done absolutely the same.
Not really. It’d cause a greater furore if it happened in the US.
LOL… if Demi Moore or Britney Spears did this the American media wouldn’t blink probably.
Is this controversy because she’s AKB? It seems pretty safe given what you’d see in those crazy japan movies like “Citizen Q”
Like somebody commented, it could be the kid was hugging air or some balloon, and a photoshopper did the rest. But of course one can always imagine all manner of possibilities.
Yuup. Always some loser talking about how lucky some kid is for grabbing some boobs. Just get laid already…
such a virgin comment
no it wouldn’t be fair, you blatant pedophile.
Seeing as they’re showing an image of a little boy holding a pair of female model’s boobs, wouldn’t it be fair to ask that they show a picture of a real life loli holding onto a male model’s dick in the next issue ?
SHOW US SOME LOLI LOVE YOU BASTARDS !
Yuup. Always some loser talking about how everyone else should get laid. Get laid yourself first, dumbass.
Did you grab some boobs when you were a kid besides your grandma´s saggy ones?
Abused? I think noooot 😀
Also, even Takumi who was gonna anounce the 5th stage had the face of “fuck it, whatever”.
Awesome kid got to fuck an idol at 10 years old lol
“child porn.”
Yep, those pervs are definitely jacking off to the boy.
Yes, this is disgusting!
I would gladly volunteer for that job, so they can stop abusing that boy!
InB4 breastfeeding considering as blowjob pedorape.
if man do it , maybe will be called “Boob abuse” ?
“Yes yes. More controversy marketing.”
Way to read between the lines, I’m impressed.
Babies suck on their mother’s breasts all the time, the world is sick full of pedo moms.
Those pictures all just have her saying “cameltoes any one?”.
the only ones complaining are probably women and jealous men,lol
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He obviously has it in inside her Oh shet idol fans be mad.
Never liked her. Her high voice is annoying, she has the look of a half, and never added anything to AKBINGO.
Always some loser talking about how lucky some kid is for grabbing some boobs. Just get laid already…
Is she half white? Or was one of her parents half French, or something?
Just looking at one of those pictures where she looks like she could be from Europe somewhere.
Not all japs are so-called yellow skinned. lighter, white skin is considered a sign of beauty to the japs and isn’t uncommon. and they don’t necessarily have to have non-japanese ancestors. Also, photoshop exists, though might not apply in this instance.
cant arrest her shes a her
anyone who complained was a woman….any guy who saw this probably thought that was one lucky kid,lol
This is an OUTRAGE!
I’m sure that poor child will be traumatized for the rest of his life, those two hands of his forever remembering the feeling of touching a model’s succulent tits.
*sniff*
who buys this kind of crap magazine anyway… you can find the same, if not better, on the internet, for free.
Kid thought it was a milk ad. heh
Well this bitch is pedo.. cant have it both ways people.. if men cant do shit like this neither can women.. put this whore in jail!
agreed hahah
What the hell Japan? No surprise from a country that forgot normal breeding habits.
Equal rights equal consequences.
If a little girl can’t grab a man’s penis in a magazine why should they allow a little boy grab a woman’s boob?
those are not equal. the boy wasnt grabbing her bloody vagina. if a magazine released a photo of a young girl with her hands over a guys chest there would be no issue. nipples are not genitals you fool….
There would be an issue. Specialy in places like the U.S. and Australia. In Australia A-cup or smaller chested women of all ages cant be shown in porn movies, or naked in any way because according to local law it is child abuse, and child pornography. Even if the woman is 40. The classic Shaekspear’s Romeo and Juliet was banned from lieberies, schools, bookstores, and child theaters because according to australian law it is child pornography because Juliet is 14 and has sex with Romeo in it who is 17.
Oh, so grabbing a girl’s breasts isn’t sexual interaction anymore?
Look up “primary sexual characteristics”, then “secondary”.
The kid probably had his hands on her tits and his dick in her ass. THAT’s why it’s such a big deal.
Marry me, you old hag!
>looks at breast fondling picture
She looks old enough to be that kid’s mother!
Skeezy old men don’t want to see her shoutacon antics, they want to see hot yuri action and the next obasan replaced with a younger model.
AKB 48 is the moeblob equivalent of the 3d world,lol.
Agnes where art are thou! Oh wait, you’re too busy protecting pretend kids! lulz
Sick pedo idols? Not sure if want?
You don’t want her?
Are you gay?