- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 19, 2011 05:43 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Mass Media, Mental Illness, Otaku, Politics, Sweden

Sweden’s state radio has warned people who enjoy adult anime and manga that they are in fact dangerous sex criminals who are violating Sweden’s draconian child pornography laws and should “seek professional help” immediately.
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Following the illustrious example set by Sweden, Australia’s game censorship board has revoked the rating of Dead or Alive Dimensions, effectively banning it, accusing the game of containing “content not drawn to the board’s attention.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 22, 2011 08:32 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Dead or Alive, Denmark, DS, Fighting Games, Law, Nintendo, Norway, Sweden

Nintendo has cancelled the Scandinavian release of Dead or Alive over concerns that it may fall foul of Sweden’s absurd child pornography laws.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 26, 2011 10:10 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Censorship, Courts, Crime, Fine Art, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Otaku, Sweden

Sweden’s dubious status as an enlightened nation is being further cast into doubt by the publication of some of the images it has been attempting to lock people up for possessing.
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Swedish courts have upheld the child pornography conviction of a manga fan for possessing loli imagery on his computer, ruling that deviant art and imagination is as much a crime as actual child abuse.
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- Author: Jeff
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jul 26, 2010 17:20 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Crime, Law, Loli, Lolicon, Misandry, Police, Politics, Sweden

A manga translator has been convicted of possessing child pornography after police apparently uncovered his stash of loli manga.
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A couple who decided to engage in kinky BDSM sex now face prosecution after police decided to file charges of aggravated assault against the man, despite both parties consenting.
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Leaked prices for Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal give it a supposed price in the region of $200, far from the $80 price point previously touted.
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Square Enix’s openness to allowing a non-Japanese studio to develop a Final Fantasy title seems to have been an allusion to a mysterious “Final Fantasy” title provisionally dubbed “Fortress,” cancelled but visible in incomplete form in the technical demo visible below.
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A 12-year-old boy has been arrested for attempting the rape of a 19-year-old woman in an attack which saw him pull down her trousers and punch her in the face, hospitalising her.
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A “baby-face” serial rapist thought to be behind as many as 30 sex attacks over recent months has turned out to be an actual schoolboy.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 10, 2009 16:21 JST
- Tags: AV, Bizarre, Exhibitionism, Feminism, Keitai, Misandry, Politics, Sweden, Yuri

The recent release of a series of hardcore porn movies entirely funded by the Swedish government for being “feminist porn” which “challenges traditional gender roles” has angered some who think the state should not be making pornography with taxpayer funds.
Most oddly of all it seems the Swedish state is funding feminists to organise illegal acts of indecent exposure, as pictured above…
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