Amazon Bans Lolicon & Fetish Manga; AV, Eroge, Follow?

Wow it seems like this is the start of a world wide crackdown.

rape and all the other shit are banned?
wow nice! now i can buy hentai manga witouth going /wrist

Kodomo no Jikan doesn't count, right? It's not actually porn...

If they banned Kojika, they'd have to ban Moetan, too. And that's supposed to help people learn English. :P

This is just sad... the economy is already going back to the dark ages, culture seems to be following suit.

The main issue on the whole deal is that not only the government, but now also major retailers are using their powers to select what people can and cannot have access to.

I don't care how they call it, but since they have absolutely no evidence that loli manga and stuff can cause harm to people, there is only one word to define such actions: censorship.

And it really doesn't matter if you like loli stuff or not, because if people accepts what's happening now, the next censored publication just could be something people like.

It's really sad how moralism seems to be gaining more fuel these days due to false assumptions.

It's a mistake to think that society and culture are always evolving... instead, it seems that we always come back to the same problems.

Our history is filled with stories of censorship that used something that is not accepted by the majority on a specific period of time.
Censorship that inevitabily proved useless to the purposes it was meant to.

Talking about books with "pagan" content, then with "revolutionary" content, regular pornographic material, rock 'n roll (the music of the devil), too much eroticism in movies, too much violence in movies and cartoons, violence and sex in games, and so forth.

Banning loli manga, I'm willing to bet, will have NO EFFECTS whatsoever on crimes related to child abuse.

We're so prompt to criticize when extremist religious countries plead to ban some sort of media because it goes against their beliefs, yet here we are, acting just like them.

Must be a propaganda to license all those stuff in the US for more profit or Japan is just hogging all there perverted stuff. This will cause world war III I tell you.

way to fail, amazon

Yeah, Amazon JP's been at it for over half a year. I'm not sure if it's just them coming to the decision, cause other places like Hong Kong and Taiwan also stopped shipping not just hentai, but mature/adult manga and other merchandise at about the same time. Many suspect US Custom or Postal Office or Homeland Security has been applying pressure worldwide. But for your h manga import fix, you can still get some at Hobby Search or YesAsia. Play Asia seems to be still taking orders for risque figures. Coool.

Sadly these days the news are quite dreadful on that front.

More and more cases of strict censorship are applied to stores, websites and even whole nations/continents. As if genitalia censorship from Japan wasn't enough now we have complete ban of genres.

I am very afraid that in future, things are going to turn quite bad....

Of course, this isn't an actual ban. It's just one store's policies.

This will only mean more sales for dedicated online eromanga and lolicon sellers, since there's less competition from the (hard to beat) Amazon.

it seems lik thers alot of ban...censorship going ard the world...

The pointmissers are missing the point here:

The laws had been in place for a long while now. Instinctive "ass-coverage" is the reason. And politics being politics; it takes something a good decade to work for "the people."

Not that Big Brother had stopped any of you before... How "big" IS this lost suppose to be for Amazon and others who take a stronger stance? Last I checked, the magic number for anime DVD sales is 10,000. And only around 5 titles can achieve that number. So let's say we divide that number by 10. That would probably be the total fanbase for the hardercore pro-pedophile works.

Considering the obscenity case in Iowa involving imported manga -which may have been purchased from Amazon Japan- this may very well be a policy change ordered directly by top Amazon brass.

Of course they can choose what to sell and what not: it's THEIR website.

Fuckers, I hope they lose a lot of money by this...

I am surprised that noone has mentioned the effects on the artists yet.

There are probably quite a few artists out there who will start thinking a bit closer about what kind of manga they are going to draw, now that they know they could lose some major sellers if their works end up being considered risky. Amazon is not only a platform for buying things, but also one to gather information about them. I myself often visit the Amazon entries of products to read customer reviews although I later buy them at a different online shop. So every artist considered inacceptable may lose a lot of advertisement which would lead to fewer people knowing about his or her product which would lead to a drop in sales of course. Or at least the artists in question will fear that case.

So even if you don't consider Amazon's behavior censorship, it could nevertheless tempt artists to censor their own ideas, even before bringing them to paper. And censorship done by the artists themselves is probably the worst kind of censorship, as you can't even protest against it...

I wonder what made Amazon Japan to make a decision to ban such items...and only now O.o

This sucks, just when I was starting to seriously contemplate getting a japanese mail-forwarding address for the kind of purchases Amazon inexplicably refuses to ship abroad ... I don't want to have to rely on yahuoku & co.

Check out Amazon.jp

They still sell the stuff mentioned above, but cannot be shipped OUTSIDE Japan.

coprophagia... lol wow havnt heard of stuff like that, very crazy stuff haha ^^;

Amazon encourages illegal smugglings and torrent sharings..

W2G Amazon, fucking morons.