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An otaku musician famous on NicoNico Douga has been arrested for having sex with an underage fan who approached him at Comiket.

The 31-year-old Tokyo musician enjoyed modest fame through his music on NicoNico Douga, released under the name “Hoshimi Aoto.”

However, his popularity was his undoing – a 17-year-old female high schooler approached him whilst he was attending a Comiket music booth, and proved more than willing to express her appreciation for his talents amorously.

The pair indulged in carnal relations at a hotel in the Tokyo city of Chofu, a matter which somehow came to the attention of the authorities.

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He was subsequently arrested and charged with engaging in indecent activities with a minor, which he admitted, saying “I thought it was risky but I couldn’t restrain my lust.”

Aside from its enjoyably lurid aspects, the case has been attracting attention for another reason – the stark contrast between “ideal and actuality” offered by pictures of the musician whilst being arrested for his vile deeds and his online 2D portrayal:

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His music:


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    Comment by Anonymous
    04:01 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    She came onto him and she's barely underage, he should not be arrested and have his name dragged through the mud because of that.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:06 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    true, but Japan.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:08 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    I agree... I feel sorry for the guy, as in here that'd be completely legal. But I thought the age of consent was 14 in Japan, or was it one of those things that had their own variations from prefecture to another?

    Avatar of cuppatea@yahoo.co.jp
    04:33 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    The national age of consent in Japan is 13 as specified by the Japanese Penal Code Articles 176 and 177. However, prefectures can (and do) have dumb laws (ordinances) that prohibit sexual activities with any minor under 18.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:35 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    The Japanese age of consent is a qualitative thing - like it can vary. When I worked there, I was warned upon first arriving that despite 14 being the age often quoted (not that I'd want to engage in those acts with someone so young anyway!) to treat 18 as the age, because that's the age it becomes beyond reproach.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:58 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    If you want to be really really sure you must wait until they are 21 (and obviusly don't approach to them nor be seen by them, they are the ones that must approach to you).

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:04 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    You're both wrong actually.
    Age of consent in Japan is thirteen, but prefectures can override it up to eighteen. Usually it's sixteen, but not necessarily and can be different for men and women, or depend on the kind of sex (although being a foreigner is equivalent to doing the worst imaginable act).
    Also, paying someone under eighteen for sex is illegal.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:02 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    the more you know or you learn new something every day

    thank you anon, now I'm gonna fuck a 13 yr old jpn girl.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:04 21/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    in which prefectures is it 13?

    Comment by Taylor
    07:49 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Why are you bothering with real women? Did you learn nothing from this article.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:27 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    He was an otaku and not a teacher...

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:43 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    he was baited. otaku too naive to see a trap.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:59 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Where's Admiral Akbar when you need him?

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:41 20/04/2013 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    but he accepted to make sex with her is his fault too,and i hate this girls have orgasms because the avatar of nico singer/utaite and in real life is a monsters that guys

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:22 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    what hell did you type

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:47 20/04/2013 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    No, he should have his name on a plaque for his achievements. What he did was illegal. Simple as that. People go to jail for marijuana, and I doubt that too is a good enough reason.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:12 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    It's not as simple as that. If laws were a set of rigid rules, upon the breaking of which a suspect simply was thrown into jail, then what in principle, is the need of courts? Why don't policemen dispense justice on sight? I'm sure what a wonderful society that would have been.

    Remember that laws are nothing but regulations written by politicians. In so far as they protect lives and property, they need to be enforced. But when a law is unjust and ludicrous and concerns a crime for which there is no victimized party, it needs to be fought against the same way as tyranny. Here we have a case of two consenting ADULTS (17 is an adult age as any) engaging in a private, mutually agreed upon act. Although this might be a particular case in Japan, thousands of people get incarcerated in the West for trivial reasons with nobody hurt by their supposed offenses. Does the public get outraged and come to their defense? No, instead they rationalize, if a suspect committed an offense against an existing law, then it automatically follows that he is morally culpable of a great offense of breaking said law, because it's the law.

    Remember it was illegal to aid an escaping slave in the 1860's and even now, in some places it's against the law for a woman to take off her face covering rag on pain of death. In so far as they are stupid and harmful, such laws exist to be broken and fought against. The fact that something is a law does not imply that it is just or moral or helps improve public welfare in any way.

    So next time you gloat over an innocent person getting thrown in jail, remember it could be you soon. Under your standard of justice, there's no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:42 20/04/2013 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    The girl is under the age 18, I think that's why its illegal and conisder underage for sex

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:56 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    You should be a detective!

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    Comment by ALAKTORN
    04:08 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Poor guy. :(

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:10 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    ... looks like a setup to me

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:19 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    They can set me up with a 17 year old anytime :D

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:11 20/04/2013 # ! Drivel (-0.8)

    Mediocre music.
    Mediocre lyrics.
    Mediocre looks.
    Mediocre morals.
    Anyone surprised?

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:27 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Mediocre post.

    Can't say I am surprised.

    Comment by Anonymous

    mediocre response

    this doesn't surprised me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:49 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    mediocre response
    this doesn't surprise me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:49 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    fuck, forgot the d. damn you good grammar!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:52 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    mediocre surprise?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:44 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    aculy, dolan iz not surprrissd

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:43 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Mediocre Anon.
    Not one surprise was given.
    Dawg.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:13 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    LOL 17 year old...wth.

    But yeah, not surprising that they won't take another look at the corporate suits that regularly pay good money for 13- year olds. After all, there's money involved.

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    Comment by kintama00
    04:15 20/04/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    ..as if she were a virgin :/

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:44 20/04/2013 # ! Drivel (-0.8)

    Oh noes. Not a virgin. Keep that mentality and you'll never get laid. Don't worry, you can pay a few hundred thousand dollars for that Russian virgin or whatever the fuck she was.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:33 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Japan will surely drive it population into extinction if they keep on cutting their citizen's balls like this.

    One day "Children of men" movies would come into realization in Japan

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:17 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    The thing in Japan the lack of land, many live with parents and family making it the only possibility going to a hotel, very risky if you take a JK.

    Otherwise if one were to live alone and take her home, we would not see so much arrests.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:58 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    He wasn't a teacher. And she probably wasn't a loli.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:07 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    The age of consent is 16 in many different countries, also in my own. Like hell, the girl was 17, so what. She's old enough to decide whether she has sex. It pisses me off how poor otaku get baited into traps like that while in other countries cases like this couldn't even be reported as rape, as there was obvious consent.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:12 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    it's 15 in my country more power to me

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:37 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    13 in mine.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:37 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    it's 13 in japan

    And i'm confuse how is this possible?

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:40 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Spain, my new vacation destination

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:28 21/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    because he is otaku?

    Comment by Anonymous
    00:38 21/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    It's 13 state-wide, but every prefecture can set it own age of consent, most set it to 18.

    Japanese politicians are either completely naive or full of shit.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:39 26/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    16 in Texas and Florida. I think Federally 18 is universal in the US, but States are given some degree of leeway on self-governance and that include marital affairs. Some are a little weird though. For example marital consent age being lower than consensual sexual congress age limitations. I'm not really sure how that's enforced, but it *is* rather hilarious.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:46 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    The national age of consent in Japan is 13 as specified by the Japanese Penal Code Articles 176 and 177. However, prefectures can have ordinances that prohibit sexual activities with any minor under 18.
    *from wikipedia*

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:41 26/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    IMO biologically 13 is fine, but socially creepy. 16+ seems fine though, especially given females reaching maturity sooner than males. Hell most men are still children well into their 30s.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:16 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    If only he was a teacher they would have given him 3 weeks payed vacation in the form of a "Suspension."

    Comment by Anonymous

    I hate when guys covers or sings Miku songs, only few actually sound fitting, and its rare. He can sing but not fitting, and too many dudes/guys doing the same thing, I don't even want to listen to male singing anything anymore.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:43 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Let's face it that he can barely sing anyway.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:24 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Arrested for having sex with a 17yo? What? How fucking high is the age of consent in Japan?

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:36 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Consent? What's that?

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:44 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    they'll teach you what "consent" is in jail.

    Comment by Anonymous

    It's usually 18 in most places isn't it?

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:55 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    Nope. In most of Europe it varies from 14 to 16, for example. It is only 18 in US and very few other places.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:28 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Holy shit I'm moving to Europe

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:35 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    In some states it's around 16, so long as both parties are not 18 or older. And then there are states where parental consent is needed for it to not be considered rape if one of the people in said arrangement isn't of age. It's really ridiculous.

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    Comment by Nerd
    14:56 20/04/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    And it's not 18 in the US, it varies by state, between 16 and 18. In many US states 17 is legal.







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