More Videos Japan cracks down on child porn Story highlights Japan bans possession of child pornography but not explicit animation Some manga, anime shows children being sexually abused Cartoonists say a ban would hurt the entire industry Welfare advocates say the material is being used to groom children. They stare wide-eyed from the pages of magazines, childlike in stature but engaged in extremely explicit sexual activities. They may be drawings, but critics say the images found on the pages of some of Japan's erotic manga are so disturbing they should be banned. However, it doesn't include possession of anime or manga depicting child abuse, no matter how sexually explicit. Anime expo obsession Manga master paints 'real' characters To see what's being openly sold on Japanese shelves, CNN took a hidden camera to one of the many manga stores in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. The district is a known hub for "otakus," obsessive members of anime and manga fandom, a worldwide group of avid followers of the genre.
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Japan's comics and cartoons - known as manga and anime - are a huge cultural industry and famous around the world. But some are shocking, featuring children in sexually explicit scenarios. Why has Japan decided against banning this material? It's a Sunday afternoon in Tokyo and Sunshine Creation is in full swing. Thousands of manga fans, mostly men, crowd into an exhibition centre, poring over manga comic magazines laid out for sale on trestle tables snaking around the rooms. Posters of elfin-faced, doe-eyed cartoon heroines, many of them scantily clad and impossibly proportioned, turn the cavernous space into a riot of colour. We stop at one table where the covers on display feature two topless girls.
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While lesbianism is a commonly associated theme, the genre is also inclusive of works depicting emotional and spiritual relationships between women that are not necessarily romantic or sexual in nature. Yuri is most commonly associated with anime and manga , though the term has also been used to describe video games , light novels , and literature. Themes associated with yuri originate from Japanese lesbian fiction of the early twentieth century, notably the writings of Nobuko Yoshiya and literature in the Class S genre. Manga depicting female homoeroticism began to appear in the s in the works of artists associated with the Year 24 Group , notably Ryoko Yamagishi and Riyoko Ikeda. The genre gained wider popularity beginning in the s; the founding of Yuri Shimai in as the first manga magazine devoted exclusively to yuri , followed by its successor Comic Yuri Hime in , led to the establishment of yuri as a discrete publishing genre and the creation of a yuri fan culture. As a genre, yuri does not inherently target a single gender demographic, unlike its male homoerotic counterparts yaoi marketed towards a female audience and gay manga marketed towards a gay male audience. Although yuri originated as a genre targeted towards a female audience, yuri works have been produced that target a male audience, as in manga from Comic Yuri Hime ' s male-targeted sister magazine Comic Yuri Hime S. The term came to be associated with lesbian pornographic manga beginning in the s, notably though the manga magazine Lady's Comic Misuto — , which heavily featured symbolic lily flowers.
