ICv2 interviews TP’s Pavia | New manga publisher!

October 13, 2008 in General Chatter, Manga Minutiae | 7 comments

RightStuf is currently having a 33%-off sale on all Icarus Publishing books, including pre-orders.  Just enter the coupon code “sinful” at checkout, and get all the books for $10~14 bucks.  Do your part to help our economy and buy some porn, whydoncha!

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MangaBlog has links to more reactions to the Iowa story.  Also, since I don’t see this link anywhere, here is the original judgement on the motion to dismiss that was released to the public in July.

The manga are not named, but the document does describe them as having depictions of minors, and bestiality with pigs and monkeys (presumably, more fauna are involved).  Now, this doesn’t exactly narrow things down, but I’m going to venture a wild guess and say it might be something by Horihone Saizou, who’s pretty avant garde in the porn manga world.  Anyway, just a crazy guess based on a few short sentences.

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According to Canned Dogs, figure convention Wonderfest has cancelled its next show due to the elevator incident that happened at the last show, despite Comiket being held at the same venue shortly afterwards and without incident.  I don’t know what this is supposed to achieve… maybe they’re giving everyone more time to diet?

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Tokyopop associate publisher Marco Pavia goes on ICv2 to give a progress report on the company, giving assurances that everything is on the up and up, and pimping new projects.  For some reason I imagined him doing Docter Evil air quotes when he mentioned “IManga.”

I’m surprised by the direction they’re taking with CSI.  I always thought one of the biggest appeals of that show was the barely-okay-for-primetime gore…

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The Japanese arm of UNICEF is apparently calling for a blanket ban on all depictions of children’s swimwear.  I suppose that means all future broadcasts of the Summer Olympics need to be censored.

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Spotted on AnimeOnDVD forums… offbeat computer culture/technical publisher No Starch Press will be releasing translated educational manga manuals, starting with the Manga Guide to Statistics, to be followed up by another on Computer Databases.

Isn’t it about time some brave American publisher released those Moetan engrish books?

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Academia is interested in hentai and yaoi.  I think it’s a trap.  Trust no one…

7 comments

  1. Tina on October 13, 2008 at 11:15 am

    That survey is a joke and annoying. Basically they want to know what yaoi-fangirls think of female character in their Yaoi. *rolls eyes*

  2. Simon on October 13, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Heh, at worst it’s a publisher looking for cheap demographic research. The hentai researcher is probably building a criminal profile on ero manga readers! ^o^

  3. CrystalFalls on October 13, 2008 at 11:53 am

    Actually, ANN posted the link to the PDF of the judge’s dismissal of some charges in the Iowa case:

    http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-10-10/iowa-collector-charged-for-allegedly-obscene-manga

    The Japanese arm of UNICEF is not calling for a “blanket ban on all depictions of children’s swimwear.” It says that pictures of children posed sexually in swimwear are not restricted, but thinks those should be. Then again, UNICEF fails to say who gets to decide which pictures are “posed sexually,” so that’s murky waters at best.

    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/komachi/news/mixnews/20081011ok01.htm

  4. Simon on October 13, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Ah, thanks, I missed the ANN story. Actually, I actively avoid reading ANN about news of this nature… the succeeding forum discussion tends to give me a headache.

    Re: UNICEF

    The vagueness of concepts such as “sexually suggestive posing” *would* equate to a de facto ban. I understand the kind of material they have trouble with, but other than context, they’re not materially different from the “compromising” shots you’d see in, say, women’s gymnastics competition.

    Dang, I’m totally slagging off on the Olympics today, aren’t I…

  5. Matt Blind on October 13, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    “Do your part to help our economy and buy some porn”

    Put that on a t-shirt. Ironic hipsters will buy it; they’ll buy just about anything on a t-shirt. You’d make a fair bit before other folks steal your idea and dilute the market — or maybe you could just make some small scratch by shopping the suggestion to T-Shirt Hell (I think they still pay for design ideas)

    Pullquotes from your blog on 100% cotton could be a nice little sideline business, actually.

  6. Chris on October 13, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    I will say that the most disturbing pornographic material in Lamtara, the 9 floor porn store just outside of the Akhiabara JR station, was a collection of preteen girls’ swim-meet videos on VCD. Next to the bukakke DVDs.

    How do you enforce “context”?

    Heh.

    - Chris

  7. Simon on October 14, 2008 at 8:35 am

    Exactly. There are videos being sold that are simply of kids doing PE class in bloomers. How can that be banned without ensnaring every parent’s home video too?

    I understand UNICEF’s objection to this, but if the internet has shown us anything, is that people can fetishize the weirdest, most obscure, most mundane and innocent of things.

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