Kyoto Prefecture’s harmful manga list revealed… a.k.a. I massage Gumugum’s feet and bath his cat

A few days ago, ComiPress reported on the Kyoto Prefecture Youth Growth Planning Committee’s investigation of local manga stores that turned up 13 “harmful manga.”

I chastised ComiPress for using the word “loli” when it didn’t appear anywhere in the original article.

Today, I get on my hands and knees and throw myself at their mercy.  Boy was I wrong.

Despite the article not using the word loli, and despite the committee’s description of the manga as books for boys and girls, the list has been revealed, and the books are very much adult-oriented loli manga.

Not “precocious girl with crush on teacher”.  Not “6 young girls live with one nerdy guy”.  Not “orphans become cybernetically enhanced killing machines”.

Actual hardcore, pornographic, “lolicon” manga.

The list, reproduced by “Doujinshi Lifestyle and Culture Unified Research Center” (probably inaccurate translation; also, no permalink unfortunately) from Kyoto Shimbun:

• 幼女の誘惑 (松文館)
• 無防備年齢宣言 (茜新社)
• ランドセルセカンド (茜新社)
• 児犯鬼 (茜新社)
• 少女姦蔑所 (茜新社)
• 極！幼女 (茜新社)
• 愛妹姦淫 (クロエ出版)
• 少女倶楽部 (ヒット出版社)
• らぶみるくしゃわぁ (ジーウォーク)
• 制服で凌辱て (コアマガジン)
• 幼痴宴…¡ (モエールパブリッシング)
• 子供のしるし (ティーアイネット)
• 稚拙な穴 (ティーアイネット)

For those who can read Japanese, it’s very obvious what these titles are.  For those who cannot… believe me, you wouldn’t want to hear these titles translated.  Google at your own discretion/peril.

The publishers of the fingered books are :

• Shobunkan
• Akaneshinsha
• Chloe Publishing
• Hit Publishing
• G-Walk
• Core Magazine
• Moeru Publishing
• T.I. Net

(Same warning… provided as reference, do not visit if you don’t want to see potentially offensive things.)

This, of course, raises a lot of questions on my part, mainly because I have no understanding of the power this committee may hold over law enforcement policies, whether the scope of their influence is local or beyond, or the consequences for a book labeled as a harmful publication.

Visiting their website and giving a cursory glance over their minutes, their investigations into manga seem to occur quite frequently, covering all kinds of books (boys, girls, ero, BL, etc.)  What effects, if any, have there been on books they previously examined?  Also, has any of these books actually been purchased by youngsters?  (Merely being housed within the same building as other books doesn’t count.)

I think I have a few more thoughts, and I may shoot some questions off to some of the Japanese publishers involved… but first I have to finish scrubing all the restrooms at stately ComiPress manor with a toothbrush while wearing a maid outfit.