Rurouni Kenshin creator Nobuhiro Watsuki charged with possessing Child Pornography

[ben0119]

22 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

Little as in standard loli age, or little as in teenage but not yet 18?

Even then, it's not like arranged marriages like that are uncommon or anything, at least in worlds with spare technological presence like One Piece.

Also, consider the source, Mochi.  Lol.

And yeah the arranged marriage thing is not uncommon in such settings.

[mochi]

6 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

Little as in standard loli age, or little as in teenage but not yet 18?

Even then, it's not like arranged marriages like that are uncommon or anything, at least in worlds with spare technological presence like One Piece.

she's under the age of 15

[PokeNirvash]

But older than 12?

[CorbeauKarasu]

Sanji didn't screw her though. i feel like people are lumping various perversions in with each other and that doesn't seem right.

 

masturbating adults in a porno theater

sexless arranged marriages for political alliances in fiction set during the 16th century

artists drawing copious amounts of smutty art on their personal time

dying from auto-erotic asphyxiation 

 

are all not nearly as bad as child pornography or harassing underage girls

[mochi]

10 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

But older than 12?

**Shrug**

one theory as to why she looks that way is that she may have had her age increased with a devil fruit ability

[PhilosipherStoned]

Not surprising. 

[BUU8800]

So....update.

He got fined under $2000. And....that appears to be it. 

[Jman]

Slap on the wrist.

[Chapinator_X]

As long as he wasn’t caught with weed or pirated One Piece chapters. Then he’d really be a heinous person who should be locked away for ages with no room for forgiveness

[mochi]

5 hours ago, BUU8800 said:

So....update.

He got fined under $2000. And....that appears to be it. 

wow Japan seriously?, that's it?

[CaptainStarwind]

11 hours ago, BUU8800 said:

So....update.

He got fined under $2000. And....that appears to be it. 

Not really that surprising.

Not right, mind you, but not surprising.

[EmpressAngel]

On 1/13/2018 at 6:40 PM, mochi said:

kinda just bad timing on Oda's part but some people in the One Piece Fandom are upset now because

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it's been revealed that this woman,

who's supposed to Marry Sanji, is actually a little girl

She's in no way a little girl. She's 17 or 16 at the very least. I'm not sure why you're saying she's below that, since her immediate younger sibling is explicitly stated to be 15. Her fiance is 21, which is a bit on the older side in comparison, but considering that her family practically walked out of Game of Thrones, it's not a huge creep factor.

[ben0119]

On 2/27/2018 at 6:56 AM, BUU8800 said:

So....update.

He got fined under $2000. And....that appears to be it. 

Wow.

[BUU8800]

Apparently the new Kenshin Hokkaido Arc is resuming publication in July. At least in Japan. I can only imagine Viz will not resume the publication here, but who the hell knows.

EDIT: ANN Article - note that it's the July issue of Jump SQ so that actually comes out in June.

Edited April 23, 2018 by BUU8800

[CaptainStarwind]

On 4/23/2018 at 2:53 AM, BUU8800 said:

I can only imagine Viz will not resume the publication here, but who the hell knows.

Hard to say if they will, but I agree with you that they probably won't.  His conviction is probably going to overshadow a lot of his work in the west now, so I can't imagine Viz would want to touch it anymore.

[BUU8800]

And to the surprise of no one, Viz does not resume publication stateside.

[CorbeauKarasu]

with all the reboots and stuff in anime recently, i had high hopes that the Jinchu Arc would finally get a full anime project. but now...

[PokeNirvash]

As to be expected, in America drugs ain't no thang but child porn ends it all, while in Japan it's the other way around, and Rurouni Kenshin was hit by both.

Edited June 4, 2018 by PokeNirvash

[Jman]

Viz distances themselves from an author associated with kiddie porn?

I’m shocked.

Actually I’m kind of relieved to be honest.

[rpgamer]

Of all the examples brought up for comparison, kinda surprised Ren & Stimpy creator wasn't one of them.

[CaptainStarwind]

2 hours ago, rpgamer said:

Of all the examples brought up for comparison, kinda surprised Ren & Stimpy creator wasn't one of them.

On my end, at least, I wasn't aware of any of that until rather recently.  I live under a rock when it comes to that kind of stuff, unfortunately.

[rpgamer]

Which, in its own way, is a point in itself. Ignorance is bliss. As long as you never know about the shady shit, it can't affect your perception of what it may have influenced. Re: previous discussion of separating art from artist and enjoying the work despite more intimate knowledge of the creator. As long as fans or anyone potentially interested don't go digging that far, it won't have quite so huge an impact as the pessimists would suggest.