Manga About An 8-Year Old Kid Looking For Sex Discontinued
 

(from http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/05/30...re-cover-beat/)

Manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment announced earlier this week that their upcoming series, Nymphet by Kaworu Watashiya, has beentemporarily put on hiatus. Why, you ask? Might it have something to do with the fact that the book is about an eight-year-old girl that wants to have sex with her teacher?

Let me repeat that. Nymphet is about an eight-year-old girl who wants to have sex with her teacher. From what I understand, there?s nothing explicit in the book, but certainly the concept alone is enough to start a nationwide anti-manga campaign. Seven Seas publisher Jason DeAngelis explained the decision to delay the book thusly:

In Japan, Nymphet is a highly popular and successful manga written and drawn by a female creator for an older teen male audience. It is published in Futubasha?s weekly seinen magazine COMIC HIGH. It is not considered pornographic by any means, and Japanese would be shocked to hear this sort of accusation about what they consider to be a mainstream property. In fact, it is so mainstream that it has been turned into an anime program which will be broadcast on Japanese TV starting this July. My personal stance on this title is, if it?s good enough for the Japanese, then it?s good enough for us.

[snip]

As a policy, we at Seven Seas do not believe in altering or ?censoring? manga artwork or content, so that approach, which has been taken in the past by others, is out of the question. Instead, despite the fact that we have already received thousands of orders on this title, I have decided to delay its release and to have an open dialogue with the large book chains and other vendors. My intention is to make them fully aware of this debate, familiarize them more fully with the content, and let each of them make the final decision as to whether or not it is appropriate for their stores and their customers ? and then give them the chance to cancel their orders if they wish.

Any references to the book have since been removed from Seven Seas? Web site. I haven?t read the book, so I can?t say whether the execution overrides the unsavory premise, though the small sampling of previews I read was enough to skeeve me out. You can, however, read irate message board postings on the topic here and here. You can read a defense of the manga here, and the usual insightful comments from Simon Jones (some images nsfw) can be found here.

Has anyone seen this before?

didn't see it.. but bs

What they done is a good thing. . .8 yrs. old what were they thinking?

Just because someone says its bad doesn't mean it has to be bad. There's ALOT of things in Japan than are perfectly fine, but would be completely illegal in the USA - it's interesting to see the differences though.

Please name 3

******* (scat)
Sex with eels (beastiality)
Twins who perform sex acts on each other, i.e. Arir & Meiri (Incest)

******* (scat)
Sex with eels (beastiality)
Twins who perform sex acts on each other, i.e. Airi & Meiri (Incest)


Hmm double post on edit... damn hamsters

queue the convent of the Little Sisters of Morality, GFY branch.

u tell 'em dig420

Link? Can't find them on the SE's and I want to get familiar with their work so I can morally condemn them.

after I bust this nut here

At 8, I still thought that sex had something to do with the belly-button.

I think it's just a little ridiculous to think an 8-year-old would be interested in sex - unless, of course, it was some warped substitution for being loved.

They are Japans. They have ABSOLUTELY different culture we are unable to understand (in a same way as they can't understand our Euro-American way of living). It's not a some kind of new perversion because it was in Japan for 100's of years. Personally I don't understand almost all Japanese (not only the subject of this thread).

Sex with 8 -14 year-old children is a part of Western history, too.

As late as the Renaissance, it was still considered the norm... from all the way back since at least the dawn of written history.

Still doesn't mean it's the healthiest path to choose.

Belly-button? LOL

I agree with your statement...kids of that age need love mostly, sex is not an important thing in their lives (yet).

I don't know about that. But in Japan culture it (not exactly a real sex I think but some kind of strange relationship) was for centuries. As I said, they are far different and we just can't understand them :2 cents:

I'm not reading all that...

Cliff notes??