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Friday, October 23, 2009

\\*Teachers, Twins, Games, Shin Koihime Musou,*//

A teacher claims he “had no ill intent” after he brazenly fondled the breasts of one of his young female pupils; he faces disciplinary action.

The 58-year-old Tochigi prefecture teacher inserted a hand underneath the girl’s top and began touching her breast through her underwear during an afternoon class, whilst other students were present.

He explains his groping: “There’s no way I had any ill intent, but I touched her.”

Parents demanded educational authorities not identify whether the school in question was an elementary or middle school, so consequently details of the girl’s age are not known.

The incident was uncovered after parents confronted the school about it, and an investigation soon confirmed the complaints.

The teacher subsequently apologised to parents in a gesture unlikely to reassure many… He is now taking a voluntary hiatus from teaching.

Just what action the school will take is not clear, though promotion seems unlikely.

Presumably his notion of what constitutes “ill intent” does not take into account what anyone else might think of it…

Via Sankei.

Two twins who downloaded a variety of shotacon materials have been jailed for possessing “virtual child pornography,” with the judge condemning them for “victimising” imaginary children.

The men, both 20 and residents of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, were reported to police by a sister-in-law after she came accross “distressing” images on their computer.

Police searches soon found a substantial collection of shotacon material on their computers, saying 90% were “cartoon drawings called Japanese Anime.”

The pair, one of whom is said to be an active homosexual, were subsequently charged with possession of child pornography, both for the minority of real images and their manga collection, which under Canadian law is considered “virtual child pornography.”

The state prosecutor insists that victimising fictional children is a very serious offence:

“Every one of these images involves the victimization of children. The victimization wouldn’t happen in the first place if there weren’t people there to look at this material.”
The judge was equally scathing, saying the drawings “victimize” children:

“This is a crime that victimizes young people around the world. It creates a market which then re-victimizes the most vulnerable in society.

The images can only be regarded as disgusting and perverse.”
The judge handed down a three month prison sentence for each of the twins, ordering they be registered as sex offenders, provide DNA samples and refrain from contact with children, presumably including imaginary ones as well. A sex offenders’ treatment programme will attempt to cure them of their deviant lusts.

In a final twist to the case, the court accepted arguments that the pair, having been branded pederasts for the rest of their lives, would likely be in danger if housed amongst the general prison population. As a result they get to serve their sentence only on weekends, and in protective custody.

Although drawn imagery depicting underage sexual activity is constitutionally protected free speech in the USA, and has been upheld as such despite a variety of efforts to ban it, Canada possesses no such checks to the power of legislators, and consequently draconian laws against “virtual child pornography” are freely enforced.

Via ngnews.ca.

Noted visual novel publisher Navel is blocking non-Japanese visitors to their site, serving them a cheery 403 instead, but at the same time is publishing its games in English.

A slew of clueless eroge publishers began blocking non-Japanese visitors to their sites in an attempt to appease the pro-censorship lobby at home and overseas, despite most of the fuss coming from religious and feminist groups within Japan.

Navel, best known for Shuffle!, is apparently amongst these “eroge sakoku” publishers, having replaced its (currently obnoxiously noisy, if tastefully orange) homepage with a simple 403 if the user’s IP address is non-Japanese.

Of course, the filtering can be bypassed with a simple proxy.

However, unlike the bulk of eroge publishers whose games are never released outside Japan, Navel is currently publishing its entire Shuffle! series in English, and fully uncensored, as released by MangaGamer.

Few could help but be astonished at the attitude of a company which bans overseas visitors from its pages with no explanation whilst simultaneously expecting them to buy its products in translation.

This also demolishes the notion that Japanese publishers are somehow protecting overseas visitors from content they can’t handle – Navel are releasing in English the very same titles they are saying overseas visitors are unfit to learn about on their own site.

Three Kingdoms ero-anime Shin Koihime Musou is well underway, but its third episode has attracted particular attention for a scene in which some of the cast are tasked with catching eels with their breasts…

Expect the DVD version to dispose of the inconvenient flashes of light and intervening objects, which are utilized as...uh....censors....yes, they are that cheap.

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