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Rurouni Kenshin mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki charged with child porn possession [Mod edit: READ THE OP]

Hayama Akito

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HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT

https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20171121-00050067-yom-soci

Trust me, that's the headline. He was arrested for "possession of several DVDs that included a naked video of a girl in his early teens in his office in Tokyo"

Oh man

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Rowlf said:
Let me be very, VERY clear. We're not going to entertain discussion or defense of content sexualizing under aged children, whether real or fictional. I don't care if you feel there is "artistic merit" to those works. There are plenty of other avenues on the internet where you can engage in such... discussion.
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Brazil said:
Okay, guys: stop trying to decide who among other famous mangaka is a criminal. That is not ok. We've already had mod posts about this in this thread, and if you keep doing it, I'll have no choice but to lock this thread. Consider this a final warning: keep discussion on track.
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I guess that puts the kibosh on that Kenshin revival that just premiered in Jump. But, in all seriousness, what the actual fuck. This year has just been the killing of all your idols.
 
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Of all the authors, I wouldn't have expected Nobuhiro Watsuki to be the one to be arrested charged under this type of charges.
 
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" Child pornography for children under 18 years of age for sexual purposes shall be imprisoned for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 1 million yen."

What the fuck, you only get a year? For fucking CP???
 
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*sigh*

I was just wondering whether a Kenshin reread was in order too.

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I guess that puts the kibosh on that Kenshin revival that just premiered in Jump. But, in all seriousness, what the actual fuck. This year has just been the killing of all your idols.
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No, that was last year. This year is exposing them. I'm really hoping the trilogy ends next year on a Redeeming phase.
 
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PogChamp said:
" Child pornography for children under 18 years of age for sexual purposes shall be imprisoned for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than 1 million yen."

What the fuck, you only get a year? For fucking CP???
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i cant tell if this means people under 18 looking at videos of other people under 18

or if it means adults (in which case what the actual fuck)
 

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Can anyone translate the article? Google Translate only works partially, but there's a quote in there that looks like it might have been from Watsuki.
 
Mr. Pointy

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Fuck. Eiichiro Oda worked on Kenshin as an assistant and was BFFs with Shimabukuro. I don't want to lampshade anything but...
 
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Time to work out my "separate art from artist" muscles 'cus this one is heavy. Real heavy.
 

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Fulminator said:
i cant tell if this means people under 18 looking at videos of other people under 18

or if it means adults (in which case what the actual fuck)
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PogChamp said:
Oh that didn't even occur to me, maybe the google translate is wonky
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That interpretation wouldn't make sense within the context of this news.

Cheesemeister said:
Not arrested, just charged.
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Thank you for the correction.

Mr. Pointy said:
Fuck. Eiichiro Oda worked on Kenshin as an assistant and was BFFs with Shimabukuro. I don't want to lampshade anything but...
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So let's not until we have some reason for concern.
 
HiLife

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If there ever a moment I felt so conflicted about the whole art vs artist thing.

God damn you all.
 
duckroll

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Pretty fucked up, but the most fucked up thing is that he admitted to being a pedo in his deposition too. :/
「小学校高学年から中学２年生くらいまでの女の子が好きだった」
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"I like girls from late junior school grade to second year middle school grade."

That's 10-14. Pretty unambiguous. >_<
 
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Didn't expect Watsuki to be such a person. Almost guaranteed that he is far from the only one watching such videos.
 
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