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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yes, supposedly that is how Manga got it's start, pedo porn that was stylized enough that the Japanese courts wouldn't throw you in jail for having it because it didn't look enough like a real kid to count. No idea if that's really the case or if it's just some sort of urban legend.
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That's some pure-grade bunk is what it is. You can easily skim a history of manga at Wikipedia and find out the story is BS.
I'm not a huge manga reader myself. But I don't think it's a good idea to judge an entire style of publishing (especially one that comes from a culture you don't understand) based on 'people are saying...' arguments.
It's as fallacious as arguing that paperbacks were created as a way to make porn novels cheaper and easier to hide.