Doujin artist arrested for... drawing doujins.
Copied from Icarus:
Japanese blogs and forums have been set abuzz by the arrest of a man for allegedly publishing “obscene” doujinshi. 39-year old Masaya Miyashita (宮下昌也), a professional illustrator known for his work on erotic PC games, was taken by Matsuyama police on charges of distributing obscenity through five bookstores. (Miyashita supposedly worked under the pseudonym “Shiyami Yasamata” and has a website which is inaccessible at the moment. But here’s the archived version.) 6,600 copies of his doujinshi were confiscated. Police also estimate Miyashita has made a profit of over 15 million yen from doujinshi since 2003.
Hiei: Well, I'll be damned. Seems like it's illegal to make doujins in Japan, especially if you're one of the 200,000 artists doing it *eyeroll* Obscenity my ass, why aren't the BL artists arrested too then? Or the grandma porn guys? Or the futa? It seems like they're just targetting us lolicons. Bastards.
Japanese blogs and forums have been set abuzz by the arrest of a man for allegedly publishing “obscene” doujinshi. 39-year old Masaya Miyashita (宮下昌也), a professional illustrator known for his work on erotic PC games, was taken by Matsuyama police on charges of distributing obscenity through five bookstores. (Miyashita supposedly worked under the pseudonym “Shiyami Yasamata” and has a website which is inaccessible at the moment. But here’s the archived version.) 6,600 copies of his doujinshi were confiscated. Police also estimate Miyashita has made a profit of over 15 million yen from doujinshi since 2003.
Hiei: Well, I'll be damned. Seems like it's illegal to make doujins in Japan, especially if you're one of the 200,000 artists doing it *eyeroll* Obscenity my ass, why aren't the BL artists arrested too then? Or the grandma porn guys? Or the futa? It seems like they're just targetting us lolicons. Bastards.