I visited Japan over a decade ago and it seemed like everywhere i turned there was anime and manga and adults reading it. I stayed a couple of nights in an inn

I visited Japan over a decade ago and it seemed like everywhere i turned there was anime and manga and adults reading it. I stayed a couple of nights in an inn as well and there were several shelves of manga (mostly hentai) on the bookshelf in the waiting room. Also all of my Japanese friends in America (admittedly they were in their teens) were into manga and anime. I think its a pretty well known and accepted fact that anime and manga are popular among all age groups in Japan. They also seem to be fine (at least more fine than midwest America) with softcore porn. There was a lot of waste-up porn on news stands and I saw a row of Japanese men looking at more explicit porn mags in a bookstore in front of the magazine rack like it was a sunday paper -- totally nonchalant. edit: fixed paragraph layout and spelling