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Ranma 1/2 is probably technically child porn in the US. Do they sell it there? Even Inuyasha has a full nude picture of 14 year old of Kagome in the first boo

Ranma 1/2 is probably technically child porn in the US. Do they sell it there? Even Inuyasha has a full nude picture of 14 year old of Kagome in the first book. I was going to send the Japanese version to my niece in Canada (I live in Japan) and quickly scanned it first to be sure... It's funny though, Rumiko Takahashi is probably my favourite mangaka (all of her manga was easy enough for me to read when I was first learning Japanese). But when I mentioned her to my wife, the first thing that came to her mind was Urusai Yatsura, which I had never heard of :-) She's written a lot of popular manga!

2ion 8y ago
Both Inuyasha and Ranma 1/2 were sold en masse and broadcast as anime in Germany between 1999-2009, even with reruns, during times when most of us children came home after school (4pm or so) targetting probably 10-18 year olds, which is why these programs were quite popular. People didn't care much about the nudes, the books were full of it (was also a theme of jokes IIRC).
yardie 8y ago
Ranma 1/2 was available in the US for a long time at book and music stores. Not sure if that is still the case. Most of those stores are shuttered. Manga then wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now.
- samspot 8y ago
  There was also a NA release of a SNES game, so it was popular enough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD:_Hard_Battle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranma_%C2%BD:_Hard_Battle