South Australian senator Stirling Griff is calling for a review of all anime and manga currently accessible in Australia, expressing concerns about media depicting "child exploitation." In a speech to the Australian parliament on Wednesday, he highlighted anime and manga depicting "wide-eyed children, usually in school uniforms, engaged in explicit sexual activities and poses, and often being sexually abused."
In particular, he highlighted the
Eromanga Sensei anime series, describing it as a show that "heavily features incest themes" and features "many scenes are so disturbing I just won't, I just can't, describe them." The series is rated MA15+ in Australia.
He criticized the Australian Classification Board for rating media in isolation from criminal law. In Australia, it is illegal to produce, possess, or distribute pornography or abuse material depicting a person under the age of 18. In 2008, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge
ruled that a pornographic cartoon depicting characters from
The Simpsons was child porn.
Under Japan's current child pornography laws, fictional depictions such as anime and manga are
exempted from the law.
and b like " nah she only looks like a little girl she's actually 40"