Last Thursday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Youth Development Section announced that it arrested a 52-year old man from Gifu on suspicion of violating the Child Pornography Law, in what it trumpeted as the first “exposure of computer graphics child pornography” nationwide. Initial news reports provided scant details beyond the “CG child porn” headline, fueling speculation that the police were somehow anticipating the current reform bill by cracking down on purely fictional material, namely pornographic 3D models of imaginary character. As later reports revealed, however, the object of the investigation turns out to be of a quite different nature. The man had been distributing, directly as well as through not particularly shady channels such as Melonbooks, a doujin picture collection called 『聖少女伝説2』 Seishoujo densetsu 2, whose official website, as helpfully pointed out by Yaraon, is preserved on the Internet Archive. You can get a sense of the nature of the material there. As reported by Sankei News, it consists of scanned pictures of young girls from nude photobooks of the 1980s and early 1990s, with slight edits to hair styles, skin colors and poses using some photo editing software, presumably so that the author could pretend that they were “computer-generated” and hence, he believed, legal. read more
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