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Americans get Spirited Away
with Japanese erotic anime
By Ryann Connell
Staff Writer
March 27, 2003
The enormous success of Academy Award winning cartoon feature "Spirited Away" has focused the world's attention on Japanese cartoons. But people may have ended up taking a little bit too much notice, if Shukan Jitsuwa (4/10) is anything to go by.
"Japanese erotic anime is huge in the States. It's almost grossly obscene, realistic portrayal of genitals is really popular," an anime commentator tells Shukan Jitsuwa.
The men's weekly notes that erotic cartoons usually revolve around men's vivid imaginations about virtual sex, such as the typical storyline of an innocent young girl violated by an alien from outer space.
Like dirty movies, erotic anime makers apply a mosaic graphic over the nether regions for works sold or distributed within Japan. But the mosaic is removed when the movies are sent to the U.S., providing viewers with hardcore, unadulterated nudity.
"What's most surprising about watching the uncensored versions is just how much detail the animators have put into drawing the private parts even though they know that the areas are going to be blurred out by the mosaic," the commentator tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "Erotic anime freaks drool at the idea of seeing uncensored versions."
And now they can.
"I imported some of the anime from the United States. They're a hit," an underground video retailer from Tokyo tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "All I need to do is put a sign on the door saying I've got underground anime for sale and people flood in. They're all interested in having a look at the unblemished versions, so they'll buy them off me."
Shukan Jitsuwa proceeds to give a graphic description of "Stepmothers," an erotic anime sent uncensored to the United States and then brought back to Japan. "Stepmothers" tells the story of a testosterone- packed young man who sneaks up on his young stepmother as she sleeps and molests her with a weapon in scenes the weekly says "are more realistic than reality."
Erotic anime in their natural state appear destined for a bright future in their homeland.
"Overseas Internet sites offering games revolving around erotic anime are the latest fad. Of course, these games are available in Japan, too," an erotic anime game scenario writer tells Shukan Jitsuwa. "Japan's anime is being watched all over the world, both in the mainstream and in the underground."
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