Otaku Review

If you’re an otaku planning to travel to Canada anytime in the coming year you should probably be aware of this. A report went up on Dannychoo this morning detailing an incident an otaku had while trying to cross into Canada with manga in his possession. According to the original account :

“Saturday, I was surrounded by six officers, two watching me as the four others went page by page through my books looking for pornographic images and other evidence I was a sexual predator.

As more and more officers were called in, the six manga books I had were examined in detail. They were looking, they told me, for pornographic, obscene and adult material. “The age rating is on the back of each book.” (each manga book has ratings like 13+ or 15+ - mine were 13+).

I was informed that I could have put different covers on or done anything else I could to get the pornography in and that if I spoke anymore, the books would be seized. So I stood there and watched my previously new books get examined page by page, thumbed through and pressed open because it was assumed if I read manga, that I was a sex offender.”

Apparently Canada has been cracking down on any manga being imported into the country or being brought into the country. The blogger who wrote about her account mentions that it actually has happened to her before. Two weeks ago in fact and for the very same reason.

It’s hard to imagine that Canada is seriously trying to enforce some kind of ban on manga coming into the country but they did pass this ban earlier this year.

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