((shrugs)) I don't think it was ever meant to be a toy marketed to children. Japan's action figures, like its cartoons, are often aimed at a definitely adult audience. The West seems to have a (rather strange) conviction that certain things must always be child-safe, regardless of the audience they're actually intended for. (Strange, and no little frustrating.) They don't have a problem with making sexually explicit action figures, because they're not going to be sold to children, any more than you'd put porn on the shelf next to Barney -- whereas Westerners tend to assume that the genre can't be sub-sorted; if it's animated/a plastic toy, clearly it's the same as every other plastic toy, and therefore aimed at the same audience and under the same restrictions.
the Japanese have kind of a thing for squid porn
I totally don't blame them. ((wicked smirk)) If someone made an action figure of, say, Sephiroth being molested by tentacles, I'd be first in line to hand over the asking price. :D (Okay, the octopus is a little weird. I just can't find seafood arousing. But a tentacle monster? Or even better, Sephiroth as a tentacle monster? Oh, yes! :D)
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Date: 2007-01-06 07:42 am (UTC)the Japanese have kind of a thing for squid porn
I totally don't blame them. ((wicked smirk)) If someone made an action figure of, say, Sephiroth being molested by tentacles, I'd be first in line to hand over the asking price. :D (Okay, the octopus is a little weird. I just can't find seafood arousing. But a tentacle monster? Or even better, Sephiroth as a tentacle monster? Oh, yes! :D)