Jerome
do these cartoon relate to how people actually feel?
Emily M.
How is it socially acceptable for newspapers to run erotic comic strips in a society that is structurally based around families?
Zach F.
What does the acceptance of ero manga as an everyday type of thing, especially considering its sexual content, say to the larger stereotypes of Japan? Can we view this manga as a true moral panic?
Kristen L.
"In subject material, ero manga are hardly unique, sharing with an entire sex industry the impulse to commodity sex". Why do you think this is? Why have erotic comic books become a common product in Japan? What are the underlining meanings behind the ero manga?
Danielle
Do you think that manga is about pleasure or control?
Hannah
How do these "comics" portraying young looking girls in provocative and pornographic images effect the way in which women, specifically young women are seen in Japanese culture?
Emily P.
The author depicts women being humiliated and beaten up for men to feel a sense of victory and pride in these Erotic cartoons. How come women are not fighting back and bringing negative attention to these cartoons?
Alix
Allison claims that, "Whereas women as a gender are terrorized and territorialized by manga sex, men are warriors and conquistadors, seeing sex as a battle and women as land they must seize (and usually ruin)" (64). How do you explain or account for men's supposed notion of sex? Are you suprised by this depiction of Japanese men as sexual warriors who watch, possess, penetrate, and hurt women?
L.B.
Do the ways which the crimes of Miyazaki Tsutoma were handled by the public mirror and events which may have happened in more recent history? Why does there always seem to be a need to somehow lift the blame of the criminal and place it on others?
Marc
Do you think the status and popularity of ero manga will change as women move out if their more traditional roles as wives and mothers and into the workplace?
Anna
Is it unusual that the censorship law does not allow the men's private parts to be depicted in mangas, but there is nothing applicable to displaying female body parts?
Alexa
If parody is used in manga now to create a character that actually seems more human i.e. acting silly or clumsy thus causing viewers to grow in affection towards the manga then does it make manga actually seem less threatening to the Japanese culture as a whole?
Megan G.
In understanding that the demand for Eros Manga is very high and that it connotes sexually explicit, sometimes violent images of exploited women, would you consider the literature and commonplace reading of Eros Manga to be a Japanese cultural norm or deviance?
Nicole
The author mentions that magna usually displays male dominance over women. Do you think this hinders the progression of women attaining power in Japan?
Emanuel
Is there a link between married men and women maintaining separate spheres (or unmarried men and women living together) with the proliferation of ero manga?
Matt
"Some commentators on manga say that it is the medium of manga that produces this effect and that the subject matter or genre is irrelevant." Do you agree with this view or the view that erotic comics are distinct?
L.B.
While there are strict censorship laws surrounding the showing of male genitalia, ero manga are allowed to show violent sex and rape. Why are the stand-ins for genitalia and the subsequent actions taken with them deemed much more acceptable
Minoru
Otaku culture does seem to be different from ex moral panic cultures in that that does not show off so much outside because they usually communicate through internet.people can pretend as being the other sex on web. does this situation make the separation of gender ambiguous?
Shannon
Does the fact that these incredibly violent pornographic manga are images drawn from someone's mind instead of photographed make them even more disturbing than typical pornographic materials?
Kayo
It seems like many Japanese people turn to manga as a source of escape from restricted reality. Would this problem and concern over otaku panic lessen once the Japanese society learn to become less institutionalize