Grey... I believe the age of consent is actually normal... I think 16 or so... They are much more lax when it comes to animated depections of such behavior than we are. I've seen lots of hentai that deals with taboo subjects even for the japanese, and that is their appeal.
Facts remain, small digital children aren't real children, therefore in japan it isn't such a HUGE deal.
If they were real children, the creators would be in jail already.
We have our own tollerations, looks at the film Lolita. and various others... We just do like to take out adult actors and actresses and show them in these bad situations as if they were children... that crosses the line... But watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, some time.... full of incest, rape, child porn, sex slavery, and all manor of abuse. And it gets quite close to showing things... as close as the censor board will allow them.
Facts remain, small digital children aren't real children, therefore in japan it isn't such a HUGE deal.
If they were real children, the creators would be in jail already.
We have our own tollerations, looks at the film Lolita. and various others... We just do like to take out adult actors and actresses and show them in these bad situations as if they were children... that crosses the line... But watch Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, some time.... full of incest, rape, child porn, sex slavery, and all manor of abuse. And it gets quite close to showing things... as close as the censor board will allow them.